# Related Trends Up: [[Fascism, Nazism and the Left-Right Spectrum]] ## 1. "Hitler was a leftist" as a recurring online argument - The lineage: Mises's *Zwangswirtschaft* (1940s) and Hayek's ch. 12 (1944) → Jonah Goldberg, *Liberal Fascism* (2008) ◻ → Dinesh D'Souza, *The Big Lie* (2017) ◻ → Éric Zemmour, Jun 2021 ("Le parti nazi est aussi de gauche") → brivael, Oct 21–22, 2026 → [[People/Elon Musk|Musk]], Oct 23, 2026 ("Literally in the name of his party!"). - Fact-checkers keep returning to it: Full Fact (2019) and others ◻. - The counter-meme (@DarrigoMelanie, Oct 23) points to the Dachau inmates and the bans on the SPD and KPD. ## 2. Grok contradicting Musk - @ProudSocialist (Oct 23, 154K): "every time he does this Grok corrects him". Under the video, Grok both lists brivael's sources and restates the consensus ("disagreement over weighting"). - brivael's answer (Oct 24, 7:28 AM CT) is that Grok "is trained on" a left-leaning academic corpus. This is part of a wider argument about AI models and political bias ◻. ## 3. French influencers writing in English for US audiences - Le Monde (Pixels, Oct 23, 2026) ⚠️ (paywalled): Thaïs d'Escufon, Brivael Le Pogam and Alice Cordier comment in English on the Oct 17 events to « propager un narratif xénophobe tout en assurant leur autopromotion ». *English translation:* "spread a xenophobic narrative while ensuring their self-promotion." (Summary via verif.news.) - In his reply, brivael lists the charges as he sees them: writing in English, 40% US followers, Musk reposts, X revenue sharing. - He appeared on Mario Nawfal's show ("France burns as curfews ordered", with Brandon Weichert, published Oct 19, 2026, 8:37 PM CT) and blamed "40 years of socialism" and immigration. ## 4. France's October 2026 unrest - brivael's posts from Oct 17–18: "Tonight, France burned"; "Do not blame the French people" (3.4M impressions); "Nuremberg for communism". - He mentions curfews and a fire at Limoges city hall. ⚠️ I did not independently verify these details of the unrest this session. ## 5. The academic-bias argument - Langbert et al. (2016) find a US history-faculty ratio of 33.5:1; the French survey finds 73% on the left. - The debate is whether that imbalance shapes conclusions. brivael says yes. Critics call that a genetic fallacy. ## 6. Contesting the word "extrême droite" - The RN's legal challenge to the Interior Ministry's *nuancier* was lost at the Conseil d'État in March 2024. The fight over the label is part of the RN's "dédiabolisation" (de-demonization) strategy ◻. - brivael's "word no longer means anything" argument belongs to the same trend.