cyuJul 19, 2023

Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1386638

Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ - sh.itjust.works

Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.

Show threadIninewCrowJul 19, 2023
Didn't the world fight a world war to stop this kind of government from taking full control over a people?
Show threadDamageJul 19, 2023
Nah, Italy’s fascists were never really purged, because the occupying Americans preferred them to the Communist partisans
Show threadiByteABitJul 20, 2023
I’m not saying that Americans didn’t play their dirty tricks as usual, but it was Italian voters that elected Meloni, not the US…
Show threadHughJanus

it was Italian voters that elected Meloni, not the US…

As if that matters. As if Trump wasn’t elected by US voters after massive disinformation campaigns and international meddling.

Jul 20, 2023 at 2:23pmWeb
Show threadiByteABitJul 20, 2023
Whether the people are partially to blame or not is a complicated topic. Both in the US and Italy, about half of the population was educated/smart enough to see through their propaganda. The right wing party still won though because they picked their target audience effectively and tailored their whole campaign around that audience.