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no_hypocrisy

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1. I see fascism as a macrocosm for my dysfunctional family.

Reply to paulkienitz (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:55 AM

8 hrs ago

My father was an authoritarian. It wasn't enough that he wanted to control me, my siblings, and his wife/our mother.

He wanted us to think like him, accept his values imposed upon us. To relinquish thoughts of self-realization.

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Since '16 I struggled to define "fascism"... now I think I have it, in one sentence. [View all] paulkienitz 9 hrs ago OP

I see fascism as a macrocosm for my dysfunctional family. no_hypocrisy 8 hrs ago #1

I believe that's actually a dictatorship, like North Korea. JohnnyRingo 8 hrs ago #4

i like it rampartd 8 hrs ago #2

That may be a byproduct of Fascism. JohnnyRingo 8 hrs ago #3

I went into that question in the blog post paulkienitz 3 hrs ago #8

Wiki does a good job. Igel 7 hrs ago #5

My definition is: crud 7 hrs ago #6

lots of systems are just someone clinging to power paulkienitz 2 hrs ago #10

Mussolini defined fascism as a merger of government and corporate interests. LastDemocratInSC 6 hrs ago #7

Mussolini first defined it as just the opposition to socialism and pacifism and other progressive ideas. paulkienitz 3 hrs ago #9