The title’s a bit disingenuous, I know: this didn’t come out of nowhere. White supremacism is as American as Manifest Destiny and has been heavily intertwined with Nazism from its inception. That overlap with the Republican party, and their gradual slip into the extreme far-right, is evident.
But Seig Heils? Even the most dense among them must know that blatant Nazism hurts their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, even among MAGATs (as is evident right now if you peek at their echo chamber on Reddit). Surely they would have a much easier time pushing their rhetoric and establishing their agenda by keeping a purposeful distance from that sort of indefensible imagery and symbolism. How do they expect to keep cohesion in the military when you imply to the soldiers that they are Nazis now, seig heils and all.
Why Nazis?
Any theories as to where this is coming from? Follow the ketamine-fueled leader? A directive for operative Krasnov, from Putin himself, to implode the country? True Nazi beliefs among the Heritage Foundation, Proud Boys, etc? I just don’t understand how they thought this would fly. I don’t understand anything anymore lol.
First up, they are not Nazis
Second, the left has been calling the right Nazis for decades. Heck, Bob Dole called George Bush a Nazi, and we all know that wasn’t accurate. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/bob-dole-george-bush-and-historys-most-brutal-presidential-campaign-attacks
It only seems recent because you’re young and not aware of the history of the term.
Did you miss that moment when Elon Musk did two Nazi salutes, in public, at the inauguration, and no one did anything about it?
This isn’t a “they’re calling everyone Nazis” moment. The Nazis are calling themselves Nazis and making it a public-facing symbol of the power they’ve gained.
Call it white nationalist, MAGA, or whatever. Giving it a different label does not change what it is, and that’s especially true when they start raising their arms Hitler-style on national television.
Honestly, no. I’ve spent too much of my limited time on this planet checking what lefties claim are Nazis. Not a single Nazi sighting has been real. I’ve stopped checking, it’s a waste of time.
Let me guess, he waved awkwardly, and now y’all are going to swear up and down it was a Nazi salute when the video shows otherwise?
Y’all shouldn’t cry wolf. Eventually there might actually be a wolf, and no one will believe you.
https://youtu.be/joV-9FFoA3Q
https://youtu.be/gFOV4cHt9-I
You could have just looked it up.
You can gaslight yourself all you want, but you can’t gaslight me. My eyes actually work.
Well, fortunately, it doesn’t matter if anyone believes it or not. It’s gonna fuck up everything and everyone, whatever their status, beliefs, bank account, achievements, or whatever else people claw to for their identity is.
So close your eyes and ears, pack out the mirror, and start jerking it to your intellectual superiority. Show yourself how smart you are. Cum on your mirror’s face and lick it up, for your seed is pure wisdom. Until you have no other choice but to stop because Trump and his rabid dogs says so, that is. :)
Three of them in government have done it now. Elon did it a few weeks ago, it was widely condemned, and then two other losers (Steve Bannon and another figure who’s name I don’t know) did it at CPAC in the White House just the other day. You’re being disingenuous by refusing to look into it — claiming its leftist rhetoric before youve even looked for yourself — but nonetheless engaging in discourse with us about it. Why won’t you at least go look? Then we will have something we can talk about
Bruh, musk and bannon did nazi salutes.
I really have to agree with the other replies on this one. While technically no one is a nazi but the og nazis there is nazi fanboys and between musks tweets and his salute its not at all like this person is worse than hitler or this person is a nazi because they are authoritarian you might have had in the past.
Bruh. Whether or not they are Nazi’s isn’t the crux of the issue. The fact that they are invoking Nazi symbolism and behaviours at all is the issue, and any self-respecting American should take issue with the invocation of something Americans claim they helped destroy (to be clear, fascism and Nazism in WW2).
No comment about the word “feminazi”?
Literary Nazis get mention
Your comment is gibberish.