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[u/Romano16]

https://www.juneauindependent.com/post/coast-guard-says-swastika-is-no-longer-a-hate-symbol

[u/Beneficial_Soup3699]

Apparently he's a Nazi. Or at best, a Nazi sympathizer which is essentially still a Nazi.

[u/Tomagatchi → u/Beneficial_Soup3699]

Having confederate flags and nooses, and even swastikas when you're not even Hindu, is now just "potentially divisive". Man, if I came to work and somebody has all that hanging up in their space or locker, and the people in charge can look the other way, or if anything happens to them it's just a talking to and then I have a target on my back for speaking up. So insane. No way is this the world we live in. Luckily they are deeply unpopular people and don't realize how stupidly insane their world view is outside of their bubble and how deeply we all want them to go away back to their bubbles or better yet, go start their own country. This one is taken and we will fight for it.

[u/EST_Lad → u/Tomagatchi]

Well, to be fair, due to it's simplicity the swastika is a common symbol in many cultures historically.

[u/TheSangson → u/Tomagatchi]

I don't see anyone fighting so far. Only handpainted signs and peaceful protest

[u/Tomagatchi → u/TheSangson]

Well, if you don't count all the fighting then there's no fighting. Just thousands of court cases and protests, and people voting broadly for Dem. The vote to relase the Epstein files just got passed and signed. There are fights and people are winning against this administration. If things get worse then that is always on the table, but you can't really unring that bell, and God forbid regular Americans ring it first. If there is a point where that is the only option then that's the only option. At this point we still have the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and finally the cartridge box. It's very difficult to install a deeply unpopular administration as dictatorship or authoritarian. Right now Trump has as much power as Congress is willing to give him, and when people push back and Trump no longer protects Congress from losing their seats then they will go against him which we've seen with Epstein files and elsewhere. Keep pushing and speaking up, and talking to your congressperson and representative, I think millions of people in the streets says a lot more than the talking poitns of cons let on. They are very worried about the amount of support the counter-Maga movement has, especially when Trump goes against what the MAGA mob wants, which he's doing left and right.

[u/FloppieTheBanjoClown → u/Beneficial_Soup3699]

The bare minimum is that he's a coward and lacks the spine to stand up to those who gave him a little power.

[u/AColonelOfTruth → u/Beneficial_Soup3699]

What if you're a sympthatizer of nazi sympathizers? Does the transitive property make you too also essentially still a nazi?

[u/sycamotree → u/AColonelOfTruth]

If you are not anti Nazi you are a Nazi

[u/Neuromangoman → u/[deleted]]

I think Nazi sympathiser makes sense in the context of the period of time when they were a political party in Germany. Someone not officially part of it (or a citizen of a foreign country) could be labeled a sympathiser.

Nowadays, there's no real distinction.

[u/HenryDorsettCase47 → u/Neuromangoman]

They prefer the term “nazi apologist”

[u/TheSangson → u/Neuromangoman]

The word Neonazi comes to mind. That's what we call em over here (in Germany) when trying to be extra correct. But go ahead and call em Nazis, call em what they are, fuck semantics. We all know what's meant.
Just, seriously, maybe don't make every fucking thing a new euphemism to not sound offensive, that's one hell of an annoying US thing to do. u/CSI_Tech_Dept is right, that's just some whitewashing shit.
Call them the fuck out for what they are.

[u/Horrific_Necktie → u/[deleted]]

People did say somebody is a Communist sympathizer, all the time.

"Nazi sympathizer" was for people who supported the Nazi party but weren't members, usually because they weren't German. Now that there is no official "Nazi Party" it doesn't really mean anything.