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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    I wish that were a surprise, but it was all so dreadfully predictable. There’s an author that I used to follow around the 2010 timeframe, who wrote on his blog that when fascism came to America, it’d be in the form of “corn pone Nazis,” not the stylish Hugo Boss-wearing ones. (Sadly, he’s scrubbed those old entries, perhaps because it’s too embarrassing after he went MAGA.)

    There were plenty of warning signs earlier than that, too. The only thing we didn’t know then was the exact timing.

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      2 days ago

      Most of his voters aren’t Nazis.

      They are people who want change. and the democrats didn’t represent that in either election. they were status quo candidates. trump was the change candidate.

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        Most of his voters aren’t Nazis. They are people who want change.

        I’m pretty sure that’s how the nazis got into power too

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          they got into power by representing what the people wanted and getting their votes?

          wow… what a concept.

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        2 days ago

        Right, they’re not stylish or intelligent enough to be Nazis, but it’s a fascist regime all the same.

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          nobody in his ‘regime’ is smart or organized enough to be facist. they are not idealogical, they are just greedy.

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            Musk did a nazi salute. on tv. twice. They’re fucking nazis

            concentration camps, abducting and murdering people in the street, it all checks out

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        You’ve never meant a Evangelical, eh? They’re Nazis.

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          met tons of them. none of them were nazis.

          met a ton of athelist liberals though, who were more than happy to fantasize about mass-murdering religious people. that seems a lot more nazi to me.

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            23 hours ago

            What would you call a congregation with a pastor that storms around on stage raging about how homosexuals and similarly other lgbtq+ are going to burn in hell?

            And the whole congregation is loving every minute of it?

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              nothing? people are allowed to hate on whomever they want to hate on.

              you certainly feel justified in hating on them, no? how are you any different than them?