[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bflr.

[Red Badger]

Below that story on the same page:

Watch Taylor Swift Have an Entirely Rational Conversation With Sheep

more interesting..............

[clintonh8r]

My father was a C-47 pilot in WW2. Among the many incredible pictures he took was one of Benito’s and Clara’s bodies hanging in the square.

[dfwgator]

His final words, “Why you leave me hanging?”

[mass55th]

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[reg45]

Just hanging out with his sweetie.

[WKUHilltopper]

“But I got the trains to run on time.”

[Snickering Hound]

[Peter Libra]

A little known fact here. See Wikipedia. Mussolini tried to destroy the Sicilian Mafia. In 1924 he appointed a prosecutor and imprisoned over 11,000 of suspected organized criminals. With the demise of Mussolini, back came the Mafia.

I remember a British MP at the time, saying that it was wrong to summarily execute Mussolini. That he should have been brought to trial. He was shouted down. The actions of any mob, in this case the Italian communists, are often horrific. Mussolini's mistress, had not committed any crime.Still, the old adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" holds good.

We see today the actions of a mob to exact "justice". It is not pretty.

[kaehurowing]

Folks ever notice the close similarities between the mannerisms of Il Duce and Obama. It’s eery.

[Lurker]

For later.

[AnalogReigns]

According to Jonah Goldberg’s book, “Liberal Fascists” Mussolini was very popular among American liberals and progressives in the 1920s.

Goldberg also claims, compared to the other world leaders of the day (Hitler, FDR, Chamberlain, and even Churchill) Mussolini was more intelligent. He basically came up with fascism on his own (and it wasn’t Hitler’s antisemitic version)—that is a nationalistic socialism that allows capitalism.....after seeing WWI’s incredible nationalism.

Mussolini had been a communist before WWI. He saw though the international appeal of class struggle in communism wasn’t enough to unify the people to bring a true popular revolution....but—after seeing the power of national rivalries of WWI—he thought ancient ethnic nationalism would.

I think it’s fair to say that the current democratic socialism found in Europe is really just a kind of “kinder, gentler” fascism, minus the nadir of nationalism....which is seen now as the root of all evils. Even the USA as re-created by FDR, was and is really a kind of fascism—moving towards Mussolini’s ideal of:

“Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”

Liberals & progressives were, and are, fascists.