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I think it's because what defeated them was violence and "violence is bad". Because the problem of nazism definitely could've been solved diplomatically... >.>

Conservatives can't let people know that nazism is just a flavor of conservatism. They can't have people openly pointing out how every genocide ever commited in human history was caused by conservatives.

Conservatives would rather burn everything to the ground than admit they are all racist, dog-fucking, traitor, pedophile bigots. It's almost like they can feel shame. They can't, but it almost seems like it.

Nazism never went away. The Prescott Bushes and Joe McCarthies were always there, pulling the strings of the Nixons and the Reagans.

They were in your schools, in your hospitals, in your commerce. You just never saw them because they were at the upper echelons, rubbing their grubby hands together in satisfaction while looking down on you like a spider watching its prey get inextricably tangled in its web.

In other words, yeah it was on purpose. My theory is that it was their plan all along to make a resurgence now, when the last of the WWII vets and people who remember that era are either dead or in assisted living homes.

Even people who were kids during Nixon are retiring now. The new norm has shifted gradually, decade by decade, and now almost no person still working in the US is old enough to remember the FDR economy.

They played the long game, dude. This is their culminating event.

I mean I grew up with that being told my grandparents were from another time and that's why I couldn't bring black friends around when he was there.

"I was willing to excuse him when he was hauling my neighbours; both citizen' and not away in unmarked vans to be put in concentration camps and subsequently deported without due process but I draw the line at paying more for gas and groceries."

You have to work a little bit harder at them today, but they can still be found.

Dog parks were my favorite place to interact with regulars back when I had a dog. Met lots of good friends and neighbors that way.

Volunteering can be great, too. I sometimes sign up for cooking/prep shifts at a local kitchen that feeds the community, and it's an easy way to hang out with like minded people.

Independent bookstores and libraries are still around, too. They're obviously more common in densely populated urban areas, but if you have them around you they can be great.

Wait, your clothes don't change color when you sweat?

Like red to green, or getting darker? And if it's the latter, why don't they do that? And if it's the former, why would you want that?

Sounds like someone doesnt know their Nyet's from their Nein's.

Lemmy has some corners that still act like that

Conservatives love to brag about their various bigotries. Many have even collected the whole set.

Oh yeah. "I'm not vaccinated and neither are my kids." Sorry, I didn't get your name when you introduced yourself to me literally 10 minutes ago and immediately started your increasingly unhinged monologue.

"You know what, this milk reminds me of another white fluid..."