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

Remember folks you skin the hair off a Nazi from the front to back so you can see the visible anguish and dismay as the pot meets the kettle 🥰❤

[–] SuperEars 4 points 6 days ago

The Whitest Kids You Know Hitler Rap feels awfully familiar for the times.

[–] Bytemeister 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

New? Aren't they the old nazi party too?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Being a Nazi isnt a yes or no thing, it's a spectrum of how much Nazi we have in us....

  • Republicans
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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] MothmanDelorian 36 points 1 week ago (21 children)

They are fascists. They are not nazis. Nazis ate WWII era German fascists that attempted to create the ubermensch and create a 1000 year reich.

Nazis are a different flavor of fascism

[–] the_three_tomatoes 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I agree that they are facists but they seem to have an incredible focus on Hitler and Nazism imported from Nazi Germany.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Fascism is like cancer of humanity, it has been on remission for a while and now its starting to come back possibly even worse because it couldn't be eradicated when weakened.

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[–] DarkFuture 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If they aren't Nazis, why are they running the same playbook Nazis did at the beginning and PERFORMING NAZI SALUTES WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL IN FRONT OF THEM AT PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS?

If they don't want to be Nazis, just regular fascists, maybe they shouldn't use Nazi salutes.

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[–] DarkFuture 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fascism is here.

All the signs are present.

Doesn't matter that it's America. Fascism can happen anywhere, at any time.

Purchase a firearm. Learn to use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I would go so far to say: If you can find classes that train you in how to use the firearm under stress take those. If you have access to training courses that help reinforce those lessons, train there.

I want to be hopeful that these precautions are unnecessary but at this point this falls under better safe than sorry territory

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I swear back in the 20th century there were a lot of regular people around the world who would not hesitate to beat the shit out of any Nazi they came across. Where'd they all go?

[–] Itdidnttrickledown 7 points 1 week ago

Dead, they are dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Same thing here. Even as recently as the 2000s Nazis were still seen as utterly pathetic people... now they are somehow rapidly mainstream education since 2015...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm right here.

[–] inclementimmigrant 13 points 1 week ago

Pretty damn sure they've always been the American Nazi/Klan party.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] Hobbes_Dent 7 points 1 week ago

“Are we the baddies?”

- The USA

“Aww cute. Who taught them to ask that?”

- Me.

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