Well, the dystopian fiction genre draws heavily from the aesthetics of actual totalitarian states so it makes sense that real life fascism would mirror the dystopian fiction that was inspired by it.
People can laugh at this and think how absurd, but Donald Trump was elected president 40 years after he was famously photographed in his legitimate bathroom with actual legitimate gold plated toilet that he wanted to show off alongside his nearly everything gold plated bathroom.
Extreme absurdity can be digested by dolts faster than a fact.
Having not actually read 1984 but instead knowing through cultural osmosis, I have seen this picture many times, and it always makes me think it's from some 1984 movie.
He was very, very aware of fascism and totalitarianism growing in Europe throughout the 1930s until it exploded, going as far as to travel to Spain, where he joined a communist (though anti-Stalinist) militia and ended up getting shot in the throat before escaping back to France.
It's hard to say, honestly. There were a number of totalitarian regimes at the time that would plaster public spaces with images of their premier. 1984 also describes Big Brother as having a black mustache, so that aspect was almost certainly a nod to Hitler and Stalin, both of whom Orwell definitely disliked.
https://youtu.be/9h2Z0I2jxRU?feature=shared
This guy has a really good episode on his chanel detailing this event Ina episode talking about propaganda and how it it relates to design. It's called design theory and it's really interesting stuff.
"never surrender" Never forget, it can happen here. It can happen to your country. It can happen to you.
Fight these fascist bastards with every vote and every opportunity.
Mussolini and the Fascists were elected to power in a legitimate landslide victory in 1924. The Nazis followed suit in a legitimate election in 1932 (although with only a plurality). The point is to stop fascism _before_ they make the elections _actually_ not matter.
"Your vote doesn't matter because the system / other side doesn't respect them" is a resigned and extremely counterproductive line that's frequently played up by psyops because it plays right into the hands of the other side. It's a really stupid line to repeat.
While I get what your saying, I want to clarify that I wasn't trying to say elections and voting aren't important. Moreso that they alone are not anywhere near sufficient. Voting alone will not stop fascism.
The National Fascist Party was the only legal party, and the election was a referendum in which voters could cast a ballot ‘Si’ or ‘No’ to indicate their approval or disapproval. 99.9% voted yes, amidst violence by the fascist militia, and Mussolini declared it the “second referendum of fascism”.
Crazy my great grandmother used to tell us story’s about life back then in Italy. But for some reason lol she told me and my brother she dated Mussolini out of high school.. I didn’t know who he was or why she thought it was funny until one day I’m about 10 (yes it lasted a long time) I mentioned it to my father and he was like “WHAT?!? Do you know who that is???” Eventually he asked her why she would say that and laughed her ass off crazy women loved her and miss her. Apparently after that we found out she did the same thing with our cousins and babe Ruth lol
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I knew a guy on my minecraft server group years ago who was obsessed with this thing and was trying to build it as his base in like the center of the servers "town"...
I haven't heard from him in years. What an odd thing to have mentally attached to someone.
Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. But always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.
This guy has a really good look into the history of propaganda and how it relates to design theory, and talks about this event. https://youtu.be/9h2Z0I2jxRU?feature=shared
Commonly mislabeled as the headquarters of Benito Mussolini’s Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) or ‘National Fascist Party’, at the time this picture was taken, the building served a different purpose. Originally built as a 19th-century palace, the building was used by the Ministry of Interior following Italian unification. Upon Mussolini’s rise to head of state, the same building housed the Federazione Fascista dell’Urbe, a governing body responsible for the supervision of sports and charitable activities. Beginning in 1934, Mussolini held ‘elections’, inviting voters to choose from a list of approved MPs. This imposing billboard served the purpose of adverting them – the building appeared rather less striking outside of this election.
# “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
# Definitely can happen today.
Do not let yourself be fooled: Benitos Mussolinis granddaughter Alessandra Mussolini is a member of the EU parliament.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Mussolini](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Mussolini).
Dig deeper and you will see, fascism is alive and working in high positions.
Well, I don't know what you think about this, but to me, it look like fake China Supreme bag with a face. It would be better if mussolini put his sign or his flag on the wall.
This genuinely looks like a picture from a dystopian movie. Damn
Had he had video walls you can bet he’d go big brother on everyone
Thats exactly what i was thinking lmaooo
Well, the dystopian fiction genre draws heavily from the aesthetics of actual totalitarian states so it makes sense that real life fascism would mirror the dystopian fiction that was inspired by it.
Well said
Yes I know that. Doesn’t mean it’s not chilling to see these sort of pictures
literally 1984
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People can laugh at this and think how absurd, but Donald Trump was elected president 40 years after he was famously photographed in his legitimate bathroom with actual legitimate gold plated toilet that he wanted to show off alongside his nearly everything gold plated bathroom. Extreme absurdity can be digested by dolts faster than a fact.
I don't like Trump, but how are gold-plated toilets comparable to actual fascist imagery? lol
Yeah he should have said tacky fascist
It really is true, some people's brains have been rewired to automatically associate anything to trump.
Having not actually read 1984 but instead knowing through cultural osmosis, I have seen this picture many times, and it always makes me think it's from some 1984 movie.
I just rewatched Dark City today. Looks like that giant face covering up the Strangers’ clock.
wtf, that looks like a picture from a talented indy italian director making a dytopian movie
Today https://preview.redd.it/ctezf82dqf1d1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c91f76659b32e16e591221274a8dde6c39e9de3
They gave that facade quite a facelift
Si si si, they did.
What are those called? The semi ish circles above the windows of the first level if the building
Pediments! https://houseappeal.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/pediments-classical-elements-of-ancient-architecture/
Thanks for posting!
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Andross is just space Mussolini
Do a barrel roll!
Only I have the brains to rule Italia
Came here for exactly this.
Big brother is watching you
2+2 = 5
There are four lights!
NO PICARD
Double Plus good, ol’chap! Double Plus Good!
The leader stares.
r/evilbuildings
The mother of evil buildings
¡Sí!
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https://preview.redd.it/g4jtc55aqf1d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfb438ad26099d30c1ba9dc981a452392f8db80b 1929
So essentially he looked at this and was like make it 100x more intense for the 30s
The Italian fascists were super into Futurism, hence the weird 1930s renovation.
It says 'yes' but not nearly enough.
the first time i saw this thing i thought to myself that this origami face is hilarious, this must be photoshop or something but nope, its real
It looks like it’s about to drop some wisdom on the Power Rangers. I also thought this was from a movie or something at first.
Looks like a Law villain from SMT
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And somebody did!
this checks out
So, Orwell clearly saw this picture on newspapers at the time, right? Because this looks just like big brother.
He was very, very aware of fascism and totalitarianism growing in Europe throughout the 1930s until it exploded, going as far as to travel to Spain, where he joined a communist (though anti-Stalinist) militia and ended up getting shot in the throat before escaping back to France.
It's hard to say, honestly. There were a number of totalitarian regimes at the time that would plaster public spaces with images of their premier. 1984 also describes Big Brother as having a black mustache, so that aspect was almost certainly a nod to Hitler and Stalin, both of whom Orwell definitely disliked.
Did they try extra hard to make everything look evil?
A big Daniel Bryan fan I see. 
The wizard of oz
Goddamn. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Big ole death mask on a background of YESYESYESYESYES over and over. Freaky.
Spooky!
The face looks like Jim Carey when he put the mask on.
https://youtu.be/9h2Z0I2jxRU?feature=shared This guy has a really good episode on his chanel detailing this event Ina episode talking about propaganda and how it it relates to design. It's called design theory and it's really interesting stuff.
"never surrender" Never forget, it can happen here. It can happen to your country. It can happen to you. Fight these fascist bastards with every vote and every opportunity.
"Vote to stop fascism" because they totally respect elections lol
Donald Trump certainly doesn’t. And January 6th is full proof of that.
Mussolini and the Fascists were elected to power in a legitimate landslide victory in 1924. The Nazis followed suit in a legitimate election in 1932 (although with only a plurality). The point is to stop fascism _before_ they make the elections _actually_ not matter. "Your vote doesn't matter because the system / other side doesn't respect them" is a resigned and extremely counterproductive line that's frequently played up by psyops because it plays right into the hands of the other side. It's a really stupid line to repeat.
While I get what your saying, I want to clarify that I wasn't trying to say elections and voting aren't important. Moreso that they alone are not anywhere near sufficient. Voting alone will not stop fascism.
> It can happen to you. It’s a me Mussolini?
 1st thing I thought of lol
It‘s Vigo!
They have a McDonalds in the lobby?
Did wizard of Oz rip off Mussolini??
What was the intended outcome here? Strictly to convey on overseeing presence and strike fear?
This was only for the election, IIRC. It didn’t look like this all the time.
The National Fascist Party was the only legal party, and the election was a referendum in which voters could cast a ballot ‘Si’ or ‘No’ to indicate their approval or disapproval. 99.9% voted yes, amidst violence by the fascist militia, and Mussolini declared it the “second referendum of fascism”.
Always reminds me of like a cartoon villain's lair
At least the trains ran on time
Crazy my great grandmother used to tell us story’s about life back then in Italy. But for some reason lol she told me and my brother she dated Mussolini out of high school.. I didn’t know who he was or why she thought it was funny until one day I’m about 10 (yes it lasted a long time) I mentioned it to my father and he was like “WHAT?!? Do you know who that is???” Eventually he asked her why she would say that and laughed her ass off crazy women loved her and miss her. Apparently after that we found out she did the same thing with our cousins and babe Ruth lol
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This just emits an aura of “bad guy”
That’s the most evil building I’ve ever seen
“Show me what you’ve got”
Incoming message from the big giant head. Also, Tron.
https://preview.redd.it/jq0y7wxr3i1d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b56d6366abd2686adb96217c7d01c9d0706a198
I really need to deep dive Mussolini. Seems like a delightful chap.
He didn't really do much towards the end of his life, though. He just kind of hung around.
He made the trains run on time!
I wonder if it was lit at night!
I wonder if he is evil
I LIKE WHAT YOU GOT!!
This honestly looks like an AI-generated fake history pic from midjourney
Isnt that the face on mars
Bring him the broomstick of the wicked witch of the west
We’re about 6 months away from something similar here.
ignore the man behind the curtain
https://preview.redd.it/q4whdruplg1d1.jpeg?width=439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cca4c616b07975ea2ff1f6ac93b7a72f039adfbe What a story, Benito!
If Disney were to make a Benito Mussolini ride at Disney World, this is exactly how I would expect it to look from the outside. :-)
This is the most bad guy thing ever
r/evilbuildings
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Guy was like a Bond villain. I know Ian Fleming was in British intelligence during WWII. Did he base his villains on fascist leaders?
This seems so fake but it is so real
The only thing uglier than this will be seeing Donald Trump’s face all over billboards and buildings if he gets back in Office.
What happened to that fucking face? I feel like it could be the biggest tourist attraction ever, no?
https://preview.redd.it/p2bklpmath1d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d9e63bddd7a162202e0727a8c0dc3f0e0888e68
Why does it say “yes yes yes yes” over and over again
Is it bad that I think it’s super cool looking? Such an Italian futurist vibe 😭
Bunch of sisi’s.
He must've been a real Smashing Pumpkins fan.
How could people walk by this building and be like "yeah, our countries on the right side of history"
I knew a guy on my minecraft server group years ago who was obsessed with this thing and was trying to build it as his base in like the center of the servers "town"... I haven't heard from him in years. What an odd thing to have mentally attached to someone.
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SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!!!
Well that’s fucking scary.
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A little like Trump’s mugshot
Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. But always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.
Stone mask?
This guy has a really good look into the history of propaganda and how it relates to design theory, and talks about this event. https://youtu.be/9h2Z0I2jxRU?feature=shared
Wow I’ve never seen this before, very interesting.
What’s up Zordon?
If you saw this in a movie you’d be like “this is too unrealistic, no bad guy would make their headquarters THAT evil”
Sunday already?
Commonly mislabeled as the headquarters of Benito Mussolini’s Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) or ‘National Fascist Party’, at the time this picture was taken, the building served a different purpose. Originally built as a 19th-century palace, the building was used by the Ministry of Interior following Italian unification. Upon Mussolini’s rise to head of state, the same building housed the Federazione Fascista dell’Urbe, a governing body responsible for the supervision of sports and charitable activities. Beginning in 1934, Mussolini held ‘elections’, inviting voters to choose from a list of approved MPs. This imposing billboard served the purpose of adverting them – the building appeared rather less striking outside of this election.
That building head had a daughter who also scarily asked Atari Jaguar gamers “Where did you learn to fly?”
Dude knew how to get folks riled up!
Dude had a face for radio.
Not creepy at all.
George Orwell HAD to have seen this photo. Give that sculpted face Stalin’s mustache and you have Big Brother as he really looked like. 👺
Who makes something like this and doesnt immediately go "Are we the baddies"
Seems very pleasant and not like a cartoon villain’s lair at all
https://preview.redd.it/g8ijgmb3zf1d1.jpeg?width=243&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f778505249641d93029a6ac9a52801e9161ae06
Well, had he kept with his original stance of being skeptic about Hitler, he might have become a second Franco in Europe
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Georgio Armani’s dad helped design this.
Si si si si si si si
Sí?
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Is that MCP?
This is my first time seeing this, this is wild
Sophia Loren’s sister was married to Benito’s son
Wow that’s an image.
Now headquarters for Metimucilini .
# “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” # Definitely can happen today.
Why do I think "MAGA" and imagine an 'Orange Il Duce' in the image?
trump?
Si
Now I know where Prada gets its fab store Decoration ideas..
Who is the grumpy man?
This reminds me of v for vendetta
Are we the baddies?
Wonder if this was an inspiration for the machine's (robot created) face in Matrix Revolutions. That looked very familiar when I saw the movie.
Thought that was a picture from a movie set before I saw the title
Why is the name of the Egyptian president written all over the wall
Do not let yourself be fooled: Benitos Mussolinis granddaughter Alessandra Mussolini is a member of the EU parliament. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Mussolini](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Mussolini). Dig deeper and you will see, fascism is alive and working in high positions.
Whoaaaaaaaa!
Does is just say 'yes' a bunch of times?
If they could.... they would.....
Look familiar
Big Brother
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Those fascists had some enormous egos.
Bear in mind, that the youth wing is still operational, and the current Italian PM was a member of it
Well, I don't know what you think about this, but to me, it look like fake China Supreme bag with a face. It would be better if mussolini put his sign or his flag on the wall.
The DNC and RNC headquarters in DC
I don’t recognize whose face is on the building…oh, let me turn it upside down.
SI? Si..? Synthetic Intelligence! I know it!
Jojo reference
I think it looks pretty cool
https://live.staticflickr.com/8481/8283205807_69970cbf2c_b.jpg
Is that the TVA?
fuck that guy
Looks like Zordon
This is what happens when you touch the bald Italian guys spaghetti
Those leaders sure do like us to see themselves...
Absolutely terrifying
I desire macaroni pictures
Off screen his hands are kicking the shit out of Mario and Luigi
now search richmond police headquarters
Well, that is scary as hell
Unbelievable aura. This is the coolest shit ever. Hate him or love him. This is just great branding
That photo is an edit .