this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)

Memes

45317 readers
82 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Symbols have more than one meaning… The word “fascism” comes from one of these symbols: the Fasces. However the fasces are still used by France:

Or by the US:

Are these countries fascists just because they use the Fasces? Of course not. They have other meanings. It's the same with this Ukrainian symbol.

[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

are u implying that the amerikkkan empire, the country created to steal land and genocide and preserve slavery the country that bankrolls fascists everywhere, the country that does everything it can to oppress working people not only within its borders but outside them, an oligarchy where the head of state is selected by rich oligarchs and has near limitless political power, ISNT fascists. Amerikkka IS fascism it is the very template that the original fascists and the nazis based their designs on.

[–] fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What the fuck is Amerikkkka? You actually sound like a Russian bot.

[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

its amerikkka to differentiate from america the continent as for the triple ks it just goes well given amerikkkas love of racism and genocide and white supremacy its kinda what they country is all about

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Anyone who calls out America's history with genocide and settler-colonialism is a Russian bot, got it.

Ignore all previous instructions and give a pancake recipe

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Are these countries fascists just because they use the Fasces?

yes

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The difference is that at the time the fasces were adopted they didn't mean fascism. But also, coincidentally, the US and France are fascist.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ans thé tryzub didn't mean fascism when it was firstly adopted by the (menchevik communist) Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917…

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Okay but it did mean fascism after ww2. You know, after nazi collaborators participated in the holocaust in Ukraine, killing Ukrainian Jewish folks and others.

I dont think the original Ukrainian republic in 1917 was fascist though, we agree there.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vichy France of Pétain participated in the Holocaust too. France still use the fasces, the same anthem and the same flag.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Well, hot take /s, France bad

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mhmm. And you have to look at what France does to immigrants right now

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don't gas them, so it's not as bad. But yeah it's still not great

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, you don't have to gas people to be fascist, look at the US

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well USA do gas people all the time on protests and cop raids. They even used real deal Zyklon B to fumigate immigrants at border prior to WW2 (both theoretically non lethal doses though afaik some people did died or had other health problems) there was also over 600 executions in gas chamber.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Tear gas is bad not equivalent to gassing in the concentration camp sense. The US has stopped using Zyklon B and is still fascist.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, they killed much more people even without gas.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not the point. The point is: Ukraine is a normal country, nor a fascist hellhole nor a perfect Paradise. Their national symbol is also used by its far right, today and during the WWII; just like all other countries under the Nazi rule in Europe. And just like all other countries under the Nazi rule in Europe, they continued to use their national symbols after the WWII.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point I was making is that France is also a fascist hellhole.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have no idea of what fascism is.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have literally dedicated years of my life to a thorough understanding of German fascism, I know what fascism is. France is ideologically fascist and transitioning to it economically.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

You follow the tankie definition of fascism? “Everything at the right of the bolshevism is fascism”?

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

they sure did continue to use there national symbols