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ianm218yesterday at 11:33 AM1 replyview on HN

So do you consider everyone who works at defense primes like Raytheon fascists? How about people who work at Boeing on dual use technology?

I’m in the camp that words have meanings you can’t just call everyone a fascist who you dislike.


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Laurel1234yesterday at 12:27 PM

Regarding words and their meanings, would you agree the current US regime is fascist in nature? What with the wars of aggression, the setting up concentration camps to put the undesirables to deport, using masked thugs with no badges to kidnap people in the street (and shoot people who protest), disregard for the Constitution and rule of law, curtailing of human and civil rights, ever increasing surveillance? Weird how people really close to the highest echelons of the regime keep getting in trouble for throwing Sieg Heils.

Would you not agree Palantir is at the forefront of this transition towards fascism?

What would you call someone who, as CEO, chooses to partner with said regime and Palantir? And not just in unrelated, innocuous shit, but in actively helping blow up innocents, including triple tapping a fucking school and killing hundreds of schoolgirls?

> So do you consider everyone who works at defense primes like Raytheon fascists?

They are collaborating with fascism, yes. Of course most of them worked in the industry before the current regime came in and made its fascist turn so they didn't set out to do so. Though the industrial military complex still was the main driver of US imperialism and so anyone who chooses to work in it is absolutely complicit in the mass murder of innocents the US has carried out. No idea about Boeing, can't comment on that.

Not that the agency of some working stiff is comparable in any way, shape, or form to that of the CEO of a private company valued at over a trillion motherfucking dollars.

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