{"id":524,"date":"2025-02-20T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:47:28","slug":"squadristi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/social-political-comment\/squadristi\/","title":{"rendered":"Squadristi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we go\u2026 so many groups of dumb idiots spoiling for a fight. Frightening and sad for all of us. The tragedy is that Americans have little reason for this apart from the power of money and the media that it buys, stirring the cauldron of fear and hate. Intellectually speaking we need a new variation on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwin%27s_law\">Godwins Law<\/a> because this is no longer a mere exchange of opinion but new tipping point where real blood is running \u2026 a trickle today but in a year\u2019s time?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, and there\u2019s that terrific film now on TV:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mussolini:_Son_of_the_Century\">M: Son of the Century<\/a>; it pretty much covers what is going on (though as I said we don\u2019t want to raise the spectre of Godwin\u2019s Law just yet. We have to spot the differences \u2026 though there aren\u2019t really that many! Mussolini was clever in teh way that egotists can be, but also a devious liar, and later lying was burned into him. America today is the whipping dog of a shameless ignoramus, running wild with a pack of of brown noses \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of American \u2018Squadristi\u2019 in action \u2013 aren\u2019t they lovely specimens?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidJLongman\/status\/1892530009752879406\">https:\/\/x.com\/DavidJLongman\/status\/1892530009752879406<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Mussolini has a counterpart in the America past it is probably Al Capone; though he never had aspirations to run the country his schtick was the same \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we go\u2026 so many groups of dumb idiots spoiling for a fight. Frightening and sad for all of us. The tragedy is that Americans have little reason for this apart from the power of money and the media that it buys, stirring the cauldron of fear and hate. Intellectually speaking we need a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/social-political-comment\/squadristi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Squadristi?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism_notes","category-social-political-comment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}