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[–] mrgoodc4t 132 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s amazing how much emotion can be conveyed with literally an empty black circle

[–] orphiebaby 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I first noticed how great that was with this, one of my earliest XKCD experiences:

Bonus: Have some Awkward Zombie. I made that third panel my profile pic for a while.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How could you not share the original?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Unironically this. A few years ago I had people calling me alarmist when I pointed out the creeping fascism, and I said ‘if we wait until they’re waving Nazi flags and goose stepping in the streets, it will be too late’.

Well now we’ve got literal Nazis waving flags and goose stepping in the streets. Fuck everyone who called us alarmists. Many of them are still making excuses, and they’re the same sorts of people who were ‘utterly shocked’ to learn people were being gassed one town over during the Holocaust.

Maybe some of us will live to see them vomiting as they’re marched through the camps, crying and choking on human ash.

Fuck them all.

e: how about you cowards who are anonymously downvoting me leave a comment explaining why you disagree? I’d very much like to have a conversation with you where you could try to change my opinion. Don’t be a pussy, give me a response.

[–] lennybird 28 points 1 year ago

Boy you pissed off a few of the ignorant here, but you're exactly right. I ran into the same thing over the years. This steady progression toward fascism has been a wild ride, and anyone who is remotely well-read understands what is going on.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See also: "wow are you suggesting this person doesn't have the right to express themselves?? Sounds like you're the real Nazi!"

[–] soviettaters 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course they have the right to express themself. That makes it easier to find the Nazis, duh

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (44 children)

I want Nazis to be scared to share their ideas. I want Nazis to be so scared they don't crawl out of the gutters they live in.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Make Nazis Dead Again

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[–] Default_Defect 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol @ all of the "I got called a nazi for no reason" in the thread, followed by some nazi-like shit that they did.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only ever been called a grammar Nazi. I'm fine with that one.

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[–] azdood85 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Ive been called a nazi for liking firearms.

Meanwhile, I openly support antifa.

So im not sure this is completely accurate.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I don't know where this says "No one ever misuses Nazi"

I'm a supporter of firearms ownership myself

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[–] KoofNoof 37 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I met a guy once who flew Nazi flags on his car. Figured I’d actually talk to him about it reasonably rather than reacting and calling him a Nazi. He basically explained he only did it because he had the right to because of freedom of speech and expression.

It was almost like he was just trying to bait people because he enjoyed the commotion?

Idk it was weird, but makes me wonder if that’s how most of these “nazi” people are

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"I'm only being a Nazi ironically" is the attitude of either someone whose opinions should not be taken seriously in any circumstance, or a Nazi.

[–] capt_wolf 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once knew a guy who hung one in his bedroom "because I liked the colors."

If it smells like bullshit...

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What difference does it actually make? That person is still performing Nazi-ism, even if they say they don't believe it. That person is still showing support for Nazi-ism, and making minorities feel unsafe.

To be clear, there is a really good chance that they are full of crap, they do believe it, they're just "joking" until the final punchline lands.

But one's internal beliefs don't actually mean much in comparison to their actions.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Being a nazi ironically is still being a nazi

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Notice the couple idiots below finding sympathy for the QUITE LITERAL nazi in the comic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turns out human rights are the real Nazism.

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[–] average650 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can I not say that there are real fascists on the right, that it's a very serious issue, and that I don't agree with some things the left strongly identifies with?

[–] PoopingCough 19 points 1 year ago (71 children)

and that I don't agree with some things the left strongly identifies with?

Why don't you go ahead and name some of those things then?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I've been called a fascist for pointing out the reality that the US left's emphasis on social rather than economic issues is alienating to a lot of blue-collar Americans who should be natural allies. Meanwhile I am an active member of my trade union and work with and talk to blue-collar people every day and know WTF I'm talking about.

I am literally a card-carrying member of organized labor and I get called a fascist for speaking the truth. It's not good. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail in this thread.

[–] III 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the US left’s emphasis on social rather than economic issues

I don't think it is the left that is emphasizing social issues. They are defending Americans in response to the right's villainization of their next boogeymen to scare up more votes. The same right that then blames them for focusing on social issues. I implore those who are falling for this conservative ruse to start paying attention to what is going on rather than being taken by some of the dumbest tricks in the book.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

This is why I describe myself as "Left-Center", I fucking hate tankies, and honestly I'm getting tired of... How to describe this without sounding like a dick?

I'm getting tired of people trying to be offended on behalf of groups who they feel should be offended by something, I'm getting tired of people who want to LARP that they're making the world a better more tolerant place when really they're just ruining media with pointless censorship.

Many of both groups are on the Left.

However I am fully lucid of the fact that pretty much every problem in my life is because Far Right Boomers hold way too much power, so if it ultimately comes down to Left or Right, (which it has, have you seen the world situation lately?) then it's the Left for me.

Plus I don't want to be mistaken for one of those bad faith "Bar Nazi" types. You know the kind: "Personally, I think the nation is too divided, lots of bad people on both sides... Now let me exclusively criticize the Left while dropping some blatant dogwhistles."

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