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Maru @maruschak.bsky.social

Well, fascism has a specific meaning. Do you have any evidence of fascist countries using gerrymandering?

aug 23, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0

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jhfry.bsky.social @jhfry.bsky.social

Well I can't show examples of American fascist gassing Jewish people by the millions.... must not actually be fascists. The type of gerrymandering they are engaged in is an example of their rejection of democracy, one tennant of fascism. Even if other fascists didn't do it doesn't make it less.

aug 23, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maru @maruschak.bsky.social

No, I'm looking for specific instances of fascists using gerrymandering. Should be pretty easy since you declared this to be fascist. My point is that you don't really know what fascism is other than it's something you don't like.

aug 23, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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jhfry.bsky.social @jhfry.bsky.social

Gerrymandering is not even possible most places in the world, it doesn't mean it's not fascist. Fascism is not an action, it's an ideology. Throwing a sandwich could be fascisim if done by a fascist with the intention of furthering fascism. Or it can be anti-fascist if thrown at an ICE agent.

aug 23, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maru @maruschak.bsky.social

So when Democrats gerrymander, that could be fascist.

aug 23, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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jhfry.bsky.social @jhfry.bsky.social

Absolutely, if the Democrats were pushing a far right adgenda. More likely a Democrat would be doing it to help further a far left stalinist/communist objective. Most gerrymandering is not so severe. But done with the express intent to allow one man to consolidate power is definitely fascism.

aug 23, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maru @maruschak.bsky.social

So if it were done for Woodrow Wilson or FDR or LBJ to consolidate power, that would clearly be Democratic fascism.

aug 23, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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jhfry.bsky.social @jhfry.bsky.social

Democratic fascism is oxymoronic. By definition, fascism is a far right ideology. That said, if the objective were to invest all state power in a single person, then it would be pushing an authoritarian socialist agenda like the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba. The political line is a circle.

aug 23, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maru @maruschak.bsky.social

Ah, so you think FDR and LBJ were more communist than fascist.

aug 23, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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jhfry.bsky.social @jhfry.bsky.social

Yes. Being on the left, by definition means you are closer to communism than fascism. I have never seen any evidence that FDR or LBJ were authoritarians. And being closer to communism than fascism doesn't make you a communist. You're likely closer to communism than, say Stephen Miller.

aug 23, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maru @maruschak.bsky.social

So, when FDR put Japanese Americans into internment camps, that wasn't authoritarian? When he presided over Jim Crow and was super popular with southern whites, that wasn't authoritarian? When FDR violated the constitution, that wasn't authoritarian? Did you skip history class?

aug 23, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view