> The antifa lot essentially define fascism as an eternal set of human psychological impulses: nostalgia, in-group preference, desire for cultural homogenity, etc.
Add authoritarianism and militarism to it and you have the definition used by historians and political scientists.
> Fascism was a direct result of, and contingent upon, the mass death and poverty caused by WWI.
"mass death and poverty" in Italy? This is plain false. But it's also besides the point:
The word "fascism" is used to describe any similar pattern of thought and behavior, just like "communism", "skepticism", "pacifism".
> I'm not saying Go programmed products are lower quality
I've met plenty of good developers that complain at how Go ties their hands and creativity. Unsurprisingly, the language has been designed for "cogs":
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The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike