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Margaret Killjoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And who supports that campaign but Benito Mussolini, even though his followers are fighting the anarchists in the streets during this time. Malatesta gets out, and he can't get any paper for his newspapers because of political pressure against him. And Mussolini offers him paper to print on. And Malatesta's like, no. What? No. So Mussolini keeps trying to be friends with him.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And who supports that campaign but Benito Mussolini, even though his followers are fighting the anarchists in the streets during this time. Malatesta gets out, and he can't get any paper for his newspapers because of political pressure against him. And Mussolini offers him paper to print on. And Malatesta's like, no. What? No. So Mussolini keeps trying to be friends with him.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And who supports that campaign but Benito Mussolini, even though his followers are fighting the anarchists in the streets during this time. Malatesta gets out, and he can't get any paper for his newspapers because of political pressure against him. And Mussolini offers him paper to print on. And Malatesta's like, no. What? No. So Mussolini keeps trying to be friends with him.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But some anarchists and folks from every ideology did turn fascist, right? Because you can't have a new ideology without starting with people who used to have other ideologies. An awful lot of anarchists turned fascist. Orwell has a really good essay about this. George Orwell has a really good essay about this called Notes on Nationalism.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But some anarchists and folks from every ideology did turn fascist, right? Because you can't have a new ideology without starting with people who used to have other ideologies. An awful lot of anarchists turned fascist. Orwell has a really good essay about this. George Orwell has a really good essay about this called Notes on Nationalism.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But some anarchists and folks from every ideology did turn fascist, right? Because you can't have a new ideology without starting with people who used to have other ideologies. An awful lot of anarchists turned fascist. Orwell has a really good essay about this. George Orwell has a really good essay about this called Notes on Nationalism.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

It basically lays out the case that a lot of political extremists are into extremism, not the idea that the extremism is attached to. So you get people going from the radical left to the radical right reasonably often. And this, unfortunately, ties into the first time that I've found of someone trying to kill Mussolini.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

It basically lays out the case that a lot of political extremists are into extremism, not the idea that the extremism is attached to. So you get people going from the radical left to the radical right reasonably often. And this, unfortunately, ties into the first time that I've found of someone trying to kill Mussolini.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

It basically lays out the case that a lot of political extremists are into extremism, not the idea that the extremism is attached to. So you get people going from the radical left to the radical right reasonably often. And this, unfortunately, ties into the first time that I've found of someone trying to kill Mussolini.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Some anarchists got together in 1921, before Mussolini ever even took formal power. He does that in 1922. And they're like, all right, we got to kill this guy. They delegated one among their number, a man named Biagio Masi, to go kill Mussolini. Instead, Biagio went to Mussolini and told him the whole plan. Mussolini protected him.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Some anarchists got together in 1921, before Mussolini ever even took formal power. He does that in 1922. And they're like, all right, we got to kill this guy. They delegated one among their number, a man named Biagio Masi, to go kill Mussolini. Instead, Biagio went to Mussolini and told him the whole plan. Mussolini protected him.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Some anarchists got together in 1921, before Mussolini ever even took formal power. He does that in 1922. And they're like, all right, we got to kill this guy. They delegated one among their number, a man named Biagio Masi, to go kill Mussolini. Instead, Biagio went to Mussolini and told him the whole plan. Mussolini protected him.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then the very next day, because Mussolini is just being, I don't know, cunning or whatever... Mussolini goes and gives a speech about how the government needs to really release Malatesta, right? Even though he has just learned that the anarchists are trying to kill him. He's a 4D chess kind of man, this Mussolini.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then the very next day, because Mussolini is just being, I don't know, cunning or whatever... Mussolini goes and gives a speech about how the government needs to really release Malatesta, right? Even though he has just learned that the anarchists are trying to kill him. He's a 4D chess kind of man, this Mussolini.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then the very next day, because Mussolini is just being, I don't know, cunning or whatever... Mussolini goes and gives a speech about how the government needs to really release Malatesta, right? Even though he has just learned that the anarchists are trying to kill him. He's a 4D chess kind of man, this Mussolini.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

There's also this thing where people are always like Mussolini is like the little brother of Hitler, you know, and he's kind of a joke because Italy's military might is not the same as Germany's, right? Mussolini pulled off something pretty incredible, like terrible, evil, but like he did become dictator of a major country. That is like a hard thing to do.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

There's also this thing where people are always like Mussolini is like the little brother of Hitler, you know, and he's kind of a joke because Italy's military might is not the same as Germany's, right? Mussolini pulled off something pretty incredible, like terrible, evil, but like he did become dictator of a major country. That is like a hard thing to do.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

There's also this thing where people are always like Mussolini is like the little brother of Hitler, you know, and he's kind of a joke because Italy's military might is not the same as Germany's, right? Mussolini pulled off something pretty incredible, like terrible, evil, but like he did become dictator of a major country. That is like a hard thing to do.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I really like the pizza in Italy. Yeah. I like how every country, not every country, but most countries I've been to, the American version of their national food is hard to get vegan, but in the country that I'm in, it's actually reasonably easy. Like, it's really easy to just go into any train station in Italy and buy vegan pizza.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I really like the pizza in Italy. Yeah. I like how every country, not every country, but most countries I've been to, the American version of their national food is hard to get vegan, but in the country that I'm in, it's actually reasonably easy. Like, it's really easy to just go into any train station in Italy and buy vegan pizza.