*bravely* I wouldn't vote for Mussolini

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.

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"
- Fascist-Catholic-Social Democrat-Liberal coalition government, united under Mussolini, against Communist-Socialist opposition.
  
  Truly the grandest coalition of all time.
- Boy, that really just lays it all out right there for anyone to see, doesn't it

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?

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
- 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.
Both of these guys famously had a lot of people trying to assassinate them lol

mussolini whitewashing is genuinely a really big problem

Yeah, nobody should depict Italians as white.
- In usian propaganda of that time Mussolini was actually often portrayed with dark skin.

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

and still we didn't stop it so they will not look kindly upon us
- I'm trying

Imagine thinking your vote matters in Hitler vs. Mussolini election

Imagine thinking your vote matters in Democrat vs. Republican election

sadness

Liberals be like: "Revolution is a deranged fantasy for violent weirdos. We have to rely on the system in order to make things better. Even though the system will only ever result in fascist outcomes but it's okay because this guy is only 98% fascist unlike the 100% fascist competitor.

Then the next election, the GOP runs someone who's 110% facist and libs will vote for someone who is 100% fascist
- Paraphrasing author of that tweet: "In a Hitler vs Hitler election, I would be very concerned if you didn't vote Hitler".
"ugh you all are just fascists painted red, now if you'll excuse me I have to decide between putting mussolini or hitler in power"
didn't mussolini invent fascism though? its 100% for both ye

voting for mussolini is harm reduction

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vote for Mussolini as harm reduction then take up arms against him

????

I suppose what this person means is that you can vote for a right-wing candidate and then pressure him to do things that might be considered left-wing or something like that. But the problem is that Democratic voters aren't going to do that, except for a few groups of people. Most Democratic politicians win elections simply because they are not Republicans, and as such, when they are elected to office, they do nothing useful.
just when i thought we've seen the worst take possible.
You could give the fascist power, then realize that he can no longer be stopped, precisely because of the power you gave him.
- SPD moment of clarity, somewhere in the train going to concentration camp.
Only if you tear up the sticker on the way out of your polling place.
Couldn't you just skip straight to the taking up arms part and save a lot of trouble?
- if nothing else save yourself the long wait in a line with no water
- Right but then they'd lose the argument so
"mister Mussolini you deserve to be shot directly in the head but I will do my faithful duty to ritually prostrate myself at the voting booth in your honor"

Bravely voting for the guy who will immediately and enthusiasticly adopt the policies of the guy he didn't vote for is actually a very good analogy for voting for the Dems.

There's always a secret third option: kind-vladimir-ilyich

(Dear fbi i mean this specifically in the hitler v mussolini example, also you guys haven't approved my vacation days around thanksgiving)

You need to talk to Susy in HR if you want those vacation days approved.

Antifascist liberals: I would vote for fascism

I literally just had a lib admit in a recent thread that his voting for Biden was a vote for "genocide" and they justified it because it made them feel safer than Trump's hypothetical 'worse genocide'. Then someone else chimed in support by saying that they would 'happily wash their hands in Palestinian blood' to protect reproductive rights in the US—which were lost anyway.

We're doomed.
- they would 'happily wash their hands in Palestinian blood' to protect reproductive rights in the US
  
  the bernie 2020 campaign slogan

bateman-business-card Oh my god. He’s not even ironic.

Nah bro this is god tier satire
Even reading that, I'm still not 100% confident the op quote isn't good satire and the rest is an act to get that quote off. Like this one-liner gets the point across better than basically any shit I've seen anywhere. Unbelievable that he just came up with that banger while seriously believing it.

Liberals act like voting is like the only possible political action ever

Also seeing a lot of liberals on tiktok telling everyone to "call your elected representatives to stop the genocide in Palestine"
- I mean it's not a bad thing to do, the problem is that liberals see it as either the only option or (even worse) sufficient.
You forgot about rich people funding candidates.
Protests are uncivil.

data-laughing

Yeah this is satire 🤣
- If it is, he's very committed to the character.
Adult in the Room here, I approve this message.

That’s how an adult who understands politics should behave. People who vote for Biden are as brave as the heroes of Stalingrad in my eyes.
- When the man in front of you is shot, pick up his ballot and keep voting, comrade
No one has ever fought harder for their rights than Jude, the map guy from Oregon
I hate this so much
- It would be incredibly funny if it were a bit, but I don't think it is.

if these were my choices and if there was no communist movement in my country i would try my best to flee.

So should US communists be considering this option now? Or after the 2024 election?

Me voting for Mussolini no-fash

Deciding that Musollini was like, a morally superior guy to Hitler is absurd. Hitler managed to do worse things but it's not like Musollini had the opportunity to do a holocaust and said 'no, that's a step too far for me, personally'. This is your brain on liberalized Great Man theory. It's applying pop psychology to a perfect sphere in a perfect vacuum. Fucking dolts

Okay but totally chose to participate in the holocaust, so he did have the opportunity to do a holocaust and then said yes.
- Okay, I guess I didn't specifically say to like, start one up from.the ground level.
He kinda decided not to do a Jewish killing until it was a problem between him and Hitler, I have heard, but he also killed enough other people it doesn't fucking matter, plus at the end of the day he did do it

You would vote for original fascist rather than the revisionist, eh? A purist, I see

liberals love to invest their vote with ritual holy significance, losers

by the way the voting machines have been proven time and again to be extremely easily manipulated, so i'm not sure why people even bother
- some states have paper trails. it's also probably not work their effort to cheat the election for county dog-catcher

these people yelled for four years how Trump was the end of democracy but in even the most extreme hypothetical they cannot conceive that democracy might be dead as long as the ritual of voting for one of exactly two options is preserved.

They can be inconsistent with their use of democracy because their conception of democracy is empty and purely formal and abstract. So it is easy for them to reinterpret political reality as 'still democratic' at the moment because their conception is very empty and has therefore relatively little to do with concrete, substantive democracy.

Also because Trump in no way upset the material basis which they actually use to decide if there is democracy or not, namely whether or not the capitalist class whose views they express and interests they support saw their class power undermined, which of course they did not under Trump.

To give an example of this: I was unfortunately in a conversation with a bourgeois liberal the other say, and they said that Russia is a 'totalitarian society'. I asked why they thought that, instead of simply saying that it is a fairly authoritarian nationalist state with a form of highly state-directed capitalism, and they said that it is because they apparently 'use arbitrary political power to violate private property'. Which is not only a bizarre criterion for totalitarianism, but also revealed how liberals think about political and social freedom and democracy.
- use arbitrary political power to violate private property
  
  I'm afraid the brainworms are terminal in this case

Okay, it sucks that Hitler's ghost is the only candidate but what are you going to do - not vote? That's basically the same as a vote for Hitler's ghost!