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9 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Possibly the maddest person ever to run a big country.
She must never be allowed to live this down. Also don't forget that Tony Benn called Mao "the greatest man of the 20th century".
I mean mad in a clinical sense, not just adhering to a mad belief system. I suppose Hitler could be in the running, towards the end, but Mao was off his rocker for decades.
Yes, you have to factor in that China's vast population means, then and now, that a totalitarian government has consequentially far more disastrous effects.
Ah, good old Peep Show. I'm basically living Jeremy's lifestyle with Mark's politics and social skills.

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Urgh, Maxine Peake. I shouldn't be surprised, I suppose, but I perhaps naively thought she hadn't quite descended to the lowest stratum of crankery. And Lowkey! So 9/11 truthers are good comrades now?
John McDonnell was *shadow chancellor*. Had recent history gone a bit differently, he might now be in charge of the national economy, and here he is rolling around in the much with these lowlifes.
This is, no hyperbole, the equivalent of a senior Tory minister sharing a platform with a Holocaust denier. But there'll be no visible disquiet from the left, because in their hearts they don't believe anyone who calls themselves a socialist can be a bad person.
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10 Sep
Important to remember that Quisling's pre-war following in Norway was tiny, verging on nonexistent. He misled the Nazis into believing his native fascist party was a mass movement, when in fact it had barely any public support.
Fascist parties becoming big enough to seize power semi-legitimately, as in Germany, is the exception rather than the rule. More often, fascist regimes are installed as clients by foreign conquerors or established by a violent coup.
Even Mussolini wasn't swept to power on a tide of public fervour. The "March on Rome" was largely a PR exercise, it involved a relatively small number of men but was nonetheless enough to intimidate the king into making him PM.
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TIL Family Guy did a black dick joke. This still from the show is supposed to represent the Obama monument next to the Washington monument. Pretty ugly stuff.
I hated Family Guy from the very start, even in its supposedly "classic" early period. It's not just that it was an obvious ersatz Simpsons, it's that it always felt so highly processed, designed to wring cheap laughs out of the audience rather than forming an organic whole.
One of the many markers in The Simpsons' long, grim descent into sub-mediocrity was when they did a crossover with Family Guy. I've never been able to bring myself to watch it. The equivalent of Paul McCartney joining Oasis.
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Tragic little squit can't quite summon up the courage to positively argue for memorials to treason in the service of human bondage, so he makes a chickenshit second-order complaint instead. Tens of millions of Americans find this guy deeply impressive.
Trying to imagine the British equivalent of the US being littered with Confederate monuments. Maybe if there were statues of Bonnie Prince Charlie all over the place? But even then, the Jacobite cause, while mistaken, wasn't nearly as morally abominable.
Cromwell is a very divisive figure, but the government he created became the template for our constitutional monarchy and the civil war first established parliament's primacy over the crown. He can be considered one of the modern UK's "founding fathers".
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I find it conceivable that, had Trump won and was now presiding over the vaccination drive, we'd have seen some flourishing of anti-vaxx sentiment on the left out of sheer partisan polarisation. BUT I don't think it would have been nearly as widespread.
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Are there deluded leftists locked in their own tight information bubbles? Of course. But they're pretty marginal and not very numerous, and crucially they have barely any sway at all over the Democratic party.
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