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Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
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Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
Chesterton is popular in several non-English speaking countries. He's a big deal in Chile, Argentina, and Italy. Poland too, I think.

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tuttle wrote:ping
Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
enjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."
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Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 12:59
tuttle wrote:ping
Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
enjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."
I dunno. She regularly tweets anime drawings of herself. I feel that's significant.
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Hugo Drax wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 15:09
Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 12:59
tuttle wrote:ping
Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
enjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."
I dunno. She regularly tweets anime drawings of herself. I feel that's significant.
That might be cool. Find it and post it.

I'm still scratching my head at "extremist folk band." Wikipedia is not immune to biases in their articles. I think they were trying to translate "progressive folk," but I'm not sure.

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Sorry, couldn't resist this one! Please delete if inappropriate but it made me spit coffee LOL

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Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 15:22
Hugo Drax wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 15:09
Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 12:59



enjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:

I dunno. She regularly tweets anime drawings of herself. I feel that's significant.
That might be cool. Find it and post it.

I'm still scratching my head at "extremist folk band." Wikipedia is not immune to biases in their articles. I think they were trying to translate "progressive folk," but I'm not sure.

Here is their sound:
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I care too much about italian politics. Ain't nobody got time for that!
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MrPiper wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 16:19 Sorry, couldn't resist this one! Please delete if inappropriate but it made me spit coffee LOL

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Del wrote: 29 Sep 2022, 12:59
tuttle wrote:ping
Biff wrote: 26 Sep 2022, 10:51 Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni just quoted Chesterton on a national broadcast. Impressive!
enjoy this snippet from her Wikipedia page:
Meloni is an avowed fan of fantasy, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which she called a "sacred text". As a youth activist with the Italian Social Movement, she attended "Hobbit Camp" and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello (the Italian translation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings). Later, she named her political conference Atreju, after the hero of the novel The Neverending Story. The Italian far-right has traditionally associated itself with fantasy, which it considers to share its "vision of spirituality against materialism". She told The New York Times: "I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in."
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