• himmyguap@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    If you do a search for this story there are almost no American media outlets reporting on it.

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    Just a small reminder that italians voted Mussolini’s niece to the government.

    So they also swing both ways.

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      They voted him, but after that he started a golpe… That it could be even worse, but he didn’t initially took power just because of people will.

      He mostly was loved by the richer class as a good way to stop communists and popular (leftie Christians)

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      16 hours ago

      If Elon was just doing a Roman salute, then Luigi was just doing an Italian goodbye, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            I know you’re joking but I don’t like this take, even as a joke. They’re people, and hurting them is violence. It just also happens to be the right course of action.

            Honestly, punching a nazi is the most loving thing you can do for them in the moment that they’re being nazis, because it shatters their delusion of superiority, and that gives them a chance to change, and a life of hate is not a good life. It’s miserable.

            You ever see this gif?

            Honestly an improvement in that guy’s life. Witnesses said he took off his armband after he woke up. Did he lose his fascist ideas, or just learn they were extremely unpopular and got a violent reaction? Whatever it was, he learned that going around dressed as a nazi was a bad idea, and that’s progress however you slice it.

            So rather than “nazis aren’t people” I prefer “punching a nazi is an act of love”.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The article says…

    …where the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made two stiff-armed salutes that many interpreted as a fascist gesture.

    Can’t say I care for that characterization. Half the world is trying to gaslight me about this but my fucking eyes work.

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      14 hours ago

      The local TV here in Portugal also did the whole saying “that some consider a Nazi salute” thing in their news segment about this …

      … and then showed Elon’s salute and a bunch of Nazis doing Nazi salutes as examples, leaving nobody in the audience but the blind in any doubt that Elon’s salute was the same as the salutes that the Nazis did.

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        7 hours ago

        Journalists are way too quick to 'both sides" stuff. (Not sure how much of an American problem it is.) I don’t think I’ve seen a single article that didn’t include the quote from those asinine Nazi sympathizers at the ADL.

        THIS, I like. Sure, maybe you have to report that he claims it isn’t. But bring receipts.

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          The problem is they never want to be wrong and unless Elon comes out and says it was a Nazi salute publically the media dances around it. The right knows this and plays the game pretty well.

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      This sort of chickenshit faux neutrality is why people are losing faith in corporate media.

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        16 hours ago

        This sort of chickenshit faux neutrality, that seems to believe the smart and sensible position is political illiteracy and “working on themselves first”, is the greatest asset to fascists.

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      It’s a step in the right direction, for sure. Still 100% ineffective unless it’s an actual billionaire instead of a dummy, then we can start calling it a protest. Anything less is masturbation.

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    Musk […] dismissed the backlash, saying, “Frankly they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is soo tired.”

    Someone end this man plz

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    My great grandfather’s buddy took the Mussolini corpse photos while they walked through and sold them to Time magazine, it’s sort of a 6 degrees of separation thing but still a fun fact

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      My grandfather didn’t get any close-ups with historic fascists, but he did shoot two Nazi planes out of the sky.

      And then my mom and dad voted Trump.

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    Bravissimo! We Germans should chuck a burned “Leon Hitler” effigy in front of Hitler’s bunker in Berlin.

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      I’m 40 this year I may just be getting too old but what does Based mean? I searched for it online previously and the explanation confused me but I see it everywhere along with cap/no cap and bet.

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        Not much younger than you, but I got you on the definitions.

        I’d say based is more or less the opposite of the kids calling things cringe. Speaking truth to power is definitely based.

        Cap means a lie or posing. It can be used as a verb to accuse someone of lying to (i.e. “You’re capping”). To say no cap means “I’m dead serious”.

        Bet is basically an analog to ok.

        This slang all essentially comes from hip-hop and the surrounding culture around it.

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    16 hours ago

    Wow imagine doing this and never watching the original video. An autistic guy said my heart goes out to you, just watch/listen to the source. smh

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      16 hours ago

      I did, and I saw not one but two Nazis salutes. I don’t mean to be ablelist if you’re blind and could only hear audio.

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        Nazi salutes don’t start from the heart like a pledge of allegiance the flag of America does. What flavor is the kool-aid you drinking?

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            Check back in 4 years. Nazi has lost all its meaning they way its thrown around today.

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              14 hours ago

              You asked for a nazi salute from the heart, and they gave you literal Hitler doing a salute from the heart.

              And your reply to that is that the word Nazi has lost all meaning?!

              My dude, you don’t even need critical thinking skills for this one. If you cannot straight up realize they are the same gesture, you may be suffering from brainwashing.

              You see, the other way I know it’s the Nazi salute, is because their policies are Nazi politics. It wasn’t just the Jews who ended up in camps: it was people of colour, gay people, and the disabled. A lot of Trump’s executive orders/campaign speeches fit into categories concerning those people.

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      14 hours ago

      We’ve all watched the video. Notice how when Elon is saying my heart goes out to you, he normally doesn’t sig heil.

  • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    🎶

    Una mattina mi sono alzato

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    O partigiano, portami via

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    E le genti che passeranno

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    E questo è il fiore del partigiano

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    Questo è il fiore del partigiano

    Morto per la libertà

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    Morto per la libertà

    🎶