USA! USA! USA!
mandatory service isn't a thing because there's a steady stream of impoverished youth to exploit, but it's early history was the most extreme genocide anywhere alongside chattel slavery
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I think mandatory military service is important because by the time you are 25 years old you have already either directly participated in, or knowingly collaborated in, some awful heinous crimes. furthermore, you know everyone you ever loved is also guilty. like all those snipers who spend their days kneecapping kids, those people are all integrated in society, they are loved by families who know what they do.
in USA those experiences are not as equally distributed.
I contend that israel is more homogeneously fascist, like psychologically fascist, beating the present-day US for this reason. possibly past US could make an argument although I wonder if that kind of fascist mind-state is really possible prior to mass media?
like all those snipers who spend their days kneecapping kids, those people are all integrated in society, they are loved by families who know what they do.
you know, i never thought about it like that. that is fucking insane.
There was a thread on here the other day about how armed services recruits were primarily from the middle class and low income is underrepresented. They posted a ton of data to back it up. I admit I did not really look at it closely to verify. If I can find it again I will link to it, if you were curious about it that is.
If thats your description of a Fascist society then actually the number 1 is the United States of Amerikkka, 1 its self explanatory, for 2 just look at the history of the USA and their veneration for settlers fighting the native people and manifest destiny they basically adopted conquest and pillage as american culture, 3 pretty much US civil religion view of their armed forces, 4 is manifest destiny again, 5 i think pretty much every society does that, 6 there was no USA 3 centuries ago its as made up as you can get
Can't agree or disagree until you provide your definition of fascism.
I was taught that fascist states have an authoritarian rule under a dictator, along with control of industry/business.
While there are many countries which lean towards fascism in some manner or another, they are might be classified as authoritarian, but not necessarily full-blown fascist. Taking your points above, Switzerland ticks many of the boxes. Mandatory military service, special treatment (collaboration with Nazis without significant consequence), etc.
A country full of war-mongering assholes doesn't necessarily equate to fascism. (But I do recognize that Israel is in reality a lot closer to fascism than Switzerland ever was!)