Billo can’t just disagree with someone. He has to be a immature adult that never grew up and learned that people have differences.

But the minds that watch his show and clevo 2800 battery,clevo d220s battery think they are like Billo and don’t live in a gated community like Billo.
They are truely the children left behind.

Preemptive accusation is the fascist’s only defense against an informed society. In an Internet reality, totalitarianism gets instantly busted. Sorry FOX.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/preemption.html

I am not supporting O’Reilly. I am not looking for fascist blogs, he is. My point was that there is a possible misconception here about what he said and what he meant.

Billo can’t just disagree with someone. He has to be a immature adult that never grew up and learned that people have differences.

But the minds that watch his show and think they are like Billo and don’t live in a gated community like Billo.
They are truely the children left behind.

And for Billo, how did that million dollar settlement for sexual harrassment work out for him?

Funny. I could tell you the same exact thing.

After all, it’s you who decided to reply to my post waaay up in the thread. And you keep replying….

Seriously, Kilo. Don’t drink and blog.

And don’t project your innermost sexual fantasies on me.

Put down the bong, Kilo, put down the bong…

YES!

Of course, YES!!

Covers so much, it becomes vague.

Yeah, but you’re seeing them as individual elements, rather than as characteristics of a whole.

Patriotism is not fascistic. Combine it with militarism, though, and you’re tending that direction. Add totalitarianism and you’ve taken another giant step. Throw corporatism into the mix and you’re nearly there. Add opposition to political and economic liberalism and you’re a fascist, my friend.

I’m an agnostic, quickly running out of excuses why I’m not an atheist.

Here’s a book I would recommend: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins – blew me away.

People I don’t find Enlightened:

bin Laden

Pastor Wright

Hagee, Haggard, Robertson, Dobson

The Pope

and George Bush (when he tries to marry U.S. policy to God’s providence).

Yes, I am on board with the idea of fundamentalism impeding Enlightenment.

That’s what I had a problem with.

That’s cool.

The vagueness only comes from the definition that I was working off of. I mean come on:

Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: patriotism, nationalism, statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, autocracy and opposition to political and economic liberalism.

Covers so much, it becomes vague.

YES!

The Zoo?

Yes?

I think that O’Reilly in his patented slovenly way of speaking, really means to say that the blogs he named use fascist tactics, not that they are literally fascists by the several definitions above. Far be it from me to put words in his mouth, but there is a difference.

Thanks for the input, but could explain what “fascist tactics” one mighy accurately observe on the blogs O’Reilly is whining about?

I’m willing to consider your point, but I don’t see the fascism in the blogs.

Your crux-of-the-matter description of a cafeteria of ideologies is fine, and in fact in my opinion is the only really workable approach to governance among real human beings.

But it doesn’t explain your earlier befuddlement at the “vagueness” of the term “fascism”, when the term actually has fairly precise definitions. You dismissed O’Reilly’s false use of the term, yes, but you also all but dismissed any other possible use of it as well. That’s what I had a problem with.

Please describe a benevolent fascist regime.

I can’t do it. The only fascist regimes I can think of are Hitler’s and Mussolini’s. Not a good track record.

Franco in Spain, was one of the first classical fascists. South America has for most of the lasts century had several. Both Mussolini and Franco could in my humble opinion be better examples of pure fascism than Hitler, who was more the dictator than idealogist.

I think that O’Reilly in his patented slovenly way of speaking, really means to say that the blogs he named use fascist tactics, not that they are literally fascists by the several definitions above. Far be it from me to put words in his mouth, but there is a difference.