Quintus Curtius has posted this little bit [https://qcurtius.com/2017/02/12/how-benito-mussolini-took-power/] on Mussolini’s rise to power. This caught my eye: > It was never established whether Mussolini was involved or knew anything about the plot beforehand. He was certainly not above using violence, or encouraging its use, against political opponents; but such a reckless step probably was taken without his knowledge or approval. Despite this, he was able to use the crisis that the murder…
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**Update **– I belatedly realized there was so much bullshit here that I overlooked addressing a few points, and made a couple errors. Normally I tack these on the end, but since it will be interspersed, I will tag updates with the, and any deletions will be lined out to keep things honest. I stumbled into an article today [https://medium.com/@tuckerfitzgerald/intolerant-liberals-4ecd712ac939#.qyy5eynkn] that, before I eviscerate it, needs to be at least congratulated on being refreshingly hon…
Second order consequences and responses are not, as has often been observed, a strong suit of SJW’s and the crop of morons running the Democratic party – a party notable in that, when one of its senior representatives was asked how it differed from a National Socialist (Bernie Sanders) she had just described as a “good Democrat”, was completely caught off guard and unable to do so. We’ve had a number of conservatives point out a “civil” war would be a bad thing, andthat the left is showing sign…
Bear with me, as this involves a partially remembered conversation of someone paraphrasing. It’s been said, here and elsewhere, that SJW’s and liberals are children. Like narcissists and other cluster-B’s they act as if they are emotionally stunted, never progressing beyond the teenage years, if that, in the ability to deal with conflict and setbacks. A few days back I observed a conversation where one side pointed out the bit at the women’s march, just after the inauguration, where Madonna sp…
I was looking at a G+ conversation initiated by Eric Raymond when someone of libertarian, nevertrump bent started utterly going off the rails about Trump being a fascist bent on taking over the USA, and his moves just being preparation for a coup. A bit of background. Eric is a libertarian who*explicitly changed his registration to Republican to vote for someone other than Trump in the primaries, but since the election, has found himself defending Trump more and more as the left has become incr…