• @samus12345
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    1516 days ago

    Fascism was defeated because of the Allies, led by the US, the country with the most powerful military in the world by a large margin. Who’s going to defeat the US if it goes full fascist?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      16 days ago

      It’s a good question that I don’t have the answer to, but I don’t think the USA would be able to continue funding a military 20x the expense of the next most powerful military while under authoritarian rule. We have the funds for such a military now because of a hundred different conditions that wouldn’t exist anymore under a fascist government.

      • @samus12345
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        2316 days ago

        Fascist governments always collapse eventually because of loyalty over competence, but the thought of the damage a powerful country like the US would do before that collapse is terrifying.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          516 days ago

          It is. Even just the economic damage that the world would suffer is horrifying.

            • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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              316 days ago

              I questioned if I should add more context, but people will suffer a lot of hardship if the global economy is flipped upside down. It’s not the rich assholes I worry about, it’s the common person who will struggle to find a job or buy milk.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 days ago

        The US spends 3.4% of GDP in defence. Israel is at 5.3%. Also the US only spends a bit more then 3x what China spends and well US products are more expensive. So the US can probably fund its military for quite some time, without too many problems and right wingers love to do it, to bomb the shit out of people.

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      15 days ago

      80% of Nazi casualties happened on the eastern front by the Communists. But yeah, the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia has fallen to fascism, and now the US has too. The world is fucked.

      • @rottingleaf
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        115 days ago

        Some appreciation for the Hezbollah please, they know that and they don’t care