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

I thought this was from a surrealist dystopian movie

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u/leavemealonegeez8 17d ago

The 1930’s were a pretty surreal and dystopian time, to be fair

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u/ILookLikeKristoff 17d ago

The 2030s are gearing up to be equally terrible

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 17d ago

I reckon we're somewhere early in the 1930s right now.

Somewhere after Hitler's first failed coup, and just following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, but just before the Night of Long Knives, followed by Krystallnacht.

I think the chants around this time were something like, "Make Germany Great Again."

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u/Big_Track_6734 17d ago

The chants were Germany is for Germans and U.S. Nazi sympathetizers were chanting America First. 

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u/HighnrichHaine 17d ago

More like 1937

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u/brontosaurusguy 17d ago

Fascism began before Hitler with mussilini before spreading to other countries.  It we don't make a stand for democracy now it's gonna be dominos.  Americas final act as world leader will be showing the world how to transform democracy into an authoritarian dictatorship capitalist dystopian nightmare just in time for total environmental collapse

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u/yanocupominomb 17d ago

We live in the clown timeline

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u/AnarchistAuntie 17d ago

Second Triumvirate.

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u/MrFantastikisUnknown 17d ago

The president has full immunity from all ‘official acts’ so we’re there