Is it “safer”? Sure. In the same way that not using a browser is safer. I think you would need to have a very concrete reason to disable JavaScript imo. Most websites will be a borked mess.

I mean, I don’t think fascism ever died. Unfortunately, It’s been alive and thriving throughout the world (especially the global south) in large part due to the US. Can’t be too surprised that now it’s folding inward.