"was it fun to provoke them [his fans] for a clickable thing? Yes. And they were an easy target"
I remember posting this quote a long while back, where we all chimed in and some Snyder fantatic here started doing some serious mental gymantistics by saying that "Zack wasn't talking about himself proving his fans but rather the media and the writer of the article had a clear agenda against Zack and his fans and worded the whole thing differently".
I have several things to say about this whole thing:
1. I personally believe that MOST of Snyder's fanbase consists of decent people who simply love his work, after all raising nearly a million dollars for suicide prevention is no small feat and they should be commended for it. I also believe that the toxic, psychotic, cult like portion of his fanbase are in the minority even if they bark the loudest.
2. I said before and I will say it again, Zack Snyder is guilty of in-action. Never once, NOT ONCE, did he try to dissuade the psychotic portion of his fanbase.
Now I don't expect the guy to stop ALL the hate spewed out by his cultists but a simple, well written post asking his fanbase to be respectful towards others creators (like Lingard) and cut down on negativity isn't too much to ask for, yet he never even attempted to do that. On the other hand he posts non stop on social media about his JL plans and what would've/could've been.
As far as I'm concerned he deserves all the criticism he gets.
3. Synder is a villain in this story, but to be honest so is everyone else involved, infact while Snyder is A villain, the WB management at that time are THE villains. When BvS bombed critically
and severily underperform at the B.O. those stupid WB monkeys could've asked Snyder to step down, delay the release of JL by a year and re-work the project properly, yet instead they decided to continue with Snyder because delaying JL would've meant them losing their bonuses! And when Snyder's edit (not cut) didn't meet their approval, they decided to pull the rug from under him and get the A-hole in chief Whedon to butcher his film, in simple words: WB did Snyder guilty and the Snyder cut was the universe's way of setting things right, even if I personally never watched it and will never have any interest in watching it.
Lastly, what the hell is the point of all of this? Honestly, the Snyder cut happened, his fans got their wish and life continues to churn, so why does this article even exist? Is it disgruntled ex-WB employees getting back at Snyder? Is it the Rolling Stones magazine trying to cash in on the fact that the Snyder cut is coming out on digital today? Who knows, but I do know that most of (if not all of us) are tired of this crap and would love to move on.
Instead I want to hear about DC becoming an autonomus film studio run by an intelligent individual for a change. I want to WB to stop mucking around and announce Cavill's return already because I know for certain that he's still superman. And finally I want to hear a concrete announcement about the next Superman solo and the studio's plans for the character in general because we all know that Zaslev has made Superman a priority.
P. S. I wouldn't mind hearing about my 2nd favorite character Nightwing getting some love i,e, a solo outing, becaue if Babs is getting one then why not Dick!
OTOH, a feminist marching for abortion rights might display the very same slogan on her placard. I.e., it’s general enough that it can connote different meanings in different contexts. Also, words and phrases can — over time — become decoupled from their original sources. (And this quote, as noted, isn’t even original to Mussolini.) If you do a Google image-search for the quote, you’ll be treated to a screenful of mostly T-shirt ads. 
Go figure. And I'll assume (perhaps at my peril) that most of the buyers, wearers and manufacturers of these Ts are not endorsing fascism. Cheers.
