The bulk of the party leadership (including Meloni), as well as the symbol of the movement (the tricolour flame),[17] comes from the National Alliance (AN, 1995–2009) party, which had merged into PdL in 2009.[18] AN was the heir to the Italian Social Movement (MSI, 1945–1995), a neo-fascist party founded by former members of the banned National Fascist Party (1921–1943) and the Republican Fascist Party (1943–1945).[19][20][21]

(from their wiki page) of course, they deny it completely.

perché non entrambi?

Yeah, these people are open and proud fascists, but everyone just seems to act like it’s… business as usual. Makes me wonder how long it’ll take for this to happen in other ‘civilized, European’ countries. FdI are polling a bit over 24% Almost a quarter of Italians don’t see any problem with voting for fascists… they need to bring back the partigiani >:(

Unfortunately, the only criticism I’ve heard (outside of communist circles obviously) of Melloni is that she’s going to be prime minister because she’s a woman. In other words, people are more concerned about the ‘wokeness’ of the fascists than them being… you know… fascists. She’s also all the other things you’d expect, homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc. etc.

To clarify, Melloni’s party, FdI broke from Berlusconi as he wasn’t right wing enough for them, but while they poll the highest, they can’t form a government alone and will still require the ‘centre-right’ coalition to form a majority. This grouping includes the Lega Nord (who’ve rebranded from their racist, islamophobic, seccessionism to racist, islamophobic nationalism) and Forza Italia (Berlusconi’s party, yes he’s gonna get cucked by the party that ditched him) amongst a few other more obscure ones.

On the other side is the so called ‘centre-left’ coalition, this is mostly centred around the Democratic Party, who, to give you some insight into how ‘left’ they are, they named themselves after the US democrats, specifically to crib on the popularity of Obama. They are polling just shy of FdI, and also have a handful of small parties that group with them, but they can’t pull the kind of support that the ‘centre-right’ can.

Then there’s the ‘third pole’ - everyone else basically, this includes incoherent populists like M5S, single-issue parties and ones too small to really pay attention to, and what passes for communists in Italy.

Oh extra fun is that the right are likely to be only a few seats shy of being able to rewrite the constitution.

RIP

(I’m so sorry… I tried to resist)

Congratulations comrade :)

Never been through such things myself, but I’ve seen alcoholism destroy someone I know and it’s not pretty. Stay strong.

Su-27 (and its derivatives, the 30, 35, etc.) are nice, but how could you leave out the Su-57

YCL is tied to CPB right? Guess they suck too, oh well lol. But yeah, the only party I’ve heard vaguely good things about is ‘Red Fightback’, silly name aside, I don’t really know anything about them other than that they are apparently not terfs.

CPGB(ML) are the most prominent in that regard, they’re generally socially reactionary (and also a family cult basically).

Then there’s CPB who don’t get picked up on for it as much, but they also have a lot of social reactionaries. (someone told me once that their youth wing is decent but… eh, if the main party sucks that doesn’t really help).

Life getting in the way. Anxiety about dealing with new people in potentially confrontational situations, the lack of decent parties in the UK - Do you want to join the commie terfs or the other commie terfs, uh… I’d prefer a party that recognises my existence maybe?

The wiki page on it makes it sound like shit tbh:

A reviewer argued that the supposed protagonist makes illogical and emotion-based arguments against incorporation while the supposed antagonists and defenders of the incorporation system make sensible and logical economic arguments that the system allows humans to reach their full potential through monetizing human capital, increasing the scope for more voluntary transactions, and gains from trade.[2]