In reply to Javier.

For me the issue is authoritarian versus democratic movements. It's not even a question of right and left. Democratic conservatives are not a problem to me. The idea of a free market and minimal government regulation is not problematic in an of itself. It's authoritarians and populists that are the problem. And those can be created around the cult of personality. There are authoartari regimes that are based on individuals like Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Pinochet, Kim Il Jung and others. and there are authoritarian regimes that are built around collectives, like the Burmese juntas. I know lots of people involved in Black Lives Matter and all kinds of levels and they don't have anti-democractic ideologies. You might not like the policy solutions they advocate for, but they aren't authoritarian. They contest police violence and racial injustice inside the democratic framework of dissent and protest.

Some conservatives, especially those that trend to libertarian side of things, sometimes conflate taxation with the theft of public property and regulation with dictatorship I don't share this view even though I do share some ideas that libertarians value, such as the power of self-organization.

At the moment X is pushing legitimately facsist ideology that is rooted in a cult of personality centred on Donald Trump. It doesn't have the public good at heart. This ideology is acting in the interest of billionaire oligarchs. True got elected by saying things that were true: people are suffering, working people have been forgotten, the economy has left them out. But look who he is installing in his administration. No working class folks. No poor folks. Nobody who was part of his movement. He is establishing and administration that is exactly the kinds of people he said was robbing people of their lives and livelihoods. And the first people his administration has gone after are the poor, and the disenfranchised. He's not a conservative. He's a right wing populist. He is enamoured with the cult of personality. He knows only cruelty and self-interest and that has been borne out in his policies and in his declarations.

And Musk is helping him through his properties including X.

So I'm not just calling anyone who disagrees with me a fascist. I am calling a fascist a fascist. He's dangerous.