3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIs Russia a fascist dictatorship?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down112
arrow-up1112arrow-down1message-squareIs Russia a fascist dictatorship?3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squaremuse@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·edit-24 months agoShort Answer? Yes. Long answer? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.
minus-squareExfilBravo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-24 months agoForced Conscription. Check. Rigged Elections and kills all opposing candidates. Check. Control of the state media and news outlets. Check. Sounds right to me.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months ago Forced Conscription. Lol! Conscription is forced by definition. Rigged Elections If this was a definition of fascism the US would qualify as fascist as well. kills all opposing candidates This was a thing long before Mussolini thought up the word “fascist.” Control of the state media and news outlets. Again, all states exert control over the media inside the territories they control. This is not how you go about describing something as fascist.
Short Answer? Yes.
Long answer? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.
Forced Conscription. Check.
Rigged Elections and kills all opposing candidates. Check.
Control of the state media and news outlets. Check.
Sounds right to me.
Lol! Conscription is forced by definition.
If this was a definition of fascism the US would qualify as fascist as well.
This was a thing long before Mussolini thought up the word “fascist.”
Again, all states exert control over the media inside the territories they control.
This is not how you go about describing something as fascist.