by the way encyclopedias are tertiary sources yo - we're going deeper than that here, if u wanna keep up

Fascist as in the Italian party? No, by that definition Germany's Nazi Party was not fascist. They were after all, German.

Fascist as in ascribing to what is commonly called fascist ideology to the extent where they even co-opted many of the Italians' policies and actions, pretty much a hard yes.

Fascist as in the historical classification of a political ideology? Of course. A few argumentative historians would probably say that Fascism should only be used about the Italian movement specifically, but I think it is safe to say that this cat is out of the bag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_Europe

You must mean like this?

I count about a dozen questions you left hanging in that thread, and that was your last post. The undisputed king of hypocrisy strikes again.

I am surprised that you claim not to know this, but... he was rather vocally anti-Marxist. It was a big part of his platform and in Mein Kampf he called for 'the destruction of Marxism in all its shapes and forms.' And you might recall he conducted a bit of a campaign against the Soviet Union. It was in the papers and everything.

Yep. The German concentration camps were originally made to get rid of the Marxists and the socialists.

It's probably also safe to say that if you had attempted to call Hitler a Marxist or influenced by Marx and the wrong people overheard you, you'd be joining those people on the train.

-A. Hitler

It seems I must leave the role of debater behind and put on the moderator hat.

Keep it civil people. There is no need to call each-other names.

You missed my point. If you read the OP he was clearly ant-Marxist but that doesn't mean he wsan't influenced by Marx. He was, clearly in his conversations with others and you can see it in his speeches. I'm not saying he was a marxist, he wasn't. I'm saying just because he was influenced by Mussolini and fascism doesn't prove anything. Everyone is influenced by practically everything.

I'm sure Hitler read Marx.

I've read Marx, and I've been influeced by him. It's hard not to be. He's a seductive writer and his critique of capitalism cuts pretty deep. I just happen to think he hasn't come up with a better alternative.

You've insulted me plenty. I haven't whined about it. It just makes me laugh, like shuffle does

Just because he was influenced by Mussolini and fascism doesn't prove anything. But because he was influenced by Marx, that proves he was a socialist. Gotcha.

There are more shining examples of logic identical to this from OP in the China thread. It's truly a sight to behold.

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazi...story/10214302

when someone or corporations isn’t paying taxes , it is taking profits from people because who’s going to pay for it if not the people ?
Furthermore, trump for example spend over 1 trillions MORE than Obama in his first 3 years pre-Covid , now that is great for the economy right ?
And who’s gone pay it if not with higher taxes ?

Hint :
I am pretty sure expanding debts is worst than raise taxes but like you said , I know nothing about basics economics.

The point is that you're guilty of the same behaviour that you criticise others for. More generally, you seem to have a massive blind spot for how your own arguments apply to you yourself and your own politics.

You should probably just give up, you're levels behind.

Solid response, OP. In b4 "it's common sense" and "USE YOUR HEAD".

I thought people were being hyperbolic when they called the current P&S forum “Nazi Sympathizers”.

People that falsify history and outright lie to support a wannabe fascist deserve to called names. Sorry snowflake.

You need to look up the Laffer curve. Higher taxes doesn't equate to more income. Lower taxes can generate more revenue as it did in the Reagan years.

There are many ways to pay for the gross overspending. Taxes don't pay nearly enough. Social security is already putting us way overspending. Bonds, selling our debt, pays for a lot of it.

To more directly answer your question - amazon's employees pay taxes. There are sales taxes on goods purchased through amazon. Amazon creates massive revenue for the state that would not exist if amazon didn't exist.

And what did he do instead? Quite literally wrap himself in CEOs(at the early corona briefs) kinda like a bundle of sticks with one/leader in the middle And tell us how our great private companies at his request were going to save us.

So, why do you think Hitler teamed up with Mussolini/Italy and Hirohito/Japan?? A literal fascist as well himself and an Emperor

On the other side we have the UK, the US and the USSR. Kinda leaning a little to the left on that side with that kooky democracy stuff and all

It all depends what taxes pay to make it beneficial or not for the economy .
The levels of taxation as nothing to do with it .

Nothing special about amazon employees paying taxes , all employed pays taxes , what your point ?

If amazon didn’t exist , other smaller companies would exist anyway .....but the difference is they would pay federal taxes ...

Maybe? Please explain why you aren't comfortable with "definitely".

Socialism does breed dictatorships and I can't think of one good dictator in the last 50 years so there is that.

Exactly this.

FYP.

FYP again

A lot of people today seem to not be able to understand certain clear cut political and historical evolutions. There is a lot of misinformation out on the web our days too that compound the problem. But one would think that someone on this forum has a modicum of intelligence.
First thing that seems to confuse people a lot is the false narrative that Democrats had the slaves and created the KKK. Technically that's true , but it ignores what happened in the 1960's. How the Republican party implemented the southern strategy. "Republicans appeal to many white southerners' racial grievances" in order to win their votes. And as soon as the civil rights bill was passed , southern democrats flocked to the Republican party. The party's' basically flipped. All one has to do is take a look at the electoral map. Southern states are predominantly red( republican) and northern states are predominantly blue
(democrat). It is ridiculous that people still confuse this.
This nonsense that socialists are fascists' is even more ******ed.
So, to keep it short, white supremacists are overwhelming Republican.