The mainstream press failed to accurately describe the hand gesture that Elon Musk made twice at Trump’s Inauguration Day rally, setting a troubling precedent for the second Trump era.

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America loves nazis. America wants to be nazis.

Get out before it’s too late.

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There’s no getting out, what happens in America affects the rest of the world too.

Nazis have the federal government in a chokehold but there’s a lot of resistance at local and municipal levels. I’m just mid level management but after Trump’s announcement on “two genders” I immediately let my trans and nonbinary employees know that they would continue to be seen and respected and validated at work regardless of what the white house says.

The worst I fear is still the issue of global warming, it’s already bad and the white house is locking in on releasing all the CO2 it can - and the entire globe will suffer for it.

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Unfortunately the globe is already done for.

I have zero faith that humans will stop global warming.

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As an American who fucking hates Nazi’s, piss off with your defeatism. I would much rather die fighting against Nazi’s than run like a coward because things look bad.

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Oh tough guy.

Have fun with that.

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Has nothing to do with “being tough” or any kind of posturing. How would you react when told to abandon something you believe in and let it be taken over by the worst of humanity? Do you love Nazi’s and want Americans to be Nazi’s? (see i can deflect the conversation into bullshit too).

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Fuck that. It’s my country, I’m not leaving. We’ve defeated Nazis before we can do it again.

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We especially defeated those nazis like Wernher Von Braun!

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A lot of country are going the same path. This isn’t anywhere near being exclusive to America.

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They’re all hoping to become maga state run media.

Also, they have no problem with Nazis.

This isn’t complicated. Hardly worth the time it took to post. 🙄

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Fear of retaliation

I’m pretty sure that was the point

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+1 to infinity

We are where we are because of fear. On both sides

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Exactly. You accuse the richest person on the planet of being a Nazi,the facts won’t matter when you’ve got 3 billion in legal fees.

He can spend 100 billion dollars in legal fees just to spite them without affecting his life one iota.

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Exactly.

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Because US corporate media is owned by fellow fascists.

Next?

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Because of the imperial boomerang. The ruling far-right in Ukraine (which the US installed in the Maiden Coup) has multiple self-declared Nazis in positions of power, erects monuments of & names streets after famous Nazis, has a military covered in Nazi symbols, and required the US Congress to lift a ban on arming Nazis in order to receive military aid. But the media coverage is all denial and gaslighting of ‘it’s complicated.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html

And now we’re over a year into a live-streamed genocide, as they tell us to ignore our own eyes & ears.

We are ruled by Nazis, on both sides of the aisle.

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If we take this as argument all ukrainians are fascists, then those guys should proof all ukrainians are LGBT.

But maybe there are just all kinds of ukrainians fighting together against Russia?

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The bad actors always try to deflect from the people openly identifying themselves as Nazis, to ‘are you saying all Ukrainians are Nazis?!’

People aren’t as stupid as you believe.

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The whiplash from the whataboutism must hurt

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“Whataboutism” would be defending one party for being Nazis because the other ones also are.

Not defending either. Both Nazi parties need to be dismantled and held accountable.

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You just completed started talking about a different topic entirely as a distraction from this issue that’s textbook whataboutism. You just went: never mind Republican Nazis, what about Ukraine? And expected no one to notice.

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I’ve read some stupid ass backwards shit before but what the actual fuck are you going on about?

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What is confusing you?

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The part where Ukraine has anything to do with what we are talking about. Are you autistic cuz that was off in left field.

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Dude does a full sieg heil twice and your reaction is something something Ukrainian Nazis?

You’re weird. Stop being weird.

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Walk me through the logic that makes you terrified of a Nazi salute, but excuse billions in weaponry to Nazis.

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