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the ongoing merger of liberalism and fascism (lemmy.ml)
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the remaining differences are mostly about aesthetics and not about the use of violence to maintain hegemony

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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

The phrase "money is speech" refers to the Supreme Court's interpretation that spending money in political campaigns is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment. This concept was notably established in the 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on political advocacy.

This is what liberalism does. Wealth inequality inevitably unbalances any sense of liberty in material reality over time. It is the ideology of capitalism that is destroying community, humanity and the biosphere and climate.