femmenietzsche:

Been thinking about how awful I’d be as a Senator. Just constantly saying stuff like “No, of course I don’t think that the American military is profoundly evil. I would never disrespect the troops like that. I merely believe that the American military is profoundly evil on the margin” until my constituents threw me in a volcano

this is why Gabriele d'Annunzio means so much to me, reading about how he drove Italians to WWI with a speech tour parodying the Sermon on the Mount where he told people that counter to patriotic myths they were likely to die in pointless maneuvers and be instantly forgotten but as peasants this was a better use of their lives anyway