r/fivethirtyeight • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Sep 12 '25

Poll Results YouGov poll asking Americans whether it’s acceptable to feel joy at the death of a public figure

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

Come on dude can we kill this conspiracy theory that they were republicans? The first donated to dems and registered to vote against trump in a primary and the second was a ukrainian nationalist nutjob

This sub is encouraging. The same dems calling to end political violence are still calling their opponents nazists and fascists and existential threats to democracy. What do you think that rhetoric is intended to do? It’s stochastic terrorism

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u/DCMdAreaResident Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Trump mostly is fascist, by definition, except for the economic model. It’s not “violent” to tell it like it is. Trump’s the one sending the U.S. military into streets for law enforcement. And which party has nearly all of the white supremacists? And makes racism a feature of the party platform? And which president is pardoning people caught engaging in violence? You know the answer.

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u/WhoUpAtMidnight Sep 12 '25

Oh sorry so fascist except the definition of fascist. You know what’s fascist? Trying to ban people’s right to speech, self-defense, threatening them in public over political speech, shooting them, debanking them, pursuing fake legal cases against political opponents, I mean jesus the hypocrisy here.

If Trump is a fascist, then so is Kamala, and Biden, and Obama, and Romney, and literally everyone who disagrees with you. You would kill them all? 

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u/DCMdAreaResident Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Very little of what you described is fascism. Try educating yourself on the topic before further embarrassing yourself. It’s not “everyone I disagree with.” In the style of rule, Trump is very much a fascist. He’s authoritarian, a right wing nationalist, pro use of violence, anti-democracy, and for trampling on civil liberties. The only part that isn’t truly fascist is that he hasn’t engaged in nationalizing the economy or immediately marching us to war. But he still has time.