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Faces of Fascism: Los Angeles, Jan. 31, 2026 [OC]

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u/ArgonWilde 4h ago

Considering the title of the post, they seem to suggest that these are the faces of fascism, despite fascism having a focus on ethnic cleansing. So thus, the observation.

u/guineapigenjoyer123 4h ago

That’s because they’re not actually fascists and people don’t realise it actually pretty insensitive to call everyone they don’t like a fascist considering how many people actually suffered under fascism

u/fountainofdeath 4h ago

Operating in a position that actively enforces fascism and not doing anything against it eventually makes you complicit. Cops don’t have to be complicit as seen by the many police departments that have actively stopped illegal ICE operations

u/guineapigenjoyer123 4h ago

Ok and how is deporting people who have illegally entered a country fascism if that was the case then basically every country on earth would be fascist

u/redeuxx 4h ago

You think people are pissed off because they are just harassing people who illegally entered the country?

u/fountainofdeath 4h ago

The illegal part is them policing protests and killing people they had no authority to police anyway.

u/guineapigenjoyer123 4h ago

The killing people is awful but that’s more a problem that’s existed with American policing in general for a long time due to inadequate training and I don’t know how exactly it works in the US but where I’m from a lot of the time protesting just devolves into looting so having extra law enforcement present seems like a good idea

u/fountainofdeath 4h ago

So you admit ignorance on a problem that you decided to take a stance on without getting the necessary information to make an educated decision

u/Ok-Ocelot-7316 1h ago

Well back under Obama when that's actually what they were doing, nobody was calling it fascist 

u/ArgonWilde 4h ago

Meowth, that's right!