[quote=Brovo]
He's taken a page out of the book of Facism. Make a scapegoat? Check. One national party? Check. Kill or imprison anyone who could stand in your way? Check. Inspire nationalist fervour based on race or culture? Check.This is the basic setup for Empire. If we're lucky, he'll take Crimea and be done with it, snuggling up to his warm water port.If not, well... Anyone got a nuclear bunker for me to chill in, by chance?
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My experience of political chat, from the HuffPo to IRC (not our IRC -- like hardcore old school IRC where the real freakos live) is to dance around the F-word. ;) But yes, that is more or less what he's gravitating toward these days. The reason why I often find myself dancing around that word is the same reason the Russians use it as an epithet against everyone else while unwittingly satisfying the requirements in many ways; it's a dirty word and it inevitably leads to people conflating fascism with skinheads, and a general derailment of the argument from there on out.

Incidentally, it's still an insult in the Russian language.