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jpreston2005 @lemmy.world

6mo ago

GOP is the new American nazi party

Look our politicians may refer to themselves as nazis on porn forums,

we may use nazi symbology at our national conference,

our campaign rhetoric may mirror nazi rhetoric exactly,

our leader may have publicly praised hitler,

our policies may be carbon copies of nazi policies,

we may count literal nazis as some of our most fervent supporters,

our leader may have praised a public nazi march,

our leader may have hosted and praised literal nazis at his estate,

our leader may curry favor among socialite nazi sympathizers in charge of large swaths of american media,

and we may perform nazi salutes at our leaders inauguration,

but.... we are NOT NAZIS 😤 😭 🤡

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New? Aren't they the old nazi party too?
- Being a Nazi isnt a yes or no thing, it's a spectrum of how much Nazi we have in us....
  Republicans
- As the party that welcomed and absorbed in the dixiecrats. They were literally the inspiration for Hitler and Mussolini.
- They are the geriatric nazi party too
  And the obese nazi party
  at least the og nazis were fit and mostly young-midlife
They are fascists. They are not nazis. Nazis ate WWII era German fascists that attempted to create the ubermensch and create a 1000 year reich.
Nazis are a different flavor of fascism
- I agree that they are facists but they seem to have an incredible focus on Hitler and Nazism imported from Nazi Germany.
  
  Which is common among fascists but if they aren’t looking for the 1000 year reich, the genocide of the underclass, and the creation of the master race they are not Nazis.
- Fascism is like cancer of humanity, it has been on remission for a while and now its starting to come back possibly even worse because it couldn't be eradicated when weakened.
  
  It always holds appeal for some especially people born into wealth that are personally insecure. I suspect that's why American schools dont really teach kids about the fundamentals of fascist philosophy.
- If they aren't Nazis, why are they running the same playbook Nazis did at the beginning and PERFORMING NAZI SALUTES WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL IN FRONT OF THEM AT PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS?
  If they don't want to be Nazis, just regular fascists, maybe they shouldn't use Nazi salutes.
  
  They aren't mimicking Nazis, they are mimicking the Italian and Spanish fascists.
New?
- Unambiguously
Fascism is here.
All the signs are present.
Doesn't matter that it's America. Fascism can happen anywhere, at any time.
Purchase a firearm. Learn to use it.
- I would go so far to say: If you can find classes that train you in how to use the firearm under stress take those. If you have access to training courses that help reinforce those lessons, train there.
  I want to be hopeful that these precautions are unnecessary but at this point this falls under better safe than sorry territory
I swear back in the 20th century there were a lot of regular people around the world who would not hesitate to beat the shit out of any Nazi they came across. Where'd they all go?
- I'm right here.
- Same thing here. Even as recently as the 2000s Nazis were still seen as utterly pathetic people... now they are somehow rapidly mainstream education since 2015...
Always has been.
- I think you're forgetting the Southern Strategy.
  
  The minds behind the Southern Strategy are the same who helped move conservative Democrat voters over to the Republicans during the 60s and solidified the voters into one of two camps: fascists and the rest. The fascists then used "law and order" and "prosperity over liberty" policy proposals to focus the party. Once Reagan took over and gave the overt cause of "make money at all costs", it was the carcinogen that fueled antidemocratic ideologues. Imagine there are only a handful of media outlets and Rush Limbaugh is on half of them. It's been a nightmare plunging into chaos since the early 90s.
  
  That's simply institutional racism which isn't fascist per se and can be found in many nations.
Pretty damn sure they've always been the American Nazi/Klan party.
They aren’t Nazis, far from it. Using that kind of hyperbolic language and forced equivalence hinders you from understanding how Trumpism/MAGA actually works. Trumpism has some similarities with fascism, but it’s fully its own extremely American populist personality cult.
The ideology and policies of the Nazis were on a whole different level.
Trumpism doesn’t need to be fully fascist, because it managed to gain all branches of government through elections. Trump is actually popular and democratically legitimized.
If your analysis remains at Nazis! you will never understand how to fight them. It has failed as a political tactic for years. They laugh at it, and rightly so.
- I feel like this kind of reductive language isn't helpful. They are nazis in the sense that mstters.
  Nazi has for a while been another word for fascist, or at least a particular brand of it. The Republican party as a whole has slowly been moving in this direction my entire life.
  Trump being too stupid to play the long game managed to build a cult around him by speed running fascism, but there is nothing he stands for that the Republican party hasn't had a long hystory of standing for.
  People denying the facism is how we got here.
- Nazi/Fascist are interchangeable because the most recent extreme fascist threat on a large-scale was from Nazis. Whether you like it or not, the two terms are interchangeable in our society.
  The Trump Party has undeniably embraced fascism. It's acceptable to call them Nazis. They're running the same playbook the Nazis were at the beginning. They're PERFORMING NAZI SALUTES WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL IN FRONT OF THEM AT PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS.
  Stop trying to distract.
“Are we the baddies?”
The USA
“Aww cute. Who taught them to ask that?”
Me.
OK slow poke. You finally got there.
Thank you for documenting the downfall.
Remember folks you skin the hair off a Nazi from the front to back so you can see the visible anguish and dismay as the pot meets the kettle 🥰❤
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Yeah, and what can we do about it?
- Stauffenberg
The Whitest Kids You Know Hitler Rap feels awfully familiar for the times.
Democrats are Nazis, too. They’re arming literal Nazi military forces, and just armed a genocide for over a year.
It is as communists theorists always predicted would happen. As capitalism falls, the capitalists embrace fascism.
- Nazism is an ideology, not a synonym for being complicit in a genocide.
  
  Yes, Naziism is an ideology… that promotes the ideals of ethnic superiority and killing those deemed less than… such as with a genocide.
- You're the kind of person that would watch a Republican eat the still-beating heart out of the chest of a child and ask why the Democrats are letting this happen, aren't you?
  
  Totally. Because as much as the Democrats would pretend to oppose it, they also would vote to fund it.
  The “Resistance” Dems funded every one of Trump’s worst policies last time. You think they won’t do it again?
  I’m just punching right. Blame the Democrats for standing there.
- Democrats are Nazis, too.
  I mean you're going to have to remind me when Democrats stripped any rights away. Or catered to racists to get votes. Or demonized immigrants. Or PERFORMED NAZI SALUTES WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL IN FRONT OF THEM AT PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS.
  
  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna167638
  https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/MIGRATION-DEPORTATIONS/akpeoeoerpr/
  https://theintercept.com/2022/02/18/ukraine-weapons-neo-nazis-bob-menendez/
  https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/biden-attorneys-legal-weapons-israel/
Nicely proved.

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