Some thunks about Fascism
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Here's another wikipedia entry on the bundle of sticks:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(unit)
That's what I immediately thought of when I saw your picture.
Yeah. The stem of the word means the same thing. A faggot is a twig one lights fires with.
i thought fagot was a bundle of sticks. where did you get it being a twig to light a fire?
You are right: a faggot IS a bundle of sticks. So I should have said twigs. Bound together.
AI tells me that:
Also wikipedia tells us that the word Fascism comes from the Latin word fascis, meaning 'bundle'; Italian: fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
So I have known about that since forever. Indeed, I even speculated in a thesis that the whole Thatcher's New Public Management (Union Busting) movement with its instruments like: Public Private Partnershilps - where oligarchs get to play with Public projects, such as 'privatizing' Telecoms and Rails etc - which I ventured is Fascism lite - to destroy the communists was the theory.
So, the reason why I bring this up is that my organization decided to jump in with the Maori prayer before work meme.
The translation went something like:
Bind hem all together
Bind them tightly
Bind them so that they are strong
etc.
My first reaction was that it sounded like One ring to rule them all from Tolkien. There was also no mention of who we were praying to. Which meant crossin myself, because any entity could be invited in. Seriously.
And then I was wondering if there was any connection to the 'binding together of sticks' , à la Mussolini, and went to google it.
The whole front page was waffling about a Kenyan fable. Get off the grass! Everyone knows that sticks in a bundle was the symbol Mussolini used. I am wondering now, if the memory is being Mandela effected, and replaced.
Nazi may have been a lot of things, but they were not fascist. Today the commies use it to describe anyone they don't like,they word has no meaning anymore.
Yes, I think that is part of making people forget. Spam the slur so often that people only think Fascism = le Bad, and Antifa = Waaal, they have a point, you know, because Fascism = le Bad.
Not that I agree with NPM (New Public Management - That's Thatcher Union Bustin), by the way. In the old days, Unions were the ones looking out for Worker Safety and collective wage-protection. And that was the problem, because the Unions were aware in the eighties that wages and inflation had decoupled and they were trying to keep wages up with inflation. Their argument was that it was only fair, but the government was concerned with ecomomics - and their actions, adopted by the entire West, only exarcebated the decoupling effect. So in my opionion, we are all living in a Fascist regime,
Why do you think we have had all these OSH laws passed recently (ca, 2015, or thereabouts)? Because Unions had their teeth pulled, and worker injury was dramatically on the rise. Governments had to step in, to reduce the societal cost of people dying on the job. But we can't have suposed card carrying communists demanding wage increases for all the workers in a company, now, can we? Now we have individual contracts that are just about immutable. Try getting a inflation adjusted wage-increase these days, LOL. One cannot even see what inflation is really running at.
You are also right about the loss of meaning - NAzi is a word derived from National Socialism. The Nazis were commie-lite and many will argue that Nazis did a lot of good, because they weren't like those filthy Russian commies - until they turned genocidal.