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Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting
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Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
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"No true scotsman" fallacy.
Yes and no.
Fascists delight in acting in bad faith and don’t actually believe half of what they claim to believe. For example, fascists often claim to be pro-free speech or that they love democracy. If I told you fascists weren't really free speech advocates or pro-democracy, you would likely not cite the no true Scotsman fallacy.
This being said, a lot of Christianity has been like this for a long time. So, meh.
You're talking to a 49 year old German.
When I was about 15 or 16, I once naïvely asked my grandmother why noone resisted Hitler. She got very angry, told me I knew nothing about the time, and how much good Hitler had done, and then told me to shut up.
She suddenly turned from this loving person into a stubborn, old, bitter and aggressive woman, showed a side I had never seen of her. So she was a counter example to not one, but two of your claims:
And she was a woman who claimed to be of a strong Christian faith. I'm well aware that not all of her circumstances translate 100% to modern day America, however I'm still inclined to think that most American Christian fascists also truly believe in both fascism and Christianity, just like my grandmother did.
In other words, I stand by what I said - "They are not christians" is a no true scotsman fallacy used to try and manufacture a distance between Christianity and fascism that does not exist. These people are both, Christians and fascists, and saying otherwise is a bad attempt to absolve religion.
As I mentioned at the end of my comment: