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Tim Bray (timbray@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 07:55:59 JST Tim Bray

It seems to me that when legislative majorities start to expel minority members for being too noisy, you’re looking at 50-foot letters of fire saying “FASCISM ALERT!” No?

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  Pete Keen (zrail@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 21:04:01 JST Pete Keen
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  @timbray Yep, that part is literally in the dictionary definition of fascism:
  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
  > forcible suppression of opposition
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    Definition of FASCISM
    
    a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible… See the full definition
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