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cthulu2016

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2. The confederacy is a culture of defeat

Reply to Dawson Leery (Reply #1)

Sat May 26, 2012, 11:51 PM

May 2012

They whine like Germans probably whined after losing WWI.

It is the pathological culture that always arises when the defeated try to turn having lost into a macho or aesthetic virtue.

The sentimentality of fascism is the sentimentality of the glorious defeated. "We were too good, too idealistic to win."

And then that mind-set metastasizes, attracting other like minded personality-defective losers, even from the land of the victor.

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