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Part One: The Eternal Fascist

Behind the Bastards

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The Power of Humor

Ironic racist humor has been one through line connecting every Nazi and fascist movement that's arisen around the world. George Lincoln Rockwell, the founding father of American Nazism, had his minions dress up in racist guerrilla costumes to distract attention from civil rights activists. Count Dankula, a failed UK political candidate who first achieved notoriety for a video in which he trained his dog to Sig Heil was able to frame himself as a free speech crusader while claiming to fight back against political correctness. There is tremendous power within humor it's why satirists and comedians are some of the first people purged by any dictatorial regime It's why nothing is more important to fascists than to look cool and

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