• @dwazou@jlai.luOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -1264 days ago

      Some of his ideas, like defunding CBC, are foolish.

      I don’t think Pierre Poilievre is a Nazi. Statements like that are unhelpful.

      • @Tiger666@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        42 days ago

        The dude is aligned with trump and is a fascist. I wouldn’t call them nazis just yet, but they are certainly very, very fascist.

        I work in a very conservative workplace in Alberta, and when I call trump a fascist I get zero pushback. In fact, they just nod in agreement. When I say that Peter rabbithait is aligned with trump, they don’t argue against that point either.

        The “good ones” know their support for him is short lived, and they will have to piss or get off the pot soon. I hope goodness prevails.

      • @Arkouda@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1594 days ago

        He likes to dine with Nazis, and we all know the old adage about Nazis at a dinner table.

      • @Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1114 days ago

        People said the same thing about MAGA/Trump.

        Conservatives are holding the door open for fascism, and if you can’t close it, it will come in.

        • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
          link
          fedilink
          English
          -854 days ago

          “Progressives”/Liberals are straight up begging for authoritarian dictatorships.

          I missed when calling for smaller government, less regulations, less red tape, untouchable free speech, and less censorship suddenly became “fascism”.

          • @The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            233 days ago

            Yes, a government so small it fits in your rectum or vagina. Free speech unless you want to say gay people exist. No censorship unless your book or webpage says something they don’t like and less regulations lead to more corporate power. Corporate takeover of government and the means of production is pretty much what fascism is about.

          • @ferretfacefrankburns@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            213 days ago

            PP was part of the Harper government which muzzled climate scientists, has made an enemy of the free press and implemented a racist snitch line to report religious minorities. Yeah, that’s the kind of “free speech” Poilievre believes in, the kind that shut the fuck up and doesn’t contradict the party line. So yeah, he’s a fucking fascist and you are a fucking idiot to think he is anything but a fucking fascist.

      • @Smoogs@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        36
        edit-2
        4 days ago

        Oh ffs. Stop playing it down. Look at the riding he’s being given. Battle river. It’s conspiracy city. Far cry from Carleton… I know that part of Alberta well . I’m telling you right now: it ain’t good . He went from serving coffee to the convoy to living with them.

        Step off with the gaslighting. This is the type of exact crap the Americans just went through. Knock it the hell off.

      • @Jhex@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        32 days ago

        arguably worse, pp is a weasel who would play a nazi for a vote or stop for 2

        the guy stnds for whtever serves him best

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
        link
        fedilink
        634 days ago

        PP is a populist conservative politician so he’s not actively fascist, but do you know what happens when your society has a fascism-shaped hole? Politicians like PP expand to fill that hole.

        • @PsychoNaut@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          224 days ago

          I wish people would stop calling him a populist. Doug Ford is a populist. PP is pretending to be a populist and is, at best an ideological populist but populists pivot. He doesn’t. We should be referring to him as an Opportunist because it all looks like an act to me.

      • @Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -10
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        Hey, just wanted to say you’re right. And these people here are bad faith commentators. They push things towards hyperbolic statements in the same way the right went nuts in their own way.

        Unfortunately I fear this is what we have to come to accept now until everything blows up.

          • @Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -83 days ago

            Seriously consider what you’re saying here. That PP is a Nazi, he clearly is not, while telling me my head is up my ass

            • @Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              83 days ago

              People running for high office that make campaign stops with white supremacists are 100% nazis, no exaggeration necessary.

              People that are not nazis don’t tolerate nazis.

              • @Tiger666@lemmy.ca
                link
                fedilink
                English
                02 days ago

                If you use the word nazi enough it won’t mean anything, and you will push awayl soft support. They are fascists plain and simple.

                Just call them that for now until one of them gets their Hugo boss uniforms on, then you can call them nazis.

              • @Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                -2
                edit-2
                2 days ago

                No, what you’re doing is lazily leveraging the nazi context for your political benefit. PP is not a Nazi for having a photo op or being tangentially associated with some asshole. It’s as lazy as showing pictures of people with Epstein and calling them pedophiles because they were in a photo.

                It’s bullshit politics. The sad part is that you will never realize how it’s your credibility that is lost. And unfortunately since you associate with certain values, you lose credibility for the whole. There’s reason to shit on him for spending time with these people. But when you go hyperbolic and dramatically call him a Nazi, you lose the plot

        • @Brandonazz@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          35
          edit-2
          4 days ago

          Probably hundreds or thousands of times this image has been posted by supporters of the literal fascists picking apart the United States, mocking others for overreacting over the last months and years. The thing has happened, how do you think you have a point?

          • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -163 days ago

            How is the American government “fascist”?

            It gets posted thousands of times because it’s true. “Nazi” Is the default attack by the far left. Someone *doesn’t * want free speech abolished? Nazi!

            • @pulsewidth@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              113 days ago

              Here’s dozens of concrete examples of how Trump’s government is directly enacting fascist policies. I’m not sure if you’re trolling so I put in a very small amount of effort to locate these articles, there are hundreds online.

              https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/03/donald-trump-fascist-government-crikey-part-one/

              https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/05/donald-trump-fascist-government-crikey-part-two/

              P. S. If you hit the paywall they’re available on paywall bypass websites.

              • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
                link
                fedilink
                English
                -2
                edit-2
                1 day ago

                The democrats did/do all of those things too. Installing “loyalists” to top jobs is what every admin does. Biden did it. Obama did it. Everyone does it.

                The media example is dumb. There are dozens of media, most highly critical of the trump, allowed in to the White House briefings etc. What 60 minutes did with that rambling Kamala interview deserves to have consequences, as they deliberately edited it to make her look better so as to not hurt her election chances.

                Also just FYI - the Nazis were a socialist party. They were left wing.

                • @pulsewidth@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  215 hours ago

                  No, the democrats do not install Biden loyalists - people who have loudly and publically repeatedly announced uncritical support of Biden. They do not hire staff that are without any formal education or without significant qualifying experience for important roles - whereas Trump does all of those things. To say they all do the same shows a very uncritical assessment of reality.

                  The Nazi party believed firmly in social & familial heirarchy, oppressed the underclasses openly through targeted programs to eliminate trans, gay, Jewish and other minority groups, worked hand in glove with the factory owners and corporations to crush and outlaw unions, praised and supported the former Monarchy and Kaiser, and purged the communist party from the German political assembly through violence and incarcerations - and ultimately sent all communists, Marxists and labour leaders to death camps along with any other minorities they had decided to murder. So to insist they were left wing simply because their party name includes the word ‘socialist’ is naieve and ignorant to history.

                  Check sources from actual historians and you will find the same conclusions and volumes of evidence.
                  The only (in)famous people I know claiming the ‘Nazis were left-wing’ are the criminal liar Dinesh D’Souza, and all the usual right wing grifters Stephen Crowder, Prager ‘University’, Matt Walsh and so on - they are lying, as they do about most things. There are much better sources of news and information.

                  • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    -215 hours ago

                    No, the democrats do not install Biden loyalists

                    hahahaha

                    They do not hire staff that are without any formal education or without significant qualifying experience for important roles

                    hahahahahahahahaha

                  • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    -3
                    edit-2
                    20 hours ago

                    Aren’t? The Nazi party hasn’t existed for almost a hundred years. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party - Nazis - were left wing socialists.