Just like the SS using the Totenkopf

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      New era my dude. The baddy is now Cletus, or Stephen. As a German, I would have preferred if the US had learned from our mistakes, but at least they are the assholes now and we can finally get some rest.

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          USA: fascist regime, raging war and taking lives around the world and in their own country.

          Germany: party left of the GDP GOP gains some traction.

          This dude: AH-HA! THEY’RE THE BADDIES!

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            More like both are baddies. Or am I to understand that the AFD have no fascist tendency of their own and are just a bog standard conservative party

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              Oh AfD 100% baddies. That’s not a question. I’m talking about the country, because the AfD is not in government at the moment and even if, they wouldn’t be able to govern alone, our system doesn’t accept that, at least as long as they aren’t in a spectacular majority. The US failed spectacularly at implementing checks and balances. AfD beyond baddies. USA as well.

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                  That’s fine. We don’t have to. And I bet it’s not true for some Republicans. But the hardliners are a bunch of crazy assholes. And I would place them way right.

                  And they are running the government. Even if the German AfD would gain the same results the Republicans did, they wouldn’t be able to govern the country alone.

                  The American system is fucked, and the last months have proved that

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        Yes I was also going to comment the same as above but didn’t because I was concerned that people wouldn’t get the reference.

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    Babe, wake up, the new Nazi memorabilia just dropped!

    … this is going to age like unpasteurized milk in an outhouse. I hope most of them end up in landfill where they belong.

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      It might be better to commit them to a museum. To make sure that it is never forgotten.

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        Sure, but it doesn’t seem to have helped. We have plenty of genocide and WWII museums, but we have plenty of genocide and fascism happening just fine.

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          A society requires its health, access to leisure, and the time to pursue their betterment in order to visit museums and internalize the lessons of history. The United States has reserved realization of these essential human needs for the upper class.

          We require such leisure to discover the capacity and motivation to better understand ourselves, those around us, and our collective material circumstances. Without that freedom museums become mere mausoleums until their intended visitors regain the humanity we were contractually coerced to forfeit.

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    Hey, remember that time ICE was under attack with artillery or other explosives? No doubt led by Field Marshall Walz. Buy War Bonds!

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        makes sense if you know the context. this is from the sketch comedy series The Mitchell and Webb Look, which was aired on BBC Two at the time, and later with higher quality on BBC HD… anyway the man pictured is David Mitchell and his mouth is the organ he most often uses to talk.

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          While Webb, by contrast, presumably talks more often out of his ass? Or was there some other organ which you were implying was from whence the subtitles should be flowing?

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            nah I just tried a bait and switch. thought it would be funny to start the comment with info about the show like it was going to be something about the show or something, then end it with the most obvious “yeah so the subtitles come out of his mouth because that’s where he speaks from” which makes the entire first half also irrelevant and stupid.

            i say “i thought it would be funny” like it didn’t turn out to be so but i still think it’s hilarious; kinda proud of the comment to be honest.

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    This is the sort of striving, adolescent bullshit I would expect from a child, not from a grown man.

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    I think I’m gonna need more proof on this one. Not just one guy that works in an office who attached an image in an email.

    It’s kinda got all the classic markers. Superbly outlandish yet just believable enough. Confirms everyone’s preexisting beliefs.

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      Buddy fucked up lil “challenge coin” trinkets have been a depressingly common part of military/law enforcement since forever, the burden of proof here is light as a feather. There are galleries of em ranging from relatively banal tough guy “devil dog” marines stuff with their absolutely ripped fursona to unquotable “n-word lynchers” shit with nooses etc from southern police/sheriff departments. This is a weird one to call out

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          Here’s a ww2, Vietnam, and modern interpretation to get you started. I wanted to include the original, but turns out he’s just a regular dog lol

          PAT16_scaled.jpg

          u_https_tse1_mm_bing_net_th_id_OIP.jpg

          u_https_tse1_mm_bing_net_th_id_OIP.jpg

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    What if Nazi, but also low budget tat? A question no one wanted an answer to, but nonetheless the US is providing.

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    Decades from now, after their parents pass, kids will be sorting through the parents stuff and find one of these or some other trump crap. They will react the same way my generation did when sorting through our parents stuff and finding nazi shit. “Oh God I hope they weren’t really into this shit!” My dad had a medal of some sort with a swastika on it. It was probably something his father collected in the war. It went into the garbage where it belonged. Garbage dumps of the future will be filled with trump shit.

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    You know I often wonder if the Fascists from the world war era crinnge. When it came to fashion and memorialbia theirs at least could look frightening.

    Yet shit like this is just horrible even in a “yeah we might be the baddies.” Way

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      I’ve been calling it symbolic degeneration in my head. While the fascists of the 20s, 30s, and 40s generally had a tendency to disrespecting and abusing symbolism for political gain these people barely know what symbolism is. They know that certain imagery and symbols have meaning but are too stupid and gaudy to really understand it, they treat it like a child learning poetry, they know certain words have imagery and ideas attached but have no clue how any of it works in theory so they just photo copy it until it loses all coherence.

      I invoke certain bits of imagery on purpose with subtle differences from the real thing for shits and giggles to fuck with people so this is something I keyed into awhile back.

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    This has the same credibility as opening a battle pack in Battlefield 6 and getting a new picture for your player profile background.