JD Vance is a poster boy for Y Combinator adjacent fascists. Marc Andreessen, when he is not cheering on opiate overdoses in his hometown and praising the British Raj, loves what's going on. We need to accept that Silicon Valley has major culpability here. After all, how much do you see on HN that you should ignore the law because it's better to ask forgiveness than permission?
"Fascism" today just means "right wing politician I do not like" or "conservative who is successful at pushing back the left".
Plenty of people here can have a problem with this administration and Vance himself, or not, without those who disagree pretending that we're a week away from goose stepping down 5th Avenue in NYC.
There’s lots of fascism before the goose stepping but in the past week the President confirmed he’d like to send US citizens to a foreign gulag, he continues to ignore a Supreme Court ruling to bring home a previously and illegally deported man, he threatened Harvard that he’d strip their nonprofit status since they resisted his inane demands for conservative-DEI, he initiated several investigations using the state security apparatus of former government employees he deemed enemies and the richest man in the world (who donated 9 figures to get the President elected) continues to illegally impound funding from across the government including every organization that regulates the companies he runs. Oh and they’re planning a $100M military parade for the president’s birthday. Things aren’t great!
Considering the amount of nazi salutes being thrown around I wouldn't be surprised to see goose stepping at the parade.
If by "successful at pushing back the left", and by "the left", you mean the rule of law and due process itself, then yes, I am against fascism. The executive is not a king and everyone within our borders deserves due process.
The Abrego Garcia case is one of those critical lines of actual fascism: Pinochet-style disappearances. Not really connected to DOGE though, they're the administrative wing of fascism.
Plainclothes officers are hijacking people on the street without showing any credentials, then sending them to Salvadorean gulags without any court hearing.
Your lack of paying attention to this or lack of understanding how bad that is is not a problem in the rest of us.
Before you give me this nonsense of "they are criminals", number one this is still an inhumane way to treat convicted people, and number two they have not been convicted of anything, number three there have been tons of reports of the accusations made against these people being total BS.
Earlier this week, Trump was on microphone telling El Salvador's president that he wants him to build five more gulags and that we will send American citizens there.