Semi-fascists? A comment about the Italian election on Twitter.

[speak easy]

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Mariló Costa
@MarilCosta4
People who only weeks ago were incensed that Biden called them semi-fascists are today elated that fascism made its way back to Italy.

[magicarpet]

1. Hip-hop hooray,... Mussolini and Hitler have been resurrected from their graves.

Is it time yet for the Christian Nationalist rapture to begin ?

All the faux Christians float up in to the heavens and then proceed to pee & shit on us because

Jeebuzz told them so.

[Cha]

2. Which begs the question..

is Wrong with Italy?!

This makes me sad.

[speak easy]

3. The left-populist party, the 5 Star Moment, that had 33% of the vote, backed Putin.

Their vote collapsed to 14%. The popularist-facists have strongly backed Ukraine - they picked up the 5 Star vote. The center left was unchanged at 20%

Popularism is magical thinking- their followers will flock to the conjurer promising to pull the biggest rabbit out of the hat. Think 2016.

Five Star Movement opposes arms delivery to Ukraine
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/five-star-movement-opposes-arms-delivery-to-ukraine/

[Cha]

4. Wow.. how Convoluted! I

understand it a little more now.

Weird the" fascists back Ukraine "and "the left populists back Putin"! JHC!


Putin is a Murderous Maniac.. oh yeah, let's support him!

How long is the presidential term in Italy? Can they get rid of him if they don't like what he's doing? I remember that last guy's Big Problems.. forget his name, though.

Mahalo for explaining it, speak easy!

[speak easy]

5. It's not entirely suprising. The left had historical links with communism,

the fascists fought the Soviets in WWII. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the son of fascists party ('Brothers of Italy') went all in on the Western Alliance, NATO, EU and Ukraine.

Italy has five year terms, but they govern by coalition. The parliament could choose to dump 'Brothers of Italy' party from government if enough of the other parties could form a coalition with a majority vote on the floor of the house.

Here's a charming pic of Luigi di Maio, deputy leader of the 5 Star Party.



It wasn't just the five star party. The vote collapsed for all the Putin Friendly parties. As it should.

[Cha]

8. Yeah, if you know your history

which I don't... Thank You for giving us some historical background.


First I've heard of the "5 star party" btw.. is that Putin on his shirt?

[speak easy]

9. Yeah. A mass murderer on his shirt.

Left or right I won't vote for apologists for murder.

[Polybius]

6. Immigration played a big role

"Radical Islam" terrorizing towns was part of her campaign.

[Cha]

10. Oh it's a woman.. Giorgia Meloni.

Thank you.. just looked it up.

So she backs Ukraine?

[speak easy]

11. NYT summary

Ms. Meloni is at pains to assert her party’s mainstream credentials. This especially takes the form of a staunchly Atlanticist foreign policy — commitment to the European Union and NATO and firm opposition to Russia and China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/opinion/italy-draghi-meloni-government.html

[Cha]

12. Thank you.. well, there's at least

that. I can't imagine the Nuclear threat Putin is happy about that.

[JanMichael]

7. May she end up like Benito. Arrivederci.