Margaret Killjoy

Yeah. And so far by my count, I was counting right before I recorded, I was talking to one of my friends about it. So far by my count, we've got one socialist, one Catholic, one Republican, and five anarchists attempted to kill Mussolini. So... Benito Mussolini is famously one of the founders of fascism.

The ideology that is genuinely and truly bad, that 95% of the people on this planet agree is bad. We just don't agree about what counts as fascism.

The ideology that is genuinely and truly bad, that 95% of the people on this planet agree is bad. We just don't agree about what counts as fascism.

The ideology that is genuinely and truly bad, that 95% of the people on this planet agree is bad. We just don't agree about what counts as fascism.

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It doesn't help that... I mean, because some people use fascism to just being anyone I don't like or any authoritarianism, right? And that's not an accurate way to talk about things. We shouldn't call our enemies fascists when they're not fascists.

It doesn't help that... I mean, because some people use fascism to just being anyone I don't like or any authoritarianism, right? And that's not an accurate way to talk about things. We shouldn't call our enemies fascists when they're not fascists.

It doesn't help that... I mean, because some people use fascism to just being anyone I don't like or any authoritarianism, right? And that's not an accurate way to talk about things. We shouldn't call our enemies fascists when they're not fascists.

But it turns out Umberto is sort of the Mike of Italy. Well, Michele is probably the Mike of Italy, but...

But it turns out Umberto is sort of the Mike of Italy. Well, Michele is probably the Mike of Italy, but...

But it turns out Umberto is sort of the Mike of Italy. Well, Michele is probably the Mike of Italy, but...

Fascism is one of the most convoluted and complex political ideologies to ever come about, which is one of the reasons why you can kind of point to anything and call it fascism and be wrong, but also be like, you see where you're coming from about it, you know, because it's not actually a simple ideology.

Fascism is one of the most convoluted and complex political ideologies to ever come about, which is one of the reasons why you can kind of point to anything and call it fascism and be wrong, but also be like, you see where you're coming from about it, you know, because it's not actually a simple ideology.

Fascism is one of the most convoluted and complex political ideologies to ever come about, which is one of the reasons why you can kind of point to anything and call it fascism and be wrong, but also be like, you see where you're coming from about it, you know, because it's not actually a simple ideology.

The more as I was reading this, because Italian fascism in particular comes out of where the right and the left meet. And it is not a, well, we'll talk about this.

The more as I was reading this, because Italian fascism in particular comes out of where the right and the left meet. And it is not a, well, we'll talk about this.

The more as I was reading this, because Italian fascism in particular comes out of where the right and the left meet. And it is not a, well, we'll talk about this.

I'm not going to get too deep into the weeds of defining fascism today, but I want to talk first about someone who 100% absolutely, I am certain, would have been fine with assassinating someone like Benito Mussolini about 15 years before Benito Mussolini came to power. That man who would have been totally fine with killing Benito Mussolini was Benito Mussolini.