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http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/30/the-men-disputing-cassidy-hutchinsons-retelling-of-trumps-suv-lunge-got-warnings-about-plans-to-flood-the-capitol/Secret service might get a whole hearing of their own in this whole mess.
In his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", cultural theorist Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology. He argues that it is not possible to organise these into a coherent system, but that "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it". He uses the term \"ur-fascism" as a generic description of different historical forms of fascism.While Eco is firm in claiming "There was only one Nazism," he says,\ "the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change."The cult of tradition. "One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements."The rejection of modernism. "The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism."The cult of action for action's sake. "Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation."Disagreement is treason. "The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge."Fear of difference. "The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition."Appeal to social frustration. "One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups."The obsession with a plot. "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 enemy is both strong and weak. "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. "For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle."Contempt for the weak. "Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology."Everybody is educated to become a hero. "In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death."Machismo and weaponry. "Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality."Selective populism. "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."Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. "All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning."Link: https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.htmlhttps://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
Quote from: facilitatorn on June 30, 2022, 10:10:09 PMhttp://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/30/the-men-disputing-cassidy-hutchinsons-retelling-of-trumps-suv-lunge-got-warnings-about-plans-to-flood-the-capitol/Secret service might get a whole hearing of their own in this whole mess.That Ornato and Hutchinson were having these sorts of texts suggests a casual relationship rather than strictly formal, which then makes his possibly having told her stuff "OTR" of the sorts that she has asserted.
Quote from: josh on June 30, 2022, 10:25:13 PMQuote from: facilitatorn on June 30, 2022, 10:10:09 PMhttp://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/30/the-men-disputing-cassidy-hutchinsons-retelling-of-trumps-suv-lunge-got-warnings-about-plans-to-flood-the-capitol/Secret service might get a whole hearing of their own in this whole mess.That Ornato and Hutchinson were having these sorts of texts suggests a casual relationship rather than strictly formal, which then makes his possibly having told her stuff "OTR" of the sorts that she has asserted.Ornato went full on MAGA and was reassigned for Training because transition wanted him nowhere near Biden
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