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Oh, I can help. My best friend's grandpa was a cop under fascism. He still had the gun he used to hunt down communists in the mountains. It really painted a picture to hear him talk about it and defend it.
I mean it, go vote for Biden.
So US cops don't hunt down communists, and therefore the US isn't fascist? I'm having a hard time seeing the thought process here, but then again I'm not a fascist.
See, the difference is that when you protest police violence to a future Biden administration he'll have at most a political problem to manage for the next election and may feel the need to enforce some change in regulation to address it.
When my parents protested the work camps and death sentences for political prisoners during actual fascism (they were both involved to different degrees with banned socialist and communist organizations) the government found that to be a nuisance at worst, a chance to enact more political cleansing at best, so they sent people like that other guy.
So yes, there is a difference. And yes, that guy sounded suspiciously like Trump and not at all like Biden. By the way, like Trump, he was actually funny and charsimatic. I didn't hate him or dislike him. This is a weird thing to talk about because cosplayers talk about this as a hypothetical or a disingenous argument for online clout, but I'm telling you about a real person I knew and had a relationship with.
The cops literally ran over some of those protestors with cars under Biden but sure, whatever you say