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A staged propaganda photo of Italy's facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat, 1938 (slrpnk.net)
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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Check out the Behind the Bastards podcast. Robert did a couple on the origins of the KKK and, yeah, they started out basically as a "retvrn to tradition" D&D group who got rebooted into racist terrorists. Bunch of pathetic nerds seeking power and finding it in violent terror.