Yes, since it is true,
There’s no way the Commy asset Starmer will do anything not approved by China.
He actually wants to stop the war in Ukraine by working with and compromising on Russia’s legitimate issues.
As opposed to the EU and UK pouring petrol on the fire.
Fascist obviously meaning Socialist.
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Never had Trump down for being a Socialist but I bow to your greater understanding of the man.
Exactly.Trump ain’t a Socialist so he’s not a fascist.
Unless you’re saying that Fascist ain’t Socialist.
The Oxford Concise Dictionary: fascism = an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government.
I have also heard it argued that used strictly, the word fascism can only be used specifically with reference to Musolini’s regime.
Oxford Reference :"Fascism An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43), and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach."
ie the polar opposite to Left Wing be that Socialism or further left Communism
Wkikipedia : “Socialism (is seen) As one of the main ideologies on the political spectrum, socialism is the standard left-wing ideology in most countries”
More broadly speaking, given the pincer movement effect of extreme right and left, it has for many years been fashionable to describe both hard lefties and hard righties as facists.
Or where mob-handedness, oligarchy or gangster mentality is in the ascendance: mafia.
One hears of the liberal-elite facists, women’s right facists, the animal rights mafia, BLM mafia etc. Language can be a tricky thing, you know!
Anyone got Steve Bray’s number? 
As opposed to the inconvenient truth of the German Socialist Workers Party allied with the Russian Communist Party until 1941.
Nationalists don’t tear down their own borders and the borders of others’, on a murderous rampage of assimilation and Collectivisation allied with Marxists.Nor ship out their own Nationals to crap holes like Russia to create ‘lebensraum’.
The Oxford dictionary written by a load of university lefties using typical diversion tactics.
Musso was a documented ideological Socialist, who had stood as a Socialist politician within an Italian Socialist Party, who then faked Nationalism to gain a political advantage.
Like his ally, the Austrian painter and paper hanger’s German Socialist Workers’ Party, one of his corner stone policies was invading other countries, to form a supra national collective and sending Italians to live outside of Italy calling it ‘lebensraum’ and whatever the word is in Italian.
Michael Collins was a Nationalist.
Adolf and Musso were despotic tin pot Socialist/Fascist chancers.By definition both allied with the Soviet Union under the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact until 1941.If they were Nationalists don’t you think that they both would have at least returned Sud Tyrol to Austria where it belongs and not want to ship Italian and German Nationals from their homelands to live in the barren frozen Russian wastelands after turning on their former Commy mates.
Actually, my copy of the Oxford Concise was written by a team of scholars dedicated to reflecting the everyday speech of the populace. That is what a dictionary is for. It is not there to prescribe how people should speak.
[Unless you live in America, of course, where the likes of that pompous ass Webster has prescribed and ultimately ruined the language!]
Exactly so.
But unfortunately that has led to the word “literally” has literally reversed in meaning because of previous and widespread misuse.
“literally” now has no real literal meaning.
I don’t mind the Yanks having their own language but it does bug me when I hear British kids thinking it is English.
Only thing that bugs me about the French is when they spell words like centre as center, thinking to attract the English amongst us and not knowing really that we spell such words the same way they do.
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But at least it reflects how we speak in the 21st cen. This is how language evolves. The Oxford still states that you can only graduate from a university (with a degree). But in America you can graduate from infants’ school or Brownies FFS! That usage is already taking root in UK.
Language is a constantly evolving beast. I’m sure that if any of us by accident went into the wrong wardrobe and emerged into 15th century Britain we’d recognise the language as English but probably would be a tad nonplussed by it.
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True enough. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is from 1400 and in the original is a difficult read. 1.1 General Prologue | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website
On the thread’s topic though Trump particularly has a very peculiar way of using words…
That’s quite simply because he doesn’t actually exist in real life and is in fact the world’s first AI generated national leader. There’ll be more to come no doubt 