The parallels are genuinely disturbing. It's further disturbing how many Americans are just cool with it.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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Not just cool with it, thrilled. Giddy.
They’re angry that they’re too dumb to participate in modern society.
They’re “Ogre” from Revenge of the Nerds.
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”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Braschi#History
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
everytime America tries to remake something European, they fuck it up.
Outside it's 1933 so I'm hitting the bar.
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:
I'm honestly surprised he ever bothered to learn to drive. He's always been such a lazy piece of shit.
I couldn’t picture him driving much less owning a car, but someone sent this to me in response to saying so online.
I mean, he dragged a camera person with him. The whole thing could be a photo op and with rented Lamborghini.
Still odd to think about.
So, full aside, but related to the picture you shared with me. I didn't know that the Countach could be unattractive. It was one of my first favorite cars when it came out in the '80s. But what the fuck is that color scheme‽ That's absolutely ghastly. I suppose it tracks though, Trump is as tasteless a man as has ever lived.
Ugh, that dickhead is standing like he's putting gas in it, but all the pump nozzles are still hanging.
I remember the dude was always a complete tool and a bit of a laughing stock when I was young. Completely out of touch, never hip at all. It really is baffling just how he got to the not quite circular room.
If it makes you feel better, I believe it’s a Diablo.
It does, a little. Thank you kind internet stranger.
I giveth, and I taketh.
Calm down Napoleon
At least Napoleon had SOME competencies, smh, can't even get a half-decent tyrant in our modern era
And the same caricature occurs in the circumstances of the third edition of the Eighteenth Brumaire. :')
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language.
Forever we spin down the toilet bowl lmao.
Putin perhaps.
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.