Time magazine: “we don’t know how yet, but we’re gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast”

  • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I mean, isn’t this like people predicting the year 2000 from the year 1920 and people in 2020 making fun of that being wrong? In neither situation could the future be predicted.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      Him and his Mujahideen were awful religious zealots back then too. That was just ignored due to the “enemy of my enemy is my friend and thus a hero” principle that the US have consistently applied to some of the biggest monsters in history.