Fascist movements need nerds like Giovanni Gentile and the likes, who know books and the rule of grammars, to produce nice manifestos and bios to make a mystical cult of violence and death seem sensible and based on rational arguments. But they will be discarded as used napkins as soon as possible
I would add that the Musk apology tour was not just for posting something generically antisemitic, but for getting on Twitter and saying Hitler was right
It’s wild how much that got ignored from most of the coverage. Media stories accurately pointed out that he was peddling a white supremacist conspiracy theory, but he said a guy who said “Hitler was right” said the absolute truth and reporters just ignored that
I read some of FreeP in the war, but all of it is so transparently contrarian for contrarians sake it's so blatant. Bari Weiss's editorial decision are "liberals are talking about this. I'm not maga but I want to be contrarian anyways"
This is why the White Supremacists took off their hoods and put on suits. They want to pretend they are not what their words and actions clearly are. Also, Elon supports a fascist war criminal in Israel and pretends that is standing against anti-semitism.
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Vonnegut:
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”