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Seeds of fascism, my friends.

Let me guess... after I receive funding from GovCo venture fund, they get to strong arm my company with infinite stipulations and rules about diversity, salary caps, mandatory participation in government sponsored community service, or whatever the vote-buying scheme du jour is.



Why'd this get down voted? What he describes in paragraph 2 is not far from what happens with a lot of the current government ventures into the economy.

E.g., private company's wishing to get in on government contracts need to publish their "diversity policies" to ensure they are diverse enough (I guess):

http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/06/19/46401/priv...


There are countless first world countries that have programs like this and you'd have to be batshit insane to start calling them facist nations. Maybe the people doing the voting down are from some of those countries. In Australia we have a programs like this.


because he started with inane shit; "seeds of facism"




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