[quote=thorgili]
... wow you people dont know latin... fascism came from the word fasces which was a bundle of sticks (aka faggot) the first reference explaining the fascist system was a analology about how a people while a individual could be easily broken but when united (aka tied together into a bundle) it is much harder to break.
[/quote]

While I did know about the whole fasces/fascism connection, I think the problem is that that usage of faggot (a bundle of sticks) has fallen out of use in everyday English (or at least I don't use it in that way, or any way for a matter of fact).

Edit:

This is a fasces for those who don't know.
[img=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Coat_of_arms_of_canton_of_St._Gallen.svg/531px-Coat_of_arms_of_canton_of_St._Gallen.svg.png]