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Now that I’ve written that, he might actually get away with it. It would be a refreshing level of government transparency.

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[–] postall@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In 1995, writer Boris Strugatsky wrote an article about the signs of fascism

Twenty years ago, the cult Soviet and Russian science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky published a note in the newspaper "Nevsky Vremya" entitled "Fascism is very simple. Epidemiological memo".

Plague in our house. We don't know how to treat her. Moreover, we don't even know how to make the right diagnosis. And the one who has already been infected often does not notice that he is sick and contagious.

Man I was sure Putler would have whacked him, but he died of natural causes! So reading sci-fi is their blind spot, spread the word.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

(`ninety-five was thirty years ago)