I Suggest The Wicker Man

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Welcome to Scotland, land of ancient traditions. Either capitalism burns or we all do. [any calls to sacrifice public figures in a wicker man are not sincere calls to sacrifice public figures in a wicker man, honest.]

If only the lads had been in a position where they could’ve resisted the most intense all-channels McCarthyist crackdowns of my lifetime, or at very least said “Uh lads, are be absolutely sure that telling the public that the antiracist, anti-austerity movements are Nazis is smart and good”.

UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’

Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’

theguardian.com

The argument usually boils down to “this person, who seems in every aspect to be a Nazi, cannot be a Nazi, because Nazis are socially unacceptable, and he is being accepted, for example by Me.”

Woman from Massachusetts bragging about how she can go hike in occupied Palestinian territory with the support and protection of an illegally-present army while the native population cannot go from one street to another without permission from an ICC-indicted Prime Minister.

I occasionally hike with an Israeli group - i know for certain that our guide coordinates with the army if in the jordan valley/west bank.  (Although I've only been on one hike there.) I don't think i actually understood until now how important this is...