Royce White, the 2024 Republican nominee for Senate in Minnesota, wrote in a social media post two years ago that “the bad guys won in WWII.”

White’s controversial opinion on World War II, first noted by Heartland Signal, is still up.

“It dawned on me today,” he wrote in a November 2020 post on X, then known as Twitter. “The bad guys won in WWII. There were no ‘good guys’ in that war. The controlling interests had a jump ball. If you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the Allied forces. Remember what Gen. Patton said and why they capped him.”

Yet VoteVets, a progressive political action committee, wasn’t buying it.

“This isn’t just bizarre—it’s reprehensible,” the group wrote in response to White’s post. “His unhinged rants and attacks on his own party show exactly why the GOP’s candidate problem is a threat to us all.”

  • @foggy
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    I mean I don’t think it’s what this guy meant… But he’s kind of right?

    There were Nazi rallies in the United States during World war II. Many US corporations still in operation actively aided the concentration and execution of millions.

    Autocracy is great for corporations. Here’s a neat little list off the top of my head.

    1. GE

    2. IBM

    3. Ford Motor Company

    4. General Motors

    5. ExxonMobil

    6. Coca-Cola

    7. Boeing

    8. Raytheon

    9. Honeywell

    10. Dow Inc.

    11. Dupont

    12. JPMorgan Chase

    13. Citigroup

    14. Halliburton

    15. Goodyear

    16. General Mills

    17. Caterpillar

    18. Revlon

    19. Pfizer

    20. Lockheed Martin

    And many, many more…

    We were definitely not “The Good guys” through and through. We actively aided the bad guys. But I don’t think that’s what this person meant.

    • @rockSlayer
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      303 months ago

      The appropriate response when a fascist makes a good point is to tell them to fuck off, because they’re going to twist that to fit their bullshit.

      • @njm1314
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        13 months ago

        The appropriate thing when a fascist makes a good point is to find a good rope and a gas station with some good eaves.

    • Flying Squid
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      113 months ago

      So who were “the good guys” in World War II in your estimation? Because someone defeated the Nazis and liberated the death camps.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        53 months ago

        I mean they literally said there were no good guys, no? It was bad people and worse people.

      • @Buffalox
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        3 months ago

        The good guy was Hitler and the Nazis, they were always friendly and waving to everybody.
        /s

      • @Railing5132
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        13 months ago

        This binary thinking is going to destroy the world, isn’t it? Societies and human endeavors are a messy, complex business.

        • Flying Squid
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          13 months ago

          Yeah, remember how the world was destroyed in 1945?

      • @Buffalox
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        63 months ago

        Still Trump claim Russia is totally without blame for invading another peaceful country. And Putin is really a nice guy who is just misunderstood.
        So this is perfectly in line with MAGA crazy mental gymnastics.

        • DominusOfMegadeus
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          23 months ago

          There’s also that minor historical occurrence that’s referred to as The Cold War. It was pretty insignificant, you may not have heard of it.