Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "" video.

  1. Thank you, that is now my stock reply to Italians who support putin over Ukraine (sadly including some of my close relatives)
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  2. In theory, it should be, but that's never been properly enforced. And now here we are. (From an Italian living in the UK for decades)
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  3.  @Alikss1989  Thank you. Italian here (based in the UK for most my life). The unification of Italy was completed in 1871, decades before the rise of fascism; and while Mussolini's regime was responsible for extensive modernization of the country, that's something that would happened under whoever was in charge around that time - it just happened to be him. The damage he and his supporters did far outweighs any of the positives. Also, to reply not to you but to another ignorant comment in this thread, there most definitely is a fascist movement on the rise in Italy. And it's on the side of putin (having in part been nurtured by him), so please don't underestimate it. Along those lines, be equally wary of white replacement theory - another theme in this thread, I think - which MAGA propagandists and trolls, themselves allied with putin, keep trying to infect other countries and cultures with. For over two years, I've had argument after argument with people who regurgitate the "all Ukrainians are nazis" line to justify their unwillingness to support putin. No matter how many disappointing, disagreeable or downright frightening things I hear from individual Ukrainians (admittedly not that many so far), I will continue to support Ukraine. But it's absolutely heartbreaking to see Ukrainians fall for right-wing rethoric. Слава Україні💙💛
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  4.  @ivanh9567  I liked both your comments - you're both right. I grew up there, and I am so, so happy I left before I was twenty, I'll never look back.
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  5.  @АркадійХоткевич  This is pure white replacement theory. Fed to the world by white supremacists in the US - who are on putin's side. STOP doing their work for them by trying to spread it online.
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  6.  @weghrfbfbf  The nazi salute is NOT freedom of speech!
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  7.  @chelseasmile4476  There's nothing "healthy" about this. And there's no such thing as an "ethno-ecosystem" - the Italian gene pool has almost everything in it, it was made by wave after wave of migration and invasion, and we Italians have added our DNA to many other nations all over the world - as have Ukrainians. Please don't use this horrifying and truly dangerous situation to peddle what is essentially white replacement theory - which, remember, is being spread by white supremacists, who in the US and other countries are firmly on Putin's side.
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  8.  @alareiks742  Thank you. As a supporter of Ukraine, whose Italian relatives suffered terribly at the hands of the fascist regime, I am relieved to hear that in Ukraine, a fascist party would never get off the ground.
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  9.  @carinawolf511  I wish fascist politicians were prohibited in Italy, that would be something 😟
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  10. This is not propaganda, it's a fact. There is a fascist government in Italy, indulging this sort of thing because it terrorizes the people they want to keep down.
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  11.  @JustinThyme-j4z  The current leadership in Italy are fascists - believe me, that is clear-cut.
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  12. Entrenched deprivation and conflict caused in large part by centuries of European colonialism, and the effects of climate change caused in large by the industrialized global north
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