• Blackmist
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    5 hours ago

    I sometimes fear that
    people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
    worn by grotesques and monsters
    as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

    Fascism arrives as your friend.
    It will restore your honour,
    make you feel proud,
    protect your house,
    give you a job,
    clean up the neighbourhood,
    remind you of how great you once were,
    clear out the venal and the corrupt,
    remove anything you feel is unlike you…

    It doesn’t walk in saying,
    “Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”

    –Michael Rosen.

    • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      It doesn’t walk in saying, “Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”

      Yeah but evidently it does, and people still choose it.

      • samus12345@lemmy.world
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        American fascism certainly does say those things, but it’s always other peoples’ faces the leopards will be eating.