• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    Fascism is when there are murders. That sounds completely accurate and not at all disingenuous. Thank god we have no murders because we have a non fascist president.

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      4 months ago

      Oh, cool, another denier of the fascism of Trump and Republicans. It feels like I’ve accidentally walked right into the Young Conservatives Club at the local community college.

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          4 months ago

          Sorry, was there another interpretation of “You think there’s going to be FASCISM when Trump gains power just because there will be MURDERS? You silly lib!” that I missed?

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            4 months ago

            I was sarcastically pointing out how illogical and manipulative what you were saying was. And I did so using sarcasm. I wrongly assumed you had basic literacy skills. I will be sure to keep that in mind in the future.

            I did not call you a lib. I did not label you in any way. Assigning an opinion onto someone and then arguing against that is called strawmanning and it is generally frowned upon.

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              PugJesus wasn’t saying there would be no murders of minorities if Trump loses. They phrased things poorly, but what they meant was minorities are going to be thrown into concentration camps which is what the fascist nazis did.
              Sarcasm implies you mean the opposite of what you said, generally:
              ‘Fascism is when there are murders’
              Yes. That is not the sole thing about fascism, but murdering everyone not in your personal social group is kind of a big deal in fascism. You making this statement sarcastic does not reflect well on you or your ability to wield the English language. If you wanted it to come across the way you wanted it to come across, you should have said ‘Fascism is about when there are murders and nothing else’.
              However, this would have revealed a deep misunderstanding of what your opponent was actually implying, and, ironically, strawmanning them.