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  • In the UK it’s called the Dragons’ Den. I mean I would be happy to watch some billionaires being fed to sharks, dragons or lions. Perhaps that could be the surprise element of the show, which species comes out of the gate. Kinda like Cabin In The Woods.

    Edit: we could have people standing round the edge of the arena holding home made placards offering advice: ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!’ ‘Go Tim’ ‘We’re all in it together!’.



  • Well Nixon launched the war on drugs because, genius that he was, he noticed that a lot of people who used it were either from ethnic minorities or were left wing in their politics so by passing anti-drug legislation and enforcing it selectively he could effectively criminalise his political enemies, which included black people because he was one of those ‘my skin is my uniform’ kind of guys.


  • I got curious. Here’s the actual story:

    VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. – Michigan State Police say that legalization >of marijuana is making their jobs difficult.

    Officers say that they are able to smell marijuana at traffic stops but are not clear on how law enforcement should handle each situation.

    Police are struggling to address reports they receive due to the legality of the substance.

    “We come across a lot of kids that are under 21 that have possession of it and obviously that’s in violation so we seize it and go through the process that way but when we come across people that are 21 and older and actually have it legally that’s where it’s kind of hard to deal with it in that aspect," Michigan State Officer Andrew Jeffrey said.

    Officer Jeffrey says police receive multiple reports of people smoking marijuana but police cannot do anything if they obtained the substance legally and are not underage.


  • OK let’s return to OPs original example. Mussolini strung up. Good job and all. I don’t particularly like talking about deserts because it’s a childish misunderstanding of the universe. Nobody deserves anything. They get what they get. Having said that, if you’re a Fascist dictator who uses violence and fear on your own population, you’re going to store up some resentment and if said resentment finds an opportunity and an outlet you can reasonably expect a bad outcome.

    I would go one further than OP and say that if you materially aid and abet said Fascist dictator, as for example his girlfriend, you should reasonably expect to share that bad outcome and happily she did.

    There were a great many partisans who took revenge on the fascists at the end of the war and this also should not have come as a surprise to them.

    OP is using Mussolini as an object lesson here, to use the modern way of putting it: Fuck around and find out. Which Mussolini did and modern fascists may also expect to also.

    The January 6th ‘protesters’ were pardoned but they also spent a deal of time in jail. They fucked around and they found out.

    If the full weight of Trump’s Republic protects them they may feel emboldened but eventually the fascist regime always falls because they are economically illiterate, their inner circle fight like rats in a sack, they are incompetent and once the leader dies the whole collapses. And at that point fascists who have been doing fascist stuff should expect not clemency or mercy or any of the things they denied other people. They should expect to be upside down in a petrol station or something equally unpleasant.

    It used to be that even the most unthinking and, frankly, racist people that I came across in work and the various places I used to drink would have been appalled to be lumped in with fascists and Nazis who were characterised as social misfits and considered beyond the pail. Everyone who was racist knew it was wrong. And now it has been normalised. If we’d been less tolerant of people presenting the racist arguments year after year and rather than trying to educate or reason with them had offered them violence or the credible threat thereof we’d be in a better position now. They’d have never reached the mainstream because they’d have been seen as losers still by the unthinking.