[chimprich]

> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it.

It looks like you have paramilitaries roaming your streets - not wearing ID or proper uniforms, covering their faces to avoid identification, not answering to usual democratic controls - executing protestors.

In the latest incident, they seemed to be beating and spraying a woman with a chemical agent for filming them, and then executing a bystander who tried to help her. The regime then tried to deny reality and falsely claim that they'd attacked said paramilitary operatives.

In any Western democracy (and I'm not sure if the US is currently part of that category) there would be a public investigation, but they seem to have been squirrelled away and the politicians who have spoken out about it have been threatened.

This all seems to be fascistic by any reasonable standard.

[chimprich]

> Really? That's why they have vests that say "POLICE FEDERAL AGENT" front and back ?

The paramilitaries that executed Pretti are all wearing street clothing, and all wearing different clothing. They look like a mob.

> Dangerous people that could identify their faces and kill their families in retaliation.

Well that's convenient, because it also allows them to kill protestors or their families without any consequence.

> Why are the protesters assaulting them covering their faces

Pretti didn't assault them, and wasn't covering his face. He got executed anyway.

[gadders]

>>covering their faces to avoid identification

Covering their faces to avoid doxing and being attacked at their homes.

[NekkoDroid]

Weird how normal police (or almost any other actual LEO) doesn't have to do this, especially considering how bad their reputation in the US is.