Way back in the mists of time, in the early-1980s, HBO had a fake news show called Not Necessarily the News, and they did a fake PSA about the 3rd Amendment. Some general was asking to quarter soldiers in a guy's house, and the homeowner pulled out the Constitution and showed the general right where it said he had…

…and forgetting the outcome of the Civil War, which was stoked for decades before 1861 by this very same line of reasoning.

"fascism is a philosophy of primacy of the state which is traditionally agnostic to the local economic regime" I pretty much agree (although I would change out "state" and replace it with "nation" to bring the ethnic/racial realities into it). But, as I said before, Fascists and Nazis could be very cozy with big…

Right. The end-games each was working toward — what they saw as the ideal state of humanity — were vastly different. Fascists saw themselves as undisputed rulers of the rest; Nazis took that a step further by not just wanting to rule over the rest, but by trying to eliminate certain portions of humanity entirely;…

Ironically, you can be an atheist Jew. I guess you could also be a Jewish Catholic (or Methodist, or whatever), if you converted, but still consider yourself culturally Jewish. Hell, at this point, I'm more culturally Catholic than religiously Catholic.

Surely Apu will get a line about that.

Sounds a lot like what we've gotten in the last 15 years, what with inordinate attention paid to C- and D-level characters' backstories.

I like the idea of it being one of Bart's prank calls that somehow gets transmitted to the Planet Express crew 1000 years later, and Fry has some idiotic reason to investigate its meaning.

I thought Jackie Mason died years ago.

How I longed for Lionel Hutz to have Troy McClure on the witness stand, just once, where they could each frustrate and infuriate the other with their subtly different brands of incompetence and vacuousness.

And, in the case of Dr. Monroe, apparently not dead!

If you're in certain parts of America, you accuse people of somehow being Nazis and Communists and Muslims, all at the same time.

Part of the trickiness, too, is that pre-Soviet Russia wasn't industrialized or modernized to the extent of the Western and Central Europe that Marx and Engles were theorizing about 2 and 3 generations before the 1917 Russian revolution. So many aspects of a bourgeois, industrial society with a large and…

I just posted the same fucking thing. Equating communism and fascism is really a lazy and inexcusable mistake.

"But when the Soviet Union turned pro-labor ideals into fascism…"

Hey, thanks for taking some time and responding to us nerds here! Really, the poster is great. I enjoyed seeing some Batmans (?) that I was familiar with next to some that I'm completely unfamiliar with.

I might have tried "Platonic Ideal," but probably would have gotten beaten up over it.

Exactly.

"I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!"

Liked for variation on a meme, with "Hold up there, Slobodan."