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"If Hitler came back to see this group of mixed race young gay men chanting his name he would immediately kill himself a second time,”

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 173 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Tate is half black. He's only second in line for these people and he's too dumb to realize it.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 125 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Kanye, the Heil Hitler song artist, is full black. He’s definitely a stupid piece of shit.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've heard that at a certain point of being rich, you no longer identify as being black and rather identify as being rich. Makes the most sense to me.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea, Michael Jackson even TURNED white.

[–] deus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Vitiligo, skin whitening treatments and a shit load of foundation all over his body. He was a splotchy guy out of the shower... or on the autopsy table, which is how this ultimately got confirmed.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Even white supremacy is just a tool for these people, who rub elbows with everyone that can make their bank accounts bigger IRL. They're not selectively amoral and sociopathically self-interested, they don't care about anyone else, period, they just know they can use the white man's misplaced anger and their confusion born from propaganda and a lack of real, lived convictions and morals for their own advantage...

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[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kanye West does not care about black people.

[–] Treatyoself@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I would love to see Mike Myers say this seriously

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would think for the American edition of Nazism, blacks would be first, but they've recently had quite an obsession with trans.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American Nazism is currently targeting immigrants and people perceived as being from South America first. Whoever is next is a tossup.

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[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Another fellow on the bus, "Myron Gaines" (who i only learned about <24 hours ago), is black. Diverse crowd they have there, despite pledging allegiance to hitler

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“A collection of rapists, pedophiles, con artists, racists, antisemites, and meth addicts,” wrote X user “AG,” who writes about politics on their Substack and has amassed more than 214,000 followers. “Perhaps the biggest group of losers I have ever seen in my life.”

Literally true and I couldn't have said it better

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

That was what the nazi party was though

[–] Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 90 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What's really stupid about many of these assholes being mixed race or nonwhite is that they think they will thrive if they side with the white supremacists, and for a time, they will. But they either don't realize, or completely ignore, that hate and bigotry are never satisfied. Eventually, there won't be enough "undesirables" to despise, and that pool will have to expand to eventually include them, resulting in the loss of their wealth and protected status, if not their outright demise. It's never "if", only "when".

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Eventually the racism gets so bad that whites will actually turn on other whites and accuse them of not being white. They did it with the Irish and the Jewish.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

And the Italians. And the Greeks. And the Eastern Europeans.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I love the scene in Babylon 5 when Captain Sinclair fights an aincent alien bio robot thing having awoken and started rampaging on the apace station.

The bio robot was created to enforce biological purity in an old alien race and would kill anyone not pure enough.

During the fight scene Captain Sinclair makes a passioned speech about how just how extremism is by definition never satisfied.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

I'm doing a Babylon 5 rewatch right now, and it's amazing how relevant it is to this day.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don't think it would be very long at all. This is some real "Jews for Hitler" energy.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck around

The VnJ's founding statutes declared that its purpose was to represent "Germans of Jewish descent, who, while openly acknowledging their descent, feel so completely rooted in German culture and Wesen that they could not but think and feel as Germans.

The goal of the association was the total assimilation of Jews into the German Volksgemeinschaft, self-eradication of Jewish identity, and the expulsion from Germany of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

The VnJ rejected Zionism, Marxism, and liberal cosmopolitanism, emphasizing absolute loyalty to the German nation-state.

Find out.

Despite the extreme nationalism of Naumann and his colleagues, the Nazi regime did not accept the Association of German National Jews as a legitimate intermediary.

the VnJ was declared illegal and dissolved on 18 November 1935. Naumann was arrested by the Gestapo the same day, and imprisoned at the Columbia concentration camp. He was released after a few weeks, and died of cancer in May 1939. Most other members and their families were murdered in the Holocaust.

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That is the problem with fascism in general. Going back to the Roman emperors, there is always someone waiting to slit your throat and take your place. Not very “fasce-like” in application. It’s one of the practical reasons that system was abandoned.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fear is a tool of the enemy. We don't use the tools of the enemy. We need to turn them into something good.

Make Nazis Compost

[–] ShutUpDonnie@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Had me in the first half.

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[–] drekloge@lemmy.today 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Young? Isn't Tate like 40?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Shhh, if 40 is young who are we to argue with that logic?

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"If Hitler came back to see this group of mixed race young gay men chanting his name he would immediately kill himself a second time,”

Say what you will about Hitler…

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I knew Tate was a ln insecure woman hating, probably closeted, human trafficking rapist. I didn’t realize that he’s also a Nazi.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

I thought that was fairly obvious

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Walks like a nazi talks like a nazi

[–] TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

But you sure as fuck can't call them out on BS without getting banned on mainstream websites. Maybe they should stop fucking behaving like one.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If Hitler came back to see this group of mixed race young gay men chanting his name he would immediately kill himself a second time

I'd not dive into Hitler's headspace to confirm this, but in my opinion that is a completely misguided take. Almost in a territory of anti-gay people with internalized homophobia or something.

No, like, stop. Don't even indulge in what Hitler would do to this guys, because it makes this imaginary Hitler somehow valid. Don't point on how they are unfit in a fucking Nazi Germany.

Instead, I propose you another route. How they are now unfit in the current times as failures as persons. How their current ambitions are not fit with the better world that may be built without them.

Don't come down to call them f-word race traitors. Call them grifters and liars, and stay at that. I don't feel like going into nazi ideology to find their incompatibility to it is the right course.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Also fascists are notoriously hypocritical. Their leaders in particular don't actually believe their own propaganda, they will approve and condemn whatever is conducive to their politics and propaganda. Why would we take their horrid worldview more seriously than they do.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

It's a joke that simply points out how stupid they are. I don't think it's trying to suggest they're race traitors, nor is it validating Hitler's ideology.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The fact they can just say it is what's concerning. They don't even pretend anymore, because analytics have told them that there's enough of a Western supremacist base in the West for it to merit a slap on the wrist at most and a knowing wink.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That final paragraph is a real chef's kiss:

Fuentes has openly praised Adolf Hitler, called for a “holy war” against Jewish people, and championed a “whites-only immigration policy.” Fears have also grown among critics that he’s gone on to become a replacement for slain right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk as a thought leader on the right.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Isn't that why a member of his gang shot Kirk?

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[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, totally slammed and dogpiled. Thanks, rawstory.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dogpiled is 100% appropriate. Are articles just not allowed to use any verbs now?

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[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As it turns out, there are tens of thousands of WWII veterans who are still alive. World War II has not actually passed out of living memory.

How did we get to a place where "Hitler was bad" is no longer the default in mainstream US politics?

This is not okay. This is not normal.

[–] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

How did we get to a place where “Hitler was bad” is no longer the default in mainstream US politics?

I'd argue it started with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Surrender_and_immunity

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And these are your typical Republicans in the 2000's AMD are accurately representative of the Republican party.

I honestly wonder if it's too late to stop the Nazi party from being a major party of America now without a lot of violence.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

I honestly wonder if it’s too late to stop the Nazi party from being a major party of America now without a lot of violence

They are called Republicans.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Isn't that cute... a bunch of turds being bigoted against ...themselves?!

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