Rome is about to hold its mayoral election. On the ballot is Sergio Iacomoni AKA Nero, running with his "Nero List" ("Lista Nerone").
Iacomoni is a well-known Roman Empire reenactor who has traveled the world with his historical society and says he wants to "resurrect Rome"
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The platform for the Nero List (Full name: "Roman Historical Movement - Nero List") involves heavy subsidizing of traditional Roman festivals and music, as well as a promise to "sponsor bagpipers in each municipality" movimentostoricoromano.it/programma
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As his name implies he's a strong proponent of Nero revisionism and believes he was not responsible for burning down Rome
They even have billboards
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There's kind of a paradox where people who express things like this are both told to shut up, while at the same time there's a belief that they don't matter
I don't think this is true, I think there is a deep desire among enough people to matter to hear someone talk about it in a way that is uncompromisingly pro-Palestine. There's just no doubt, this is an issue for AOC and Bernie, even alongside the crowds
There are more than 2 months left and it is totally conceivable that Zohran could win if you're looking at these numbers. Not that he will win, obviously, but that he could win. Good poll for him and also stunning that he's come this far from obscurity
He still has a gap to cross but it's not an insurmountable gap when you have money, buzz, and perhaps when your opponent is Andrew Cuomo
I don't know if this poll included RCV but RCV is very fluid. One factor I'm wondering about I guess is how consolidation could play out. Will some of these candidates drop or endorse others? That could have an impact. Right now it definitely looks like it's just Cuomo vs Mamdani
Now that "slop" has become a term that most people grasp we can imagine "anti-slop" as the potential core of a political movement
Quality controls. There are many areas even where this transcends any kind of left-right divide (although there is a profit motive for slop supported by right-wing economics and the endless drive for culture war engagement)
The most pressing thing is obviously the tidal wave of generative content that has to be stemmed at all costs. But it goes deeper and we could have stronger guardrails, incentives, initiatives etc that create conditions for cultural quality/health in general
But like, "right" is nowhere near the aim here. It's just saying something that sounds like it could be true that will go mostly unchecked to his audience
You can see it's just a flat wrong statement. The only argument you could make is that East Germany undertook stronger denazification policies but that wasn't "resistance" to the Nazis when they were in power, that was meted out as a result of occupation
I mean I think she doesn't run, but at the same time polls like this are going to tempt a lot of people in her world. Yes it's name recognition but it's also a question of "can you stop me"
It's a solid bet that Trump ends up unpopular and that JD Vance is not capable of capturing his appeal. It's really not a guaranteed bet, but it's a hunch these people will have. You *can* win the next election on backlash, but I don't believe that's a sustainable strategy