On this week's bonus, we talk to Riley (from Trashfuture, obviously, but also The Bottlemen) about why all our social feeds are clogged up with either facist political content, or weird and grotesque food videos. Turns out, it also comes from fascist roots! Riley talks to us about Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian fascist futurist who believed that pasta was making Italian men soft and lazy, and that they, like the English, should eat bland meat and boiled potatoes so that they could enjoy the bloody gore of war. Marinetti may have been laughed at, but it turns out that his philosophy of food was adopted by BuzzFeed and other content factories, which is why we have stuff like Epic Meal Time and the viral Pizzadilla : food that isn't supposed to be consumed, but simply looked at gawked at.
Also, we talk about the return of Donald Trump, who, while banned from Twitter, still has poster's energy running through his (presumably very clogged) arteries.
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