I realized when I heard about all these bombings that were done to muslim and african countries. As I am both muslim and african this didn’t sit right with me. I would never say a pledge to a nation intent on harming people on the basis of their race

Is fascist really the word you’re looking for here. Maybe imperialist

When I was marinating on Rage Against The Machines discography at 8 months old

I would consider the US to be facist yes since most people identify facism with hitler. Someone who modeled his polices off of manifest destiny in US

That’s a fair point

When i was a little kid and got seperated from my mother because of ICE in the early 00s from bush admin.

i knew america was fascist before i knew what fascism was

I want to say like 22

Bellicose imperialism and immense repression are not unique to fascism - there are many forms of the exceptional bourgeois state. In any case, even in bourgeoise democracy these things are essential for the states functioning.

I do not believe fascism to be a scientific way to describe what the US is. To call it such downplays the horrors and violence inherent to both bourgeois democracy, and fascism

21 maybe

stopped doing the pledge well into high school tho

As a teen dont know what age exactly

I would just define facism as harsh crackdowns and repressions on the working class. The US is the most facist because it leads and facilitates the global capitalist order

After watching OBAA

now go watch the battle of Algiers

Maybe 12

one of the first things my dad taught me

So by your definition basically every single country ever is fascist, making it a completely meaningless term

When I was 8 and George Bush announced the troop surge in Iraq in 2007

news flash there’s nothing special or benevolent about liberal democracies

The modern day state structure is facist yes. And it doesnt make the term meaningless

So when did every state on earth become fascist to you

This is anarchist nonsense

I realized I hated capitalism and everything about it at like 17, I learned from videos online that the United States was a fascist empire later on.

My argument is that with the rise of facism all capitalist states adopted its methods. Like over reliance on the police(brown shirts) to repress the working class and protect the state