• freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      I ask this a lot, but why prefix fascist with Christo? ALL European fascism has always been Christian and explicitly so. It’s an inheritance from the Holy Roman Empire that dominated Europe and engaged in ethnic cleansing in the name of God. It’s the same Christian Manifest Destiny that genocide the indigenous in the western hemisphere. It’s the same Christianity that led to an explicit policy of rape by the Spanish all over Latin America to breed out the unclean blood and save as many souls as possible. It’s never NOT been Christian.

      Just call it what it is. It’s fascism. It’s the same fascism.

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        Because the average person doesn’t know the direct ties between Christianity and Nazism, so it’s a good tool to catch them up to speed.

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          But it sounds like it’s somehow different from regular fascism when you qualify it with a prefix.

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            It’s the first step towards realizing “oh god, ALL fascism is christofascism”

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        Christofascism is clearly a huge branch, one that runs through Vatican, KKK, Catholics, Republicans and places in Europe wherever state is secretly married to the Church.

        Christianity in Europe and USA is not the same as what was once born in Jerusalem, Palestine.

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          You mean fasco-christianty? As in some Christianity is fascist but not all Christianity? That’s not the point. The point is that all fascism so far has been Christian. Qualifying fascism by saying this fascism is Christo fascism makes it seem like it’s somehow different from regular fascism

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            No, all fascism has not been Christian to date. A lot of it has been, but fascism has been practiced outside of Anglo world in many ways. It is a concept catering to primitive brains, after all.

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      I ask this a lot, but why prefix fascist with Christo? ALL European fascism has always been Christian and explicitly so. It’s an inheritance from the Holy Roman Empire that dominated Europe and engaged in ethnic cleansing in the name of God. It’s the same Christian Manifest Destiny that genocide the indigenous in the western hemisphere. It’s the same Christianity that led to an explicit policy of rape by the Spanish all over Latin America to breed out the unclean blood and save as many souls as possible. It’s never NOT been Christian.

      Just call it what it is. It’s fascism. It’s the same fascism.

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      9 months ago

      No they don’t. Biden isn’t anyone’s first pick, but he’s hands-down better than the alternative.