@petergleick Do we REALLY have to point out the difference?
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick oh yuck!
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
All that is missing is the mustache.
And every month or so, I am motivated to rewatch V for Vandetta
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All that is missing is the mustache.
And every month or so, I am motivated to rewatch V for Vandetta
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@petergleick Egging is more expensive today.
@yashpheh @petergleick Not if you have your own hens.
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@luciedigitalni @petergleick what!?
@deborahh Can confirm. And why do we call someone Blue? Because he's a ranger ( pronounced as for "banger").
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick Hitler didn't use his portrait in the same way. Try Chairman Mao or Kim Jong Un.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
90-100 years.
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@petergleick
Mussolini was honest about his hair.@Osteopenia_Powers
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick Trump's picture looks more like a dystopian sci-fi film.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick The Nazi hall of fame.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick Trump's banner is from his booking photo.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick 2 of these are older than the other.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick I can’t believe this has been up for 5 hours and no one has commented that Trump’s is the smallest. I guess that fedi not showing all replies thing has struck again
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick were Hitler and Mussolini also half-witted puppets?
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
OMG so glad you asked!
The banners of Mussolini at Fascist headquarters and Hitler at Danzig were tools of totalitarian regimes enforcing one-party rule, state terror, and the cult of the leader as infallible savior. Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany had no free elections after 1929 and 1933, respectively; opposition was crushed by secret police, death squads, and total media control. Their imagery signaled the end of pluralism, the merger of state and party....
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
...and the worship of the Duce or Führer as embodiments of the nation's will.
Trump's banner at the Justice Department, hung in February 2026 under his second term, operates in a different framework: America's constitutional republic, with separation of powers, federalism, and ongoing elections. It's a bold assertion of executive authority over a bureaucracy accused of weaponization against him—think the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane or the DOJ's pursuit of January 6 cases that....
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
... targeted supporters while ignoring leftist violence. The slogan "make America safe again" ties to policies like mass deportations and cracking down on urban crime, not establishing a Gestapo. No concentration camps, no Enabling Act ending democracy, no oath sworn to Trump personally by all officials.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick Well, in this one case, Mussolini's portrait is on his party's headquarters, not the (officially nonpartisan) Ministry of Justice.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick ah yes good point
