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NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Mar 13, 2026 - 12:22am

 VV wrote:

I’m trying to figure out if you are an actual idiot… or just play one on RP?



  It's like quantum entanglement, he can actually do both at once. But as soon as you observe one of him in one state, the other immediately collapses into the other and you are left wondering who the hell you are actually talking to.

As far as Kurtster's painting all of politics into a linear spectrum with communism on one side and fascism on the other, well, there are some pretty fundamental flaws with it.

First fascism and communism are closely aligned in spirit. (Nazi = National Socialism, remember?). The only difference being that the industrialists get to keep their wealth under fascism and under communism those very same types become card carrying members of the party and join the politburo, but to all intents and purposes they are pretty much the same in their disdain for the individual and brutal oppression of any free-thinkers, trade unions, opposition and also minorities. Both are based on a concentration of power and both are appalling on just about any metric you want to choose, including economics. 

So suddenly this linear spectrum is not linear, but a ring, where the bad guys get to party out the back. And if you want any substantiation, just look at how similar Stalin and Hitler were in their treatment of minorities and any opposition.

Secondly, if you strip away the current verbiage and instead concentrate on who is holding the power, and how they want to hold power, it all becomes much easier to understand. The real fight is simply between an open society where we talk things over, reconcile differences and come to a shared agreement, holding people accountable as we go along, and a society where we don't and just lay back like puppies as master's boot comes sweeping along to kick us all down the road. 

That is the only fight that is going on here.  So when people say the US is slipping towards fascism, you could swap the word fascism out with communism and it wouldn't make much difference.

Disenfranchising voters, which seems to be the next step in Trump's playbook is precisely what a communist would do. He and the coterie of industrialist around him are the biggest socialists out there.  
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Posted: Mar 12, 2026 - 10:34pm

 kurtster wrote:


Perhaps you can come up with a lesson plan for the joys and benefits of Communism ?

You could start with saying what is the best thing about Communism ?



The best thing about communism is that it isn't fascism. Sometimes you have to make hard choices. In WWII The US allied itself with Josef Stalin against fascism. Time Magazine declared Stalin man of the year one year. That alliance ended after WWII. To be clear, Stalin was an evil genocidal dictator that I would not ever wish on the world.

It seems like you prefer fascism
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Posted: Mar 12, 2026 - 9:46pm

 kurtster wrote:


Perhaps you can come up with a lesson plan for the joys and benefits of Communism ?

You could start with saying what is the best thing about Communism ?


I’m trying to figure out if you are an actual idiot… or just play one on RP?

kurtster

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Posted: Mar 12, 2026 - 5:28pm

 R_P wrote:

Fascistoid




Perhaps you can come up with a lesson plan for the joys and benefits of Communism ?

You could start with saying what is the best thing about Communism ?

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Posted: Mar 12, 2026 - 4:15pm

That fascism has been taking over the whole western world. It happened to come along with a so-called free market economy and democracy as dubious as a term like that can be. Together, they established themselves as the greatest disease mankind has ever suffered from - just like one hundred years ago.

Freedom & Democracy!




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Posted: Mar 12, 2026 - 4:09pm

I love this topic!
Especially, since the world has turned upside down!!
The good guys are the plague, etc.
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Posted: Mar 12, 2026 - 4:07pm

Fascistoid

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Posted: Jan 28, 2026 - 9:56am

WAG THE DOG!
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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 4:37pm

 kurtster wrote:


Yes, it is very likely, imo.

Epstein distraction.

Next!


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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 3:37pm

 kurtster wrote:


Do you really think Walz Trump gives a rat's ass about these dead people ?  The only person Walz Trump is worried about is Walz Trump.  


FYT.
steeler

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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 3:10pm

 Steely_D wrote:


In two weeks




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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:58pm

 steeler wrote:


He would have to be implicated in the fraud. That it occurred during his administration — even if there were a lack of oversight —  does not rise to that level.

I await the evidence or support you have for your claim.


In two weeks
steeler

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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:54pm

 kurtster wrote:


Yes, it is very likely, imo.


He would have to be implicated in the fraud. That it occurred during his administration — even if there were a lack of oversight —  does not rise to that level.

I await the evidence or support you have for your claim.


Edit: Or are you saying he will be prosecuted by the Trump DOJ in the manner of prosecution of Trump’s political enemies?
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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:50pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Okay just to be clear: You think Walz' "fraud problems" are more of a concern for Walz than ICE murdering people in his state? Got it.


Do you really think Walz gives a rat's ass about these people ?  The only person Walz is worried about is Walz.  All else is political show, towing the party line, imo.

Later, I'm at work and about to go home.  Signing off.
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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:48pm

 steeler wrote:


Walz is “going down” for what? He already has announced he is not running for reelection and that decision was influenced by the fraud scandal. Are you implying he will be charged with a crime?



Yes, it is very likely, imo.
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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:44pm

 kurtster wrote:


So no Matzah for you, eh ?  Well the US is getting anti Jewish exponentially quicker day by day.

Walz is going down over all of the fraud he supervised during his governance.  ICE is the least of his problems.



An ICU nurse from a VA hospital was lying FACE DOWN when trump’s “immigration agents” shot him in the back TEN TIMES.

TEN TIMES, kurtster. A man legally carrying - but not brandishing - a registered firearm was face down with gun removed and then they repeatedly fired into his body when he was no threat.

And you want to “talk” about some fraud that happened while Walz is governor instead of the murders and kidnapping of American citizens that are occurring while trump is president? That’s messed up.

Since the topic of this thread is fascism in America, this is the information that’s pertinent to the topic. Not some lame distraction trying to neuter Walz’s influence.

Look at what they did to another of your American brethren.


ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:23pm

 kurtster wrote:


Jeez, what is wrong with you people ?  The subject was Walz, singularly.  Walz' problem with fraud is bigger than his problem with ICE.

Just looking at the posts since Saturday, there's no conversing with any of you.  You all are singularly fixated on Nazi's in MN and there is only one possible, not to mention one acceptable, explanation for anything you see.


Okay just to be clear: You think Walz' "fraud problems" are more of a concern for Walz than ICE murdering people in his state? Got it.
steeler

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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:21pm

 kurtster wrote:


Jeez, what is wrong with you people ?  The subject was Walz, singularly.  Walz' problem with fraud is bigger than his problem with ICE.

Just looking at the posts since Saturday, there's no conversing with any of you.  You all are singularly fixated on Nazi's in MN and there is only one possible, not to mention one acceptable, explanation for anything you see.


Walz is “going down” for what? He already has announced he is not running for reelection and that decision was influenced by the fraud scandal. Are you implying he will be charged with a crime?

kurtster

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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 1:14pm

 rgio wrote:

So, just to be clear, you think the fraud in MN is a larger issue than ICE killing people in MN?



Jeez, what is wrong with you people ?  The subject was Walz, singularly.  Walz' problem with fraud is bigger than his problem with ICE.

Just looking at the posts since Saturday, there's no conversing with any of you.  You all are singularly fixated on Nazi's in MN and there is only one possible, not to mention one acceptable, explanation for anything you see.
rgio

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Posted: Jan 27, 2026 - 12:54pm

 kurtster wrote:
Walz is going down over all of the fraud he supervised during his governance.  ICE is the least of his problems.

So, just to be clear, you think the fraud in MN is a larger issue than ICE killing people in MN?

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