Italian Students Hang Elon Musk Effigy in Same Square When Mussolini's Corpse Was Displayed and Mutilated
Italian Students Hang Elon Musk Effigy in Same Square When Mussolini's Corpse Was Displayed and Mutilated
Italian university students hung an effigy of Elon Musk upside down at the site where fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's body was desecrated in 1945.
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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.
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.
One thing I'd like to add: based only really works with things that are at least vaguely political or controversial, it's not just a drop-in for "cool" (and it's also used ironically a lot)
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
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.
I'm down! Apparently I'm one of 2 million descendants of john howland.
Didn't learn of this until I stopped being an arborist.
These things are fun and worth hearing about.
My understanding is that john fell off the mayflower and caught a rope, which saved him. Sounds like catching that rope wasn't likely
Now I'm a peaceful person, but I can't deny there's a slightly disappointing turn a few words into that headline.
Yea, too bad it's just an effigy
Getting harder and harder to remain a peaceful person in current year.
Time for peace is long gone, we've already let it get too far at this point.
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.
This sort of chickenshit faux neutrality is why people are losing faith in corporate media.
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.
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.
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.
Fascists always end up swinging.
Wish we could just fast forward to that part.
Unfortunately they only hang after they've destroyed countless lives.
Well, there are counterexamples. Oswald Mosley just kind of rotted in jail until everyone forgot about him, IIRC.
Italians rule. First Luigi, now these guys
Oligarchs are not bulletproof.
I really needed a sequel of Italians vs. Billionaires
Now that's how your protest.
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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Una mattina mi sono alzato
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
Una mattina mi sono alzato
E ho trovato l'invasor
O partigiano, portami via
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
O partigiano, portami via
Ché mi sento di morir
E se io muoio da partigiano
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
E se io muoio da partigiano
Tu mi devi seppellir
E seppellire lassù in montagna
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
E seppellire lassù in montagna
Sotto l'ombra di un bel fior
Tutte le genti che passeranno
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
E le genti che passeranno
Mi diranno: "Che bel fior"
E questo è il fiore del partigiano
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
Questo è il fiore del partigiano
Morto per la libertà
E questo è il fiore del partigiano
Morto per la libertà
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But when I say it, it’s a call for action and I get banned from .world.
Do do, not do say.
Minor (but annoying) point:
…crafted from a garbage-filled sack with a print out of Musk's face affixed…
It’s clearly not a “garbage sack”. It has arms and legs, ffs. Hasn’t the author or editor ever heard of disposable coveralls?
Like I said, a minor point. Please carry on.
It's somewhat of a shame that they didn't keep that Esso as a monument. That piece of land now harbours a McDonalds, which strikes me as deeply ironic.
To add a bit of context, it's not universally celebrated. I don't mean the killing of Mussolini or the fact that there are still fascists or nostalgics, but specifically the disfiguring of the bodies. Even among antifascists, even among partisans, there were those who considered it barbaric. Most famously, Sandro Pertini told the story (he was there, as a partisan) and famously said "I fight the enemy alive". I think in this perspective, it's understandable it has not made an official monument.
It's still a good thing to remind to fascists of where they belong, but it's not one of the proudest pages of Italian resistance.
Bravissimo! We Germans should chuck a burned "Leon Hitler" effigy in front of Hitler's bunker in Berlin.
Ah yes, the perfect opposite of Leon Kennedy
Don't forget to use kerosine. It is tradition.
WARNING NSFW: The Ultimate Fate of Mussolini
That's a good look for fascists.
They should make a big poster of this... As reminder!
If you do a search for this story there are almost no American media outlets reporting on it.
Just a small reminder that italians voted Mussolini's niece to the government.
So they also swing both ways.
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)
I think you've misread the comment. Italians voted for his niece to the current government,
An effigy of the president of the united states??
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
We’ve all watched the video. Notice how when Elon is saying my heart goes out to you, he normally doesn’t sig heil.
Wow imagine being a nazi simp. Smh
Don't gaslight us. It was a nazi salute. And being autistic doesn't make you do Nazi salutes, we were fucking murdered by Nazis too.
