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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"He's literally just translating Mein Kampf at this point" - on BLOATUS and the press
Jules Suzdaltsev ✔ @jules_su
I mean, hes literally just translating Mein Kampf at this point.
10:07 AM - Aug 16, 2018
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"He's literally just translating Mein Kampf at this point" - on BLOATUS and the press (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Aug 2018
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dalton99a
(81,513 posts)1. "True freedom is when you do what I tell you to do"
unblock
(52,243 posts)2. "i'm not translating mein kampf! i'm just tweeting about my struggle!"
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)3. Keep tweeting, Cheeto
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)5. He kept My New Order by his bedside, says Ivana in her book.
Hes well-read on Hitlers speeches and aparently, Mein Kampf too.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)6. Yep
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)7. Ur-Fascism Characteristic #
13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of viewone follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against rotten parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniplesmaniples being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.
Essay on Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco (1995)
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)8. Here's his playbook