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[–] 339 points 1 year ago (10 children)

To be honest, this has always kinda been how the conservatives in the US talk when they're by themselves. I grew up in the 70s and heard it quite often from uptight assholes on the right.

It's not anything new, really. It's just that today the communications, instead of being face to face, are online and they leave records of their conversations.

Bigoted jackasses, gonna jackass.

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  • [–] 92 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Seconded, my experience as well.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Same and it all begins around middle school when white kids start really being openly racist around their fellow whites like myself.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Someone at home must be acting like that and teaching that behaviour to them.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Not necessarily. It’s the internet turning them into this for the last 20+ years or so because most white boys have had internet access longer than any other group of people.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I had the same experience with racist kids growing up. That was long enough ago that only nerdy kids like me cared about using the internet.

    Honestly, middle school kids usually aren't good at hiding that kind of behaviour from their parents. Any decent parent would slap the proverbial shit out of their kid for it.

    A viciously racist 10-13 year old kid will almost always have tacit or direct approval from their parents.

    But you are right, I am certain that the internet today has been making it worse.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    No. I was legitimately shocked the first time I heard these things, as I switched schools.

    I stayed shocked until today, though I’ve had to keep hearing it in my small town. For a while in the early 2000s, it got a bit better, but starting in 2016 it ramped up to 1980s levels again.

    As a designer doing advertising work, a local bakery rebranded themselves and asked me in 2017 to redo their logo to Kathy’s Korner baKery, for instance. Of course I wouldn’t, but nobody would have asked me to do that before.

    Back in the 80s/early 90s I would have seen shit like that, but not in the early to mid 2000s.

    From my (very white girl) perspective, it seems some people have hit middle age and desperately want to return to their teens when that abhorrent behaviour was okay. Their personality has become wrapped up in it, and they think being asked to care about others is a judgement on their soul (it is, and they’re awful people), so they’re lashing out.

    They don’t understand they can learn and grow, and instead feel everyone has turned against them, so they’re doubling down. It’s actually sad.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I fully agree with everything you said. Do you mean that children aren't necessarily learning racism from their parents because they are learning to be racist from society as a whole?

    Maybe I'm wrong about parenthood, but I would like to believe that any openly racist 10-13 year old kid must have racist parents, simply because any decent parent would catch on and stamp that behaviour out.

    Those pathetic, racist, middle aged people who are trying to relive their teenage years? I just met a few people like that. You're right on the money. Those people had children too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    No, children are learning this from their parents, but society as a whole is moving on from this, and some insular communities are getting butthurt over it. This is part of what’s fuelling their xenophobia, actually.

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  • [–] 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Fucked that they don't even have to exaggerate. The literal quotes are so absurdly vile that they can't be outdone.

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  • [–] 156 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    this is a perfect example of just because it's well known doesn't make it fact.

    now that there is evidence, it's a fact.

    Republicans are a party of Nazis.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    The question remains: What are the real americans going to do about it?

    It's not going to get better by itself, and the rest of the world can't just come over and fix it.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    This was news to the people who needed to hear it

    It's another notch in the wall. We all wish the wall would come down already... But it will be painfully slow and all encompassing

    But every notch does matter

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    They have to be run out town and any that have acted on their murderous desires need to be tried for their crimes. It makes more sense why USAID was shut down though. These people are part of a death cult and the conspiracy theories are just an attempt to sanitize the murderous plans to gullible people.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You think this isn't happening in the rest of the world?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    No, the things that are happening in the US right now is not really comparable to things happening in any other Western democracy. All countries have their issues, but this blatant fascist takeover occurring in the US right now is quite unique.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But it is a cautionary tale. Other countries aren't trying very hard to stifle their growing far-right movements and will end up the same way if they keep giving them legitimacy. They could also more openly condemn the fascist USA instead of treating Trump as acceptable and allowing him the usual respectful state visits.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago

    "I love Hitler," Republicans, probably actually

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Are those actual leaked quotes on the right?? Good lord!!

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  • [–] 100 points 1 year ago (14 children)
  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Thank you.

    I’m stunned.

    The right will boys will be boys this shit until the skies fill with the smoke of voters.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    I’m stunned.

    I'm not. Kids did this shit all the time in middle and high school. These people just never ran into any kind of push back or experienced maturity

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My husband is a high school teacher. He's had more than a decade of students saying Nazi shit in an attempt to be "edgy." They seem surprised when he calls them out on their bullshit. His response has made a few (probably too few) of them think twice about how people perceive them because of their words.

    Last year was the first time he had a student who spouted that crap because he actually believed it. I think he has a couple of students now who actively identify as fascists. Times, they are a-changin'.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So what is his go-to response?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sometimes it's "being edgy just for the sake of it isn't cool. Don't be an idiot; people fought wars over this." Students generally respect him, so once they realize he doesn't play that game, they stop doing it in his classes.

    If it's a specific kind of bigotry, he points out that someone important to him is black/gay/trans/an immigrant/etc, and asks the kid if they've even met someone in that group. Most of the time the kid hasn't and they're just parroting things they've heard at home or online.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    None of them were kids, which is sad, but I get your point. If, as kids with this mentality, were never punished or corrected it just carries over.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/republican-hitler-group-chat-nazi-politico/

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    None of them were kids

    They all were at some point.

    If, as kids with this mentality, were never punished or corrected it just carries over.

    For a lot of these 4chan-tier chuds, the behavior was likely rewarded and encouraged. That's how you get Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes tier freaks. We are quite literally paying these people to exist and reproduce.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Vance already said it was kids doing dumb kid things. They're not kids. They're adults. If you're old enough to vote, your a freaking adult. If you can fight and die in the military, you're an adult. You never see anyone say oh those are just kid soldiers doing kid soldiers things. No because they're adults who are responsible for their own actions and words.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago

    So that's how I find out.

    The OG reporting, for others like me.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But why are the nazis hiding the Epstein files?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Because the Nazis are also pedophiles.

    Please remember, this is the republican party, the party that has fought to lower the age of consent across the nation for decades. This is entirely on brand for what we've seen them fight for in public, and if you're aware of the 50-60 plus pages of Republican sex pests, completely unsurprising.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    someone needs to teach him how to button a blazer ffs

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yes, as always, the master race: fat, balding, and utterly insignificant without the inbred assurance that their skin color is some kind of achievement.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's ironic that the greatest achievements of the white "race" (race in quotes since it's not a real thing) have been in the realm of technology, yet the most advanced thing these inbred fucks have ever achieved is mounting big flags in the backs of their trucks.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The very notion that someone would take some kind of credit for technological advancement because they share a similar skin color with a random visionary makes me want to communicate non-verbally with these douche bags in a very forceful way.

    If you catch my drift.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Know what you're getting at and you seem to address this but I wouldn't attribute any achievement to the white race. That feeds into the Nazi narrative. Every achievement is an adaptation of or a step forward from ancient human wisdom. The concept of zero, which is foundational to all modern mathematics and technology, was derived from the spiritual and philosophical practices of people in South Asia. The precursors of the printing press were developed by people in China partly due to the rapid expansion of Buddhism creating a high demand for sutras.

    Many of the mathematic "developments" of Fibonacci, for example, were already known in the Arabian peninsula, after having been transferred from South Asia and further developed. He learned Arabic in order to being them to the West. The infinite series for trigonometric functions (precursors to calculus) were also known in South Asia and the Arab peninsula before being ?discovered independently in Europe (its unknown if this knowledge transferred).

    Finally I'll end with the fact that both the industrial revolution and enlightenment occurred on the back of colonial exploitation. It was the relative luxury and advatantage of having people working the fields in a distant nation that allowed for the technological development that led to the industrial revolution in the west. It was the relative luxury, at the cost of back breaking labor in the colonies, that allowed for people to meet in salons and cafes and discuss/propogate enlightenment values. There's some debate that enlightenment values may have developed in part due to contact with Indigineous people in the Americas since precivilization cultures are inherently more egalitarian and democratic (as communal interdependence is absolutely crucial to survival).

    My larger point is that these are human / global achivements. The idea that no attribution can be given to those who paid for them in their blood is an imperialist one. And the last thing we want to do is empower fascists / imperialists.

    You've already acknowledged so just expanding on your point!

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    [–] 82 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They’re not joking. They’re literally starting a genocide and a fascist military police state in front of our eyes

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    For a decade, I have been begging anyone who will listen to believe Trump et al. whenever they threaten someone. I swear that the only time Trump tells the truth is when he promises violence, retribution, or lawbreaking.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It says so much about the Republican Party that they're defending these limpdick fifth-graders instead of saying: "You know what? We don't like these pathetic little shit-stains either."

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    We all knew.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think the worst part of all of this, for me, is how unfunny it all is. Like goddamn, they are so bad at humor.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Its so weird to me how they can be both Zionist bootlickers and nazis at once, it's impressive

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    It makes more sense when you realise that it’s about oppression, power, and creating scapegoats. Hitler’s closest allies were the not-exactly-Aryan Japanese.

    And it’s not like they won’t all turn on each other eventually, anyway. So why not have some strange bedfellows along the way?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Supporting Zionism while being actively antisemitic is a handy way for Nazis to encourage jewish people to segregate themselves. Zionism presents a potentially attractive place to go, and then aggressive antisemitism gives them a reason to leave. The two are not so radically opposed.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    This is starting to fracture a bit with right wing traitor lunatics, but it’s for two main reasons. For some, it’s just about access to Middle East energy resources. That’s the main reason that US policy is to support Israel.

    The other thing is for true believing traitor lunatics. They think that Israel needs to exist for the rapture to occur. I don’t remember the details but this is a big part of evangelical support.

    Either way, absolute lunacy, but at least if we managed to wean off fossil fuels, support for Israel would evaporate.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    The Christian nationalists are deeply religious, so they see Israel as a good thing. End times or crusades or something.

    The Nazis might hate Jewish people, but they hate brown people more.

    The racists definitely hate brown people more.

    They're all in the maga alliance and are getting along for the moment just so they can be fascists.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just some 30 year kids. They will say edgy things. I mean, come on guys. … no really, let’s go to ikea and fuck a sofa.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    From the same party that wants to charge minority children as adults if they misbehave. Actual adults are just kids though.

    Only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can't say the N-word.

    It's their word

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    no, they can't say it. it's not pronounced nucular

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Woah. Is that actually a callback to when w said it wrong and we all had to learn how to pronounce it correctly?

    I still think about that every time I think or say nuclear.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    So the party that likes the slavers, the crossed flag, that hates poor's, ... is a Nazi nest...

    What are the news again?

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