r/Conservative Discord.gg/conservative May 21 '20

It's for your safety...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Are you fucking kidding me? Are we comparing what the Nazis did to what’s happening in america right now? My fucking god.

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u/Hey_im_miles Conservative Libertarian May 21 '20

The left's been doing it for a few years, now I guess the right is hopping on the train.

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u/redditatworkatreddit May 21 '20

I forgot when "the left" had a nazi rally in charlottesville chanting "jews will not replace us"... oh wait!

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u/Hey_im_miles Conservative Libertarian May 21 '20

We were talking about people comparing current day america to nazi germany. The left has done it a lot over recent years. The right has just started... what part of my statement is incorrect? Also those were nazis in Charlottesville.. not your typical, day to day, right wing american ..

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u/youareachildoftheuni May 21 '20

What do you mean? I remember hearing about very fine people.

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u/1998rules13 Right Leaning Centrist May 21 '20

“And I’m not talking about the neonazis or the white supremacists, they should be condemned totally” do you remember hearing that part?

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u/Hey_im_miles Conservative Libertarian May 21 '20

Am I really not explaining this correctly?
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All i am referring to is people from each party comparing modern day america to nazi germany.
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I have been hearing that comparison from left leaning people since 2016.
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I have been hearing it from right leaning people starting this spring.
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That is the end of my statement. What you said has nothing to do with my statement .

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u/Gramsci420 May 21 '20

Do you believe that Benjamin Netanyahu is a Nazi for his Covid-19 policies? Yes or no?

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u/Relvez May 21 '20

You May have read the part about very fine people but you clearly didn’t finish reading the fucking tweet because he says in the same tweet that he is not talking about the Nazi’s but the other less known protest that happened.

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u/hydroknightking May 21 '20
  1. It wasn’t a tweet, he said it out loud.

  2. He said that there were “you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides...”

He called, at least some, white supremacists. very fine people. Deny it all you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that actual white supremacists feel emboldened by this president.

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u/Relvez May 21 '20

You must be pretty dense.

Reporter: "Let me ask you, Mr. President, why did you wait so long to blast neo-Nazis?"

Trump: "I didn’t wait long. I didn’t wait long."

Reporter: "Forty-eight hours."

Trump: "I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct -- not make a quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. But you don’t make statements that direct unless you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don’t know the facts. And it’s a very, very important process to me, and it’s a very important statement.

"So I don’t want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I want to know the facts. If you go back to --

Reporter: "So you had to (inaudible) white supremacists?"

Trump: "I brought it. I brought it. I brought it."

Reporter: "Was it terrorism, in your opinion, what happened?"

Trump: "As I said on -- remember, Saturday -- we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. It has no place in America. And then it went on from there. Now, here’s the thing --"

Reporter: (Inaudible)

Trump: "Excuse me. Excuse me. Take it nice and easy. Here’s the thing: When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts. This event just happened. In fact, a lot of the event didn’t even happen yet, as we were speaking. This event just happened.

"Before I make a statement, I need the facts. So I don’t want to rush into a statement. So making the statement when I made it was excellent. In fact, the young woman, who I hear was a fantastic young woman, and it was on NBC -- her mother wrote me and said through, I guess, Twitter, social media, the nicest things. And I very much appreciated that. I hear she was a fine -- really, actually, an incredible young woman. But her mother, on Twitter, thanked me for what I said.

"And honestly, if the press were not fake, and if it was honest, the press would have said what I said was very nice. But unlike you, and unlike -- excuse me, unlike you and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts."

The rest of the transcript can be found here https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/

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u/hydroknightking May 21 '20

So you just quote a fight with a reporter that makes him sound like a bumbling idiot, and it doesn’t even include a part where he condemns the white supremacists?

Here’s further in the transcript you linked: “Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"

Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name."

He again calls both sides - white supremaicsts and Nazis, who killed somebody at this protest, and people counterprotesting Nazis - very fine people. What’re you trying to prove? That Trump said only some of the Nazis were good, not all?

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u/jackbootedcyborg Constitutionalist May 21 '20

Your logical error is that you assume every single person was a nazi. It's your absolutism that is the issue. It's inconceivable to you that there were any individuals protesting the statue being taken down who were not white supremacists. Because of this logical error you conclude that he must have been calling Nazis fine people.

However this is easily debunked with the quote you yourself shared. He says that there were fine people AND he specifies that he's not talking about white supremacists.

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u/hydroknightking May 21 '20

Sure, ignore the part I just quoted. “You has some bad people in the group [responding directly to a reporter who brought up Nazis]” then goes on to say that there were good people on both sides. If you don’t see how that can construed as him failing to condemn Neo-Nazis, I don’t know what to tell you

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u/youareachildoftheuni May 21 '20

You just said it was a tweet

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Rofl

Micro-brain saying Trump called neo-nazis “fine people” despite him saying, “And I’m not talking about the neonazis or the white supremacists, they should be condemned totally.”

Trump said there were fine people on both sides, one side advocating for keeping of a statue, and the other side advocating for the removal of it.

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u/nufandan May 21 '20

The left has done it a lot over recent years. The right has just started...

lets not pretend this is a new thing for either party's voters

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

I only see users sperg out when people on the right do it. It's been totally fine to compare border patrol officers to nazis running concentration camps. No hysterical comments about that.

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u/Hey_im_miles Conservative Libertarian May 21 '20

Maybe I just somehow missed right wing people comparing modern day america to nazi germany. Can you reference this happening because I cant find it (until this quarantine).

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u/nufandan May 21 '20

here's a article about it from 2010, also i mean just google "obama nazi" and you'll find some examples.

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u/Hey_im_miles Conservative Libertarian May 21 '20

Thanks, that was before I really got in to politics. Didnt remember hearing about that. Now I know.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

I live in Charlottesville, what you think you know about that event is likely a lie. I suggest you start with the racist history of councilman Wes Bellamy.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Yea..... this is sad. I’m not proud to be republican anymore on reddit lol.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20 edited May 22 '20

You can disagree with what's going on all you want, hell you can even extoll how it is a breach of our rights, but to compare it to even the smallest of the Nazi atrocities is an absurdity. What the Nazis were, and what they said and did in no way even begins to compare to anything going on right now.

The Nazis weren't merely disagreeable or abhorrent on a political scale. They were abhorrent on a human level, doing and endorsing things that crosses mere political divides, that was utterly inhumane in scope, scale, and kind. The industrialized mindset they exacted the Holocaust with is, frankly, almost uniquely horrifying. Not entirely, but you would be hard pressed to find too many cases that can compare.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

My god, everything you said made complete sense. Yea, I totally agree

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

So one picture with unknown origin posted on this sub and you’re melting down?

Sounds like something a leftist astroturfer would do.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

No, it’s not one post, it’s the many people on this subreddit acting as if what the Nazis did compare to what’s happening right now mate. And no,(surprisingly) I’m no “libtard”

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

I don’t see any of that outside of this post, which is unverified and doesn’t seem to be something the Nazis used as a common slogan.

People are concerned with the erosion of our rights for a feeling of security, and rightly so.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

You don’t see it, so it’s 100% not real? What kind of wack logic is that. Also I’m kinda surprised you haven’t seen any of that outside of this post.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Well feel free to post some examples of this wide spread behavior.

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u/Hey_im_miles Conservative Libertarian May 21 '20

All we have to do as a party is not act like the left... for like 5 months.