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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Holy shit, they're not even disguising the fascism anymore, that's literally a fasces on their flag.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sure, but it has a completely different historical context before Mussolini created the Italian fascist party. It was even used by left wing groups as a symbol of solidarity.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The fasces, as a bundle of rods with an axe, was a grouping of all the equipment needed to inflict corporal or capital punishment. In ancient Rome, the bundle was a material symbol of a Roman magistrate's full civil and military power, known as imperium. They were carried in a procession with a magistrate by lictors, who carried the fasces and, at times, used the birch rods as punishment to enforce obedience with magisterial commands

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces

    totally normal, youre so right

    ps fasces and fa#got share the same root word

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