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The End of History

If Books Could Kill

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Fascism Isn't a Quote Unquote Idea

Fascism isn't the kind of quote unquote idea that gets defeated in the marketplace of ideas. It's not really an idea in the same way that like liberal democracy is, right? Fascism is predicated on this in group declaring themselves the inheritors of the nation's power. They're trying to take the power because they don't fucking care. That's my pet theory about what brought Francis Fukuyama to this point where he writes this book. He had to write it because he could not face God.

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