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Originally Posted by Anteater
This would be so much more fun if Biden picked Tulsi Gabbard as his VP instead.
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I agree. But Tulsi wouldn't carry water for the corporate interests like Kamala will. Plus, she's anti-war, so no go. At least we'll get to see that clip of her ripping Kamala's ego apart in the debates on repeat as the election cycle continues.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
Nah, you guys had a good point and made me completely rethink the way I use the word.
Fascism definitely is a vague buzzword.
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I appreciate that you engaged honestly with the discussion and that jwb and I were able to persuade you to reconsider what the word really meant. Both sides of the political aisle have their buzzwords whether it be 'fascist' or 'communist' or 'nazi', but too often these words are used inaccurately or loosely. In terms of pure rhetorical efficacy, they can be useful in debates, but in any kind of academic discourse, it's useful to have a broader understanding of what the word means. I fully expect that the right will engage disingenously in calling the Biden-Harris agenda 'far-left' or perhaps 'communist' and it simply won't be true.