Elon: Italy’s famous cultural homogeneity must be upheld at all costs

While I was in Turin last summer, I was able to visit the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento, which has lots of fascinating displays related to the process of multiple very culturally and politically distinct jurisdictions unifying into a nation-state. Recommended, as is the city as a whole.

So while this would be my reaction to having to be next to Elon in any context, it’s particularly appropriate here:

It is remarkable that for all the edgelord shit they still talk in these euphemisms. It’s so incredibly cowardly. Also Italy was famously unified in the 19th century after being conquered and reconquered, italian is the opposite of a timeless ethnic identity bsky.app/profile/thes…

[image or embed]— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) January 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM

I don’t think Elon has gone MAGA because he discovered that Republicans were the party of upper-class tax cuts in 2021.