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Zaddy Fascism

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Is Nostalgia a Good Word in This Conversation?

I was going to say, but could we pursue both possibilities? Because I think I need to think it through. Yeah. Go ahead. "Even fascism has to get its charge from division and contradiction," he says. The word nostalgia is a Greek mashup of stosto and gama that literally means pain for home or Homecoming. If the fascist ever realized the fullness that they're promising, the harmony that they're promised, then they would destroy themselves.

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