This is a very romanticized version of American intervention in WW2.

The bitter truth is that we had guys with Nazis war trophies back home who were waving Confederate flags the year after their deployment ended. Hell, we had guys like Mark Fuhrman, who were decorated detectives in the LAPD back in the early 90s with a naked well-established fetish for European fascism. And that's before you get into the Ratlines that imported thousands of Nazis into Latin America under cover of the CIA and Opus Dei.

This isn't something that got lost in translation or distorted through history. It's a direct consequence of American fascism reproducing itself in America as an outcropping of American tendencies.

The Stars and Stripes is as much a symbol of fascist oppression in Vietnam and Indonesia and the DRC and the Oklahoma Reservation system as any German flag.

This is not a meme, it’s reality.

The US praised the Nazis for killing the communists. They supported their "cause" riiiiight up until they started attacking western Europe AKA the countries that actually matter.

The US also hired tons of Nazi "scientists," including granting them immunity for their roles in the Holocaust. They also granted the head of Unit 731 immunity (specifically from the USSR who rightly wanted him executed) in exchange for the human experimentation data. NATO coincidentally also has a ton of Nazis in its leadership.

The US went as far as installing prominent Nazi figures back into West Germany in the same way they let confederates go back to their lives after the civil war. Whereas the Soviets executed Nazi leaders in East Germany because that's what they fucking deserve. The US then claimed that the executed Nazis were victims of communism and included them in their "communism death toll" numbers.

This isn't an error. The US has always been sympathetic to Nazis, before, during, and after the war. They only begrudgingly pitched in against them because they viewed western Europe as slightly more important.

Finally, the US didn't even fucking do that much. Certainly nowhere near enough to justify their claim that they "saved the world" in WWII. The USSR and UK each did far more yet the US seems to think the USSR was fighting for the Nazis and the UK was a scared poodle hiding in their island until the heroic Americans came to save them, when in reality, the tide had already turned against the Nazis by the time the US joined. They also nuked Japan just because they could, it had nothing to do with the war because they already had intelligence that Japan was about to surrender.

This is why you learn to do the Roman salute instead, so people don't look at you wrong

Oh shit, is it just the eventual end product of teenage rebelliousness?

Makes as much a sense as anything else

Although it's a nice artistic rendering, I think the focus was poorly chosen here. The resurgence of fascism is not originating with poor or "hillbilly"-stereotyped folks (even if it's certainly true they're targeted for recruitment by the folks who are directly promoting those beliefs). Since fascism directly benefits the kind of people you'd see attending MAGA billionaire events more than it benefits the misguided grandkids of WWII soldiers, I have trouble seeing a point in focusing on the bottom of their power hierarchy. Among the most dangerous folks embracing fascism are tech billionaires (not just from the US, but globally) who buy into the whole Dark Enlightenment brand of right wing accelerationism, for example, but obviously they're not the only ones.

The only meaningful, constructive reasons I can think of to turn attention towards less powerful people in the pro-authoritarian hierarchy is to either directly stand in the way of any harms they're committing or-- ideally-- for someone they think of as close to them to try to reach them-- to help them see reason.

My co-worker found a confederate flag in is Asian-American mom's garage. She thought it was an old American flag.

This post is meta. Just like real life, instead of debating the substance of the post we have people in the weeds discussing the minutiae of subjective inaccuracies. Things that cannot really be communicated in such a limited format based on the given theme. Like the democrats discussing what brand boot should be placed on your neck instead of the fact there should be no boot at all.

It's basically the same tribe, with the same vacuum of ideology, the same selfish materialistic desires and a strong belief in moral relativism. Any kindness and self-sacrificial attitude (instead of cruelty and selfishness to the point of colonialism and slavery) seems to be nothing but an accident, or a spark of humanity that's quickly extinguished. From the hippies to Greta, I thank them all but I have no hope that their tribes will back them up as they never have, these are rare instances of kindness in a group of people that historically don't have much of it. And the US only joined WW2 when it was deemed a profitable venture, y'all gotta stop with this "we're heroes" bs, lol. No, your grandfather might have been brave (maybe he was just bloodthirsty? Or only a reluctant victim of circumstance?), but it doesn't make him a 'hero'. But what's an empire without military worship, right? 🙄