As far as we know for sure, the last living relatives of Adolf Hitler are a trio of brothers — Hitler’s great-nephews — living quiet, private lives on Long Island in New York, purportedly honouring a pact to let the bloodline die out. This is not so much the case for the living relatives of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. As an example, take his granddaughter, Alessandra Mussolini, who is an elected member of the European Parliament and currently in a Twitter feud with Ace Ventura actor Jim Carrey. I cannot stress enough that this is not an April Fool’s Day prank.
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Carrey — largely known for a handful of movie catchphrases that have been repeated so often they have become divorced of any meaning and for having a frighteningly elastic face — has taken to art in a big way in the last decade. Carrey has been working mostly in abstract painting and sculpture, but has been recently turning to political cartooning of the vocally anti-Trump variety on Twitter, some of which are not terrible and all of which are quite intense to look at:
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1079922507086364672
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1093628898439393280
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1098310530748506112
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1098630930388811776
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1111396473843769345
They are the sort of cartoons you likely wouldn’t find yourself describing as ‘subtle’. Certainly not subtle is his most recent cartoon, depicting the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, which were hung upside down in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan after the pair was executed.
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1112036866381930496
While most people tend to have their minds made up that Mussolini was not a great guy, this image was not well received by his granddaughter:
You are a bastard
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Which she defended with this frankly baffling exchange:
Or maybe with some of your family …
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
do you want applause?
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Mussolini went on to criticise Carrey for not having depicted any of the very, very many crimes perpetrated throughout history by America. She then spent a fair amount of time responding to people who pointed out that Carrey is Canadian:
Pshhh, Franco …. naturalizzato americano
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalized American …
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalizzato USA, gnurant
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalized American, please …
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalizzato americano, ngnurant
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalizzato americano, gnurant
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalized American, stupid
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalized American, please …
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Naturalizzato americano ignorante
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
Hi shit, naturalized American, idiot
— Alessandra Mussolini (@Ale_Mussolini_) March 31, 2019
The internet: it’s a wild ride.
