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[–] Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone that grew up in a red state, I learned long ago that if the government gives you a choice between registering as a fascist or a non fascist, you should choose fascist.

The non fascists are never going to round you up for being a card carrying fascist, but the fascists will absolutely target you for being something else.

Fascists always come for you. Eventually they come for each other too, but that is down the line a bit still.

When police look you up and find you are registered a Republican, even if you look like a hippie, they are more likely to go easy on you.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

Not choosing a party works too, because US conservatives assume all the people they hate register as Democrats.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

The problem with that comes up when they have enough power to rig elections. They’ll point to the number of registered fascists to justify the amount of votes they claim to have.