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TIL Taylor SSwift is the great-great-granddaughter of a fascist Italian-American banker, and private confidant of Mussolini. (alimcforever.substack.com)

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Genuinely interesting history of fascism, Italian unification, migrant labour, and american political power, even if you're not massively fussed on the nazi-sympathising pop singer

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Interesting that the poverty and discrimination the early Italian immigrants suffered gets discussed and highlighted, but the padroni system got completely memoryholed.