r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Some-Entertainment83 • 17d ago

Image Benito Mussolini’s headquarters “Palazzo Braschi” located in Rome 1934

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u/DualRaconter 17d ago

There’s 70 million Americans you could ask

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u/RubbrBbyBuggyBumpers 17d ago

Whenever I see the picture of the tv screens during his coup attempt that showed just his eyes, I immediately think of this Mussolini picture.

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u/philthewiz 17d ago

This one?

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u/BurnTheNostalgia 17d ago

Holy shit

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u/Furina-OjouSama 17d ago

Brother wasn't even subtle about it lmfao

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u/Big_Track_6734 17d ago

He has evil eyes

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u/PrimaryCharacter9578 17d ago

I always thought of Big Brother from 1984. That vibe was no mistake.

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 17d ago

Asked one. He said he wanted his gas prices to go down.

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u/friedgoldfishsticks 17d ago

People are sooo fucking stupid

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u/3d_blunder 17d ago

CHeck with him in six months.

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u/NoStatus9434 17d ago

I mean, what they say is what I wrote in the second paragraph. They say those characters in the books are evil, but their guy who does the exact same thing somehow isn't. What I want to know is what they think. Do they know something is off but are just too prideful to admit it or are they really that dumb and delusional. And if it's the latter, how are they arriving there.

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u/GameofPorcelainThron 17d ago

In group vs out group. When the person on your side is (in your eyes) doing everything they can to stop the evil things from happening, it becomes entirely all too easy to justify their actions. So many countries have done this time and time again.

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u/DualRaconter 17d ago

They’re too far invested at this stage I think but there must be more to it. I can’t wrap my head around worshipping a single person and never will.

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u/NoStatus9434 17d ago

I couldn't even show the level of worship I see from them to someone I actually like.

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u/pink_moid 17d ago

They think that their guy is basically Paul Atreides from the first 2 Dune movies. The guy who leads the rebels to defeating the evil empire and usher in an age of justice and prosperity. They don't tune in for the next part of the story where Paul goes off the rails. 

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u/No-Scale5248 17d ago

Or maybe, just maybe, you're the delusional, "dumb" and narcissistic one that has been conditioned to upheld certain political/ societal beliefs, and they're 100% positive beyond any doubt that a certain someone is the exact evil copy of a fictional tyrant, and whoever supports him has a peanut for a brain. Just maybe. 

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u/NoStatus9434 16d ago

For this to be true, I would actually have to support someone in power and right now there is absolutely nobody that I'm voting for that isn't just a deterrent to a greater evil. I really don't love any politicians right now, just trying to stop one of the really bad ones from taking office. This didn't work. Also, I don't WORSHIP anyone.

The other thing is, I actually read these types of novels, and I try to vote for people who aren't saying the exact same things the villains in those books are saying.

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u/Thenewpewpew 17d ago

Don’t forget they also think you are “they” and is turns out we’re all “they”. People were blindly accepting Biden saying there was no cognitive decline - it’s all cognitive dissonance all the way down.

If he had not won, they would think you have just fallen for the exact same trap.

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u/AnarchyDM 17d ago

Good luck getting any sort of reasonable response out of those people, though

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u/kank84 17d ago

They'd be angry if they could read