# I Pit Babale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 59
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/59 "2025-04-10T14:07:27Z")
I’m too tired to craft something anew, but would still like to reference a previous post (mine) on the “Fascism – are we or aren’t we” subject: > [@The argument that Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him is really fucking boring](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/66): > > Just because I’m having way too much fun with the threads on this topic … When COVID hit, far too many people (read: MAGAs) hammered home the low mortality rate, blindingly obviously ignoring that there are other negatives associated with a pandemic besides death – severe illness, hospitalization, long-term disability, and contagion to name a few. Ignoring the unbelievable strain on scarce resources and all the direct dollars it cost us all. Death is not the only bad thing a pandemic can caus… Also, another reference to Lawrence Britt’s 14 Characteristics of Fascism: > **[Fascism Anyone? | Free Inquiry](https://secularhumanism.org/2003/03/fascism-anyone/)** > > Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the “Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles” on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, ... Like mass shooters, we always hear that “all the signs were there,” but those signs aren’t pathognomonic for a mass shooter – ie, maybe all mass shooters did the following five things before becoming mass shooters, but lots of kids also do those five things and never harm another soul. Ditto Fascism, IMHO. But we ignore these characteristics at our peril. And if your kid is pulling the wings off of flies and burning ants with a magnifying glass, get professional help. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738)._