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[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 44 points 6 months ago

The parallels are genuinely disturbing. It's further disturbing how many Americans are just cool with it.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 21 points 6 months ago

Not just cool with it, thrilled. Giddy.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 months ago

They’re angry that they’re too dumb to participate in modern society.

They’re “Ogre” from Revenge of the Nerds.

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago
[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 6 months ago

I saw this in the theater when I was about 6, and him yanking down and tearing that flag really resonated with me for some reason. I thought of that scene often as I grew up.

Today, I know how he feels.

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

During the Italian fascist period, it was used as the political headquarters of Benito Mussolini, and was adorned with a giant sculpture of the dictator's face surrounded by the word "SI" (Italian for "YES”).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Braschi#History

Also present is the mysterious leader Big Brother, who has an intense cult of personality. The Party brutally purges anyone who does not fully conform to their regime, using the Thought Police and constant surveillance through telescreens (two-way televisions), cameras and hidden microphones. Those who fall out of favour with the Party become "unpersons", disappearing per damnatio memoriae with all evidence of their existence destroyed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(1984_film)

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Here is one from a candidate to the Paris mayor office:

Even in France we have our wannabe fascists as well.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

How any Republican can't see this is beyond me.

[-] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 23 points 6 months ago

They see it and they love it

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

There are no Republicans any more. That was just their larval stage before they morphed into their final form: MAGA.

The Republican Party is as dead as the Whigs. They should only be referred to in a scholarly/ historical context.

They are all MAGAs now.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

It looks like it says “Make America Hate Again” which yeah does seem like their agenda.

[-] giraffes@kbin.earth 22 points 6 months ago

It is also funny to me that this is the picture he would choose…like…he sees this and thinks he looks cool. He really is the calibre of villain who would be in a movie where the main character is a dog.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

They like to use his MUG SHOT, because they think it makes Libz crazy. It doesn't, it just proves how fully morally bankrupt MAGA has become.

[-] giraffes@kbin.earth 1 points 6 months ago

What a weird thought process. So they think Democrats see this and are intimidated? They are such clowns… (in fairness, so are most Democrats, but still bizarre)

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, yeah, the Conservative Propaganda Machine has convinced them that Libz are all pussies who are scared of EVERYTHING. Y'know, like they are.

So we're supposed to be frightened of all their threats, but they don't realize that we're all looking at them like middle-schoolers trying to act tough, when we know they're just supremely annoying children.

The difference is that MAGA won't grow out of it. We will have to BEAT it out of them.

We're not allowed to do that with middle-schoolers.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

Plastering the face of the person routinely denying people justice on the front of the department of Justice.

You couldn't cut through the irony with a case of dynamite and a rock drill.

[-] dumbass@piefed.social 14 points 6 months ago

everytime America tries to remake something European, they fuck it up.

[-] hamburgers@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Outside it's 1933 so I'm hitting the bar.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Donald should avoid gas stations.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

It is entirely possible that he has never been to a gas station.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I’m sorry to take your innocence away:

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

I'm honestly surprised he ever bothered to learn to drive. He's always been such a lazy piece of shit.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I couldn’t picture him driving much less owning a car, but someone sent this to me in response to saying so online.

I mean, he dragged a camera person with him. The whole thing could be a photo op and with rented Lamborghini.

Still odd to think about.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

So, full aside, but related to the picture you shared with me. I didn't know that the Countach could be unattractive. It was one of my first favorite cars when it came out in the '80s. But what the fuck is that color scheme‽ That's absolutely ghastly. I suppose it tracks though, Trump is as tasteless a man as has ever lived.

Ugh, that dickhead is standing like he's putting gas in it, but all the pump nozzles are still hanging.

I remember the dude was always a complete tool and a bit of a laughing stock when I was young. Completely out of touch, never hip at all. It really is baffling just how he got to the not quite circular room.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

If it makes you feel better, I believe it’s a Diablo.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

It does, a little. Thank you kind internet stranger.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I giveth, and I taketh.

[-] Abbysimons@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

That quote hits because it reminds us how symbols and moments can echo across time. Different eras, different contexts—but history always leaves lessons worth reflecting on.

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