Steve

Trying to turn down the volume in an age where outrage is currency and confusion masquerades as conviction.

[Steve @BigTXSteve]

You can always tell when a word has lost its meaning by how easily it's applied. "Fascism" used to describe one of history's most destructive ideologies a system built on the worship of power, the subjugation of the individual, and the erasure of moral limits in the name of collective will. Now it's the political equivalent of calling someone a jerk on the internet.

The problem isn't just rhetorical sloppiness, it's moral laziness. It lets people swap the hard work of understanding politics for the emotional satisfaction of moral clarity. If someone you dislike wields authority, they're a "fascist." If a policy feels coercive, it's "authoritarian." But governance, by nature, involves coercion laws, enforcement, consequences. The test of legitimacy isn't whether power is used, but how and within what boundaries.

Fascism isn't merely a personality or tone, it's a totalitarian philosophy that sacralizes the state and obliterates dissent. It doesn't tolerate rival institutions, religion, or individual conscience. When Trump yells at reporters or insults his critics, it's crude, narcissistic, and corrosive, but it's not fascism. A fascist regime doesn't get laughed at on late-night TV or voted out of office.

Ironically, this overuse of "fascism" mirrors the thing it claims to oppose. Real fascists thrived on moral hysteria, the idea that everything was a crisis and compromise was treason. Today's rhetoric isn't fascism, but it's infected by the same binary thinking: us versus them, purity versus corruption, apocalypse versus salvation. When every disagreement becomes existential, politics stops being persuasion and becomes war.

I get why people are scared. Authoritarian movements do feed on emotion and lies. But fear is a terrible substitute for reason. The danger isn't just that we underestimate real evil, it's that we start seeing it everywhere, and in doing so, we make ourselves blind to proportion, to truth, and to grace.

If everything that walks and talks like "fascism" is condemned as such, then the word ceases to warn us when the real thing appears. Our vocabulary should sharpen our moral perception, not dull it.

So no, calling Trump a fascist doesn't make you vigilant. It just makes you imprecise and precision is the first casualty when politics becomes religion.

[Steve @BigTXSteve]

@Dplanet The tweet proves too much. It smuggles in a birthplace-debt theory of obligation that nobody actually believes universally, wraps it in racial framing to immunize it from scrutiny, and calls that justice. It isn't. It's just a motivated argument wearing a conscience.

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@dom_lucre who? is that nas' son?

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@goddek so that people will post pictures of it on social media and ask why anyone would do it, you mindless drone.

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@Mericamemed that tree is like 2 inches tall and its obviously going to fall in the direction it's leaning so what would be the point of a wedge cut exactly?

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@harryjsisson is that your favorite show?

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@DrClownPhD what is happening?

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@IfindRetards everybody retarded!

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@DudespostingWs never hear about? every 2 weeks i see this exact same post...

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@cryptivaaa @dom_lucre the baby crawled up the wall and across the ceiling, turned its head 180° and looked straight at him with black eyes, then dropped down and chased him into the tool shed speaking demonic things about his lineage…

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@JackPosobiec 100%

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@beastgames @PrimeVideo @airrack cant wait to miss that

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@vibeonX69 it cant do any of those things well, ask again in 10 years.

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@RaffSoulless @NoahKingJr this is a terrible argument. if you have nothing to hide then you should have no problem losing your privacy. that's like saying if you have nothing to say then who needs free speech...

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@MbarkCherguia coal eater

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@elonmusk whoever is saying yes is just trying to be polite...

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@mask_bastard right fuckin now, buddy!

[Steve @BigTXSteve]

@ohhanxiety Buddy Holly. The Beatles literally named their band after the Crickets.

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@Jesii_ca_M they seem fine standing

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@Biz_Rin @Om_Codes_ it still got him dropped by Disney and killed his YouTube Red show