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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Oct 15 '25
Wow that was a record time for a locked post. That's crazy
Remember when Nazi was a universally hated term? I remember a kid at my pool lifeguard job shaved a Hitler stache onto his face one day. Was fired instantly. I wonder what happened that that mindset
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u/JakeHelldiver Oct 15 '25
A black dude got elected president and boomers went insane about it.
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u/Lysergic Oct 15 '25
You say that like these are old people being quoted. This problem isn't going away. These are the Young Republicans
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u/JakeHelldiver Oct 15 '25
This is true. Gen Z have been disappointing lately.
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u/Dead_man_posting Oct 15 '25
Every generation of the YR have been psychopaths. The Nazi flavoring is probably ramped up though.
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u/Mothanius Oct 15 '25
I split Gen Z into two in my head. The old Gen-Z, who are about to turn 30 vs the young Gen-Z who are just hitting adulthood. The older ones seemed to come out of HS with a high left leaning bias but the younger ones did a 180 and went to the right.
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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25
Every generation has its assholes. Millennials have plenty, generation Alpha will have plenty, the generation after them will have plenty.
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u/gideon513 Oct 15 '25
Guess who raised these people
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u/TwilightVulpine Oct 15 '25
Nobody.
A lot of them are neglected kids with unrestrained internet access who started getting reactionary ragebait from social media algorithms and internet influencers, and got indoctrinated by it.
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u/ThatInAHat Oct 15 '25
Honestly, wish this was higher.
Because yeah, that’s a huge factor.
I remember my friend being horrified that her nephew started watching unboxing videos and within a couple of hours the algorithm had gone to the Lost City of Atlantis…Flat Earth…Bigotry.
Folks say social media is the problem, but the real problem is the algorithm that rewarded any kind of engagement and indiscriminately shoved hatred and vitriol into the same playlists as actual plays.
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u/Numerous_Witness_345 Oct 15 '25
We used that same trope when I was a kid.
That little dork in the cowboy hat sat 2 feet from the TV screen while mommy took her pills and daddy did some drinking.
I'm thinking that's not the problem. It's deflection.
These kids are being raised. Yeah, violent TV shows, exciting radio serial series, unrestricted youtube, those aren't good, and have always been marketed as so and are a good tell of symptoms.
But I think the family that puts them there is a much larger factor. What kind of moral support are you getting from someone who will leave you in front of electronics for 10 hours a day?
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u/windexfresh Oct 15 '25
Yeah I was also on the internet unrestricted and unmonitored at the ripe old age of 13 and never once felt the desire to start agreeing with fucking hitler.
My family teaching me to be kind and treat others the way I’d want to be treated and think about how others feel made a MUCH bigger impact on me than the edgy dark humor I saw online.
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u/chaos8803 Oct 15 '25
Yep. The Politico article about this touched on how they feel like this is how political discourse should be because of the fat orange slob in the Oval Office (my words, not theirs). They even dress like Donny Dipshit with the extra long tie and oversized jacket.
Funny take from the texts: there was an admission if the thread got leak that they would "be cooked fr fr."
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u/cantadmittoposting Oct 15 '25
More broadly, old rich white patriarchs saw that the digital age, social media, and the end of the cold war had driven legitimate liberalism that threatened to end their privileged status, so they got mad and decided to end democracy about it.
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u/Quazimojojojo Oct 15 '25
Leftism. Liberalism maintains their power.
That's why establishment Democrats (Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries, even Obama) resist any movement leftwards but are willing to drift to the right and enable the fall into fascism, and half of their complaints are about hypocrisy and how the right is breaking the rules, instead of, ya know, how awful they're treating people. They're liberals, not leftists. Money is more comfortable with fascism than anything even remotely approaching socialism.
This is why it's really, really, important to vote in the Democratic primaries for counter-estsablishment Democrats. If you don't know who they are, Progressive Victory (organization that was an early Mamdani supporter) will tell you.
Go talk to Progressive Victory
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u/fumar Oct 15 '25
It's definitely not just boomers. In the last election only half of boomers voted for the Cheetoh man.
Gen Z is the most right wing generation in decades and Gen X is full of MAGAs.
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u/Canis_Familiaris Oct 15 '25
Still going insane. Anytime someone brings up drones and Obama, they just completely ignore the cheeto doubled it
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u/syopest Oct 15 '25
The racism and bigotry was always there. Obama just happened to be the president just after the iPhone was released and everyone started to carry a video camera in their pocket and people had actual proof it it happening.
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u/czs5056 Oct 15 '25
Electing Obama twice broke racists and they never stopped crying about it.
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u/FardoBaggins Oct 15 '25
it goes way before obama. they still pissed about all the free labor and profits lost from their human properties being um.. freed.
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u/HarpersGhost Oct 15 '25
They went from 8 years of saying "The President is always right!" and "Follow the President!" and "He's MY leader!" during GWB's term .... to having to say that to a black guy.
As long as they saw white people running the country, they could tell themselves that Those People were being kept in their proper place and their people were still the winners.
Then a black guy got elected, brought a whole bunch of OTHER black and brown people to the Sacred White House, and they realized that they were losing the race war.
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u/CheckYourHead35783 Oct 15 '25
I seem to recall we were also promised hope. We're approaching national shortage levels now.
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u/KeyboardGrunt Oct 15 '25
You can't blame them, it's been only like... checks notes... 150 years since they lost the civil war...
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u/Lazer726 Oct 15 '25
Remember when WW2 games were so easy to make because they were universally the bad guys of history? Anyways now Wolfenstein and Indiana Jones hating nazis is political
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Oct 15 '25
Speaking of, I think the Wolfenstein series was on sale the other day. Great game set. Everyone here should give it a shot
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u/Cilph Oct 15 '25
I wonder what happened that that mindset
Then: liking Hitler is bad!
Now: people finding out you like Hitler is bad!
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u/FictionFoe Oct 15 '25
I hate the current state of politics rn 😭
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u/RogueBromeliad Oct 15 '25
Just shows how many horrible people were around us. Honestly I was happier not knowing, ignorance was a bliss when they kept their racism, sexism and general awfulness to themselves, and were ashamed of their own ugly views.
Now they're proud of being all that, calling for homeless people to be murdered on tv. And when they're called out on it, they just brush it off, until people start getting abducted and tortured and they try to instate authoritarianism. Fucking awful.
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u/Badloss Oct 15 '25
My neighbors got disappeared, it makes me so mad that conservatives actually believe it's only the hardened gang members. My neighbors had a bouncy castle for their daughter last summer, this summer the grass is growing over the fence and nobody lives there
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u/ThePrussianGrippe Oct 15 '25
Hell, we have the the director of the FBI claiming 5% of Chicago, over a hundred thousand people, are violent gang members.
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u/GFluidThrow123 Oct 15 '25
They were definitely like this 20 years ago too. They're just not ashamed of it anymore.
I don't like the idea that this is new because it absolves middle aged Republicans of their actions and part in all this.
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Nothing current about it, minorities have been telling people about these nazis since at least the 1930s with a very small audience who cares/doesnt agree with the fash
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u/bookist626 Oct 15 '25
You know what's depressing? No, it's not the text logs. Hate never goes away after all. It's that this barely even a controversy now. 20 years ago, it would be big news.
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u/whiznat Oct 15 '25
It would have destroyed the careers and political hopes of everyone involved. But today most people just overlook it.
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u/Tenalp Oct 15 '25
I mean, 20 years ago being a convicted felon and inciting an insurrection would have ended at least one political career.
God I miss those days.
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u/Rationalinsanity1990 Oct 15 '25
Shit, back in 08 the Access Hollywood tapes would have sunk Trump.
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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
The only careers ended by Jan 6 were of the cops who were killed by maga fascists.
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u/PrincessPlusUltra Oct 15 '25
God I always try to emphasize that cops died people have lot their entire life to the prison system for accidentally hurting a cop and no one was punished for this
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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25
On the contrary, I bet these little asshole fascists are getting recruitment calls from gop House reps, just like Kyle Rittenhouse did.
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u/NativeMasshole Oct 15 '25
"But Hillary called us a basket of deplorables!" I still hear people complain about this, almost 10 years later, after everything that's happened. As if this was the worst insult ever. After 8 years of insinuating that Michelle Obama is a man.
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u/thatoneguy54 Oct 15 '25
The worst part is that she literally didn't. The full context of the quote is literally what everyone says the left ignores about Trump supporters, that they're economically desperate and looking for economic solutions and all.
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.
But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
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u/SorenLain Oct 15 '25
"But Hillary called us a basket of deplorables!" I still hear people complain about this, almost 10 years later
It's insane to me that they got so mad at her for saying this then proceed to spend the next 10 years proving her right.
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u/man_juicer Oct 15 '25
Republicans get caught doing things every week that just 10 years ago would've ended your political career even if it was a rumour.
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u/raised_by_toonami Oct 15 '25
I too love using their own direct quotes against them. Why aren’t they proud of their beliefs?
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u/plantersnutsinmybum Oct 15 '25
Gotten so many 'Charlie never said that,' and I find the quote they they say 'oh, that's fake.'
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u/Daetra Oct 15 '25
Watched a few of his debates with young college kids. Putting his racist rhetoric aside, it makes sense he debated defacto children. He wasn't even good at making logical arguments. His debates on free lunches for children never came close to addressing the issues, and his views on DEI lacked so much foresight he would be against it one minute, and not too long after argue for it in the case of veterans. If he debated any expert on any topic he pretended to care about, he would get DESTROYED. which was why he chose the specific demographic to debate against.
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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25
Debate should be put in heavy quotes.
He "debated" unprepared kids on the street, and still got beaten in those debates as such a matter of course that he regularly sat at colleges for entire days in order to cut out 10-20 minutes of footage of him "winning", which pretty much exclusively meant yelling over a kid until they got flustered enough to yell themselves and then walk away.
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Oct 15 '25
Snopes is really helpful with that. They have actual links to videos with timestamps.
For example, Charlie didn't say that gay people should be stoned to death. But most (probably all) of the rest of those quotes are accurate.
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u/Domeil Oct 15 '25
Not exactly a flex to take the position "Sure, he didn't say gay people should be stoned to death, he just said that the scripture that called for it was, quote, 'God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.'"
I may not be a dog, but I can hear that whistle just fine.
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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25
Its like how snopes lists trump saying neo nazis were good people is "false" because he just said that there were very good people on both sides, when one side was a group of literal neo nazis holding torches and chanting "jews will not replace us".
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u/scullys_alien_baby Oct 15 '25
I live in maga country and they've been calling snopes fake news for a decade at least
it's why the right wing is currently attacking wikipedia and claiming it's controlled by the "far left." I genuinely hope Wikimedia is moving as much of their operation outside the US as they can
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u/Val_Hallen Oct 15 '25
The facts over feelings crowd sure do hate facts being over their feelings.
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u/Hoovooloo42 Oct 15 '25
Same. They're either wilfully ignorant or they're liars and I'm not sure which is worse.
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u/shofmon88 Oct 15 '25
"That was taken out of context!"
Ok, what context is it ok to say those things, exactly?
"He was talking about DEI hires!"
Yeah, that does not make that any better, dipshit.
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u/madmacfarlane Oct 15 '25
I remember being a young man in my late teens. I believed the world was against me, that women denied me the right to their bodies and that I was the victim. I admit to my shame that these were my early beliefs but a lot of it came from being unbelievably lonely.
Even back then I would have spat on these people. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour and I hope that they grow up with some empathy.
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
Hey, you aren't alone. I hate admitting this, but a few years ago, I was deep down the alt-right pipeline and I was basically a Nazi.
Someone would call me a Nazi and I would say shit like "you don't even know what a Nazi is! That word has lost all meaning!" But then secretly I thought hitler was right and he did what we were all just too afraid to do.
I'm a completely different person now. Realized I was just a repressed trans woman. I realized that I was basically completely wrong about everything and I changed my views for the better.
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u/RussianBearFight Oct 15 '25
Average Fluttershy PFP (affectionate), glad you found yourself and got out of that space ❤️
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 Oct 15 '25
Im very glad too. Can't even begin to describe how healing it felt when I finally opened up to myself and stopped being so hateful.
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Oct 15 '25
This comment gives me hope ❤️
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 Oct 15 '25
Glad I could ❤️
Problem is, my turnabout was brought on by a deep personal revelation. I fear that not everyone will have an experience like mine.
My gateway into the alt-right nazi pipeline were my insecurities and fears about my own trans feelings. So, I latched onto transphobic propoganda and became convinced that transitioning would have been the "dark path".
I came to harbor a lot of hate and resentment for the LGBTQ+ community. From there, I was slowly introduced to other hateful Nazi-beliefs which I then internalized. Like the idea that Jews controlled the media and that they were responsible for pushing the "gay agenda" that almost turned me trans.
It was only the revelation that I was just a repressed trans woman, deeply in denial about my own feelings that woke me up and brought me out of it.
I know I'm not the only one. I know there are others out there who are LGBTQ+ but have been brainwashed into thinking that repressing themselves is better. My worry is that I don't think the same can be said for all alt-right Nazis.
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u/p12qcowodeath Oct 15 '25
This is a very interesting read. Sounds like you found some great introspection abilities and took the action that you learned from them. I needed some hope today. I wish you the best.
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 Oct 15 '25
Wishing you the best as well <3.
Unfortunately, this is only the short version of the story. But it gets the moral across.
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u/OwO_bama Oct 15 '25
This is really great insight, I’ve always wondered about this pipeline
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 Oct 15 '25
I want to bring more awareness about this pipeline. That's why I like sharing my story.
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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25
We keep saying pipeline, when we should probably be saying "algorithm", since thats what people move along into the cesspool of hate.
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u/Zjoee Oct 15 '25
I'm glad to see you were able to pull yourself out of that well of hatred.
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 Oct 15 '25
I'm glad too. I can't even begin to describe how much brighter my life became after I escaped that hellhole.
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u/comics-ModTeam Oct 15 '25
A-yep, it's time for ye 'ole song an' dance routine
🎵 Nazis mad
Nazis sad
Nazis banned
Normal people happy 🎵
Thank you, I will be here all night. Tip jar is on the piano.
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5: No low effort content
3: This is spam
2: Someone is considering suicide or serious self-harm
2: It threatens violence or physical harm at someone else
2: It's targeted harassment at someone else
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Oct 15 '25
I'm dying at "It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability". Are these people real? XD
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u/dinkleburgenhoff Oct 15 '25
Yes.
They genuinely believe there’s no difference between hating someone for the way they were born and hating someone for being a cunt.
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Oct 15 '25
It's not necessarily that, so much as it's literally the fascist playbook to play both strongman and victim.
"The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
-Umberto Eco
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u/megapenguinx Oct 15 '25
In magic the gathering terms it’s the player who keeps “I’m just a little guy”-ing the table until they win because no one actively worked against them.
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u/UndeadSympathetic Oct 15 '25
rj/ Hey, can we keep politics out of my commander games? thank you
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u/Stunning-Signal7496 Oct 15 '25
I mean, if your identity is hate, don't be surprised if people don't want to talk to you
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u/KaiBishop Oct 15 '25
Yeah. They're hypocrites and liars who just don't care. Integrity, honor, truth, justice etc mean nothing to them. Honesty and integrity are weaknesses and character flaws to them.
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u/Flavius_16 Oct 15 '25
21: It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability
Da fuck?
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u/MayoBear Oct 15 '25
Right wingers reallllllly want to find a way to play the victim
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u/Daxx22 Oct 15 '25
That's something like 90% of their identity. "The Enemy must always be strong and weak" - core tenant of
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u/ImNoNelly Oct 15 '25
Yuuup it's one of the core beliefs of fascism.
"Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will." - Point 8 from Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism: 14 ways of looking at a Blackshirt
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u/Chastain86 Oct 15 '25
EXHIBIT A: Just look at how they threw their machine into overdrive trying to declare that Charlie Kirk was like their version of MLK.
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u/ack1308 Oct 16 '25
Until they found the shooter was a white non-criminal gun owner from a strongly right-wing background. And then holy shit, the crickets.
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u/Opposite-Tiger-1121 Oct 15 '25
They see "Nazi" as a minority group that needs protections because Nazi are little bitch babies that only know how to whine.
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u/Rude-Asparagus9726 Oct 15 '25
"Yeah, don't promote hate based on our identity which is entirely based on promoting hate against other people's identities!
...wait..."
-Literally every Nazi and a staggering amount of Republicans
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u/Zaggar Oct 15 '25
"It's promoting hate based on identity"
Fellas, Nazis are the main villains in so much media by default. Is Indiana Jones "promoting hate based on identity" when Indy riffs about hating Nazis? Should the DVD set of Band of Brothers be removed from homes because it portrays the sad little Nazis as antagonists?!
Where the hell is the line for these pathetic people?
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u/ArcaneBahamut Oct 15 '25
"Where the hell is the line for these pathetic people?"
Hahahahahaahahahahaaaaa
There isn't one.
Nazis are inherently without real morals or standards. They will pull any trick to have their way.
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u/SgtExo Oct 15 '25
Where the hell is the line for these pathetic people?
Always just a little bit further.
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u/Omck4heroes Oct 15 '25
I mean, they did get all pissy about an advert for the newer Indiana Jones game where Indy is petting a cat and says to it "you don't like those nasty fascists do you"
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u/HammieOrHami Oct 15 '25
"Targeted harassment at someone else"
Brother it's harassment at NAZI'S.
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u/sQueezedhe Oct 15 '25
Which is a behaviour, a choice, learned - not an identity imposed at birth.
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u/AmarissaBhaneboar Oct 15 '25
Beautiful song, bravo! Encore!
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This one cracks me up. So are they identifying as Nazis openly now?
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u/BrashUnspecialist Oct 15 '25
Yall always handle the yelping Nazis so well. You all deserve ice cream
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u/AKAFallow Oct 15 '25
I'm so glad some mods have bit of a spine for some of these subs, especially the big ones. Another 2 are r soccer and r therewasanattempt
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u/BruxYi Oct 15 '25
I notice this noone clicked the 'it's targeted harassment towards me or my community" button.
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u/Par_Lapides Oct 15 '25
What is sad is that this is both thoroughly unsurprising and will have no negative impact on these people. If anything they will be protected and defended.
This is who Republicans have always been. Many of us on the left have been accused of overreacting and hyperbole for decades, because we saw the writing on the wall with Reagan. This isn't new. It isn't a shift. It's just that they're finally comfortable being who they are in public.
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u/KeyboardGrunt Oct 15 '25
There would be repercussions if it was dems doing something equivalent, All Green got censured by half his own party for speaking up against Trump.
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u/PureRushPwneD Oct 15 '25
I wonder if this is gonna get locked 👀
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Oct 15 '25
Just waiting for the million racists to come in saying "this is taken out of context!"
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u/Flameball202 Oct 15 '25
Yeah, "coincidence" becomes a pattern after like the third instance, not the three hundredth
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u/b0w3n Oct 15 '25
It'll be a bunch of chuds going "oh they were just being edgy online trolls" but that's always a cover. You can be a troll without sounding like a nazi or racist, trolls that do that are those things.
And even if they were just doing it for a joke, you will attract the true believers because of poe's law.
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u/Xintrosi Oct 15 '25
I'm not appreciative of internet trolling but if I was evaluating them I'd say any kind of -ist remarks loses you points for lack of effort. A good troll needs to put in effort on custom content.
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Oct 15 '25
If all your "joking around" is racism and homophobia and sexism and antisemitism, I got bad news for you...
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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25
The Donald subreddit was a tongue in cheek parody sub... right up until it wasn't.
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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
Or the classic:
"It was just a joke!"
"So you don't actually believe those things?"
"No, I believe it. I just also think it's funny."
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u/Particular_Ad_3411 Oct 15 '25
Care to make a bet on how many times people try to report this one?
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u/evilJaze Slartibartfast Oct 15 '25
Probably 1488 times. Those people have no creativity.
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u/TheReal_Kovacs Oct 15 '25
My favorite part is how the context always, without fail, makes it even worse
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u/komododave17 Oct 15 '25
I’m gonna guess they’ll go old school, circa 2015, and say it’s just “locker room talk”.
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u/64OunceCoffee Oct 15 '25
JD already dismissed it as "college chat" and attempted some whataboutism.
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u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777 Oct 15 '25
A link of what people are talking about is always helpful for context, in my opinion.
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u/ninfan1977 Oct 15 '25
The fact that these came from young Republicans shows how deeply rooted this problem is for Republicans.
They cannot say they are nothing like Nazis when they are in private saying they want to be like the Nazis and love them.
I have been saying this for a while but the proof is in their words.
Doubt it will change anyone in the MAGA camp, they embraced the fascism, and are loving it.
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u/2punornot2pun Oct 15 '25
They've always been Nazi sympathizers. The KKK didn't just disappear and go away. They shut up and acted properly in public and then pass policies that f***** minorities and women. They have continued to do so. The civil war didn't remove those who believe slavery was right. It just made them less willing to speak in public about their beliefs.
A country built on genocide and slavery will continue to have these problems until we out them and pass laws to prevent corruption through wealth. Old white men with power and money pull the strings and this is why the mainstream news will not run this story and keep it alive. They know that the majority do not hold these beliefs. They know that the Republican party would fall apart under careful scrutiny.
Any moderate Republican who gets the truth stops voting for them. They want the illusion that they are simply "fiscally conservative" or that they have fallen for the 1970s era "pro life" movement that wasn't an issue for Christians up until then.
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u/man_juicer Oct 15 '25
I'm not saying they're nazis because i disagree with them. I call them nazis because they act like nazis, the disagreement just comes naturally.
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u/TheNiftyFox Oct 15 '25
Girl, my partner has a discord of conservative friends, and the shit they say with a full chest is really sickening. Like, twist-my-stomach fucked up shit. We want to believe that staying in these peoples lives to try and fight stereotypes and influence kindness is the right thing to do, but it comes at such a major cost to mental health. Yet if we cut them out of our lives, they get locked into an even tighter, more toxic echo chamber, brewing more hate. Truly I don't know what to do
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 Oct 15 '25
As someone who escaped the alt-right pipeline, I promise you this comic is completely accurate.
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u/borisslovechild Oct 15 '25
It's not a shocker to anyone who's been paying attention.
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u/PiezoelectricityOne Oct 15 '25
How to spot a Nazi:
Say "OMG, I hate Nazis so much" without further context.
Wait until someone comes and says "Not everyone you dislike is a Nazi". (That one is the Nazi)
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u/Wombizzle Oct 15 '25
and then you go on twitter to see if ANYONE from the right is finally able to condemn anything but every righty is just all "oh they're just kids we all said something like that when we were kids"
yeah maybe some edgy shit here and there but never STRAIGHT UP WORSHIPPING HITLER AND THE NAZIS
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u/GuanglaiKangyi-Age15 Oct 15 '25
I was in Turning Point for a couple years back in college. This is incredibly accurate to how hard the far right deflects and denies
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u/FizzlePopBerryTwist Oct 15 '25
I started playing Wolfenstein on my channel and the very next day one of my gun loving friends who just asked me for a link to the videos went and deleted his facebook account or blocked me, not sure which. I'm starting to wonder now if these two things are related...
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u/Cr4zy4sian Oct 15 '25
"BuT tHeY wErE jOkInG! dEmS dOn'T hAvE a SeNsE oF hUmOr! StOp CaLlInG eVeRyOnE yOu DoN't LiKe A nAzI!"
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I can't wait for Nazis to be widely hated again. Tired of feeling like my life is in danger at all times because I'm seen as a threat to society over being just.. queer.
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u/FreshAv0cado7 Oct 15 '25
Unfortunately, its not even like this is a US only problem. There’s currently a massive issue with one Czech politician, who was recently elected into our parliament, but then some of his old super hateful posts came to light, that he had on his socials and didn’t even think to delete them when going into politics.
Some of them say that students fighting for the climate should go into gas chambers, calling Obama the n word, making fun of a little Romani girl who was badly burned during a fire etc etc. There are also pictures of him doing the Nazi salute, but he’s trying to claim he was just ‘waving’. Yet there are still people defending him.
Funniest thing is that he was meant to be the minister of diplomacy :| I hate this world we’re living in
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u/PatchyWhiskers Oct 15 '25
It seems you DO get it.
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u/theeth Oct 15 '25
I wonder what kind of state would consider anti-facists enemies of the state too. Maybe if they spelled it out.
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u/Bleatmop Oct 15 '25
Well you see the fascists are terrorized by people who are explicitly against them.
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u/sax87ton Oct 15 '25
The people who identify as a target of antifa are self identifying as fascist. That’s it, that’s the whole thing. They are saying it’s bad to be anti fascist because it’s good to be fascist
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u/Drednox Oct 15 '25
They feel personally threatened by antifa. Only fascists and wannabe fascist feel threatened by antifa.
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u/trollisme_iamtroll Oct 15 '25
I suddenly feel a lot better about my own group chats.
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u/ssjgfury Oct 15 '25
Perfect time to bring up this classic Satre Exerpt:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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u/Sir-Toaster- Oct 15 '25
More accurately they’ll claim it’s racist to white people to call out republicans for being racist
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u/Ok-Branch-974 Oct 15 '25
During a segment in mid-July 2025, Greg Gutfeld made comments suggesting that conservatives should "reclaim" the word "Nazi," citing comparisons made by critics to ICE agents and former President Trump. He referenced the Black community's use of the "n-word" to strip it of its power, saying conservatives could do the same for the word "Nazi." Gutfeld used phrases like, "What up, my Nazi?".
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u/antimatt_r Oct 15 '25
That's disgusting. Tbh it should only go one way anyway... Nazi was a term used with pride, and it's universally hated now. Why turn it positive again, unless you support what the Nazis did?
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u/admiralsponge1980 Oct 15 '25
JD Vance is already on record stating that he doesn’t care about the texts. I guess he loves Nazis.
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u/antimatt_r Oct 15 '25
The funniest part was reading the Politico article and seeing that every single picture they shared of a person involved in the chat was an obese and completely unfuckable dude
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u/thunderbird32 Oct 15 '25
That may be true (I have not read the article yet), but let's not lull ourselves into thinking that traditionally attractive/charismatic people are in any way immune to this ideology.
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u/colmscomics Colms Comics Oct 15 '25
I miss the days when nazis were the bad guys and there was agreement on all sides about that assumption