I can hear Vietnamese and Laotian people side-eying you from half-way around the planet.

all have severe issues with fascism right now

It's not an issue... fascism is a feature of classical liberal nation states - not a flaw.

but that freedom should not come at the cost of committing war crimes themselves.

What do you think this is? Star Wars? What did you think anti-colonialist warfare is really like in real life? It's messy - did you really think that the French Resistance during WW2 only killed Nazis? The Allies themselves slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians, yet I don't see too many people "both-siding" that conflict.

And btw... Palestinians were minding their own business until Israel (and it's western enablers) clocked in.

Same old US.

You just tried to say that Israel’s supporters are antisemitic?

No. I never tried to say it.

I just plain said it - the countries that enable Israel is as antisemitic and white supremacist as they have always been. They've been hiding it since WW2 - but, as the resurgence of mask-off far-right ideology in the US and Europe proves, it's still the same old west.

The west's support for Israel has always been antisemitic - dumping European Jewish people in Palestine was literally one the Nazi's potential solutions to the "Jewish Question". It's no secret - just mundane history that westerners doesn't like talking about.

Christian Zionism predates Jewish Zionism - the whole reason these white supremacist and antisemitic societies fantasized about a modern-day "Israel" was simply because they did not believe Jewish people belonged in their precious "white" societies.

You don't have to think about it for very long to see it for yourself - who were the people that made it so difficult for Jewish people to "belong" in western societies? If the US was so friendly and welcoming to Jewish people as the US wants to pretend it is (prominent Jewish people like Steven Spielberg and Noam Chomsky will happily tell you about US-style antisemitism), why would Jewish people need a "homeland" in the middle-east?

Putting everything in the hands of the State is a recipe of disaster.

Tell me you don't understand what the word socialism means without telling me you don't understand what the word socialism means.

Vote for whom?

It feels like as soon as Biden got into office a lot of people on the left threw their BLM signs in the garbage

This happens every time a lib gets into the Waffle House - the liberals will ride the coat tails of the resistance the left puts up against the establishment, and go to sleep as soon as the "good cop" is back in the driving seat. It happened with Obama and Clinton, too.

If you look at it real hard, you'll see that right-wing agitation builds most of it's momentum when there is a lib in charge - there's a good reason they say that fascism can only sprout after liberals have loosened the ground for it.

At least the new arrivals will have a fresh supply of meat - Mars is pretty cold, after all.

Taxes

Taxes? That's how the working class owns the means of production in the US military?

Am I talking to a damn chatbot here? It sure as hell sounds like it.

That’s due in part to lengthy prison sentences and the war on drugs.

Yeah... it doesn't get any more authoritarian than that.

I expect those things will improve going forward and it’s really not hard to avoid committing crimes.

Doesn't look like it from where I'm standing. I'd say the US is pretty much on a one-way street to more authoritarianism - not less. Or, to put it more accurately, US authoritarianism will start more and more affecting certain groups and classes that have thought themselves free from it up until now - it's like they say... fascism is just colonialism coming home to roost.

And like it or not, we have pretty unrestricted access to just about anything.

US authoritarianism works very differently than the model China is chasing... but that doesn't make it any less authoritarian. China simply doesn't have the ability to "drown out" narratives that pose a threat to the status quo in the way that the US media machine does. No other country except the US can do that - though China is making strides in that department. Once they do, it doesn't matter if a small minority of people knows the truth - a large (and vocal) part of the population has been immunized against it. That's the core characteristic of the US propaganda model.

So... just the status quo working as designed, then.