To his credit it has to be said that he saved the Italian state a lot of money on funeral costs by undergoing embalmment at his own cost while still alive.

Nah he's still gonna find a way to bilk the state even in death

I don’t feel bad at all. He should be judged by his words and actions. I’ll celebrate shamelessly when putin dies.

You're right, it was about time he went. His mind had deteriorated to a point where he started saying the quiet parts out loud, becoming a caricature of himself. He was frankly embarrassing to listen to and was so stiff he could barely speak, yet some people still wanted him to have a leadership position. Longing for the "good old days" as usual, I suppose.

It's certainly the end of an era for Italy.

His catchphrase, “sono stato frainteso,” gets to live on as an excuse for inaction and deceit.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/the-similarities...

Thank God that someone died because he didn't share your political views. You are right, that is really terrible.

He was a prime minister. He owned the most successful soccer team in Italy. He owns several Italian TV channels.

This isn't a dude over there with bad opinions. This is someone powerful who used their power to make the lives of a lot of people worse.

It's a horrible thought, but one that I share. Italy is in a better place to have such a destructive and negative influence removed.

He revealed the flaw of the democratic process in that it relies on people who are inherently honest and not there merely to further their goals of power and influence.

A negative force with significant power and influence can effectively become untouchable by law, since they can corrupt the processes which are used to control such behaviour, and use their media influence to whitewash their image.

We saw time and time again a familiar pattern: Berlusconi convicted of a serious crime, only to be acquitted on appeal, then years-later further charges of witness tampering being brought raising questions of a corrupted appeals process.

But this is not the democratic process! "choosing" among candidates(as infrequently as every four years) that have already been prescreened by the elites is not democracy. It's an absurd system, I reject it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

It's not terrible thing to say, he was a horrible person, only God knows how much damage he has done to our country and for how many years we will have to deal with them.

Ya no fuck that guy. He was a complete scumbag. It's honestly just lucky that he wasn't in power during this modern age of authoritarianism.