Italy claps back

You need to pay attention to current events and stop trying to get your news from memes

For a more constructive answer- Benito Mussolini was a right wing nationalist dictator who came into power of Italy and presided over it through WW2. Many in Italy loved him and followed his strong personality despite his transformation of the country to a police state and his allegiance to the Nazis in the name of Italian nationalism. When the war ended he and his mistress were caught trying to flee the country and were shot and hung from a gas station in public view by Italian partisans. His Grand daughter is a right wing nationalist in Italian parliament who follows Donald Trump. The (former?) Comedian Jim Carrey tweeted the above painting of Mussolini and his mistress hanging, and the caption, primarily in regards to Carrey’s opposition of Donald Trump and far right politics.

Mussolini’s Grand daughter was outraged at the tweet, called Carrey a bastard, and went on a tweet spree asking why Carrey didn’t paint various atrocities of the United States. Carrey did not reply to that string, and in the meantime people have been tweeting pictures and messages to Mussolini’s grand daughter about how their ancestors had fought in WW2 to liberate Europe from Mussolini and those who “were like him.” As well as other support for Carrey and others posting outrage against Carrey. So it’s just a standard twitter political feud thing that happened recently.

here's some more info on the story: knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jim-carrey-and-alessandra-mussolini-twitter-feud, so it's fine to get your news from meme ;)

She is a member of European Parliament for Italy and Mussolini's granddaughter, defends her grandfather's actions and has similar politics.