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In reply to the discussion: Trump warns Iran of 'obliteration like you've never seen before' [View all]Fintan OToole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
Babies in cages were no mistake by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism
Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 05:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375
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One of the basic tools of fascism is the rigging of elections weve seen that trialled in the election of Trump, in the Brexit referendum and (less successfully) in the French presidential elections. Another is the generation of tribal identities, the division of society into mutually exclusive polarities. Fascism does not need a majority it typically comes to power with about 40 per cent support and then uses control and intimidation to consolidate that power. So it doesnt matter if most people hate you, as long as your 40 per cent is fanatically committed. Thats been tested out too. And fascism of course needs a propaganda machine so effective that it creates for its followers a universe of alternative facts impervious to unwanted realities. Again, the testing for this is very far advanced.
I'd say his 40% are definitely fanatically committed.
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Didn't the treaty that Trump unilaterally abrogated keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Jun 2019
#10
"The president said he'd be willing to sit down with Iranian officials without any pre-conditions."
pazzyanne
Jun 2019
#4
"It will be the bigliest obliteration ever from a five-time republican draft dodger." - Dirty Donny
Achilleaze
Jun 2019
#16
It really is fucking ridiculous, isn't it? Not sure how much more of this nonsense my liver can take
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
#31
Well, I guess once you've been obliterated you wouldn't be around for the next one.
trof
Jun 2019
#28
"like you've never seen before" -- one of his endless loop of meaningless phrases
LuckyLib
Jun 2019
#43