Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.

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    Nah, Italy’s fascists were never really purged, because the occupying Americans preferred them to the Communist partisans

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      I’m not saying that Americans didn’t play their dirty tricks as usual, but it was Italian voters that elected Meloni, not the US…

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        it was Italian voters that elected Meloni, not the US…

        As if that matters. As if Trump wasn’t elected by US voters after massive disinformation campaigns and international meddling.

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          Whether the people are partially to blame or not is a complicated topic. Both in the US and Italy, about half of the population were educated/smart enough to see through their propaganda. The right wing party still won though because they picked their target audience effectively and tailored their whole campaign around that audience.