Interesting political viewpoint.

[Alferd_Packer]

Interesting in the same sense of poking a stick at a dead animal on the side of the road to look at the maggots.

Bernie Ecclestone, the man who controls Formula One auto racing, said Friday that he preferred totalitarian regimes to democracies and praised Adolf Hitler for his ability to "get things done."

more lunacy

That can't be good for the sport.

 

[johnny karate]

Interesting how it's always people in positions of power who seem to come out in favor of fascism. You rarely see such endorsements from a Hispanic single mother of three working part-time at Target.

 

[INRM]

Johnny Karate,

Interesting how it's always people in positions of power who seem to come out in favor of fascism.

Well of course, fascism is a government system best suited for the rich, and powerful.

You rarely see such endorsements from a Hispanic single mother of three working part-time at Target.

Yes, but a lot of uneducated rednecks support fascist and authoritarian views because of their ignorance and their upbringing.


INRM

 

[Toke]

It´s kind of strange, I would think that a well run facist utopia would include good conditions for the masses. The bread and circus rutine.

Reality may differ.

 

[PitPat]

The Americans probably thought Bosnia was a town in Miami.

Oh, the irony. He probably meant neighborhood or something like that, but still, what a doofus.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

Of course if you are a fascist, you get to have as many "Nazi sex orgies" as you want.

 

[ddt]

And don't forget this part from the original article at the Times:

Claiming he likes “strong leaders”, such as Margaret Thatcher, Mr Ecclestone suggested that Max Mosley, his close friend, the president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), would make a good Prime Minister.

Mr Mosley, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, was recently accused by Formula One racing teams of being a “dictator”.

Of course, Mr. Ecclestone himself has been for decades the Führer of the Formula One circus, which he runs with dictatorial powers, so really no surprise here.

 

[ddt]

It´s kind of strange, I would think that a well run facist utopia would include good conditions for the masses. The bread and circus rutine.

The trains running on time (well, OK, the main lines and apparently not the one running in our backwater).

Olympic games, nice military parades, bonfires made from Marx and Heine, motorways and a car for everyone.

Or simply a Formula One race every couple of weeks.

 

[Merko]

I disagree that fascism would only be attractive to the rich and powerful. History suggests otherwise.

I think, for example, that a lot of unemployed or (in their own minds) under-employed people can be attracted by the fascist promise of the nation coming together, working for a common purpose.

I think Heinlein's Starship Troopers does an excellent job of showing how a fascist society can appear attractive for the masses. I know Heinlein denied that it depicted such a society, but I'm afraid I must disagree there.

 

[oldhat]

I stopped watching Formula 1 because of **** like this.

 

[Mikister]

It´s kind of strange, I would think that a well run facist utopia would include good conditions for the masses. The bread and circus rutine.

Reality may differ.

Since fascism is systematically designed to elevate the few elites and eliminate the undesirables of the masses, it's own bias against the masses serves as one of its many failures.

In irrelevance, the apostrophe in your message differs from mine. I suspect that you have your keyboard set to a different language.

 

[Toke]

The key word is utopia, as in claims of catering for the masses.

Try change to DK keyboard and experiment