Hurrah for the Blackshirts - favourite Daily Mail stories

[KentPhilip]

My favourite Mail story today is this one:

The toothless loan shark: Market trader who ran illegal lending racket from his fruit and veg stall is spared jail because interest rates were 100 times LOWER than high street firms | Mail Online

Not because of the story, but because of one of the comments. Click the "worst rated" tab, and there near the top is one who comments:

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But unlike CUK the daily mail doesn't wrap the text, so it carries on all the way over to the right, as the horizontal scrollbar testifies


Edit: Well it made me laugh..
Edit2: Yes it is exactly 1000 characters.
Edit3: No it wasn't me.
Edit4: Actually CUK has slightly mangled it - there is no space between each 10 and 00

[Mich the Tester]

You are part right - fascism was seen by elements of the ruling class as a bulwark against communism, but I think people are more complex than that. It's much easier to self-justify your position if you can believe in it, much as I would like to think that the powerful are all entirely cynical.

Yep, but many of the German upper class absolutely hated Hitler. They fought in the army as was their family tradition, but it's no coincidence that many of the plotters in the various assassination attempts on Hitler were patricians or aristocrats, and some others tried to undermine him politically. Basically they felt he was an oik, a rabble rouser and a dangerous loon who would destroy Germany. Fairly accurate assessment.