• don
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    491 month ago

    …Musk used an arm gesture, twice, that resembled the Roman salute adopted by the Nazis.

    Huffington Post also too fucking jellospined to actually say that the fuckwit did indeed throw the Nazi salute. Twice.

      • @grue
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        91 month ago

        So torches and pitchforks descending upon the media regime collaborators when?

    • @[email protected]
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      It isn’t a Roman salute. It was a French painters idea of what the Romans did (based on absolutely nothing), which was appropriated by the fascist movement of Mussolini (who only dreamt of being Romans).

      It’s blatantly wrong, and this is a purely fascist thing. They are the only ones in history every using the salute.

      I honestly would like to know what that French painter would think about all this.

    • Random Dent
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      430 days ago

      Also, Operation Paperclip. A good chunk of post-war US prosperity was built on the work of Nazis who escaped justice and moved there.

    • @errer
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      41 month ago

      Yeah AOC is wrong here, more than half of people voted for a clear nazi sympathizer. If we hated nazis so much we wouldn’t have done that.

      • qprimed
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        41 month ago

        repeated words lead to ideas which lead to changed thought processes. we have witnessed this with the rapidity of an intravenous injection since 2016.

        we cannot hope to take control of the zeitgeist (yeah, I went there) without pushing back hard on words and ideas. “america hates nazis - do you love nazis?!”. now go out and repeat it ad nauseam. I am doing it.

        • @EisFrei
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          It’s not like the Nazis already had this exact same idea. Oh wait. They did.

          https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot

          If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

  • @DarkCloud
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    I guess

    “In this country a minority of us hate Nazis, unless the voting machines were rigged, but that might be a post-truth distraction to allow more and more fascist things to sneak through unchecked or distracted from or worn down by”.

    was too long.

  • @taiyang
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    51 month ago

    Disappointed she didn’t really rip off his arm. Stupid misleading headline.

  • @Lasherz12
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    Media continues to show its true face with this measly mouthed concern trolling. If you never stand for anything then you stand for everything wrong in the world to remain the same.

    Unfortunately we need more people like AOC to allow the media to quote the correct views without taking a stand themselves. I don’t know if that formula is ever goi g to benefit us though since Fox can go out and spread misinformation every day and never get sued for more than they earned doing it. Media companies like wapo don’t need to make money because they’re propaganda vessels for their owners, it’s hard to combat bullhorns of bullshit coming from the effectively immune.

  • @pinkyprincessfiona
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    227 days ago

    Do we, though? Looking at the big Cheeto in office would suggest otherwise

  • @JB33
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    129 days ago

    Oooo, ripped him hard!

  • @inclementimmigrant
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    129 days ago

    “We” don’t, “We” constantly elect literally Nazis into American political offices at every level.