My fellow liberals, Mussolini wasn’t voted into power.
Mussolini was literally invited into power to “restore order” by the liberals themselves because they didn’t know how to deal with the communists taking over the country.
Mussolini’s fascism was the first successful test case of a liberal experiment to brutally crush Leninism in Europe following the Bolshevik Revolution. Hitler followed in Mussolini’s footsteps.
Even funnier, Mussolini was invited into power by the litteral King of Italy, in a move that liberal historians are still struggling to describe in a way that doesn’t mention “class interest of the aristocracy”
Fascist-Catholic-Social Democrat-Liberal coalition government, united under Mussolini, against Communist-Socialist opposition.
Truly the grandest coalition of all time.
Boy, that really just lays it all out right there for anyone to see, doesn’t it
I would be concerned if you voted for either and didn’t revolt.
Like how fucking whipped are westerners where we can’t even think about revolution?
I definitely remember the whole “We’re gonna burn this down if Trump was elected” momentum quickly turn to “We meant figuratively” and then “That means voting!”
There’s a big reason why I have grown distant from some of my friends and family and it’s basically that I know I can’t trust them anymore
More interested in keeping the peace than anything else
There’s a big reason why I have grown distant from some of my friends and family and it’s basically that I know I can’t trust them anymore
I’d felt something similar for a while and I couldn’t put my finger on it. They all claimed to see the fascist rot and then they stuffed the genie right back into the bottle. You’re right, the trust is just gone.
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mussolini whitewashing is genuinely a really big problem
Yeah, nobody should depict Italians as white.
Watching liberals use electoralism to jerry-rig a justification for embracing fascism has been both predictable and fascinating to witness
To any future internet archeologists let it be known we knew exactly what was going on and don’t let them tell you otherwise
Imagine thinking your vote matters in Hitler vs. Mussolini election
Imagine thinking your vote matters in Democrat vs. Republican election
Liberals be like: "Revolution is a deranged fantasy for violent weirdos. We have to rely on the system in order to make things better. Even though the system will only ever result in fascist outcomes but it’s okay because this guy is only 98% fascist unlike the 100% fascist competitor.
Then the next election, the GOP runs someone who’s 110% facist and libs will vote for someone who is 100% fascist
“ugh you all are just fascists painted red, now if you’ll excuse me I have to decide between putting mussolini or hitler in power”
didn’t mussolini invent fascism though? its 100% for both ye
There’s always a secret third option:
(Dear fbi i mean this specifically in the hitler v mussolini example, also you guys haven’t approved my vacation days around thanksgiving)
You need to talk to Susy in HR if you want those vacation days approved.
Bravely voting for the guy who will immediately and enthusiasticly adopt the policies of the guy he didn’t vote for is actually a very good analogy for voting for the Dems.
Antifascist liberals: I would
for fascismI literally just had a lib admit in a recent thread that his voting for Biden was a vote for “genocide” and they justified it because it made them feel safer than Trump’s hypothetical ‘worse genocide’. Then someone else chimed in support by saying that they would ‘happily wash their hands in Palestinian blood’ to protect reproductive rights in the US—which were lost anyway.
We’re doomed.
they would ‘happily wash their hands in Palestinian blood’ to protect reproductive rights in the US
the bernie 2020 campaign slogan
Liberals act like voting is like the only possible political action ever
Also seeing a lot of liberals on tiktok telling everyone to “call your elected representatives to stop the genocide in Palestine”
I mean it’s not a bad thing to do, the problem is that liberals see it as either the only option or (even worse) sufficient.
Tbf I’m seeing libs call for boycotts too. But they’re pretty much exclusively mentioning starbucks, mcdonalds, and disney
Many libs are undergoing an expansion of their political horizons and even radicalization right now. Libs are de-libbing around the world.
You forgot about rich people funding candidates.
Protests are uncivil.
Even reading that, I’m still not 100% confident the op quote isn’t good satire and the rest is an act to get that quote off. Like this one-liner gets the point across better than basically any shit I’ve seen anywhere. Unbelievable that he just came up with that banger while seriously believing it.
Me voting for Mussolini
Adult in the Room here, I approve this message.
That’s how an adult who understands politics should behave. People who vote for Biden are as brave as the heroes of Stalingrad in my eyes.
When the man in front of you is shot, pick up his ballot and keep voting, comrade
Our most important mission is to pick up the ballots and bring them to the boxes under fascist Republican fire. Truly the bravest of all heroes. Everyone, with me!
I hate this so much
It would be incredibly funny if it were a bit, but I don’t think it is.
if these were my choices and if there was no communist movement in my country i would try my best to flee.
So should US communists be considering this option now? Or after the 2024 election?
these people yelled for four years how Trump was the end of democracy but in even the most extreme hypothetical they cannot conceive that democracy might be dead as long as the ritual of voting for one of exactly two options is preserved.
They can be inconsistent with their use of democracy because their conception of democracy is empty and purely formal and abstract. So it is easy for them to reinterpret political reality as ‘still democratic’ at the moment because their conception is very empty and has therefore relatively little to do with concrete, substantive democracy.
Also because Trump in no way upset the material basis which they actually use to decide if there is democracy or not, namely whether or not the capitalist class whose views they express and interests they support saw their class power undermined, which of course they did not under Trump.
To give an example of this: I was unfortunately in a conversation with a bourgeois liberal the other say, and they said that Russia is a ‘totalitarian society’. I asked why they thought that, instead of simply saying that it is a fairly authoritarian nationalist state with a form of highly state-directed capitalism, and they said that it is because they apparently ‘use arbitrary political power to violate private property’. Which is not only a bizarre criterion for totalitarianism, but also revealed how liberals think about political and social freedom and democracy.
use arbitrary political power to violate private property
I’m afraid the brainworms are terminal in this caseYeah it’s funny they said it to me tho cos they know im a commie and they claim to be a ‘leftist’ (whatever that means), and they didnt seem to realize that it just revealed that they are a massive lib
