Gorsuch's "Fascism Forever Club" at school? Twitter informs me that the Heil has managed a new level of [C21] Nazi!apologism by saying it was a way of rebelling against the left-wing views of his teachers. Yes, the Jesuits, those well-known liberals. Practically Communists. The name just demonstrates his "sense of mischief", you see.



That is NOT an envious face in the middle there, mes amies.
I know I know I KNOW that the Heil is a filthy fascist rag unfit for lining litter trays with, but I'd somehow, bizarrely, hoped that this time around they might not go Full Nazi. That they'd have a quick flick through their own archives, see that actually Hitler turned out to be not quite the chap they thought, and [unintentionally] cheerleading for genocide doesn't really look good, so perhaps better to not big up the would-be founders of a fecking fourth Reich. (I'm not giving them a capital letter for fourth. Out of SPITE. But obviously Reich has to have one, because German Noun. Some rules are not made to be broken.)
Mischief. Mischief! How in the name of all that is good & holy can ANYONE characterise starting a pro-fascist club as "mischief"?! Unless they have very little English, lost their place in the dictionary, and in desperation & panic went for that when they went monstrous. (See similarly, "they have neurological issues causing severe confusion/muddling of words". Only other thing I can think of causing/explaining it would be being the fictional character who brings the most crashingly inappropriate malapropisms...)
I suppose Trump's father was only at that KKK rally as a Boyish Prank, too. And getting arrested there was... well, Boys Being Boys, presumably?
When I went to Berlin at the end of Y12 with what was left of my AS-Level German class our Lone Boy & I were looking at the pictures of Nazi book burnings in the Deutsche Dom when an elderly man approached us & started telling us about what he'd seen. He'd been at book burnings, he'd been made to join the HJ... and he was really distressed just by seeing the pictures. And LB kept using du instead of Sie when addressing the poor man so I had to keep elbowing him & I have EXCEPTIONALLY pointy elbows so he got a bit huffy until I pointed out that not only was he being frantically rude Full Stop it might look like he was being Deliberately And Pointedly Rude in the belief the poor old man was a Nazi. But these IDIOTS who seem to think Fascism Is Fun... I can just see that scared-looking old man, almost-crying as he described being forced to watch books being burned as a small boy because he & his mother took a wrong turn on the way home & to walk away would have made them look suspicious. And he was so desperate, so earnest in that "it mustn't ever happen again" - is it really awful that I sort of hope he's not lived to see this? A curator told me he was a frequent visitor & he'd try to talk to visiting teenagers when he could (if they were amenable, they never had any complaints, only people like me coming to say "um, there's an elderly man down there who seems a wee bit upset, I've left him sitting by X & he said he'll be ok, but I thought you should know"). Pretty brave of him in lots of ways - but turns out he was absolutely right to be so constantly vigilant.
Sorry, that was just a huge burble. Am just angry & sad & frustrated. (And still!No-Ballet-For-Zebra. I couldn't even make it up to the hospital today to return the monitor, nor get someone else to. I know they have enough a day delay won't matter, but still feel bad. What got me was that when I rang they were surprised I was letting them know. And checked I meant yesterday-Thursday, not a week+ ago. I actually dread to think how many monitors must Go Walkies for extended periods of time
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