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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is a chinese guy who should be up there on 2nd.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wdym China is a democracy. They have elections.

/s I’m not from .ml

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They have elections

This is true, internal elections thats not publicized and people only know about it when new face sits on top.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I get the sentiment, neither of those fuckers is even in the top three of present day fascist dictators.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maduro, maybe not (though I'm always in favor of bringing negative attention to autocratic fucks, especially when their regimes are balancing on a knife's edge), but Putin, definitely, and Trump, potentially by the sheer damage he could wreak at the helm of the USA.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The jury is definitely still out on Donnie Poopypants, let's hope we never find out. But Kim and Xi definitely take one and two and three to me is a toss-up between Berdimuhamedow (Turkmenistan) and Mohammed bin Salman (Saudi Arabia).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Putin’s gone hard facism though.

Depends if population size matters in your calculations or not I guess.

If it doesn’t, Kim is number 1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I was going by the actual degree of repression achieved, not by the personal attitude of the asshole in chief.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Imagine supporting any of these fucking CLOWNS

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Luka only gets the consolation potato.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yo where’s erdogan

[–] Kecessa 4 points 2 months ago

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/autocratic-countries

Pretty sure we can find dictators much worse than either of them, only Putin and Trump have major international impact on that podium, Xi should be on there and if we're only looking at their local impact then get rid of Trump and Putin and put Hibatullah Akhundzada and Kim Jong Un on there...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maduro is a dictator without question, but you can't really call him a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what more you want from a paranoid totalitarian antidemocratic government telling easily disproven lies in an effort to enforce their view of reality over the population, rousing a cult of personality, pursuing revanchist claims, and in general embracing palingenetic ultranationalism.

What is Maduro missing? That the elites backing him are government oligarchs instead of market oligarchs? That he's painted red?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fascism involves tolerating and cooperating closely with private industry as a defining trait. I thought Venezuela was all state owned but I could be wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Umberto Eco's 14 points marks no such point as essential to fascism, nor does Roger Griffin. Fascist economic attitudes are... complex and inconsistent. All that can be said reliably is that they are neither interested in free enterprise (preferring a managerial class utterly subordinate to the state) or in any actual form of socialism (neutering trade unions and ensuring that democratic workplaces do not come about)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe something like a hybrid (totalitarian/constitutional dictatorship) developing petrostate dictatorship?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Isn't fascism very loosely defined? Is it because Maduro seized power but doesn't have other characteristics of fascism? Just curious it's a newer situation and I'm fussy about the details.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump may be an aspiring fascist dictator but this is giving him way too much credit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, dude's merely a wannabe.

For now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Two of them have many idiots bafflingly convinced that they are "communists".

All three have many of those same idiots and more, stupefyingly convinced that they are "peoples' champions".