Gawker created a bot to trick Donald Trump into retweeting Mussolini
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[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;49831872]Okay, he retweeted something somewhat reasonable that happened to be said by a known fascist.
So?[/QUOTE]
The point is that all the tweets are attributed to Trump, and Trump retweeted it, taking credit for a quote from Mussolini.
[editline]oh hamburgers[/editline]
Like, just read the quote in the OP.
[quote][b]The bot’s tweets were Mussolini quotes attributed to Donald Trump[/b], the thinking being: this guy will retweet anything as long as it sounds like praise for, well, himself.[/quote]
[quote][b]After months of tweeting Benito Mussolini quotes falsely attributed to Donald Trump[/b], today Trump finally took the bait.[/quote]
[QUOTE=V12US;49832760]Would you consider Malala Yousafzai a villain?[/QUOTE]
Nope. Are you referring to this?
[quote]In the late nineteenth-century, as the British attempted to add Afghanistan to their vast empire, a teenage girl armed only with her voice rallied her people to a famous victory against the imperial invaders. Or so the story goes. As the warriors of her tribe fled the battlefield in defeat during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, she climbed to the top of a mountain and proclaimed, “It is better to live like a lion for one day than as a slave for one hundred years.” Hearing her cry, the soldiers turned around and drove the British back, but the girl was killed in the process.
Her name was Malala. [/quote]
It's an interesting point. It's pretty similar to the Greek "One hour of liberty is better than 40 years of slavery and imprisonement." (slightly paraphrased). In both cases it's a rallying cry towards insurrection against a tangible enemy. I think you can still criticize its wholesale (and yeah, pretty dramatic) rejection of meekness, but it's somewhat more permissible than when used against an imaginary, or manufactured internal or external enemy.
Let's take another slogan, like "Liberty or Death". It's been used in various [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_or_Death]wars of independence[/url]. How would you react if Trump said it?
Personally I was thinking about something more like:
[quote]A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.[/quote]
Which is pretty villain-y.
[QUOTE=phaedon;49832599]The quote itself is not inherently fascist, but it sounds like something a comic book villain would say. Dictators were a pretty melodramatic sort.[/QUOTE]
And at least someone like Mussolini had reason to be melodramatic. The man had the kind of life which very few people can boast of, from his childhood through his service during the First World War with the Bersaglieri (he was wounded by a grenade and later a mortar shell which left dozens of metal shards lodged in his body). Nothing which Trump can boast about remotely compares.
Then they get full of themselves off their melodrama, and that's usually what does them in.
"It's better to live one day killing stuff than it is to live 100 years not killing stuff"
yeah i don't really know about that
[img]https://i.imgur.com/sHt5q.jpg[/img]
I feel like if you replace the guy in the first panel with Gawker then you have this situation summed up.
Bad people can say motivating things, most of the time that's how they got into power.
'Civilize the mind but make savage the body'. Good quote right? I live by that each day. Know who said that? Mao (plagiarized from an old saying).
That quote is just far too benign to be of any merit. Have him retweet "The truth is that men are tired of liberty" then we can talk
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;49831872]Okay, he retweeted something somewhat reasonable that happened to be said by a known fascist.
So?[/QUOTE]
That's what I don't get. Like the lion/sheep one. It's an empowering thought. Who cares what the political beliefs are of the guy who made it famous? Hell, the popular Democrat candidate is an avowed socialist.
The quote it alone is fine, but the fact that he retweeted it from an account that's blatantly a mock of Mussolini is a bad sign and gives it a more fascist orientation.
You're implying that Trump actually runs his own Twitter and also that the guy who does run it isn't getting 1000 tweets a minute so doesn't have time to really sift through and look at poster history.
[QUOTE=Ruski v2.0;49833906]You're implying that Trump actually runs his own Twitter and also that the guy who does run it isn't getting 1000 tweets a minute so doesn't have time to really sift through and look at poster history.[/QUOTE]
It's right in the user's name, "Il Duce". You don't have to look at the post history, it's [I]right there[/I]
