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Anonymous wrote:This lengthy post sums up my opinion of the whole No Kings concept.
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro.
You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic.
Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left's definition of fascism:
You love your country? Fascist.
You want to enforce the border? Racist.
You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.
You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.
Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.
But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.
You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.
The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.
No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.
Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.
That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine.
Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."
They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...
Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
And it doesn't stop at speech.
The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.
The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.
Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.
But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.
$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.
Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.
Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.
CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.
75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.
Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me."
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.
One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday.
Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism.
The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.
The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent.
You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.
"Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.
Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over.
Today his own party would call him a fascist.
The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth.
The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote.
The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.
Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026:
Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.
Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.
Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.
State ideology forced on families. Democrats.
Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.
Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.
Cult of personality. Both sides.
Ultranationalism. Republicans.
Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.
You marched against kings on Saturday.
You marched FOR kings.
You just didn't know which was which.
Stop being gaslit.
I hope you understand what's at stake.
Herp derp derp
"We're a constitutional republic, not a democracy!"
Constitutional republic can be a form of democracy.
"The left calls x y z 'fascism'" - no they don't. Loving your country isn't automatically fascism. Border enforcement isn't automatically fascism. et cetera...
This is just the same old disingenuous right wing distortions rather than actually listening to what's being said.
"Long serving representatives = kings"
False. Longevity != monarchy.
"Democrats installed Harris"
False. The election still existed, people still voted.
"COVID cards, Voter ID"
Mere fact of ID is not bad and the left never said that. It's about how hard it is to get and whether burdens will disproportionately affect some citizens more than others.
"Dems want open borders and flooding the US with illegals to boost counts so they can hold power" - ignores basic realities like record deportations under Obama and that Dems did support things like the Lankford bill. One-sided GOP conspiracy narrative.
"Biden censored social media" - a stretch. Flagging false things as false is not censorship. "Everything they censored was right" collapses under scrutiny. And the courts still don't entirely agree on how and where Biden may have crossed the line.
Schools and "Hitler Youth" - utterly deranged and hyperbolic take. The Hitler Jugend fed kids into paramilitary structures, had kids inform on parents who were then arrested, and so on.
BLM vs J6... BLM was thousands of protest over the span of months, of which the overwhelming majority were completely peaceful. Sorry but that's well documented. And in the handful of instances where there was violence, it's also been well documented that some of it was outside agitators, like Boogaloo Bois who were arrested and convicted in multiple states for arson, murder, and so on. And in NO instance did BLM attempt to interfere with a lawful constitutional transfer of power - that was MAGA on J6.
Charlie Kirk was killed by a lone actor. Smearing half of America with his murder and projecting guilt on the entire left is pure propaganda.
"Left wing attacks outnumber right wing" / "one side talks, the other screams" - this is just plain false. Every prior analysis by FBI and DOJ and numerous other organizations, going back decades, whether under Republican or Democrat administrations have shown right wing extremism has outnumbered extremism from other ideologies, even if you dishonestly lump anarchism or communism together. But now the Trump administration is no longer allowing that to be studied.
"You marched for Beijing, you carried printed signs made by them" - nope, the overwhelming majority of signs carried yesterday were entirely unique and hand-made by individual protesters. Sure, at some events here and there were various groups handing out pre-printed signs, but the overwhelming majority of attendees were there as individuals not representing groups, and of the groups, they were varied and diverse, with many different causes, and to suggest they all somehow share ideology with Beijing is absolutely ludicrous and unsupported by reality.
1990s Democrats vs "today's fascists" -
Parties evolve. So do social norms, constitutional interpretations and coalitions. But it's disingenuous to go around selectively cherrypicking and distorting Dem shifts while ignoring the right's own shifts, the post 9/11 security state, the norms that Trump has broken. Again, this is selective distortion, not analysis.
"Fascism scorecard" - bogus pretense at analysis. Fascism isn't a Buzzfeed quiz. Serious scholars look at attributes like palingenetic ultranationalism, mass‑based party, cult of violence, mythic past, totalizing state, suppression of pluralism rather than just randomly assigning traits.
This whole post ignores nuance and reality and collapses things down to caricatures, ladles on selective outrage, and then insults our intelligence, telling us we're all gaslit dupes. Maybe you're a dupe for uncritically accepting the post without actually thinking about any of it. But I took the time to analyze it and break it down. It falls apart under scrutiny.
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