She *did*?? Single-handedly? Wow. Wonder if anyone told Tony Blair...?
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @arthur_affect and
Seems 99% of instances of "wrong people being credited for things" come down to men getting praise for good things women did, or women getting blamed for bad things men did. Rum.
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @Shatterface and
Right, so was she a powerless helpless random bystander in the government or is she an inspiring hero who changed the world Or does she flip from one to the other depending on whether the thing she's associated with was good or bad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
I mean, you know that's what people do, right? People are wrong about some things and right about others? That's sort of humanity 101, hon
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @Shatterface and
Yes, and they are responsible for the things they get wrong, and they deserve to carry the blame for them instead of having their fans wave them off like it doesn't matter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
Yeah... I mean, you're not going to convince me Baroness Nichols is "responsible for" the Iraq war, Arthur. Great that you've found someone to blame, though. A woman, no less! One fighting to safeguard women and children! *Purely by coincidence*!
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Replying to @LauraGr31918310 @Shatterface and
It's not a coincidence, people with awful regressive views on one thing tend to have them on a bunch of other things too It's why we have political parties
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LauraGr31918310 and
I know that fascists usually like to portray their enemies as both simultaneously weak and strong, as Umberto Eco pointed out, but I never realised that they did the same to their heroes.
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Replying to @phyphor @LauraGr31918310 and
It's a logical corollary of how they treat their enemies, obviously, but Orwell did a pretty deep dive into it from that side -- his essay about how Hitler's public persona was essentially a Charlie Chaplin character, a sad beaten-up underdog loser struggling against the world
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
Like, the Ubermensch wankery is intrinsically tied to that self-pity, they're two sides of the same coin, Clark Kent and Superman It's not *only* a fascist thing, everyone has their moments of thinking like this -- "Someday I'll show them all" -- but fascists fixate on it
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They're deeply mired in childish narcissism -- nothing is ever my fault, everyone is always fucking me over, someday I'll show them all (Chaplin was disturbed enough by the common observation that Hitler looked like him that he made The Great Dictator)
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