You’re not making valid points, you’re disputing my use of the word “playbook” seemingly as if I’m discussing a real actual physical document with “THE FASCIST PLAYBOOK” written on the cover, and not what I’m actually discussing which are the actual tools and tactics used by fascists over and over throughout history.

Their videos seem really fun and clever, but as someone who went to art school, the whole conceptual art aspect of it is tough to embrace. Devoting paragraphs upon paragraphs to breakdown “committing to the bit as art” and “virality as form”...yeesh. Look, I hope their thesis does well and they get good grades for…

Why was this person still allowed to continue making money off of YouTube after her content was repeatedly flagged as harmful? 

Are you stupid? Umberto Eco wasn’t creating a playbook FOR fascists to follow, he was listing things they do so that people could identify fascists. What is wrong with you?

This is the first time I’ve seen a release date for this movie stateside. I’m excited!

Cultural theorist Umberto Eco in 1995 created a list of 14 points for identifying fascism, using examples from throughout history. “The enemy is both weak and strong” is a defined tactic. They absolutely know what they are doing, and it is literally what fascists have done throughout history.

OK but Fascists use this tactic purposefully and intentionally and repeatedly. It is part of Umberto Eco’s 14 points in identifying Fascism.

They know exactly what they’re doing, and it’s been done enough in the past to know it’s effective. That’s why it’s called a playbook.

This is literally the Fascist playbook. The enemy is both weak and strong.

Except the post I’m responding to was “male lead singers”, and Hopkins was never the singer. The Gin Blossoms still had 90s hits after New Miserable Experience including “Til I Hear It From You” from Empire Records and “Follow You Down”, written (at least in part) by Robin Wilson. Also “Until I Fall Away” and “Allison…

I mean, for sure. Same with Scott Weiland, Shannon Hoon, any number of amazing 90s singers who are no longer with us. I was just trying to find who was still alive, off the top of my head.

One of the main songwriters from the Gin Blossoms killed himself just before they got really big. But Robin Wilson, the front man and lead vocalist, is still around.

Let’s see who we got...Thom Yorke....Mark McGrath....Scott Stapp (I think?)...the guy from the Spin Doctors...the guy from the Gin Blossoms...look, I didn’t say it was a GOOD list.

There’s actually a huge difference between the political parties. The problem is they both suck. One is hopelessly ineffective, the other is Fascism. Therein lies the problem.

This article makes it seem like Harwell’s retirement happened shortly after his 2013 diagnosis.

I like her much more as a voice actor. Her Sara Lynn was great.

The show is clearly transitioning Guillermo’s desire to be a vampire into realizing what he actually wants is a romantic relationship with Nandor. You can like or dislike it but the show has definitely taken its time to plant the seed and build the change over the course of the seasons.

Not even a mention of the pretty much assumed to be true rumor that Van Damme intentionally injured a stuntman on the set of Predator?

Yeah I was legitimately confused when, in the end, Indy still seems wanted for murder and all the other suspects are stuck somewhere in Ancient Greece.

From what I can garner it seems like a mixture of Tosh.0 and those looped videos from “The Chive” that play endlessly on TVs at various Miller’s Ale House locations. And it’s like 95% of MTV’s programming block.