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Is There a Fascism?

I think that I think this is the smartest thing Benjamin ever said, probably, right? They, they, that, that this notion, his analysis, or let me put it this way, because I think he said a lot of smart things. He clearly understood the structure of fascism, which is to go after an aesthetics and the aims of it. Even these videos that are terrifying at night in Portland, they have, they are utterly aestheticized. That's what this is about. This is why they do it at night. It's not just because the, the, the protesters are there. It's they want it to be clandestine. Like, you know, there's a video

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