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  • That specific word in Italian has multiple meanings, one of which being something like “excessive/useless detail or addition, especially when done for the cool factor only” and another being “gayness”.

    Without the full context of the sentence, it’s very hard to say what he meant or what he was saying.

    Of course the word is still originating from the slur and shouldn’t be used by the pope, but it’s technically possible that wasn’t even used in relation to any minority (just as much as the opposite)

    Unless I missed some extra info or source that has the full context, it’s hard to say




  • There are a few technical problems with that. First of all, the cost of each instance would become quickly unbearable since everyone has all the duplicated data.

    Second problem, a malign entity could just come, create its own instance, spam everything and everyone with ads or whatever and suddenly every instance is full of that stuff. Also, how do you handle defederating in that case?

    What has been proposed before instead was to make some kind of mega communities that gather all posts from communities with the same name across instances


  • After WW2 italian socialist and communist parties where between the strongest ones in non USRR europe (if not the number one), but let’s just spout random nonsense for no reason

    While the extreme right wing never disappeared, they were as much as a niche as the extreme left.

    The country stayed between the left and the center until well into the 90s when a moderate right became more prominent and started to be closer to a 50/50 split

    The general right wing radicalization we’re seeing now is way more recent and it’s hardly a phenomenon exclusive to Italy.

    I totally agree that the current Italian government is ridiculous and that this problem with extreme right wing populism is becoming very serious in most western countries, Italy included.

    But comparing this to a culture ingrained love for fascism when fascism didn’t last for even 1% of Italian history and culture is just asinine and ignorant.

    This kind of attitude is ironically very similar to the racism you’re trying to criticize