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I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was, and no facts about DHH other than him being Rails creator.

"will never be awesome" is missing some quantifier about US-centricity.

> US-centricity

Andreas Kling is Swedish, DHH is Danish, fascism originated in Europe.

Italian fascism originated in Italy, but if you broaden the definition of "fascism" to include Nazism (as Adolf Hitler did), then there's an argument that it originated in the 19th century, in many parts of the world, including the United States. Among others, Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Madison Grant, Henry Ford, and the Jim Crow laws; and the Nazi regime took inspiration from Harry Laughlin, the KKK, and American eugenics. (WWII might be a bigger contributor to eugenics going out of fashion in the US than its lack of scientific merit was.)

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