"He's literally just translating Mein Kampf at this point" - on BLOATUS and the press

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Jules Suzdaltsev ✔ @jules_su

I mean, he’s literally just translating Mein Kampf at this point.

10:07 AM - Aug 16, 2018

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[dalton99a]

1. "True freedom is when you do what I tell you to do"

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2. "i'm not translating mein kampf! i'm just tweeting about my struggle!"

[FakeNoose]

3. Keep tweeting, Cheeto

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[Claritie Pixie]

5. He kept My New Order by his bedside, says Ivana in her book.

He’s well-read on Hitler’s speeches and aparently, Mein Kampf too.

[dalton99a]

6. Yep

[Thomas Hurt]

7. Ur-Fascism Characteristic #

13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view—one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against “rotten” parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was “I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples”—“maniples” being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

Essay on Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco (1995)

[DesertRat]

8. Here's his playbook

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