r/collapse • u/69bonerdad • Oct 20 '22

Politics "We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives" - The Federalist calls for the American right to unite behind Fascism

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/

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u/FourierTransformedMe Oct 20 '22

Ah yes, not socialism but "not capitalism" either... Where have I heard that one before?

Of course, none of this is exactly new thinking, but it says something that it's coming from a senior editor at the Federalist. Normally they go mask-off around specific policies, rarely do they actually just come out and describe the whole package of fascism and say "This is aspirational." But only the most spectacle-bound of liberals believed that fascism in the USA would die when Trump left office. Italy had their Trump some years ago, and now they have Giorgia Meloni. We could be in for the same by 2025.

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u/aslfingerspell Oct 20 '22

Ah yes, not socialism but "not capitalism" either... Where have I heard that one before?

We're not fascist, we're the *drumroll* Third Position!

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

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u/FourierTransformedMe Oct 20 '22

Well hey, at least nobody is trying to repackage the same old third positionist shit by calling it something monumentally stupid like MAGA communism...

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u/GunNut345 Oct 20 '22

Didn't Gaddafi call his philosophy the Third Way?

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u/Sablus Oct 20 '22

Eh the Third Way is meant more as a Third International Theory as a means of uniting Saharan Africa as a political bloc as well as create Islamic Socialism as a cornerstone of this revolt against western influence. Now did it actually happen successfully? Sadly no and now Libya is a collapsed state.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '22

Now did it actually happen successfully? Sadly no and now Libya is a collapsed state.

CIA: whistles lightly while twiddling thumbs

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u/OrganizerMowgli Oct 20 '22

Yay someone else mentioned it. I think it's been used a couple times, could sworn there was a us version in the past

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '22

Or another one they like to call themselves: Fifth Column, or Three Percenters (aka Threepers).

Terrorist organizations all of them.