Few days old so you may have already seen it but what the fuck is this lmfao

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Ron DeSantis is a fascist.

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I love how everybody throws around comparisons to fascism and Nazis these days. We could focus on the left or the right and easily create a list of all the things we’ve done that was similar to things Nazis did. It really isn’t hard to do…

During World War II, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced relocation and internment of around 120,000 Japanese Americans.

Under the Democratic administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) targeted various political groups, including civil rights activists, anti-war organizations, and socialist and communist groups.

The Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson used the Espionage Act of 1917 to suppress dissent during World War I. The act was employed to prosecute individuals who criticized the war effort, including socialists, pacifists, and anarchists.

Democrat Bill Clinton invoked executive privilege to withhold information in various investigations, including the Whitewater controversy and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Democratic President Barack Obama faced criticism for the use of drone strikes and the extensive use of executive orders.

The Democratic administration of President Barack Obama faced criticism for its continuation and expansion of surveillance programs, such as the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

We could talk about how Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, continued and expanded the “War on Drugs” policies. Which disproportionately affected minority communities and led to mass incarceration, raising concerns about civil liberties and racial inequality…

Good old “Drug War Joe”.

We could discuss how countless groups of college libs attack people who they aren’t intelligent enough to have a conversation with. Or how the libs are trying to coerce speech through legislation with their fantasies concerning deadnaming and misgendering.

Or you know, we could accept the facts that both sides are similarly as evil as the other. Instead of just pointing fingers and acting like children.

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Cool stuff

Ron DeSantis is a fascist.

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Restrictions on education about sexual orientation and gender identity, a ban on gender-affirming care, an anti-trans bathroom bill, and measures that limit academic freedom and allow healthcare providers to discriminate based on religious beliefs.

Or, for the people who don’t follow the religion of LGBTism… Laws concerning a reality check. “Gender affirming care” is mislabeled, should be “gender denial”. Bathrooms are segregated based on sex to protect women from sick or aggressive men.

These are all great things, these people need mental help, and being their “yes men” or playing into their fantasy is not the help they need.

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So you have fascist Republicans on the far right

And somewhat fascist democrats who are right of center

Guess as a leftist I’m good then. Seems to me like we have a right wing problem. But even then, only one of the parties is pushing for genocide

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Hey grandpa I think you accidentally logged on to kbin instead of truth social this morning.

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DeSantis IS a fascist though. That’s not loosely throwing around the term.

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Bro Barack Obama didn’t try to ban books and make gay people illegal.

How about you address the topic? Do you think gay people should be illegal?

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DeSantis isn’t “making gay people illegal”, he’s doing what is right by protecting women and children from your BS.

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I understand the desire to educate, but this post just reeks of whataboutism. Which by the way is a popular method of normalizing horrible behavior favored by authoritarians and proto-facists.

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I detect no desire to educate here. It is 1000% defensive whataboutism.

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Did you try to “both sides” the fact that Desantis is a fascist?

Stick to the topic at hand or keep your whataboutism to yourself. Everyone can see right through that crap.

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Oh yes, because when I think facts and understanding, I think about painting as many political factions as I can with the same broad strokes.

That’s what nuance looks like, right?

Right?

Really top notch analysis.

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I like your username.

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Unfortunate that it represents so many aspects of the modern world.

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Not only on top of being homophobic/transphobic this is cringe as hell. Oh god, who is this for besides terminally online incels? I don’t see this helping sway the older demographic at all….

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You nailed it. This is for the Andrew Tate stans of the internet.

They are measurably the most lonely people seeking a sense of community that is missing from their real lives. It makes them susceptible to radicalization, which is why they are so easily targeted with this kind of messaging of taking such immense pride in the depravity of inhumanness.

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For being aimed at people who are so against homosexuality, this video sure is rife with artsy pictures of adonis-like oiled up from head to toe wearing a tiny shred of fabric over their bulging manhood. It’s so not self-aware it feels like satire.

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It’s also just bizarre because who is this for? Is this how DeSantis sees himself? Or how he thinks people see him?

Maybe there’s some people it works on, but I can’t imagine anyone sees him pass yet another useless anti LGBT law and thinks “wow that was super tough and badass”. If there are people that think like that, I sincerely hope I never meet one

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Lol in response to the ad

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Leopards ate my face moment…

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For sure. What were they expecting ?

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Definitely not Ron DeSantis.

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Fuck, beat me to it lmao

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Any person who supports DeSantis already looks like an absolute idiot. LGBT or otherwise

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If the shoe fits…

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It literally looks like a shady and scammy ad. I dont know how anyone can be sheepish enough to not see through it. But here we are lol.

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