#italian election

[airaliila]

Mauro Biani

[corepaedianews]

Italy’s election is a case study in a new phase for the radical right

Daniele Albertazzi, University of Surrey and Mattia Zulianello, University of Trieste Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the populist radical right party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), may have emerged as the victor in Italy’s recent elections, but she did so at the head of a delicately balanced coalition of parties – one that included Matteo Salvini, the man once spoken of in the same terms…

[dcoglobalnews]

POLLS OPEN FOR ITALIAN GENERAL ELECTION, MELONI TIPPED TO BE PM

The polls opened in Italy on Sunday to elect a new parliament.  The snap election comes in the wake of President Sergio Mattarella’s dissolution of parliament’s two chambers in July, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi. ..Meloni would be country’s first woman prime minister, As Italians expected to elect right-wing alliance..Early vote follows collapse of Draghi…

[ilpiubelbruttomisandro]

[mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora]

Great week btw: Labour won in UK, NFP won in France and Sinner reached QF at Wimbledon

Universe can be proud

[brother-emperors]

it's. augh. so 15th century cardinals functioned as princes of the catholic church, for diplomatic reasons, right. but there's a weird. theological space. happening. that makes me go 😬 with some of these guys because it's like. so a family marries off one of their sons to the catholic church, and they do it because its a good political move, to make sure that one of their sons is in the jaws of the vatican, because that's where the wider political theater is playing out. it's a good idea to have a representative of your family and your regions interests attached to the body of the pope. it's a good idea to have a son in the vatican in case something happens with the main family back home, one last hold to power. I'll go into this in more detail at a later date, but as a snapshot of proof that I'm not making up poetic sounding phrases re: referring to cardinals as princes of the church:

The Social Background and Education of Cardinals, Maria Antonietta Visceglia

so!!! the thing is! when you marry off a son to the catholic church, they're married to god's vicar on earth, so the pope demands their allegiance first because your loyalty should go first to god (in actuality it's the pope bc the catholic church is a political court etc), and now it's all a mess.

anyway! giovanni colonna! is he praying or is he trying to figure out how to talk his way out of this mess? who knows! maybe both!! if I think too much about how his family sided against the the pope after giovanni was made cardinal, and how giovanni had to defend himself saying that he wasn't responsible for the actions of his family, but it didn't work out, so he was imprisoned and then jailed in the castel sant'angelo (do you ever think about how rome is a jail. like, rome is a jail, the vatican is a prison, you have to live in this place because a cardinal out of rome is like a fish out of water, but at any given moment, it can also become a cell, so really rome and the vatican are a mouth and its asking you to walk onto it's tongue) for a year. he was ~26 when that went down!!!!! I'm trying to imagine navigating that at 28 and it makes me want to walk right into the ocean and not come out of it.

[elisastro]

i am genuinely extremely sorry for all of people in france rn. honestly, seeing how things are going here in italy, it won’t be long till we get even worse

[emily84]

for those who can't tell by her ~~nuanced victory speech, the melon woman just dedicated her win to literal fascists.

"This is our comeback. It's a night of tears, hugs, o memories. And it's a night I want to dedicate to all the people that aren't with us anymore but that deserved to see our comeback tonight." (verbatim)

she is literally dedicating her win to all the Mussolini nostalgics and their predecessors

[luigihamilton44]

[verita-lapalissiana]

salvini che posta ai-generated mpreg art non era nel mio bingo delle europee

[duncebento]

sooo happy i wont be in the US dyring heavy election season lmao

[neamhsmess]

I'm here, watching my country breaking in crumbles.

[inkyself]

I think we sometimes tend to dehumanize people who did horrible things to remove ourselves from even considering we could be capable of evil, at the expense of understanding our reality as humans beings and how we live as a society. I was reading some takes on a character on a show that slept with a nazi soldier and I was surprised to see that there was no compassion at all for her actions. We think all nazis and all fascists were some kind of monsters from the start without individual differences, and that is so dangerous. It’s what’s happening in Europe right now: people vote for far right parties because they underestimate the ties said parties have with that part of history. Because they have individual differences and these politicians aren’t violent. But do you think Hitler started out burning people alive? Do you think Fascism’s first action was Matteotti’s murder? To quote an italian writer who recently passed away, Michela Murgia: “Do you think fascism comes knocking at your door with truncheons and a black shirt?” It doesn’t. Nazis and fascists were just soldiers and neighbors and parents and friends. We all let slide an homophobic or sexist comment at some point in our life. We heard an uncle say that we should let immigrants die in the Mediterranean Sea if they chose to take that chance. How many of our grandparents are anti-abortion? Maybe some of us slept with a fascist (insert obligatory Calcutta quote here). We are underestimating the current political situation because we think history like that was done by monsters. It wasn’t. Just like it isn’t now. The people who voted en mass for the far right in these elections, they grew up in our same cities and witnessed the same problems we have. They are people inhabiting and living in our same spaces.

[gotinterest]

John Oliver has done some great pieces on USAmerican issues. I generally do not trust what he says about countries outside of the US.

[pietroleopoldo]

European elections 2024 moodboard

[paintermagazine]

‘Crowd pleaser!’

Artist: Pantaloni Guiliano

‘7Sette’ magazine (June, 1946)