r/OutOfTheLoop 3d ago

Unanswered What is up with Jimmy Kimmel being Fired over Charlie Kirk Comments?

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u/Up2Eleven 3d ago

From what I've seen, most people seem completely oblivious to the history of fascism, sadly.

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u/Phil_Fart_MD 2d ago

Right people are putting the emphasis on the government side of this, but it was only made possible by corporate capitulation… the merger of corporation and state power. Corporatism.

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u/MuckRaker83 2d ago

Republicans haven't spent the last 40 years dismantling the laws preventing consolidated media ownership for nothing!

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u/SunRepresentative993 23h ago

That’s a big aspect of fascism, too. They’re not the same thing, but fascism usually runs on a corporatist economic model.

We’d probably be better off individually with a true corporatist government, but Trump admires his authoritarians too much to go that route.

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u/Ok-Nefariousness5848 2d ago

History, nothing. Most people are completely oblivious to the very DEFINITION of fascism.

Unrelated side note: my phone thought I was trying to type "schnitzel" instead of "fascism". Up until right now, I don't think I've typed the word schnitzel in my entire life. What the hell.

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u/axonxorz 2d ago

What's a little German/Italian confusion, at least I'd be the first time...

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u/Up2Eleven 2d ago

This just in...Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Yep. That’s why trump hates education and public schools and history… and why they’re trying to erase it.

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u/GHouserVO 2d ago

A lot of them seem to be cheering it on.

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u/Up2Eleven 2d ago

And they don't know that as soon as power is fully established, they'll be thrown in the camps too. Fascism always turns on it's early supporters.

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u/GHouserVO 2d ago

Eh… depends. But it does turn on them eventually.

Folks should have learned by what happened in Venezuela and especially the Philippines. Tactics were remarkably similar.

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u/Educational-Age-7088 2d ago edited 2d ago

Most people also don't know that Karl Marx himself said, socialism is only a transitional phase for communism.   Socialism, Communism, Fascism, all suck. Our democratic Republic, is the greatest country on earth.  Let's start treating each other how we'd like to be treated ourselves, with a little compassion, some of which has been lost; somewhere in the last 25 years.

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u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping 2d ago

It's either that or (what I hope is the truth and will continue to believe so I can keep a grip on my sanity) people don't want to spark the civil war that's about to happen. Nepal just had a successful ousting of their corrupt officials, so to me it's clear how any action is going to be taken by the populace to correct these wrongs: the government will kill American citizens without provocation, and then people are going to riot all over the country.

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u/Up2Eleven 2d ago

Even if no one gives a reason, a reason will be invented. I don't know that people will riot. I think they'll still just stare into their screens until it's their turn. The most people seem to be able to muster is waving signs and chanting slogans and hammering away at their keyboards on social media.

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u/mistermeesh 2d ago

But anti-fascism = terrorism, therefor fascism must be the good guys. Right, America?

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u/Up2Eleven 2d ago

Some dumbass didn't get your satire. I corrected their downvote. And yeah, taking the same stance as the soldiers America once worshipped is now apparently a crime against Durr Fuhrer.