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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by _jal on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:57PM (#22131940)
I am beginning to think that fascism is mostly a runaway media effect. 100 years ago it was the beginnings of mass-media being understood and incorporated into politics; now it is the internet.

It seems like something akin to witchcraft crazes on a truly horrifying scale.

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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by Balgair on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:29PM (#22134841)
Ok, I like this idea!

The Malleus Maleficarum was a runaway 'hit' just after the printing press was invented. It's comically evil and while not fascism as we'd say it is today, damned if the methods of torture, psuedo-trial, and presumptions of guilt aren't mirrored in fascism (among others).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum#Popularity...

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