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Meanwhile, even the staged Stalin portraits said, “just try it, motherfucker.”
What a strange looking person. He’s like mini-me for Andre The Giant.
I think his dick might be erect
Was he 3’ tall?
Mussolini: “Do you want fries with that?”
Strong Elon Musk cosplaying as a Libertarian vampire vibes
Can anyone explain WTF he was wearing motorcycle goggles in this photo? “Working” without a shirt, okay, sure, he wants a sunburn, that’s his problem. But goggles? Is this some proto-cybergoth bullshit?
Actually, that is probably exactly what he was going for. Mussolini was a huge proponent of the Italian Futurist movement, and he had a lot of weird ideas about what was futuristic. Stuff like, “In the future, people will make their clothes out of milk.” Anyway, aviation and representing aviation was a huge part of that, and he frequently used it in his propaganda.
That’s interesting. I’ve long thought that self proclaimed Futurists are a clueless lot. It’s technology advancement will always happen and is a good thing, full stop. No consideration for usefulness or how it helps people or even if it will work at all. Most of them lack a background in technology or science, or even just critical thinking skills to tell if they’re being hoodwinked or not. The ones that do have a technical background, like Ray Kurzweil, are the real dangerous ones. They tend to dazzle with bullshit, some of which is correct, but it takes an expert to disentangle the correct parts.
The other site’s /r/TechNewsToday was the worst for this. Articles about startup companies making impossible claims were swallowed whole, and you’d be downvoted to oblivion for pushing against it. Technology always progresses forward at a breakneck pace, it’s always good, and there’s nothing you can do to convince them otherwise.
Which is all to say that after a few moments thought, I’m not surprised that it was historically associated with fascism.
There’s an RSS bot that reposts HackerNews content to Lemmy. I think [email protected] is the current iteration, if you want some fascists futurists delivered directly to you.
Comments over there on the Orange Site really run the gamut from naive boosters who don’t see how technology could ever be misused to straight up grifters lying to promote their shitty startups and glorify the idea of the enlightened tech genius/savior.
Fascism and claiming to be mentally superior name a better combo
sense of superiority and complete and utter lack of punctuation?
FWIW, Caesin can be turned into a fiber (trade names include Aralac and Lanital when turned into fabric,) which could conceivably be used as clothing.
It’s also one of the earliest plastics (used in buttons and jewelry,)
Then a short time later he and the Italian Air force get taught a lesson in aviation by the RAF in Greece and North Africa lmao
Futurism was a fascinating movement; many of the ideas of the Manifesto of Futurism by Marinetti have ended up being absorbed by culture. The change of popular music–particularly synthpop, industrial, and techno–really capture ideas of futurism, regarding changing aesthetic tastes away from the classic.
It definitely got very intertwined with fascism, though. There were a lot of ideas like, “In the future, there will be no books. Books focus too much on the past, and we need to keep looking forward.” The never look back mentality especially led to a lot of bad things, and it ended up directly inspiring fascism. It’s pretty easy to see the close association, especially considering the Futurist Political Party got absorbed into Mussolini’s party basically as soon as he created it.
Idk for sure, but wheat is harvested when it is very dry (lots of dust)… But then the cloth in front of his mouth is missing …
They didn’t have McDonalds’ to stage a photo at back then.
Honestly thank god even Trump isn’t narcissistic enough to think he looks good without a shirt.
Now do one where Trump’s a centaur being ridden hard by Putin. Or the old two-person horse costume with Trump in the ass. No pun intended.
Trump is so much fatter tho.
I didn’t recognize him, with out the piano wire.
What a massive dome
I feel like part of the problem is that people don’t expect fascism to be so goddamn pathetic. They see obvious morons like this or Trump, and they struggle to imagine how they could possibly be dangerous.
I guess the lesson from history here is that just because they’re ridiculous it doesn’t make them any less dangerous.
Angry mobs are dangerous. Any buffoon can rile one up.
Hitler’s book was literally titled “my struggle.” His whole shtick was “I’m just this poor downtrodden Everyman trying to help the country, but the bad people won’t let me!”
Fascism isn’t about how how convincing the leader is, it’s about how discontent the followers are.
There are plenty of discontent Americans who didn’t fall into Trump’s cult.
And also sit idly by while his cult tries to seize power, knowing they won’t be the first against the wall.
Like the stupid titles and vocabulary of the Klan, or the infantile memes of frenworld.
You weren’t kidding! Here’s an excerpt…
Its chief officer was the Grand Cyclops, who appointed two Nighthawks, a Grand Turk, a Grand Sentinel, Grand Magi and a Grand Ensign in addition to his Grand Scribe. The Grand Cyclops, Grand Exchequer, Grand Magi (second officer) and Grand Monk (third officer) were elected by the body politic of the dens, identified as Ghouls.
What the actual fuck?
Check out the Behind the Bastards podcast. Robert did a couple on the origins of the KKK and, yeah, they started out basically as a “retvrn to tradition” D&D group who got rebooted into racist terrorists. Bunch of pathetic nerds seeking power and finding it in violent terror.
Sounds like a game of Dungeons and White Dudes.
They sound like the titles a group of fifth graders would come up with for their secret treehouse club.
Yeah this makes me afraid that I’m going to homebrew some NPCs that accidentally follow this naming scheme too closely
They got perilously close to the Grand Nagus in Star Trek.
I plucka da spaghetti right outta da grounda.
Fun fact - Mussolini tried to get Italian society to abandon pasta.
What, why?
Rice was cheaper.
My next tattoo
The obsession with right wing leaders to look masculine while having absolutely no clue on how to actually be a manly man is fascinating.
That photo is the fourth gayest shit I’ll see all week.
Do you keep a running ranking?
Do you not?
Dude had some weird body proportions.
No kidding! Just how big is that HEAD?
It’s not that big if you live in a swamp and your roommate is a donkey.
Some Alex Jones body vibes.
He’s the older idea of ‘barrel chested’.
Now slightly updated to Elon Musk’s ‘low poly truck chested’.
the high waist pants doesn’t help.
Barrel-faced, too
Must be a fascist thing.
*facist
Don’t be facist.
Which, I assume, is a racist for faces.
All dudes had that barrel chest back then
I think it’s an illusion due to wearing their pants to their tits.
That and a gut behind the high belt yeah, but I think there was also a popular posture folks tried to give themselves in for photos
This is the answer.
It’s weird that they still did the photo op even after all those bees stung his face
