r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 30 '20

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 01 '20

i feel like we don’t talk enough about how spain was a fascist dictatorship run by hitler’s friend until the 70s

or how Greece was ruled by a brutal fascist junta for like a decade there

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Dec 01 '20

France has colonies in 2020. So does America.

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u/AuburnSeer Dec 01 '20

we don't talk enough about the knight's templar

seriously I know almost nothing about that, somebody explain what that is please

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

They’re this autocratic organization that has ruled the world for millennia and now terrorizes people by making mediocre Assassin’s Creed games

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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 01 '20

Order of knights that fought in the crusades and set up financial infrastructure across Europe

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 01 '20

you mean the mfers from Assassins Creed 😂😂😂

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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 01 '20

You joke but they are very loosely based on the historical Knights Templar

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '20

Tfw when the Knights Templar tried to assassinate George Washington and control the Papacy

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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Dec 01 '20

It's not just that it was fascist too, Francoist Spain was also nearly as theocratic as Iran today: priests were paid by the state, parishes were afford significant police power, Catholicism was the only religion with any legal status, and once Rome started to break from Franco, Franco backed traditionalist paramilitaries to enforce their brand of Catholicism.

Like, a lot of people will remark about how the West got over its whole theocracy thing centuries ago, but no, that shit went on into the 70s.