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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.

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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”

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Fascist-Catholic-Social Democrat-Liberal coalition government, united under Mussolini, against Communist-Socialist opposition.

Truly the grandest coalition of all time.

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Boy, that really just lays it all out right there for anyone to see, doesn’t it

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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?

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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

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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

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Yeah, nobody should depict Italians as white.

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In usian propaganda of that time Mussolini was actually often portrayed with dark skin.

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Depending on your flavour of internet-racism, he is still portrayed as such

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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

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and still we didn’t stop it so they will not look kindly upon us

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I’m trying

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Imagine thinking your vote matters in Hitler vs. Mussolini election

Imagine thinking your vote matters in Democrat vs. Republican election

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