Jul 4, 2026, 8:35 PMWith the photo of the EXPLICITLY FASCIST marchers in DC going around today - particularly the one of them on a bus with one black woman looking towards the camera - please remember:
THIS IS EXPLICITLY A FASCIST FLAG.
Yes, there's pre-fascist history of the fasces. There's also pre-fascist history of the swastika, but that doesn't make _it_ not fascist either.
It was the symbol of the Italian fascists of Mussolini:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fascist_Party
And several other explicitly fascist parties since:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symbolism
Their flag is an _explicit declaration of World War II-style fascism_.
A lot of fascists around Shitstain and his followers pretend they aren't fascists. These guys put it on a flag.
![Photo of a group of masked marchers carrying inverted US, right-side-up 13-star US, but most importantly fascist flags with the fascia enclosed in a circle surrounded by stars on a blue field, with two right-pointing chevrons to its right in white on a red field. Along the top: "This is the Italian [swastika symbol]." Along the bottom, "This symbol is the fasces, the original symbol of fascism, as in Nazis. They are telling you they are fascists. For god's sake, believe them."](https://mastodon.murkworks.net/system/media_attachments/files/116/863/595/891/387/220/original/a5a79950c5e1a40b.png)
