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“If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime” (infosec.pub)
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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is also part of it.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

  • Tommy Douglas

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas

Thomas Clement Douglas PC MP CC SOM MA LL.D (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish Canadian politician who served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971.... ...Douglas was voted "The Greatest Canadian" of all time in a nationally televised contest organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2004.