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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
That the world has historically treated fascists and their supporters far worse than name calling and using “bad words” when the power swings the other way.
You don’t know your history?
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The world generally doesn't, actually.
Yes, they hung some Nazis at Nurenberg, but most were just sent home after they finally accepted their loss in the war.
When the Greek junta fell in 1974, A few top people were put in jail and people in the police or military lost their jobs, but then again those people had often got their jobs by being fascist supporters, so it's basically a wash.
When the Franco regime fell in Spain, there was a mass amnesty, and there wasn't even a cleansing of the government.
In both cases there was some vigilante justice delivered in the form of assassinations, in Spain it ended up being some hundreds of people, but it absolutely shrinks in scale when compared to the hundreds of thousands the fascists killed after their civil war victory, and to the sheer size of the decades long regime.
The fall of the Pinochet regime saw neither any significant vigilante action nor even the people in the security apparatus losing their jobs for the most part, at least not in the beginning. There was a significant amount of court cases (hundreds) against this group in the early 2000's after the arrest of Pinochet himself, but this was 20 years after the end of the regime and again small potatoes compared to the actual number of people actively working for the security apparatus, let alone when compared to the number of all regime supporters.
In general, if you're not one of the literally worst people in a fascist regime, the worst you're likely to see is maybe get fired and have trouble working in some fields.