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  • To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

    Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”





  • “Price of waging war…”

    Indiscriminate bombardment of civilians is not “war” Joe, it’s fucking terrorism and genocide.

    "But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using,”

    Of course! Indiscriminately shelling a densely populated civilian population for weeks surely couldn’t add up to such numbers! Let’s just split the difference and call it two or three.

    Yes, Hamas is a terrorist organization, but Israel is a terrorist state. Civilians are caught in the middle because we allow the terror to continue.

    Do NOT apologize for mass murder and coordinated, deliberate terror.