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Burning Beard
Nov 21, 2008

Choking on bits of fallen bread crumbs
Oh, this burning beard, I have come undone
It's just as I've feared. I have, I have come undone
Bugger dumb the last of academe

Notahippie posted:

This is a thing with fascist or fascist-adjacent groups - most of the higher-ups are in it for personal gain and they obviously operate on FYGM because it's the whole ideology, so they tend to backstab each other more or less constantly. It's one reason why the FBI has penetrated the organized groups so thoroughly - they tend to be willing to cheerfully roll on somebody else to protect their rear end and get a rival out of the way.

You can bitch about leftist circular firing squads, but in general it seems to be a little harder to get leftist leaders to throw each other under the bus in my impression.

I just finished teaching a section on Fascism for my Ideology class and this is exactly how Germany and Italy operated during the 30s and the 40s. Very few true believers at the higher echelons and they all competed for personal gain rather than the benefiting the state. It's a weird ideology in many ways.

Also, RIP Mike Collins. I followed him on Facebook and he was such a joy. I'm a member of a few Space Groups on FB and apparently if you complemented him on his book Carrying the Fire he'd gently chide you for reading "that smut". An all around awesome man.

Burning Beard fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Apr 30, 2021

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