Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@BlisterPearl The punchline? It doesn't land where you expect. The joke’s on the other foot, and it’s wearing jackboots.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Oct 2025

@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)

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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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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