Flying over Miami, where DeSantis is holding a rally

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Ron DeSantis is doing a rally in Miami today and we are flying a banner over the city that says DESANTIS IS A FASCIST. This is how you treat wannabe authoritarians like DeSantis. You ridicule and mock them.


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10:52 AM · Aug 21, 2022

[MLAA]

1. I think most of his followers have no idea what a fascism is as they don't read and don't know

world history. And the few that do understand fascism like it.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. By Jove- I think you seriously nailed it.

[calimary]

43. I was just thinking that same thing.

I bet very few of his followers even know what that word means.

[MLAA]

45. I think our messaging would be better to use dictators rather than fascists.

However, I have little hope more a few percent of the trumpasses will ever listen to anything other than cult-like personality figures.

[calimary]

46. That's a good idea.

Everybody “gets” what a dictator is and what it means.

“Fascist” is just a fancy word that makes you feel smart when you use it, even if you’re not sure what it means.

[MLAA]

47. Exactly

[NameAlreadyTaken]

2. Those people can't explain what a communist or socialist is,

so I doubt they would even know what a fascist is. Here's an older example of them throwing around words they don't know the meaning of:

[SCantiGOP]

7. The best way I have found to shut them up:

When idiots call Democrats marxists or communists, I ask them to clarify, since those are theories of economic systems where the private ownership of property is prohibited, and elections are banned in favor of a Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
I then ask them for one citation where the group or individual has proposed that the government seize all private property.

[moonshinegnomie]

14. i just tll them they should have paid attention in school

since the have no knowledge of what the word means

[SCantiGOP]

24. Cause they weren't woke

They obviously slept through History and Civic class.

[calimary]

44. But they do love those big important-sounding words!

Cuz it makes them feel smart.

Notice the attempted deflection here. Just repeating the word “Communist” doesn’t mean you know what the word means.

Whoever you are, ma’am, you just proudly displayed your ignorance and a refusal to defend a point you were loudly asserting. You were given several chances to enlarge on your point but all you were able to do was to repeatedly fall back on a one-word label.

And you refused the opportunity to win someone over with an intelligent or enlightening argument. When you fall back on just repeating a big word, and that’s all you’ve got, then all you’re doing is demonstrating how little you actually know.

But it’s f flinging a big important-sounding word around makes you feel smarter than everybody else, go for it. Knock yerself out.

[KS Toronado]

8. I've had several Rs in my red town

say Democrats are communists and when questioning them get the same vague answers as in your clip.
Be nice if we could convince them MAGAts are Fascists but that would require some critical thinking
skills on their part which seem to be nonexistent with them.

[Abolishinist]

13. This woman is a PERFECT example of that. I mean, all you have to do, in her words,

is 'study it out and you'll see'. Then accuse the one asking the question of not doing their homework.

I really do miss Chris, he was always my favorite and would have been SO good to watch over the last several years.

[es466]

19. It's all about the effect of using that word

not about any rational argument. Purely emotion-based and about pushing buttons.

[Wednesdays]

27. Same thing with "woke" and "CRT"

They won't tell you what it is, just that it's REALLY bad.

[geardaddy]

39. "You just study it out'

What a complete numbskull.

[Cha]

3. Thank You Florida Protesters Against

Fascism & DeStupid!

[HariSeldon]

4. I appreciate the sentiment

But I agree with other posters that it's not clear enough to the uninformed. I'd prefer "DeSantis: Florida's budding Hitler"

[bahboo]

5. In Florida, I would think Medicare and SS are bigger and more effective issues...

the fact that he's a fascist probably makes him more popular with the troglodytes. That being said, good on the protestors...

[OMGWTF]

6. IKR? But the Floridiots voted in Rick Scott for Governor and now Senator.

His company paid the largest fine ever for Medicare fraud. Fines schmines. These criminals need to start going to prison. Until they do, the floggings will continue.

[SledDriver]

9. No. You don't deal with fascists by ridiculing and mocking them.

There is only one way to deal with fascists.

[WarGamer]

10. this should be good... please clarify.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. How do you deal with fascists in a democracy? Please tell. . . . .nt

[jaxexpat]

11. The sign should read: Ron DeSantis, betraying Floridians 24/7

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. I unfortunately agree with others.

Kind of a bit of a waste of the money. Not that they shouldn't have, but for one, the DeSantis MAGAts just see another word that means "bad". Oh no...some commie Democrats don't like The Next One.

And DeSantis? He probably is secretly flattered.

He LIKES Fascism. And his closest advisors, along with many in the R party.

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Now you're just building support for him.

DeSantis would put that on his signs if he could. That's what those people want these days, though they may call it something else.

Thanx for posting
K&R

[The Jungle 1]

16. I have have a lot of fun with young people who want to end socialism.

I tell them first we end public education. Pay for your own kid and get your hand out of my pocket. Second end the dependent deduction. Third end the mortgage deduction.
You can hear a pin drop.
Everybody wants to end the other guys socialism.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Your last line seems accurate. A 24/7/365 mean-spiritedness if you will, that controls the brain, to

take and expect things for themselves, but only themselves and screw everyone else. I've known a few.

[The Jungle 1]

20. Mostly it is just a fun exercise helping people to think.

In my area educating one kid is 20-25 grand a year.

[calimary]

21. EXCELLENT talking points!

The word "socialism" is toxic. A lot of strategic work has been done to make it that way. So you throw that word around and suddenly people start getting scared that "the Commies are coming!"

I like the way you're simplifying point by point. The knee-jerk response is to the dreaded word, but nothing's presented that explains what the ramifications are.

I don't wanna pay to help you.

Screw you.

You're on yer own!

Grab as much as you can (so the other guy doesn't get any)!

Nobody wants to share anymore, and it's a shame, because sharing is caring.

Sharing is - EVERYBODY gets a chance.

Sharing is caring!

Sharing is helping. And healing.

Sharing is being mindful of others, and what they may need.

Sharing is neither ME FIRST nor ME ONLY.

Sharing is inclusive.

Sharing means EVERYONE has a place at the table.

And for the religiosos out there:
Sharing is what Jesus would want you to do. Cuz that's wha He did.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. +1. All of it. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. It boils down to not wanting to share with The Other. That's why they love National Socialism

Nazism or National Socialism means sharing among the privileged, and white people are automatically privileged in Nazi states, more or less, since the most privileged are rich old white male party members.

tRump's base, and many others in the Republicon party and the CONservative movement are happy about sharing with privileged whites as they jockey for position in a thugocracy of violent whites. But sharing with people of colour, oh no, they are the dreaded "other" upon whom all problems are blamed so that those whites can scoot away and maintain privilege.

Note: you can drop out of the privileged white class by being disadvantaged from birth or meeting financial disaster (medical bills) or related reasons. In the eyes of the privileged they become "white trash" and don't have to be shared with. A sort of adjunct "other".

Being anti-"woke" means not having to share as much.

[Joinfortmill]

22. Got that right

[kacekwl]

23. Is DeSaten going

to be the new Rally guy ? Clown.

[Pepsidog]

25. Shame none the dopes attending wouldn't know a fascists from the anti-Christ. Proved that with TFG.

[True Blue American]

26. DeSantis was in Ohio for JD Vance yesterday.

They would not let reporters in.

[slater71]

38. Same in Pa.

Would not allow cameras or recording devices. They had their brown shirts patrolling around if you would be caught breaking any of their rules you would be removed immediately.

[sakabatou]

28. If DeSatan talks like a fascist, and writes like a fascist...

HE'S PROBABLY A FASCIST!

[Chainfire]

29. DeSantis probably thought it was a compliment from and admirer.

He knows that he is a Fascist bastard. His voters don't mind it, because they are too.

[BigmanPigman]

30. I remade a bumper sticker for

my car with tRump's ugly puss and it says Facsit Liar. Lock him up! and I get lots of positive feedback, but I do live in a blue areas that helps.

[ultralite001]

31. Ridicule and mock them...

I’m down for it…

That is all…

[Rhiannon12866]

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[Ferrets are Cool]

36. They better be careful. He will have that mutha shot down.

[randr]

37. I am afraid this is free advertising for the NatC

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. To his followers that's a feature and not a bug.

[cilla4progress]

41. A propos of nothing

I was surprised to read just now that he is 5'9" tall and weighs 154 lbs.

[Initech]

42. If I had money I'd totally fly one that says "TP USA IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION".