A staged propaganda photo of Italy's facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat, 1938

The obsession with right wing leaders to look masculine while having absolutely no clue on how to actually be a manly man is fascinating.

I feel like part of the problem is that people don't expect fascism to be so goddamn pathetic. They see obvious morons like this or Trump, and they struggle to imagine how they could possibly be dangerous.

I guess the lesson from history here is that just because they're ridiculous it doesn't make them any less dangerous.

Dude had some weird body proportions.

Well we can all be thankful trump kept his shirt on

Can anyone explain WTF he was wearing motorcycle goggles in this photo? "Working" without a shirt, okay, sure, he wants a sunburn, that's his problem. But goggles? Is this some proto-cybergoth bullshit?

They didn't have McDonalds' to stage a photo at back then.

Mussolini: "Do you want fries with that?"

Strong Elon Musk cosplaying as a Libertarian vampire vibes

I get this reference.

I plucka da spaghetti right outta da grounda.

And I had an onion tied to my belt, as was the style at the time.

Meanwhile, even the staged Stalin portraits said, "just try it, motherfucker."

What a strange looking person. He's like mini-me for Andre The Giant.

The goggles zey do nothing.

With his bare fucking hands, apparently.

EDIT: Not to be confused with his bear fucking hands.

It's weird that they still did the photo op even after all those bees stung his face

I didn't recognize him, with out the piano wire.

Hmmmmm

Nothing has changed. Religion and politics to control the masses.

Was he 3' tall?

Hey man I’m not here to kink shame but… wat.

This was suppose to be at his advantage?

so this is where Putin draws his inspiration from

Bet you he didn't have a 16year old telling him how to winnow the wheat. And they probably didn't shut down the field for this photo op either.

What's with anti commies acting like commies

When they carted his body away from the Milanese town square, they had to use a front end loader to carry his chin

What a massive dome

Staged? You mean that any other politician photo ever isn't staged?

that is some insane drip tbf