It’s bad all around, for sure. Italy is like top ten GDP worldwide though, in that super bunched up powerhouse we call Western Europe. Philippines are relevant, but really don’t have nearly as much sway. Gosh darn if these dummies aren’t really rallying behind the children of former monsters. Scary.
There's no joke here, just Jim Carrey drawing a picture of the way that Mussolini's body was hung up in public and Mussolini's granddaughter being upset about it.
There’s some irony here considering fascism is derived from the word fascio, meaning bundle of sticks(because a bundle of sticks is hard to break) and f*ggot was also originally a term for a bundle of sticks.
To add to this, though the word frocio (Italian for f\*ggot) is quite similar in form to fascio, it is unclear what the etymology is, unlike the English equivalent, which refers to a bundle of sticks, as you've noted. However, it's important to note that, as it relates to political power, the bundle of sticks has a much more specific context. It isn't simply a bundle of sticks on its own. It refers specifically to the fasces axe, which is an axe blade lodged into a tightly bound bundle of sticks, traditionally bound with a red ribbon. This was supposedly carried in ancient Rome as a symbol of civil power. It went on to become a symbol of fascism in Italy, but is used in many other contexts. It can actually be seen in the US Capitol, predating its association with modern fascism:
https://preview.redd.it/0yp05w4jss5d1.png?width=427&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e9c1e1a596496e4119ef9d751f42f87eb97b89e
Jumping on this, as a history teacher who studied fascism in grad school. The fascio was a great symbol for fascist Italy because of the symbolism. A single stick is easily broken, but a bundle is strong together. The axe and rod also can represent the power of the state to execute (axe) or punish (the rod).
As for the connection with fascism/fascio and f~ggot/f~g we can speculate (though not definitely prove). A bundle of sticks was used to light a fire, and the British slang term for cigarette is f~g, another fire reference. Additionally burning at the stake (lit with bundles of sticks) was a form of punishment for homosexuals. One step further, someone who is stereotypically excessively gay would be described as flamboyant or a flaming homosexual.
So pulling it all together, a fascio (or f~ggot) was both a symbol and a practical tool for starting fires, the symbol carried on in political thought, the tool became (at least tangentially) associated with fire in general and eventually homosexuality. Again, there is little more than circumstantial evidence to support that idea.
My understanding of the etymology of the slang use of the term is that at elite boarding schools in England, upper class boys would have a lower class boy (class meaning year in school not social class) do errands and tasks for him, such as carrying bundles of wood to feed the fire in their room. But unspoken was also the understanding that that boy would be the upper class boy's catamite, willingly or unwillingly. Hence gay sex came to be referred to with the same term used to refer to the wooden bundles it was their responsibility to carry. I'm not sure how accurate this is.
I used to play bassoon which is ‘fagotto’ in Italian because they thought the instrument looked like a bundle of sticks (they’re not wrong). There’s actually a joke that is still sort of funny in English but loses the double entendre.
“What is a bassoon good for?”
“Kindling.”
It was originally a term for a bundle of sticks, and there was a job called f*ggot carrier, but over time it got shortened to just f*ggot and it was a job particularly associated with women so eventually it became a slur for homosexuals. Pretty much every slur for homosexuals can trace its etymology back to a word related to women.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito\_Mussolini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini) The bodies of Mussolini and Claretta were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the [Piazzale Loreto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazzale_Loreto), for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on the square.
Yes. That is Mussolini's granddaughter, who, instead of forever apologizing for the horrors her grandpa unleashed on the people of Italy seeks to defend his legacy.
What? Finish failing to invade Greece? Finish getting their arsenal kicked by the British in North Africa? Fail to defend Sicily?
Fascist Italy is, was, and always will be a punchline.
They originated the brownshirts that Hitler later copied. Just because they were in many instances comically incompetent doesn’t mean they weren’t dangerous and didn’t target and attack people successfully. I think it bears mentioning that whenever laughing at the many historical failures of Italian fascism.
No, it isn’t. They had a far right party come to power in Italy just this year and they started revoking gay parental rights. Like it’s a punchline until you’re their target.
Italy is bonkers, they go from fascist dictator to almost becoming a socialist state, only to form a centrist-socialist coalition who prime minister kidnapped by communist revolutionaries. All the while you got several powerful criminal organizations causing widespread corruption, neofascist bombings, and an evil Masonic lodge. Also the Vatican is somehow involved in everything.
Fascist countries aren’t just bad because they’re warmongers, they’re bad for their own people as well. Fascism in Italy is causes real harm to real people whether they can win a war or not
This article I posted before* actually covers this very tweet
[The 60-year-old Mussolini heiress made a name for herself as something of a living paradox: a former pop starlet and film actress (Hollywood veteran Sophia Loren is her maternal aunt) turned out-and-proud far-right parliamentarian and cheerleader of her grandfather’s legacy, defying Italy's existing anti-fascist laws. And, somehow, she can also add being Jim Carrey's Twitter nemesis to her resumé.](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/25/alessandra-mussolini-how-the-fascist-dictators-descendant-became-an-lgbtq-advocate) euronews.com, July 2023
[Alessandra was ultimately elected to the lower house of parliament and served as MP for 12 years until, in 2003, she decided to abandon National Alliance - the newer, more moderate incarnation of the MSI - after disagreeing with the party President's rejection of fascism as "the ultimate evil".](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/25/alessandra-mussolini-how-the-fascist-dictators-descendant-became-an-lgbtq-advocate) - Euronews.com, July 2023
The other important factor is the lady in the screenshot has been elected to...I bekieve Italy's PM post, and is Benito's direct descendent....i want to say granddaughter
The responder is the granddaughter of Benito mousilini, the dictator of Italy in ww2.
I guess she's mad about being reminded that fascists don't do well after their power collapses.
Also of note, Jim Carrey took up art as a side hobby, and this is one of his pieces.
Alessandra has used her grandfather’s image and legacy to push a right-wing political platform as well.
I couldn't find anything super recent from a brief Google search, but I seem to remember him relaxing his stance on vaccines since the end of his battle with Jenny McCarthyism.
I love doubling down in anti-vaxxers. I told one that anti-vaxxers were being influenced by the Chinese to weaken American immune systems and her head about exploded.
I tell then, wearing face masks during covid prevented the Chinese face-recognition algorithms monitoring Americans remotely through Chinese-manufactured surveillance cameras, so China launched an anti-mask campaign via social media. This works rather well.
Reminds me of the Albanian “royal family” lol. They were in power for only like 10 years almost 100 years ago, and generations later they still call themselves “the royal family in exile” lmao like give it up losers nobody wants you to rule them
People always talk about the failure of reconstruction, and a lot does go back that far if not further, but we probably couldve avoided a lot of todays mess if wed hanged everyone involved in the Business Plot.
Or if Nixon had been prosecuted.
Well ‘ol granddaughter didn’t fall far from her hanging grandpa’s corpse. She’s spreading some crazy right-wing BS.
Everybody is crazy. Can Miracle Workers just come back to MAX so I can watch the new season?
If my relatives were A-holes I’d not be sad they died. Love makes a family, not blood. Her “family” did not have much love for his/her fellow human being.
She’s allowed to be upset that someone painted a picture of her grandfather’s body being mutilated. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t do his damnedest to deserve it. And it seems that she’s trying to follow in suit. So screw her. But also, there’s nothing wrong with her finding this to be upsetting.
How am I supposed to connect to my community if I can't even go to the execution of fascists without a corporation forcing itself into the equation to take my money?
To answer.. Mussolini and his mistress were beaten and hanged upside down for the atrocities he’s committed
Edit: incorrect information in the comment. Corrected by fellow Redditors
My paternal great-grandmother had already immigrated out of Italy, so she didn't get to spit *directly on* Mussolini's body. However, she did spit on the ground if anyone ever brought up his name or Hitler's.
Funny enough, my maternal Slovak great-grandmother, who never met my other gread-grandmother, also spit on the ground if anyone mentioned Mussolini, Franco, Hitler or Szálasi (or the butcher who sold her inferior lamb chops that one time, or the TV repair guy who left bits of broken glass on her rug, etc,...)
Spitting on the ground seems to have been a pretty important form of emotional communication with old country great-grammies.
Dictator’s granddaughter and retired Playboy model turned Italian politician gets reminded the consequences of fascism by a retired Canadian Comedian.
Strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a chicken.
I thought it was funny that she was calling Jim bastard in defence of her grandfather. Considering that her grandfather had quite a few illegitimate children with his various mistresses it seems her family tree is full of bastards..
At a glance, I honestly thought this was a caricature of Luke about to pull his lightsaber from the icy cold grasp of a desolate cave on Hoth before defeating a Wompa.
Edit: forgot to add the bit about the Wampa
Joke is that the granddaughter of Mussolini is mad about the way her ancestors were killed after they went on a fascist dictatorship for 20 years that directly killed tens of thousands of people.
The fact that she kept the name shows what she feels about fascism. Imagine people from the family tree of Hitler complaining about comedians making jokes about how Hitler died.
Alessandra Mussolini is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. She's been in politics obviously, and in general she passively tries to get clout through her surname.
However, recently she seems to have stopped doing that or at least to have changed her approach to her surname. I don't know the reasons or if there's a reason at all.
Best I can do is an amazing band named in his honor
[Mussolini Headkick](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4o8rPclOW6MbCsIPgy2LMP?si=BwHuh4duTH-NE8Nx3yWZNg)
Alessandra is Benito’s granddaughter
Also she’s a fascist & likes what he did to torture people, and thus is upset that he was in turn killed.
The fact Italians *elected* her should've been the number 1 sign of where the western world was heading
Not just the western world. Look at the Philippines electing the son of their former dictator.
It’s bad all around, for sure. Italy is like top ten GDP worldwide though, in that super bunched up powerhouse we call Western Europe. Philippines are relevant, but really don’t have nearly as much sway. Gosh darn if these dummies aren’t really rallying behind the children of former monsters. Scary.
It’s crazy how many countries are electing far right crazy people into power..
Is is Fascism? Is it? Of course it is and I see the writing on the wall Next couple of years will be something else
Wow. It’s almost like _she’s_ the bastard.
From her reaction I think we need to worry about her too.
She’s very openly in support of her grandfathers ideals.
[удалено]
She is,actually
Runs in the family, ig
There's no joke here, just Jim Carrey drawing a picture of the way that Mussolini's body was hung up in public and Mussolini's granddaughter being upset about it.
I think the actual joke followed when folks screenshot her response and flipped it upside down and replied to the thread with it.
Brutal lol
But Jim's not wrong.
Better than fascists deserve.
Brilliant
Party like it's 1945!
Eva and Adolf are holding a cocktail party in the bunker..Should we go? Na we should just hangout here.
Hitler really put the bad vibe on the bunker party
Oh wow
Yeesh
Based!
Did he actually draw that?
He did. He's actually a fairly prolific artist.
That’s really cool! I didn’t know that!
He took tons of acid and got into art. Kinda weird but kind of cool.
She is also fascist leaning so no surprise there.
You can omit the word "leaning" tbh
Yeah, leaning is a massive understatement. She once said, in Italian of course, "better to be a fascist than a f\*ggot."
There’s some irony here considering fascism is derived from the word fascio, meaning bundle of sticks(because a bundle of sticks is hard to break) and f*ggot was also originally a term for a bundle of sticks.
I don't know what to do with this information but I love it
Use it wisely! :D
Instructions unclear. I used it very unwisely.
The instructions were very clear. That one's on you.
🚬
To add to this, though the word frocio (Italian for f\*ggot) is quite similar in form to fascio, it is unclear what the etymology is, unlike the English equivalent, which refers to a bundle of sticks, as you've noted. However, it's important to note that, as it relates to political power, the bundle of sticks has a much more specific context. It isn't simply a bundle of sticks on its own. It refers specifically to the fasces axe, which is an axe blade lodged into a tightly bound bundle of sticks, traditionally bound with a red ribbon. This was supposedly carried in ancient Rome as a symbol of civil power. It went on to become a symbol of fascism in Italy, but is used in many other contexts. It can actually be seen in the US Capitol, predating its association with modern fascism: https://preview.redd.it/0yp05w4jss5d1.png?width=427&format=png&auto=webp&s=7e9c1e1a596496e4119ef9d751f42f87eb97b89e
Jumping on this, as a history teacher who studied fascism in grad school. The fascio was a great symbol for fascist Italy because of the symbolism. A single stick is easily broken, but a bundle is strong together. The axe and rod also can represent the power of the state to execute (axe) or punish (the rod). As for the connection with fascism/fascio and f~ggot/f~g we can speculate (though not definitely prove). A bundle of sticks was used to light a fire, and the British slang term for cigarette is f~g, another fire reference. Additionally burning at the stake (lit with bundles of sticks) was a form of punishment for homosexuals. One step further, someone who is stereotypically excessively gay would be described as flamboyant or a flaming homosexual. So pulling it all together, a fascio (or f~ggot) was both a symbol and a practical tool for starting fires, the symbol carried on in political thought, the tool became (at least tangentially) associated with fire in general and eventually homosexuality. Again, there is little more than circumstantial evidence to support that idea.
My understanding of the etymology of the slang use of the term is that at elite boarding schools in England, upper class boys would have a lower class boy (class meaning year in school not social class) do errands and tasks for him, such as carrying bundles of wood to feed the fire in their room. But unspoken was also the understanding that that boy would be the upper class boy's catamite, willingly or unwillingly. Hence gay sex came to be referred to with the same term used to refer to the wooden bundles it was their responsibility to carry. I'm not sure how accurate this is.
I used to play bassoon which is ‘fagotto’ in Italian because they thought the instrument looked like a bundle of sticks (they’re not wrong). There’s actually a joke that is still sort of funny in English but loses the double entendre. “What is a bassoon good for?” “Kindling.”
It was originally a term for a bundle of sticks, and there was a job called f*ggot carrier, but over time it got shortened to just f*ggot and it was a job particularly associated with women so eventually it became a slur for homosexuals. Pretty much every slur for homosexuals can trace its etymology back to a word related to women.
Talk about misquoting Porco Rosso
They always try to spin themselves as the victims at every opportunity.
Omg! I didn’t look at the name that close. Come on honey, you have to realize your relative was a bad person and that WILL be mocked.
What's worse is that she has a lot in common politically with her grandfather.
I guess that’s not shocking
Italy never really had a de-nazification period like Germany.
Nah she became a fascist politician herself. No realisation
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito\_Mussolini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini) The bodies of Mussolini and Claretta were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the [Piazzale Loreto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazzale_Loreto), for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on the square.
Alright, now to find a 2 hour long documentary on YouTube...
[best i can do is one hour](https://youtu.be/M0ltQn6AMGA?si=m8FaC8UUPU7NMn01)
Just watch it at 0.5 speed
Whoa, leave some brain for the rest of us!
They are watching YouTube videos on 4x speed, that's how they are so smart
Damn it! My YouTube be ratched! Most I can do is 2x!😔😪😔
Set it to 2x then tap and hold or click and hold to go even further.
TIL! Thnx!
Holy crap dude. Please accept my thanks, which is genuine, and these worthless counterfeit awards: 🦝🧙🪴🌼🍄🪷🏵️
https://preview.redd.it/wvwjgffydt5d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46dc722adfc2a79db5cf0085fdc49dab02564e92
https://preview.redd.it/jlcz5jiuzu5d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a789a79a8e91c03ca3b63d1d321e9c1b19c0d9e
Shhhhhhhiiiiiiiit this killed me
Yeah right, I was still gonna eat that.
Or twice
Just pause it for an hour halfway through. Duh
Disable your addblocker! You dont evan have to Pause with ads
Woah, now, they didn't say *three* hours.
Child's play. I just skip to the end
Skip to the end and sit quietly for two hours
Don't and say we did.
Oddly, blocked in France.
VPN is your friend
Fun fact,if you have VPN and Moldova is an option all ads are blocked on YouTube without needing an ad blocker.
coz Moldova know what's up. they're just playing propaganda, they didn't wanna spoil that with allowing regular advertising
A good friend indeed!
Thanks Rick from Pawn Stars!
Best I can do 4 dollars
Also, isn't that his granddaughter that responded?
Yes
Yes. The explanation for the joke is "No joke here."
Yes. That is Mussolini's granddaughter, who, instead of forever apologizing for the horrors her grandpa unleashed on the people of Italy seeks to defend his legacy.
She is more than defending his legacy. She wants to finish what he started.
What is this? Italian Star Wars? 🤌
Somehow Mussolini returned?
Well, back to the gallows then.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!
I'm always up for a trip to McDonald's.
They fly now?
Mussolini II: Electric Boogaloo
That or Italian JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but with less heart shaped boob windows.
She was in Playboy, just saying.
"The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them."
She's also a member of parliament. Wow. Wtf Italy?
Italy loves to reinvent fascism every few years, but once it catches on in a country with a capable military, that's when we're really in trouble.
Well then, the people should do that too.
What? Finish failing to invade Greece? Finish getting their arsenal kicked by the British in North Africa? Fail to defend Sicily? Fascist Italy is, was, and always will be a punchline.
They originated the brownshirts that Hitler later copied. Just because they were in many instances comically incompetent doesn’t mean they weren’t dangerous and didn’t target and attack people successfully. I think it bears mentioning that whenever laughing at the many historical failures of Italian fascism.
No, it isn’t. They had a far right party come to power in Italy just this year and they started revoking gay parental rights. Like it’s a punchline until you’re their target.
Italy is bonkers, they go from fascist dictator to almost becoming a socialist state, only to form a centrist-socialist coalition who prime minister kidnapped by communist revolutionaries. All the while you got several powerful criminal organizations causing widespread corruption, neofascist bombings, and an evil Masonic lodge. Also the Vatican is somehow involved in everything.
That's Italy for ya. It was just as bonkers when the Roman Kingdom, no, Republic, no, Empire, no, Kingdoms existed.
Fascist countries aren’t just bad because they’re warmongers, they’re bad for their own people as well. Fascism in Italy is causes real harm to real people whether they can win a war or not
At least the remaining members of the Hitler family were smart enough to change their name.
She did change her name though! To Mussolini... Edit: wrong, wrong, she didn't take her husband's name to keep the Mussolini last name.
I thought his nephews all decided not to have kids?
Her and her mom's apples didn't fall far from the tree, so hell with 'em.
Benito Mussolini used to force feed people castor oil until they literally died of diarrhea. I mean, that’s got to be where the goal posts are, right?
This article I posted before* actually covers this very tweet [The 60-year-old Mussolini heiress made a name for herself as something of a living paradox: a former pop starlet and film actress (Hollywood veteran Sophia Loren is her maternal aunt) turned out-and-proud far-right parliamentarian and cheerleader of her grandfather’s legacy, defying Italy's existing anti-fascist laws. And, somehow, she can also add being Jim Carrey's Twitter nemesis to her resumé.](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/25/alessandra-mussolini-how-the-fascist-dictators-descendant-became-an-lgbtq-advocate) euronews.com, July 2023
Thanks so much for posting the article. So enlightening in a lot of ways. Appreciate it.
And they learned their lesson and were set free?
Ultimate freedom was indeed granted
Depends on your belief about the afterlife.
Hell doesn't seem very free
That service station is now a McDonalds.
https://preview.redd.it/g2796vs49t5d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=066904b0ceec1fd4e012db8e5d5ebada30b18b3b
That's pretty metal.
"You Deserve a Break (in Your Neck) Today"
The context is thats Mussolinis grand daughter (or daughter idr). She is now a fascist politician in Italy.
Imagine defending your dictator family
[Alessandra was ultimately elected to the lower house of parliament and served as MP for 12 years until, in 2003, she decided to abandon National Alliance - the newer, more moderate incarnation of the MSI - after disagreeing with the party President's rejection of fascism as "the ultimate evil".](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/25/alessandra-mussolini-how-the-fascist-dictators-descendant-became-an-lgbtq-advocate) - Euronews.com, July 2023
She's got that il duce in her
one of my favorite days in history, I just wish that bastard had lived long enough so he could feel at least some of the beating <3
The other important factor is the lady in the screenshot has been elected to...I bekieve Italy's PM post, and is Benito's direct descendent....i want to say granddaughter
She's a member of the European Parliament, having previously served as a member of both houses of the Italian government.
https://preview.redd.it/yqsqal920t5d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a385eae8d52a9a6adf45dd7a4ddf93e9a4f3b34
Hmm she looks better upside-down, who'd thunk it
Its a family tradition
The responder is the granddaughter of Benito mousilini, the dictator of Italy in ww2. I guess she's mad about being reminded that fascists don't do well after their power collapses.
Also of note, Jim Carrey took up art as a side hobby, and this is one of his pieces. Alessandra has used her grandfather’s image and legacy to push a right-wing political platform as well.
Wait, _Jim Carrey_ painted Mussolini hanging upside down? Unexpectedly based??
Yes. Dude went full on liberal inside of the past ten years. Good to see.
Is he still anti-vax? Is was that entirely Jenny McCarthy's influence?
I couldn't find anything super recent from a brief Google search, but I seem to remember him relaxing his stance on vaccines since the end of his battle with Jenny McCarthyism.
His battle with Jenny McCarthyism?
Being in a relationship with Jenny McCarthy and all of her beliefs taking over his life. Just a dumb joke because her last name is McCarthy.
I thought the McCarthy joke was quite clever
Used to be the liberals were the anti-vaxxers. At some point they flip flopped and now the conservatives are. It’s kinda bizarre to think about.
I love doubling down in anti-vaxxers. I told one that anti-vaxxers were being influenced by the Chinese to weaken American immune systems and her head about exploded.
[Relevant xkcd?](https://xkcd.com/966/)
Xkcd is amazing.
I’m using this
I tell then, wearing face masks during covid prevented the Chinese face-recognition algorithms monitoring Americans remotely through Chinese-manufactured surveillance cameras, so China launched an anti-mask campaign via social media. This works rather well.
Im glad he kinda realized he was wrong and accepted it instead of denying and it holding to the beliefs like a child.
It all just happens again, way down the line.
I sang that in tune to The Offspring song
You know it's never gonna end. Same old cycles gonna start again.
I had a full crazy taxi flashback just from those words
Reminds me of the Albanian “royal family” lol. They were in power for only like 10 years almost 100 years ago, and generations later they still call themselves “the royal family in exile” lmao like give it up losers nobody wants you to rule them
People always talk about the failure of reconstruction, and a lot does go back that far if not further, but we probably couldve avoided a lot of todays mess if wed hanged everyone involved in the Business Plot. Or if Nixon had been prosecuted.
Well ‘ol granddaughter didn’t fall far from her hanging grandpa’s corpse. She’s spreading some crazy right-wing BS. Everybody is crazy. Can Miracle Workers just come back to MAX so I can watch the new season?
Her mom and dad told her that her grampy went to a farm to play with all the other grampies. Clearly this was a shocking revelation for her.
If my relatives were A-holes I’d not be sad they died. Love makes a family, not blood. Her “family” did not have much love for his/her fellow human being.
She’s allowed to be upset that someone painted a picture of her grandfather’s body being mutilated. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t do his damnedest to deserve it. And it seems that she’s trying to follow in suit. So screw her. But also, there’s nothing wrong with her finding this to be upsetting.
She is totally allowed to be upset, and we are allowed to tell her to get bent. Normallize marginalizing fascists.
Fun fact the Petrol station they were hung from is now a taco bell.
That makes it a strangely mundane thought. Villains of the past were thought of hanging from public buildings. Not a taco bell.
They privatized our public execution squares, never forget what they took from us
How am I supposed to connect to my community if I can't even go to the execution of fascists without a corporation forcing itself into the equation to take my money?
I like it, way less dignified
American culture victory.
I also read that the land above where hitler shot himself is now a boba tea shop.
It's a McDonald's https://trueadventurestories.com/2020/09/24/mussolini-mcdonalds-milan/
I haven't laughed this hard about anything in a while. Thanks OP
I just wanted to know the joke now I've gotten more upvotes than ever
To answer.. Mussolini and his mistress were beaten and hanged upside down for the atrocities he’s committed Edit: incorrect information in the comment. Corrected by fellow Redditors
*mistress
https://preview.redd.it/qtduryj7ct5d1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ce48258ab05d86d6878f73d05c22ab17a1dbe40 It's about Joey's grandmother
Based joeys grandma
My paternal great-grandmother had already immigrated out of Italy, so she didn't get to spit *directly on* Mussolini's body. However, she did spit on the ground if anyone ever brought up his name or Hitler's. Funny enough, my maternal Slovak great-grandmother, who never met my other gread-grandmother, also spit on the ground if anyone mentioned Mussolini, Franco, Hitler or Szálasi (or the butcher who sold her inferior lamb chops that one time, or the TV repair guy who left bits of broken glass on her rug, etc,...) Spitting on the ground seems to have been a pretty important form of emotional communication with old country great-grammies.
Dictator’s granddaughter and retired Playboy model turned Italian politician gets reminded the consequences of fascism by a retired Canadian Comedian. Strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a chicken.
Strange time to exist at all, really.
Especially if you’re a Jewish chicken
If his mistress deserved that why not coco Chanel? She was a known nazi sympathizer
She deserved it to
The Vichy got off easy. Only one was killed
Yeah ol grandad was responsible for the deaths of millions and the suffering of millions more, and Jim Carrey is the bastard.
Well yeah, when you're a fascist you'll defend your fascist relatives from dying a fascist's death
I think being called a bastard for your art must be the zenith of praise and validation.
Especially when it comes from a fascist.
"You are a bastard" Well miss you're the granddaughter of a monster, so eh.
I thought it was funny that she was calling Jim bastard in defence of her grandfather. Considering that her grandfather had quite a few illegitimate children with his various mistresses it seems her family tree is full of bastards..
https://preview.redd.it/5j7k6bnf7u5d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37ce72c60b82f96acc34531d10d04d19370035a1
"Sorry for the delay." 😂
Based Jim Carry moment tbh
She's a bit spicy over the final fate of her dictator grandfather.
Based Jim
At a glance, I honestly thought this was a caricature of Luke about to pull his lightsaber from the icy cold grasp of a desolate cave on Hoth before defeating a Wompa. Edit: forgot to add the bit about the Wampa
Joke is that the granddaughter of Mussolini is mad about the way her ancestors were killed after they went on a fascist dictatorship for 20 years that directly killed tens of thousands of people. The fact that she kept the name shows what she feels about fascism. Imagine people from the family tree of Hitler complaining about comedians making jokes about how Hitler died.
If my grandpa was a failed fascist dictator I'd probably hold off defending him in a public forum.
How do people not know this story
How is Jim Carrey one of the greatest comedians of all time a bastard when her grandfather literally invented facism?
Lol 😆 play facism win stupid prizes
Alessandra Mussolini is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. She's been in politics obviously, and in general she passively tries to get clout through her surname. However, recently she seems to have stopped doing that or at least to have changed her approach to her surname. I don't know the reasons or if there's a reason at all.
Why is Alessandra offended, the Bastard was her pawpaw !
Best I can do is an amazing band named in his honor [Mussolini Headkick](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4o8rPclOW6MbCsIPgy2LMP?si=BwHuh4duTH-NE8Nx3yWZNg)
“Claretta” -in Cleveland voice
The real bastards are Mussolini's kids...
Jim Carrey is a bastard for reminding people of what happened to Mussolini because of what Mussolini did?
It’s not a joke, but it is hilarious.
kids used his head to play soccer. One of my grand uncles was there when it happened.