jeffw@lemmy.worldcakeM to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agoMan who set himself on fire outside Trump trial identified as ‘researcher’ who posted conspiracy-laden manifesto moments earlierwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkMan who set himself on fire outside Trump trial identified as ‘researcher’ who posted conspiracy-laden manifesto moments earlierwww.independent.co.ukjeffw@lemmy.worldcakeM to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareNounsAndWords@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months ago So I asked myself the question: If The Simpsons served the interests of organized crime, how would it do so? I’m just saying, there is a very thin line between genius and insanity…
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoYeah, this thing vacillates wildly between insightful and utter nonsense more than perhaps anything else I’ve ever read. I thought this line was impressive: …fascism, which is perhaps best understood as kleptocracy at the barrel of a gun.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoEh, that describes capitalism too.
minus-squareJaytreeman@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoFascism doesn’t exist without capitalism. There’s been vicious and authoritarian socialist/communist states, but not fascist
I’m just saying, there is a very thin line between genius and insanity…
Yeah, this thing vacillates wildly between insightful and utter nonsense more than perhaps anything else I’ve ever read.
I thought this line was impressive:
Eh, that describes capitalism too.
Fascism doesn’t exist without capitalism. There’s been vicious and authoritarian socialist/communist states, but not fascist