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minus-squareTheCee@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·1 year agoHot, but probably not too hot take: Other factors aside, people got dumber due to covid. They got literal brain damage. So when a reasonably intelligent person would be able to tell fascism as insustainable, they wouldn’t after their second or so infection.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThe timing is wrong. The pandemic happened, at least in part, because fascism was already here before it started.
minus-squareTheCee@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoTrump clearly is fascist (and so is Bolsonaro, for the sake of argument), but that’s just two samples. Whereas e.g. france got rid of that Napoleon dude (you know who I mean) in favor of Macron.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI was making a much more narrow argument that the pandemic might have been averted entirely if not for the specific Trump policy I linked.
minus-squareTheCee@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoPossibly. Hard to tell how much time that would have bought.
Hot, but probably not too hot take: Other factors aside, people got dumber due to covid. They got literal brain damage. So when a reasonably intelligent person would be able to tell fascism as insustainable, they wouldn’t after their second or so infection.
The timing is wrong. The pandemic happened, at least in part, because fascism was already here before it started.
Trump clearly is fascist (and so is Bolsonaro, for the sake of argument), but that’s just two samples. Whereas e.g. france got rid of that Napoleon dude (you know who I mean) in favor of Macron.
I was making a much more narrow argument that the pandemic might have been averted entirely if not for the specific Trump policy I linked.
Possibly. Hard to tell how much time that would have bought.