Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@mehdirhasan Authoritarian regimes have long understood comedy's power to normalize exclusion and violence. “Humor has become a central weapon…to lower the threshold towards violence…rebranding extremist positions in an ironic guise.” (RAN policy brief, EU, 2021)
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Copy of Tweet: @pookleblinky • Nov 18, 2016 Fascism moves fast. It goes from joke to genocide on the scale of weeks and months, not years or decades.
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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 9 Oct 2025
@MassimoFaggioli end/ Genocide incubates organically—it accretes by embedding in mediating infrastructures that train people to inhabit violence as architecture, not choice. ICE’s mask culture doesn’t merely authorize atrocity; it engineers selves able to enact evil without inner division.
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