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http://gawker.com/how-we-fooled-donald-trump-into-retweeting-benito-musso-1761795039

aha, what a trick! brilliant stuff. what quote was it? "Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day."? Or was it "War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."?

it was "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep." there is a lot of smugness about donald trump retweeting mussolini. but i think this means more about mussolini's appeal than trump's.

Let's be honest, it is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep, duh. 100 years as a sheep would suck compared to a day as a lion. the quote wasn't even attributed to mussolini, it was attributed to donald trump. so we have a nice idea attributed to the man himself of course he is going to retweet it. he had no clue about the "il duce" or the photoshopped mussolini.

if you had attributed this quote to julius caesar or alexander the great you would get plenty of people who wouldn't know better than to tweet it. one of mussolini's few exciting and agreeable comments was misattributed to a man who never had to learn much about wwii politics outside of "axis bad guys".

it's a shame that this quote is see as some rantings of a crazy man. i do not understand why anyone would aspire to be docile sheep instead of a self-assured lion. i think the people who think this means anything are either giving trump too much credit in his understanding of 20th century european politics or that he supports an inherently fascist quote. i think it's been shown that trump doesn't pay any particular attention to the usernames and profiles of those nobodies that tweet at him (why would he?). also the desire to be independent and self-sufficient as opposed to fearful and weak is not a proto-fascist idea but an idea for emancipation, to be free from fear and oppression. without the weight of mussolini attached to it it's pretty agreeable.

i like reading gawker and i can't consider myself a fan of donald trump, but i think this is a non-issue that gloating over doesn't do left-wingers any good.

Gawker actually wrote a follow up article abou- no, you know what, I am not surprised.

Adolf Hitler once said:
"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice."

Agreeing with that sentiment does not make me a fascist simply because he was one, nor does agreeing with Mussolini's quote about leadership/pride/exceptionalism make Trump a fascist. Gawker yet again scrapes bottom of the barrel to try and sling mud.

Am I misremembering or is this like the third time he's been in the media for retweeting something falsely attributed to him?

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Stop trying to defend donald trump for fucks sake. Everyone trying to be contrarian in this situation is just promoting him and making him appeal more to reddit users as the persecuted underdog.

Well in this case he really didn't do anything wrong. I'd rather elect a three day dead raccoon than Trump but that doesn't mean that every single thing he does is worthy of criticism.

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This is such a reach to try and condemn Donald Trump. People have literally been using this quote for decades without even knowing of its origins. And now that Ol' Trumpkin tweeted it, people are saying, "L-look! He's a fascist! He quoted Mussolini!"? Give me a break.

Nop, that what the people that is against him ends doing.

I dont like Trump, but he got huge, thanks to his opponents.

He was baited pretty hard here, but I think there's a good point about the kind of nonsense that Trump wrote in his books, as well as his populist style. It doesn't really mean much, maybe it's mildly funny but that Trump retweets self-described white supremacists and the like is far, far more troubling.

Wonder if they would also point out how FDR and Mussolini continually praised one another's economic policies…