Ask Battista Minola 1616 Anything - Four

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

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This is such a visible milestone... it makes me feel like an old poster. And one that is almost traditional to mark with an Ask Me Anything. Go ahead!

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Favourite pre-WW2 Prime Minister of Italy?

[Dr. Yakub]

Who is your favorite Family Guy character

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Say you have to divide Italy into five districts with very roughly equal populations. How would you do it?

[WD]

How over is it

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

What is your opinion on the incarceration of Elizabeth Holmes?

Giving Sam Bankman-Fried less time than her would be sexism.

Who is your favorite Family Guy character

Brian is the smartest member of the family and he is not even human so I have a soft spot for him.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Favourite pre-WW2 Prime Minister of Italy?

Further proof that I am an old poster, I had already answered this.

For all his faults, and he had many and some grave ones, I think that no one beats Giovanni Giolitti for his reformist accomplishments and political prowess [Cavour arguably does but he died three months after the unification proclamation so it feels odd to name him]. Still, I want to make this answer more interesting so I will suggest Giuseppe Zanardelli as an underrated candidate - his name is mostly known for the 1890 criminal code, which was quite liberal for its day, but he also led a government that set the stage for the progressive 'giolittian era' and had fairly radical ambitions, and overall seems to have been on the right side of things at pretty much every turn.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

How over is it

It is so over it never even began most of the time.

[TheReckoning]

Are any of Mussolini’s policies/actions/philosophies (in terms of what he did in the country) still visible in Italy today?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Say you have to divide Italy into five districts with very roughly equal populations. How would you do it?

There aren't many ways to do this while keeping geographic logic, but one can quibble on the margins for sure. The easiest way that comes to mind is this:

District I - Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, western Lombardy (Milan/Monza/Varese/Lodi/Pavia provinces)
District II - northern/eastern Lombardy (Como/Lecco/Sondrio/Bergamo/Brescia/Cremona/Mantova), Trentino-South Tyrol, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
District III - Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, part of Lazio (Rieti/Viterbo), most of Abruzzo (L'Aquila/Teramo/Pescara)
District IV - the rest of Lazio (Rome/Frosinone/Latina), the remaining province of Abruzzo (Chieti), Molise, Campania, one province in Apulia (Foggia)
District V - the rest of Apulia (Bari/Barletta-Andria-Trani/Brindisi/Lecce/Taranto), Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia

Although personally I would flip the province of Piacenza in western Emilia from III to I and my own province of La Spezia from I to III, partly because the border looks more compact and neat and partly because I'd rather be with Tuscany and the Centre than with Greater Milan. A map may come in the following days.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Pick your poison, B. A. Santamaria or Joh Bjelke-Petersen?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Are any of Mussolini’s policies/actions/philosophies (in terms of what he did in the country) still visible in Italy today?

The answer is a resounding yes... I will just mention that two provincial seats (Carbonia and Latina) were founded by Mussolini.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Pick your poison, B. A. Santamaria or Joh Bjelke-Petersen?

Santamaria was more of a funny meme and never had remotely as much actual power as Bjelke-Petersen so I'll go with him.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Pick your poison, B. A. Santamaria or Joh Bjelke-Petersen?

Santamaria was more of a funny meme and never had remotely as much actual power as Bjelke-Petersen so I'll go with him.

One of the most read newspaper columns in the country, free prime time television show on the highest rating network, informally approved an entire generation of Catholic bishops and archbishops, arguably singlehandedly kept Victorian Labor out of power for 30 years, counts about a quarter of the contemporary Liberal Party as proteges...

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Pick your poison, B. A. Santamaria or Joh Bjelke-Petersen?

Santamaria was more of a funny meme and never had remotely as much actual power as Bjelke-Petersen so I'll go with him.

One of the most read newspaper columns in the country, free prime time television show on the highest rating network, informally approved an entire generation of Catholic bishops and archbishops, arguably singlehandedly kept Victorian Labor out of power for 30 years, counts about a quarter of the contemporary Liberal Party as proteges...

Well, he didn't run a police state. And I put media people one level below officeholders generally speaking...

[All Along The Watchtower]

Latin Rites only—yea or nay?

[Kamala's side hoe]

Thoughts on the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene/meme?

Also- purely on an aesthetic basis: La Albiceleste or La Tricolore?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Latin Rites only—yea or nay?

I have nothing against Eastern Rites.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Thoughts on the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene/meme?

Yawn.

Also- purely on an aesthetic basis: La Albiceleste or La Tricolore?

I am not sure which Tricolore you mean but let's go Italy > Argentina > France.

[Continential]

Favorite Italian food? Additionally what is your favorite type of fusion cuisine?

[Continential]

Also what would be your ideal Italian party system?

[Santander]

Opinion of Italian-American culture?

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Favorite Italian food? Additionally what is your favorite type of fusion cuisine?

Nothing beats a good pasta al sugo, or maybe pasta with seafood for a fancier answer. My favourite type of fusion cuisine as of now is probably Senegalese-Indian although it has not been invented yet.

Also what would be your ideal Italian party system?

I don't think I can answer this question properly, but I really would like a boring old labour party.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Opinion of Italian-American culture?

It ranges from heart-warming to sickening.

[the artist formerly known as catmusic]

Some of your favorite super-regional things (customs/culture/food/language quirks/etc...) from Italy that outsiders might not know about?