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I saw a person here in western europe with a trump flag… A giant fucking trump flag hanging out their apartment window… These people are absolutely fucked in the head.

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By chance, is flying the Nazi flag illegal in your country?

My guess is that the Trump flag is the dog whistle

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I think the only place where flying the Nazi flag is actually illegal is Germany.

Personally I think it should be perfectly legal to fly the Nazi flag. If only so that the rest of the population knows who you are.

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The problem is not flying the flag. The problem is what flying the flag does: spreading the message and emboldening those who would otherwise be harmless. Or worse, recruit impressionable folks.

So you cut that shit right off the bud before it spreads.

It’s like cancer. You don’t reason with cancer. You don’t say “you have the right to do your thing, but get along with the rest of me, yes?” You cut that shit off right away.

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It makes perfect sense when you realize that Trump is a symbol to international fascists. Let’s not forget that after 2016 the world shifted significantly to the right, and had normalized fascist rhetoric to 30% of the population in one of the largest nations in the world

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after 2016 the world shifted significantly to the right fascists declared themselves openly

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Fascism is a result of decaying capitalism, people didn’t become fascist because Trump was elected. The conditions for fascism appeared in the US and other countries simultaneously, because the world economy is interconnected.

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Yeah and that’s not even really a political statement, that’s a dog whistle flag, that person is an asshole and sees themselves in Trump

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Facepalm

!facepalm@lemmy.wtf

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Anything that makes you apply your hand to your face.

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