I saw this in the theater when I was about 6, and him yanking down and tearing that flag really resonated with me for some reason. I thought of that scene often as I grew up.
During the Italian fascist period, it was used as the political headquarters of Benito Mussolini, and was adorned with a giant sculpture of the dictator’s face surrounded by the word “SI” (Italian for “YES”).
Also present is the mysterious leader Big Brother, who has an intense cult of personality. The Party brutally purges anyone who does not fully conform to their regime, using the Thought Police and constant surveillance through telescreens (two-way televisions), cameras and hidden microphones. Those who fall out of favour with the Party become “unpersons”, disappearing per damnatio memoriae with all evidence of their existence destroyed.
It is also funny to me that this is the picture he would choose…like…he sees this and thinks he looks cool. He really is the calibre of villain who would be in a movie where the main character is a dog.
What a weird thought process. So they think Democrats see this and are intimidated? They are such clowns… (in fairness, so are most Democrats, but still bizarre)
Oh, yeah, the Conservative Propaganda Machine has convinced them that Libz are all pussies who are scared of EVERYTHING. Y’know, like they are.
So we’re supposed to be frightened of all their threats, but they don’t realize that we’re all looking at them like middle-schoolers trying to act tough, when we know they’re just supremely annoying children.
The difference is that MAGA won’t grow out of it. We will have to BEAT it out of them.
We’re not allowed to do that with middle-schoolers.
That quote hits because it reminds us how symbols and moments can echo across time. Different eras, different contexts—but history always leaves lessons worth reflecting on.
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I saw this in the theater when I was about 6, and him yanking down and tearing that flag really resonated with me for some reason. I thought of that scene often as I grew up.
Today, I know how he feels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Braschi#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(1984_film)
Here is one from a candidate to the Paris mayor office:
Even in France we have our wannabe fascists as well.
How any Republican can’t see this is beyond me.
They see it and they love it
There are no Republicans any more. That was just their larval stage before they morphed into their final form: MAGA.
The Republican Party is as dead as the Whigs. They should only be referred to in a scholarly/ historical context.
They are all MAGAs now.
It looks like it says “Make America Hate Again” which yeah does seem like their agenda.
It is also funny to me that this is the picture he would choose…like…he sees this and thinks he looks cool. He really is the calibre of villain who would be in a movie where the main character is a dog.
They like to use his MUG SHOT, because they think it makes Libz crazy. It doesn’t, it just proves how fully morally bankrupt MAGA has become.
What a weird thought process. So they think Democrats see this and are intimidated? They are such clowns… (in fairness, so are most Democrats, but still bizarre)
Oh, yeah, the Conservative Propaganda Machine has convinced them that Libz are all pussies who are scared of EVERYTHING. Y’know, like they are.
So we’re supposed to be frightened of all their threats, but they don’t realize that we’re all looking at them like middle-schoolers trying to act tough, when we know they’re just supremely annoying children.
The difference is that MAGA won’t grow out of it. We will have to BEAT it out of them.
We’re not allowed to do that with middle-schoolers.
Plastering the face of the person routinely denying people justice on the front of the department of Justice.
You couldn’t cut through the irony with a case of dynamite and a rock drill.
everytime America tries to remake something European, they fuck it up.
Outside it’s 1933 so I’m hitting the bar.
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At least Napoleon had SOME competencies, smh, can’t even get a half-decent tyrant in our modern era
Putin perhaps.
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Donald should avoid gas stations.
It is entirely possible that he has never been to a gas station.
I’m sorry to take your innocence away:
That quote hits because it reminds us how symbols and moments can echo across time. Different eras, different contexts—but history always leaves lessons worth reflecting on.
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