• dreamkeeper@literature.cafe
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    5 hours ago

    I never really saw it as an allegory for fascism, but that’s an interesting take.

    At least the bad guy gets shanked in the end.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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      58 minutes ago

      Not really the merger of corporate and state power in fascism buT what I noticed was the similarity in times with the fundamental decision between authoritarian rule and democracy and the crossroads Rome was taking going the other direction and how the US seems to be retreating from.