Actually, I don’t get the point. I’m also a dotard with brain cells dying at an ever greater rate.
I mean, far right extremism is uniform and of course rests on a herd mentality. All fascist states are pretty much the same but for unimportant differences.
And the post triggers this old rant: nothing like democratically elected officials pushing the masses to wanting a (necessarily rightist) authoritarian daddy to relieve the pressure of learning for whom to vote and in the hopes of things being made better.
Maybe fair to say that there are a lot of people who just don't understand what fascist/fascism means, what it entails. This is (I guess on a global scale now) some seriously messed up shit
Dec 21, 2023·edited Dec 21, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso
1930s Italy - The worldwide depression seems to be waning for some people but for your average Italian farmer trying to feed his family off a couple acres, times are still real hard.
Stuck out in the farthest reaches of the Po River valley , Giovanni lives with his wife snd six kids in a tumbledown shack trying to make a living off of two acres that was farmed out sometime the last century. He's having a bad day. There's been no rain for a month and he's looking to have a miserable harvest. He's at the end of his rope. He's sitting out in the minimal shade from a dead tree. He thinks about praying but that never seems to work. Then he has an idea. He decides to write God a letter.
He addresses it to : The Almighty in Rome. Italian peasants know that anyone important lives in Rome.
The letter is simple, it says:
Dear Almighty - I humbly beseech you, My family and I won't make it through this winter without some help. Could you please send me 500 lira? You're humble servant-Giovanni.
He feels pretty good about this so he spends some his last few lira on a stamp and mails it to Rome.
At the Central Post office in Rome they get the letter. The postmaster looks at it and wonders. It should obviously go to the Vatican but that's all the way across town. He decides to do the carrier a favor and puts it in the mail going to Mussolini, who resides a couple of blocks away. Everyone would agree, he certainly thinks of himself as Almighty.
The letter works its way through the bureaucracy. After a month, mostly because nobody knows what to really do with it, the letter winds up on Mussolini's desk. Mussolini opens it reads it and is quite moved. He writes a little note,
"Thanks for the kind words Hope this helps! Mussolini."
He puts the note ,an autograph picture and 250 lira in an envelope and sends it back to Giovanni.
Giovanna gets the envelope, opens it and reads. He's overcome with gratitude.
He immediately sits down to write a thank you note -
Dear Almighty,
Thank you so much for your help! It's not everything I needed but I know you got a lot of people you need to take care of so I will gladly take whatever help you can provide.
P.S. I don't know if you should be sending that through Mussolini though - motherfucker stole half of it.
Unfortunately, too many people don’t know these autocrats true motives. I don’t believe all of the people that vote for these “snake oil salesman” truly understand their goals and aims; or they just don’t care until it’s too late.
See Brexit; the Brit’s are still paying the price and more than 70% of them recently said, they never thought it would pass, or didn’t realize its effects would be so detrimental to their economy. In other words, they are easily manipulated or are extremely gullible.
That said, like Trump never read Mien Kampf, yet, he seems to quote Hitler often. What’s even more amazing is how easily frightened republican politicians are of Trump. And if his own party is this scared, imagine how scared America should be if he wins again. After all, these are Trump’s most ardent supporters; most of America, not so much!
Jeez boss, I knew u were about to pull the rug out from under this week's slightly-more-hopeful-than-usual posts. Merry fucking holidays to you & yourn & all y'all in REBID land.
You say Meloni, I say Melania, it’s all about the melatonin. Two steps forward, three steps back, the totalitarian tango. Fascist fashion never goes out of style.
Dec 21, 2023·edited Dec 21, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso
Trump and the Republicans stand out among the whole bunch, because they're easily the least popular of all the fascist parties and candidates. Bolsonaro, for example, won election with 55% of the vote, nobody seriously thinks Trump can even win 50%. Viktor Orban's party, Fidesz, won a two-thirds majority in Parliament (although a narrower 52% majority in the vote totals) which enabled them to make major changes in the constitution to push forward their fascist program. Today's Republican party struggles to gain a 5-seat majority in an election that was supposed to produce a "red wave." Which brings me to my traditional holiday greeting, thanking the motherfucking founders for gifting us the motherfucking Electoral College.
And you didn't even have to include the time Orban spoke at CPAC: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115541985/why-hungarys-authoritative-leader-is-drawing-conservative-crowds-in-the-u-s
Ah yes – the axis of weevils.
Actually, I don’t get the point. I’m also a dotard with brain cells dying at an ever greater rate.
I mean, far right extremism is uniform and of course rests on a herd mentality. All fascist states are pretty much the same but for unimportant differences.
And the post triggers this old rant: nothing like democratically elected officials pushing the masses to wanting a (necessarily rightist) authoritarian daddy to relieve the pressure of learning for whom to vote and in the hopes of things being made better.
Maybe fair to say that there are a lot of people who just don't understand what fascist/fascism means, what it entails. This is (I guess on a global scale now) some seriously messed up shit
1930s Italy - The worldwide depression seems to be waning for some people but for your average Italian farmer trying to feed his family off a couple acres, times are still real hard.
Stuck out in the farthest reaches of the Po River valley , Giovanni lives with his wife snd six kids in a tumbledown shack trying to make a living off of two acres that was farmed out sometime the last century. He's having a bad day. There's been no rain for a month and he's looking to have a miserable harvest. He's at the end of his rope. He's sitting out in the minimal shade from a dead tree. He thinks about praying but that never seems to work. Then he has an idea. He decides to write God a letter.
He addresses it to : The Almighty in Rome. Italian peasants know that anyone important lives in Rome.
The letter is simple, it says:
Dear Almighty - I humbly beseech you, My family and I won't make it through this winter without some help. Could you please send me 500 lira? You're humble servant-Giovanni.
He feels pretty good about this so he spends some his last few lira on a stamp and mails it to Rome.
At the Central Post office in Rome they get the letter. The postmaster looks at it and wonders. It should obviously go to the Vatican but that's all the way across town. He decides to do the carrier a favor and puts it in the mail going to Mussolini, who resides a couple of blocks away. Everyone would agree, he certainly thinks of himself as Almighty.
The letter works its way through the bureaucracy. After a month, mostly because nobody knows what to really do with it, the letter winds up on Mussolini's desk. Mussolini opens it reads it and is quite moved. He writes a little note,
"Thanks for the kind words Hope this helps! Mussolini."
He puts the note ,an autograph picture and 250 lira in an envelope and sends it back to Giovanni.
Giovanna gets the envelope, opens it and reads. He's overcome with gratitude.
He immediately sits down to write a thank you note -
Dear Almighty,
Thank you so much for your help! It's not everything I needed but I know you got a lot of people you need to take care of so I will gladly take whatever help you can provide.
P.S. I don't know if you should be sending that through Mussolini though - motherfucker stole half of it.
Best,
Giovanni
Unfortunately, too many people don’t know these autocrats true motives. I don’t believe all of the people that vote for these “snake oil salesman” truly understand their goals and aims; or they just don’t care until it’s too late.
See Brexit; the Brit’s are still paying the price and more than 70% of them recently said, they never thought it would pass, or didn’t realize its effects would be so detrimental to their economy. In other words, they are easily manipulated or are extremely gullible.
That said, like Trump never read Mien Kampf, yet, he seems to quote Hitler often. What’s even more amazing is how easily frightened republican politicians are of Trump. And if his own party is this scared, imagine how scared America should be if he wins again. After all, these are Trump’s most ardent supporters; most of America, not so much!
Jeez boss, I knew u were about to pull the rug out from under this week's slightly-more-hopeful-than-usual posts. Merry fucking holidays to you & yourn & all y'all in REBID land.
You say Meloni, I say Melania, it’s all about the melatonin. Two steps forward, three steps back, the totalitarian tango. Fascist fashion never goes out of style.
Trump and the Republicans stand out among the whole bunch, because they're easily the least popular of all the fascist parties and candidates. Bolsonaro, for example, won election with 55% of the vote, nobody seriously thinks Trump can even win 50%. Viktor Orban's party, Fidesz, won a two-thirds majority in Parliament (although a narrower 52% majority in the vote totals) which enabled them to make major changes in the constitution to push forward their fascist program. Today's Republican party struggles to gain a 5-seat majority in an election that was supposed to produce a "red wave." Which brings me to my traditional holiday greeting, thanking the motherfucking founders for gifting us the motherfucking Electoral College.
Can't forget the chief US networker and his bible: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/steve-bannon-and-the-camp-of-the-saints.html
Make the trains run on time again! Even if there are no trains!
2 marks for the lot a yinz!
The Simpsons, of course, were on point: https://youtu.be/60Fxz-NL5hA?si=jvncy_KHLhjS8RnP