The grifters at yc are in bed with trump anyways so it's no surprise.

What’s up with all these posts that try to normalize the current admins turning ice into the gestapo, waging a war against the environment, and blatant overt corruption like pardoning every white collar criminal and fraudster they can.

Because bush invaded Iraq the current guy gets a free pass to round up immigrants with gestapo like tactics?

These “but in the past…” posts come off as excusing current wrongs and it seems willful

show a country that doesn't have some dark stuff in its history?

This is not whataboutism. Trying to shift it to the past is not helping the cause. If all countries are fascist because they did something like this some time ago then the word has no useful meaning anymore.

So now in the eyes of some centrist American who has any national pride and half a brain you are making a biased argument. Then yall act surprised why they elect Trump AGAIN.

> It’s not about the past.

You literally said US has always been fascist. This is wrong if you look at the dictionary of what fascist is. Show how authoritarian, intolerant, oppressive US was under Obama for example.

It's one thing to say US could do better and another thing to say US has always been fascist while there are tons of countries that were 50x more fascist (and racist too, which is a different thing) than US, like PRC or USSR (side note it's funny how some lefties I meet straight up admire them).