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Picture Of The Day: Mugshot Of Benito Mussolini
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Posted on 11/25/2018 5:29:43 AM PST by gaggs

Mugshot of Benito Mussolini, the socialist journalist co-founder of Fascism, after being arrested for his advocacy of a violent general strike in Switzerland where he was an illegal to avoid conscription in Italy. He was deported multiple times. With strong borders Fascism wouldn't have existed.

Picture Of The Day: Mugshot Of Benito Mussolini

Those eyes.... they all have those dead eyes!


TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: benitomussolini; italy; mussolini; switzerland; wwii
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1 posted on 11/25/2018 5:29:43 AM PST by gaggs
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Wow...Trump and him could be fascist twins..../ S


2 posted on 11/25/2018 5:34:54 AM PST by Popman ("GOD´S NOT LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH US, BUT OWNERSHIP OF US")
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To: gaggs

Beto Mussolini.


3 posted on 11/25/2018 5:36:51 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Popman

Not even sure why that comment was made to be honest.

No one was suggesting they could.


4 posted on 11/25/2018 5:38:07 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: gaggs
A red-diaper baby who was the ultimate proof that fascism was hardly "right-wing."

He did well by ditching the hair, though.

5 posted on 11/25/2018 5:43:50 AM PST by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society.")
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To: gaggs

btt


6 posted on 11/25/2018 5:45:18 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: gaggs
Among my dad's WWII photo album is a couple of postcards showing Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down.
Not exactly Benito's finest moment.
7 posted on 11/25/2018 5:47:43 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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I was seeing the rise of despotism among students when teaching high school. It became really bad toward the end of that career. Students believed something was true JUST BECAUSE THEY SAID IT and they REALLY believed that. They wanted to be in total control and everyone obey them (some of them). I told them, “Watch, one of these guys or gals like that is going to get into total control in this country and all hell is going to break loose.” I’ve been out for a decade and what I told them is coming true. Total vacuum devoid of Biblical values and it is coming from immigrants.


8 posted on 11/25/2018 5:48:17 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: dp0622
Trump according to the left is a fascist...

I was being sarcastic...

9 posted on 11/25/2018 5:53:26 AM PST by Popman ("GOD´S NOT LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH US, BUT OWNERSHIP OF US")
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To: dp0622
Little known fact that has been carefully glossed over is that Mussolini was an avowed Marxist for about 13 years.

wiki entry:
"Benito Mussolini's father, Alessandro Mussolini, was a blacksmith and a socialist, while his mother, Rosa (née Maltoni), was a devout Catholic schoolteacher. Owing to his father's political leanings, Mussolini was named Benito after Mexican leftist president Benito Juárez, while his middle names Andrea and Amilcare were from Italian socialists Andrea Costa and Amilcare Cipriani. Benito was the eldest of his parents' three children. His siblings Arnaldo and Edvige followed.

As a young boy, Mussolini would spend some time helping his father in his smithy. Mussolini's early political views were heavily influenced by his father who idolized 19th-century Italian nationalist figures with humanist tendencies such as Carlo Pisacane, Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. His father's political outlook combined views of anarchist figures like Carlo Cafiero and Mikhail Bakunin, the military authoritarianism of Garibaldi, and the nationalism of Mazzini. In 1902, at the anniversary of Garibaldi's death, Mussolini made a public speech in praise of the republican nationalist. The conflict between his parents about religion meant that, unlike most Italians, Mussolini was not baptized at birth and would not be until much later in life. As a compromise with his mother, Mussolini was sent to a boarding school run by Salesian monks. After joining a new school, Mussolini achieved good grades, and qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901.

Emigration to Switzerland and military service In 1902, Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland, partly to avoid military service.

[The arrest photo was taken in 1903, just one year later.]

He worked briefly as a stonemason in Geneva, Fribourg and Bern, but was unable to find a permanent job.

During this time he studied the ideas of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, and the syndicalist Georges Sorel. Mussolini also later credited the Christian socialist Charles Péguy and the syndicalist Hubert Lagardelle as some of his influences. Sorel's emphasis on the need for overthrowing decadent liberal democracy and capitalism by the use of violence, direct action, the general strike and the use of neo-Machiavellian appeals to emotion, impressed Mussolini deeply. ...In 1912, Mussolini had been a leading member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), but was expelled from the PSI for advocating military intervention in World War I, in opposition to the party's stance on neutrality...."

10 posted on 11/25/2018 5:54:28 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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Sarcasm. The left calls Trump a “fascist” all the time. Never mind the vast gulf between what Trump says and what Benito said; the latter’s rhetoric was indistinguishable from that of Marx or Lenin (Benito actually knew Lenin).


11 posted on 11/25/2018 5:55:24 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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“Never mind the vast gulf between what Trump says and what Benito said; the latter’s rhetoric was indistinguishable from that of Marx or Lenin (Benito actually knew Lenin).”

People do not study any longer. It is a known fact and a historically documented fact that fascism does not like communism, and fascists do not particularly like homosexuals either according to their Dogma. Yet there were a number of homosexuals in the upper echelons of the Nazi government under Hitler. Mussolini was definitely Spewing communistic rhetoric in his speeches. And if you look at just the origins of the Nazi movement it’s a nationalistic democratic Workers Party so even the name suggests some kind of thesis between fascism and communism. These historically documented facts, and I’ve even heard lectures out of Yale that talks about all of this stuff...Shire points it out as well.

But most people don’t study anymore, they are stupid little Meat Puppets running around spouting off bumper sticker slogans. And that’s dangerous. Education in this country is in shambles right now. By Design. Just as it has been forecasted for decades. This is a grand plan, a grand scheme to undermined our Constitutional Republic.


12 posted on 11/25/2018 6:09:04 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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Yes, and apparently the /s tag didn't work.

It's called sarchasm. The chasm between sarcasm and it's intended recipient(s)...

Try the full sarcasm off sign. & l t / s > without the spaces shows as </s>

13 posted on 11/25/2018 6:25:33 AM PST by null and void (Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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To: Clutch Martin
It’s the rhetoric that makes communists and fascists no different from each other in reality.
“God does not exist. Religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.” — Mussolini, 1924

“Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does ‘social justice’ mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes; it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labor.” — Mussolini, 1935

“When the war is over, in the world’s social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth’s riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances. ” — Mussolini, 1941

To put it clearly, we have an economic program. Point number thirteen in that program demands the nationalization of all public companies—in other words, socialization, or what is known here as socialism. […] [T]he good of the community takes priority over that of the individual. But the State should retain control. Every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State. It is his duty not to misuse his possessions to the detriment of the State or the interests of his fellow countrymen. That is the overriding point.

— Adolf Alois Hitler, 1931
Funny enough, Adolf’s rhetoric echoes that of someone in the USA from much earlier:
[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.

— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887
Both Wilson and Adolf were inspired by Bismarckian “state socialism” to boot.
14 posted on 11/25/2018 6:28:17 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Covenantor
Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland, partly to avoid military service.

Draft dodgers love to start wars when they don't have to go.

15 posted on 11/25/2018 6:28:19 AM PST by null and void (Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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To: gaggs

My favorite is him hanging upside down from a light pole.


16 posted on 11/25/2018 6:29:28 AM PST by Vinnie
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Italian women said that he was so irresistibly handsome.

;-)


17 posted on 11/25/2018 6:41:43 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Benito was the child of left-wing socialists who named him after Benito Juarez from Mexico, who was considered a hero among Socialists around the world.

He didn't break from the left-wingers until the beginning of the World War, when he favored Italian intervention.

18 posted on 11/25/2018 6:42:10 AM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: Clutch Martin
It is a known fact and a historically documented fact that fascism does not like communism

It is a known fact and a historically documented fact that Shia Muslims do not like Sunni Muslims, yet both are offshoots of Islam. As Fascism and Socialism are both forms of Marxism.

19 posted on 11/25/2018 6:43:02 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Olog-hai
God does not exist. Religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.” — Mussolini, 1924

Just one question, Benedetto, if God does not exist, where does the concept of morality come from?

Oh. Wait. He burnin' in Hell. He can't answer. But, I bet he believes in God, now.

20 posted on 11/25/2018 6:51:01 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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