I swear back in the 20th century there were a lot of regular people around the world who would not hesitate to beat the shit out of any Nazi they came across. Where'd they all go?
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Same thing here. Even as recently as the 2000s Nazis were still seen as utterly pathetic people... now they are somehow rapidly mainstream education since 2015...
I'm right here.
Dead, they are dead.
Fascism is here.
All the signs are present.
Doesn't matter that it's America. Fascism can happen anywhere, at any time.
Purchase a firearm. Learn to use it.
I would go so far to say: If you can find classes that train you in how to use the firearm under stress take those. If you have access to training courses that help reinforce those lessons, train there.
I want to be hopeful that these precautions are unnecessary but at this point this falls under better safe than sorry territory
Remember folks you skin the hair off a Nazi from the front to back so you can see the visible anguish and dismay as the pot meets the kettle 🥰❤
Just because we do Nazi Salutes and make Nazis feel comfortable DOESNT make us Nazis and makes YOU a Nazi actually!
Reminds me of "Antifa are the actual fascists". They do love to twist everything.
New? Aren't they the old nazi party too?
As the party that welcomed and absorbed in the dixiecrats. They were literally the inspiration for Hitler and Mussolini.
They are fascists. They are not nazis. Nazis ate WWII era German fascists that attempted to create the ubermensch and create a 1000 year reich.
Nazis are a different flavor of fascism
I agree that they are facists but they seem to have an incredible focus on Hitler and Nazism imported from Nazi Germany.
If they aren't Nazis, why are they running the same playbook Nazis did at the beginning and PERFORMING NAZI SALUTES WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL IN FRONT OF THEM AT PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS?
If they don't want to be Nazis, just regular fascists, maybe they shouldn't use Nazi salutes.
Fascism is like cancer of humanity, it has been on remission for a while and now its starting to come back possibly even worse because it couldn't be eradicated when weakened.
It always holds appeal for some especially people born into wealth that are personally insecure. I suspect that's why American schools dont really teach kids about the fundamentals of fascist philosophy.
They don't teach them this because it would lead them to believe we have been a fascist country since the creation of the military industrial complex. That is not exactly what we want our students learning.
Much like we whitewash all of history to make ourselves out to be the good guys and not the genocidal death cult maniacs we are.
It is not like we have not been warned for several decades now what has been happening.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address
The Military Industrial Congressional complex (Congress was removed from the speech before Ike gave it) was created after fascism was defeated in Europe. I would suggest we had people attempting to instill it since the 1900s but they only just got through.
Indeed there have been instances of business trying to do this decades before his speech.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
As I alluded to we have always been flirting or in recent times outright embracing fascism.
When you realize we were a country founded by the wealthy for the wealthy you begin to understand why we have these issues.
Fate and direction of humanity might depend on how well americans resist now. america has way too much military power and nukes.
Who cares? They are Nazis as far as idiot Americans are concerned. The asterix you seem to feel is necessary is not.