zifnab25
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He wants that, yes. But he also wants anyone who calls him a Cheeto to be dragged out into the street and maimed.
He wants his opponents to be treated like trash. He wants parts of the country that hate him to be treated like Israel treats Palestine.
Well... that's sort of a chicken-egg question. I'm not betting that fascist tendencies in social circles post-dated the allegory of the Fasces. I'm sure you can find them going back thousands of years.
Idk if I'd discount the brutality of Vietnam, between the cluster bombs and zippo raids and land mines and Agent Orange defoliant.
That war was about as brutal as it was possible to get, shy of nuclear strikes.
I think the WWs were, perhaps, more brief because of their scale. Very hard to maintain two fronts across central Europe for any length of time.
E Pluribus Unum
Quite literally the symbol of the Union.
Further proof that America is secretly being controlled and undermined by nefarious Communists.
The original parable of the Fasces is basically the argument behind unionism.
But Fascism loves to appropriate icons of left wing movements and pervert them. That's nothing new.
Really makes you think
Tapping the sign
According to Marx's theory of historical materialism, societies pass through six stages β primitive communism, slave society, feudalism, capitalism, socialism and finally global, stateless communism.
Don't hold your breath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_controversies
Straight from the top
Russian Revolution, 1917β1920
Lippmann and Merz alleged that the newspaper referred to events that had not taken place, atrocities that did not exist, and that it reported no fewer than 91 times that the Bolshevik regime was on the verge of collapse. "The news about Russia is an example of what people wanted to see, not what happened," Lippmann and Merz wrote. "The main censor and the main propagandist was the hope and fear in the minds of reporters and editors."
Business cycle. Sorry bro
They just never learned to code