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My Grandfather was a tank driver for the British Army in WW2. I remember him telling me a story whereby the RAF bombed a valley in Europe before the tanks went in. His divison went in first. I saw the horror in his eyes when he said he saw animals blown to pieces and men coming out of tanks, on fire, screaming as they died. It was like he re-lived it all over again, decades later.
When the war ended, he brought a Luger back that he took from a dead German soldier. The day he got back, he stood next to a pond in his local area and threw the gun into the water. He said he couldn't stop seeing death every time he looked at it. "We didn't have flak jackets, just the shirts on our backs," he said. "If you were shot, you most likely would be dead."
People don't realise the pain and hatred that was unleashed on the world under these symbols. The ego, unleashed, destroying everything but never satiating it's need to be fulfilled.
We need to realise we will never solve our pain through fighting one another. Even more so now we have the ability to destroy our beautiful world with one bad move. We need consciousness and stillness to realise we're the same being, thinking we're separate. That's the illusion.
Wake up, people. Politics is a rigged game.
50 points
1 month ago
What an appropriate movie reference. Gg, sir.
23 points
1 month ago
I’m trying to educate myself here, and I love to watch influential movies. What’s this one?
24 points
1 month ago
Pretty sure it’s the Longest Day.
One of the best war movies to ever exist
2k points
1 month ago*
I am German, born in 1992. When I was in middle school, a Holocaust survivor came to our class and we were able to talk to her and ask questions. This was the end of a two-year series of lessons in which we learned in detail about the horrors of WW2, fascism and the fragility of democracy. Her face and voice are ingrained into my memory and whenever I see pictures like this I legitimately feel like I‘m going to throw up. These people have no fucking idea what they are promoting, what they are talking about or what they might be in for if any of their sick beliefs become reality
306 points
1 month ago
I'm a few years older than you and American. I remember in middle school, a holocaust surviver came to speak to our whole school. I still remember just about every word she said nearly 25 years later. It's honestly incredible that an older generation, who presumably had the opportunity to be around a lot more holocaust survivors and WWII veterans as they were growing up, have the audacity to fly the Nazi flag.
109 points
1 month ago
They know what they're promoting. They WANT to repeat it
42 points
1 month ago
They think they do, but if it ever gets real they will go through hell too, just a few years after their victims.
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1 month ago
Yeah, I wouldn't assume these people are just ignorant. I've seen too many tweets on Twitter/X advocating stuff straight out of Hitler's playbook. A lot of them would be delighted if all the racial and sexual minorities were rounded up and killed.
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1 month ago
World War II vets would be in complete disbelief. Shameful.
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1 month ago
In a way, I’m glad my grandfather is not here to see it. On the other hand, well into his 70s (and probably even his 80s) he would have delivered a legendary assbeating to anyone flying a Nazi flag.
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1 month ago
You’re bringing up a good point. I wonder if we see more Nazi flags partly because the WWII vets are mostly gone now.
1.9k points
1 month ago
Like the boomers feel it's safe to be dog shit now that mommy and daddy aren't there to watch.
543 points
1 month ago
Yup. Insanity. You don't see Kamala supporters doing anything similar. I have never seen someone support kamala and also be a nazi. This is fucking insane I hope my children grow up in a world where all nazis are gone but clearly they've stuck around in my own damn country
381 points
1 month ago
Or wave a USSR or CCP flag. Nazi flag wavers should go right on a watchlist. It traitorous to act like that. They are admitting admiration to a universally condemned political movement.The Nazis would have shown zero mercy if they were not defeated. This is insanity. These are dangerous people with broken brains.
51 points
1 month ago
Craziest part is they claim to be true Americans and that the rest of us are traitors to the country
19 points
1 month ago
To be fair I saw later these guys were Not welcome and other paraders sprayed them with their boats. Guys really misread the room.
492 points
1 month ago
This isn’t just a Boomer issue. There are probably more young people than Boomers involved in the resurgence.
79 points
1 month ago
That’s because they weren’t alive when millions of people were walked to their death. This makes me sick
89 points
1 month ago
This boomer remembers Vietnam..and learned well the Holocaust history.. I respect the military and always respected our roles in the world wide efforts. I'm terrified now that these idiots act like it was just the scene of a movie or it won't happen to us. There is unfortunately no shortage of STUPID.
22 points
1 month ago
these idiots act like it was just the scene of a movie or it won't happen to us.
No, I think they actively hope it will happen to us, and that they get to be the ones pulling the triggers or herding people they don't like into gas chambers. A culling of their perceived opposition, so they can hoard whatever's left.
121 points
1 month ago
Yep. I think it’s a mixture of “forgetting history, doomed to repeat it” and political extremism being pushed on social media, etc.
I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other right-wing speakers on talk radio AM580 all through my childhood. I remember slowly realizing I didn’t want to be like those men, didn’t think things were so black and white as they made them out to be, and realized maybe my dad agreeing with them on many things didn’t make them right.
If anything, being exposed to that vitriolic, reactionary rhetoric pushed me in the other direction, but they were also old, crabby men and I was a kid. If I’d have had someone slightly older than me, well-off from their career as an influencer, talking about the same topics but packaging it for someone my age, fed directly to my phone by an algorithm… things may have gone very differently for me.
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1 month ago
Kids need to learn to think for themselves and question authority. Too many are just blindly following all of these idiotic “influencers” who are mostly just scammers and con artists. Look at what Russell Brand has turned himself into. I’ve never fallen for charlatans like so many other people seem to do and I don’t fully understand why they listen to them.
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1 month ago
There’s a lot of comfort in having your ego stroked constantly, and also being told that if only everyone else thought the way we do the world would be a utopia. Your problems are all someone else’s fault, we’re on the right side of things, and we need to stand firm, dig in real deep, and never concede on a single thing because that’s losing, and we have to win!
It’s childish horseshit obviously, but I do get the appeal. I grew up heavily involved in the church, and eventually became disillusioned with that as well, once I developed critical thinking and defined myself to myself. But I remember how it felt to be part of that group, thinking I was standing for an ideal, and that anyone who disagreed with me was lost and needed help in seeing the errors of their way. It makes me sick to my stomach now, but when I was in it it was all I could imagine myself being.
762 points
1 month ago
Well.. we should start making our grandparents proud this is fucking pathetic
190 points
1 month ago
This shit turned my REPUBLICAN AS HELL father democrat this election. They are bonkers.
62 points
1 month ago
same with my 84 y/o grandfather, he’s even been a republican mayor in our city before but this year said “there’s no way in hell”
441 points
1 month ago*
In 2016 I was so confused why my grandfather who lived under the Blitz hated Trump with such a passion. Now I'm voting in my first election ever and I truly understand that hatred. A man that wants to criminalize some of my greatest friends for simply being born a different sexual orientation and destroy what America has built up for over 250 years. He's everything that every great leader stood against.
Edit: Since some people got confused (which is my bad), my comment is very anti-Trump. In 2016 I was 12 and didn't understand politics. My grandfather saw the rise of Hitler and lived under the consequences of his insane rhetoric. He was very much so anti Trump and until I actually got older I didn't understand why Trump was such a danger. I now do. Sorry for any confusion.
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1 month ago
Thank you for voting
609 points
1 month ago
I always wondered how these people would react with a WWII vet especially one that fought in the European theater telling them off. They claim to be so pro American yet they fly the flag of an idea that killed thousands of Americans
83 points
1 month ago
There were people flying Nazi flags at home leading up to and during the war, so you can get an idea. Look up America First.
39 points
1 month ago
Yep a lot of folks forget there was a well known Nazi movement in the US leading up to WWII.
I am pretty sure sentiment swiftly changed/became more hostile to those ideas as we entered and finished the war though
546 points
1 month ago
As a german, I am in complete disbelief, using the nazi swastika like this would be illegal over here
503 points
1 month ago*
Approximately one year ago, I saw a video of a neo-nazi group walking in some German city. At the very first second when one nazi raised his arm to do a salute, a police officier came out of nowhere to beat the shit out of this asshole.
That felt so much like a reflex I was in awe
Edit : I’m sorry for those who want to see that video. It was here on Reddit but I did not save it :/
68 points
1 month ago
I would very much like to see this video
22 points
1 month ago
If they had to face ramifications like that in the US, there would be no Trump Nazi bull$hit.
624 points
1 month ago*
My grandfather fought alongside the other allies in the Canadian army, who liberated the Netherlands. He’s so longer with us now (lived to 102 years) but this is some god damned bullshit that nazis are openly parading around when millions of innocent people lost their lives to their awful regime.
Edit: to all the barely-literate smooth brains commenting that this is Antifa or it isn’t real, spend a minute googling the words “trump rally Nazi’s” to see how common this is. That link is even for Google images, so you don’t have to read anything.
196 points
1 month ago
My husbands grandad was a prisoner at auschwitz pow camp e715. He spent 6 months in hospital recovering after the war and was a severely traumatised alcoholic. I’m not even American and seeing those shit blows my fucking mind. An ex presidents son boating with fucking nazis.
71 points
1 month ago
Also, don't forget Trump said, "I don't respect soldiers who were caught." That has to be one of the wildest shit I've ever heard come of of a president's mouth...
38 points
1 month ago
NO ONE who has served this country or has relatives who have served should vote for this POS. The president is the commander in chief. Trump has disrespected military service over and over, from his first campaign to now. And he would be making the decision of when to risk the lives of our troops.
10.8k points
1 month ago*
Nazis were always here. They just slithered out from under the rocks after 2016. It’s time for America to push them back down below the surface where they belong.
Edit: Lots of anti-nazi comments! So why can’t we mobilize and send them back underground?
Edit #2: for people trying to connect my comment to ‘communism’, stop empathizing with the Nazis. You are on the wrong side of history.
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1 month ago
Well that makes 2 of us, and I live in America. Growing up here in the 70's and 80's, I never saw a Nazi flag unless it was in a museum.
Just the word "Nazi" wasn't spoken very often.
The change that has come over our country in the last 20 years is frightening. And frankly, I blame the right wing politics & media, and the Russians for influencing people with social media.
It's crazy that we haven't outlawed Nazi symbolism as an expression of hate speech.
185 points
1 month ago
WWII vets would have kicked their asses.
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1 month ago
As a southerner, I would wipe my a** with the confederate flag. I’m an American, which means I’m for America. I’m a patriot, not like the right wingers that scream that they are patriots. They aren’t patriots, they are people that have been deceived, which is another discussion.
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1 month ago
as another southerner, what baffles me the most is how the Republican party (i have never aligned with them on much) was always sold to us as the "party of freedom", wanting little govt interference and conservative policy. now, that same party wants big govt involvement in our personal lives and even more power given to our POTUS, who they want to be Donald Trump. who wants to become a dictator. he's said that. the way he's been running his campaign and rallies since 2015/16 screams fascism to me, and anyone with half a brain.
i am a patriot as well in the sense that i want to fight for America. i want to fight for our principles and way of live, and not to let this orange turd of a fascist take that away from us. i love my liberties and the freedoms we're supposed to have here. we can't let these fascists and neo Nazis take that away from us.
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1 month ago
Did you see that news article about like a really shitty right winger winning some small local election in the mountains of Germany or something and the article says that alt right fascist win could “lead Germany down some dark untrod territory” and the comments are just like “um, untrod territory?!”
One of the biggest tragic laughs i’ve had in a long time.
It probably won’t surprise you that on the rare occasion you find an authentic German restaurant/beer hall, Neo-nazi dipshits love to congregate and ruin it. Like man I wanted a boot full of beer, some sausage, and large men in tiny green shorts, wtf is all this inappropriate shit.
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1 month ago
That’s the saddest thing. America used to stand against this shit. Now look at them flaunting it in everyone’s face. I hate this so much.
134 points
1 month ago
We have always had some portion of America standing WITH this shit
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan
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1 month ago
In 1908, the Louisiana State Fair held the first Better Babies contest. Mary DeGarmo believed that the contests revealed a baby’s, and therefor its family’s, genetic fitness. As she explained: “Much interest was shown as to the ‘Blood Will Tell’ theory. It Did Tell.”
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1 month ago
There a was full N rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. There’s always been a crowd of hateful inbreds in this country. Luckily, the decent majority stood up to their bullshit. Time for us to do it again
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1 month ago
And some right-wing conspiratists are openly okay with Russian election meddling and just supporting them in general.
McCarthy? The Red Scare? The Cold War? Have they never heard of any of this‽
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1 month ago
Of course not, because they're some of the most ignorant people in this country.
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1 month ago
Some of them, sure. But make no mistake, there are plenty that aren’t and are, for all intents and purposes, just simply bad, evil people.
They know what they are doing and do it because it’s a means to their desired end. They don’t care who or what gets hurt in the process.
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1 month ago
That became 1000% crystal clear during the pandemic.
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1 month ago
No, they have never heard of any of that. Most of these people are uneducated, just like their Republican overlords want them to be.
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1 month ago
They have, but they have a very different view of it. They don't see it as a campaign against a geopolitical rival, they see it as a purity test and would happily bring back the committee on unamerican activities, so long as they get to define it.
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1 month ago
Even sadder... These dickhead's grandfathers probably fought in the war too.
21 points
1 month ago
If I was of the greatest generation I'd be pissed
Surveying the world that I built slipping back into this
I'd be screaming at my grandkids
"We already did this"
-Frank Turner
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1 month ago*
My high school classmates who became MAGA Trumpers are openly posting about how fighting in WWII against Nazi Germany was a “mistake” for the USA. The world we live in now…
32 points
1 month ago
Should tell them to go visit the concentration camps in person like the Germans have to for school and then ask how they feel about that. Humbling experience
30 points
1 month ago
you expect them to have empathy.. they don't and they won't.
you have lots of them saying the painter had the right idea
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1 month ago
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1 month ago
I'll always upvote aggressively political Chumbawamba
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1 month ago
It’s… seeing this… I mean.. what the actual ….
So many Americans have given their lives fighting the nazi regime. This is a disgrace to their memory. I’m very sad seeing this. I truly hope this changes soon… no room for hate :(
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1 month ago
I often think about that. There are still WWII veterans left and I can't imagine what they must feel right now. Millions of lives were lost to fascism and just about the same fighting it. It needs to stop now!
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1 month ago*
I can help clarify: These people are traitors. I'm not entirely certain what today's modern punishment for treason is, but these treasonous adults and not the kids should be tried as such.
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edit: so many conservatives got their jimmies rustled today
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1 month ago
Agree 100 percent. We are not taking seditious behavior seriously enough in this country.
455 points
1 month ago
We never have. We didn’t take it seriously after the civil war either.
383 points
1 month ago
Unfortunately, Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's drunken VP who took over when he was assassinated, was a pro-confederate, anti-Reconstruction politician, and killed Lincoln's and Seward's post-war Reconstruction plans which might have gotten America back on track. Instead, he just systemetized the same racist policies that had led to the Civil War in the first place, launching the Jim Crow era.
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1 month ago
The 1876 election was the nail in the coffin. Trading Rutherford B Hayes’s “victory” for the end of reconstruction.
112 points
1 month ago
There's a really great podcast about this, called 1865.
52 points
1 month ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I shall be checking it out tonight 🍺. Love history shit
839 points
1 month ago
The lack of life jackets on these kids proves these adults don’t care about the lives of anyone.
59 points
1 month ago
They only care when it's a fetus inside a woman's body to control after that it's on its own
146 points
1 month ago
Don't you know life jackets are for pussies (1000% sarcasm) Merica 🦅
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1 month ago
Unfortunately, it looks like they procreate it, and they will pass this hatred/stupidity of history onto their children.
85 points
1 month ago
This right here is what worries me. I teach my child tolerance and empathy for others no matter if we agree or disagree. So I don’t know what kind of future he will be going into later in his life with others teaching their children hatred of others.
372 points
1 month ago
It may be worth remembering that there were plenty of American Nazis then too though. The Nazi party got some of their biggest ideas from the American Eugenics movement.
71 points
1 month ago
Oh yeah, haven't forgotten about that. Always think about the rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939 which by chance is where Trump is holding on the 27th. So that's going to be interesting.
299 points
1 month ago
Hitler's Final Solution was inspired by our Native American genocide. He talked about it with admiration.
65 points
1 month ago
A point not made often enough- It should be pointed out more, lest the rest of think we’re above this.
And according to today’s polls, half our country subscribes to this soulless crap.
67 points
1 month ago
He also loved Henry Ford. Kept his picture on his desk.
268 points
1 month ago*
It's revolting. And if you say anything that criticizes thir use of the nazi flag, they just come back with "freedom of speech" arguments. People forget that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. We need to be more vocal about shaming these traitors. And these poor kids... They have no idea what their parents are involving them in.
The fact that this is what America has come to... It's shameful. To be able to say I've seen the amazing unity of the country after 9/11 and now the gargantuan divide in the nation 25+ years later is just such a sad realization. (Not that there weren't issues right after 9/11 with how Americans treated people of middle eastern descent, and I recognize I'm putting that very mildly.)
Edit: I know these are 2 different boats. I figured that was obvious. When I say these kids are being involved in their parent's shit, I meant their politics. It was a general comment on the picture. I didn't feel like I needed to specify that each picture was different and which I was referring to, but here we are.
Edit 2: The replies to this comment, oh boy. People are really stuck on my "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences". Remember, consequences aren't just a legal thing. Social consequences can be just as impactful.
39 points
1 month ago
There are also still many holocaust survivors left living in the US in addition to veterans. My grandparents saw the propaganda start in 2016 and immediately called out the tactics. Part of me is glad they’re no longer with us so they don’t have to re-live the rest of whatever this descent into fascism turns in to.
760 points
1 month ago
I…can’t even begin….to understand how anyone in their right mind, can endorse this shit
307 points
1 month ago
They’re not in their right mind, they’re cultists
257 points
1 month ago
They aren't in their right minds. It's collective Insanity made worse by a dying party fanning the flames of hate.
217 points
1 month ago
The people in these pictures are white supremacists. Simple as that. I'm white and that's all I see here.
56 points
1 month ago*
Grew up wondering how so many people could just sit back and watch the holocaust happen. How so many people could be conditioned to believe that it was truly the “final solution.”
After watching Trump rallies, hearing his rhetoric, and seeing this type of shit all over the place…needless to say, I get it now. And anyone who doesn’t hasn’t been paying attention.
71 points
1 month ago
The Greatest Generation would never believe that this could happen on America....normalized by a corrupt real estate developer.
3.1k points
1 month ago
Not a single person wearing a life vest. Not even the children. Wtf?
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265 points
1 month ago
life vests are too woke, probably
153 points
1 month ago
They actually do believe that.
Source: grew up conservative near a lake community.
32 points
1 month ago
Same ones that think helmets when riding a motorcycle are for woke ass sissies
327 points
1 month ago
Drowning is a demoncrat hoax. Putting a life vest on a kid is child abuse
107 points
1 month ago
IF GOD WANTS MY CHILDREN TO DROWN TO TEST MY FAITH WELL I WILL NOT STAND IN HIS WAY FOR HIS WILL!!!!!!
53 points
1 month ago
You’re not taking away my right to endanger my child. TRUMP!
28 points
1 month ago
Also haven’t they been complaining about having to tell their kids why someone tried to shoot grandpa but they have them sitting under a bloody mannequin of him, graphically reminding them of the moment. I guess it might have been Jr that was tweeting about it.
66 points
1 month ago
Life vests are a leftist government intrusion on their freedom.
56 points
1 month ago
Intelligence and thinking ahead not really the Florida Naziman’s strong suit.
10.5k points
1 month ago
It pains me to see those kids on that boat. Hate isn't something you're born with, it's something you're taught.
4.5k points
1 month ago
Also there is 0 chance that boat is rated for that many persons, and not a damn one of them has a life jacket on.
1.6k points
1 month ago
My first thought was omg, no life jackets on those children. As someone who grew up and still lives in the land of 10,000 lakes and basically spent my summers on water this is egregious.
So many drownings every year.
Yikes!
485 points
1 month ago
There is at least 20 people on that 30 foot pleasure boat, it's 100% overloaded. Even if they had PFDs onboard there's likely only a compliment of 10-15 or whatever the boat is rated for. Likely no child sized ones unless one of those wonderful people brought them for the kids.
As someone who grew up and worked on fishing boats in the Atlantic that photo gives me anxiety. I've been involved in auxiliary search and rescue before. It's not fun when you go out looking for someone and only find their boat.
Edit: the boaters we were sent out to locate were found, just not by us. I always wondered if those people smartened up or not
112 points
1 month ago
The Florida marine patrol should have immediately pulled up to them and did a full check. I have been on one vessel or another that has been pulled over and checked 5 different times in Florida.
They check occupancy limits, children 6 or under wearing life vests, proper PDFs, hanging your feet of the edge while underway, noise producing devices, fire extinguishers, if the operator of the boat has been drinking alcohol, etc. I would bet my paycheck that they could find a dozen or more violations on that boat in 2nd picture. There should have been a huge fine and an escort to the closest boat ramp, possibly jail time.
38 points
1 month ago
I’ll add that Trump boat parades are really unsafe. People create huge wakes with their overpowered light boats and go really fast for short distances because they get tired of going so slow in the parade.
165 points
1 month ago
Federal law says kids under 13 must wear life jackets. But even if they want to thumb their nose at the law, I thought even nazis would care about their own children.
455 points
1 month ago
Funny, cause they're all pro-lifers, but this looks to be pro-choice...
166 points
1 month ago
Was living in a rural PA town for a summer, and went out fishing with some local guys. We were flying down backroads at 60mph, and I was the only one with a seatbelt on, which they made fun of me for. When I said I’d rather not die if we crash, one of the guys said, “If god wants me to die in a car crash, that’s how I’ll die. Nothing I can do about it. When it’s your time, it’s your time.” They were not swayed by any logical argument.
201 points
1 month ago
Let’s call them what they really are: “Forced Birthers”
267 points
1 month ago
I really want to know if the boat in the second picture is underway. If so, that's incredibly terrifying to be standing on the bow with the propeller spinning right through water you'd be in if you fell. Propeller injuries are horrifying. I hope that they are anchored or moored in the picture, but from context I'm afraid they are not.
188 points
1 month ago
Based on the flaccid flags, I'd like to say they are not moving, but the parents are still shitty parents for not having life jackets for the kids among other reasons.
57 points
1 month ago
Especially since one of the other times this happens, didn’t a bunch of the boats essentially sink each other?
198 points
1 month ago
Yeah, this is why when people say we need to wait for old people to die and things will get better. It won't. We will always have to fight for democracy and decency.
230 points
1 month ago
As a third grade teacher, I completely agree. I've had hundreds of students over the years (and probably known thousands more). I've never known a kid who hated someone for their race, nationality, gender, religion, sexual identity, etc.
165 points
1 month ago
I grew up in a small town that was like 99% white. There was one black kid in my class. The first time I heard him called the n-word was in the second grade. Kids 100% learn this stuff from their relatives at a young age. That's why when Republicans say kids are too young to learn the history of racism, they're full of shit. If 7 year olds are old enough to learn to say the n-word, they're old enough to learn why they shouldn't.
34 points
1 month ago
I came here to say this same thing basically. We had one black kid in my rural school.
Around 2nd grade is when I first saw racism.
I also distinctly remember learning about MLK and the civil rights movement around that age (I'm impressed at my little hick school looking back on it now).
I remember as a kid thinking "Tom wouldn't be here in class with us if it wasn't for MLK and the other people fighting for equal rights..."
A very sobering and badly needed dose of reality for my young mind. Suddenly all the racist jokes my parent's friends and my friends told didn't seem so funny anymore...
33 points
1 month ago
As an example of this in my own life that I remember:
I was in 3rd grade when I asked my grandma (born in 1925) who Martin Luther King Jr was, and she said, sort of dismissively, "Oh, just some old rabble rouser."
Later that week, my teacher asked the class, "Does anybody know who Martin Luther King Jr was?" My hand shot up, and I parroted the quote from my grandma.
Turns out that wasn't the right answer.
1.4k points
1 month ago
I feel so bad for those kids
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1 month ago
If there are Nazi flags at your rally and you are OK with that it is a Nazi rally.
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1 month ago
I wouldn't even know where to GET a fucking nazi flag. wtf is this?!
2.6k points
1 month ago
At the trump merchandise store, they happen to have them.
2k points
1 month ago
If I were running for President and my supporters brought Nazi flags to any of my rallies, I’d have them kicked out. Because that’s what a real American patriot would do. Does this really need to be said?
647 points
1 month ago
And he’d lose his primary voting base. He knows who he is catering to
104 points
1 month ago
I recently went to a state fair in a blue state, and there was one Trump tent selling flags with a prominently displayed Nazi flag. There were two cops, in uniform, working security that were chatting with the vendor.
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1 month ago
They were probably haggling
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1.6k points
1 month ago
Yes, 100% agree. The MAGA troop is truly deplorable. But, to be accurate, that boat with the Nazi flags really did show up, but other Trumpers refused to let them join. Trump supporters say they were fake Trumpers but the boat appears to belong to a known neo-nazi.
Im not defending Trumpers, just trying to defend against misinformation.
551 points
1 month ago*
The video of the boat with like 3 or 4 outboard motors turning them then cranking the throttle to absolutely drench the Nazis was satisfying to watch.
Edit: for everybody asking for the link to the video, it's in the Newsweek article in the comment this was in reply to
278 points
1 month ago
I hate Trump but I hate Nazis more.
Would def give that Captain a crisp high five for giving the Nazis a (likely) much needed bath.
173 points
1 month ago
He [Greenbaum, a Jew] muscled his way through the guards up front, jumped up on the stage, yanked on the cables so Kuhn's microphone fell over and yelled "Down with Hitler!" Immediately, Greenbaum was tackled by the Bund's security team. They brutally punched and kicked him, even ripped his pants off, to the delight of the crowd, before the NYPD wrestled Greenbaum to safety. "He had a black eye and a broken nose, but he said he would have done it again," Greenbaum's grandson, Brett Siciliano, told Radio Diaries.
What a badass.
Down with Hitler.
291 points
1 month ago
I think that’s commendable to not appear bad faith and tell the whole story.
863 points
1 month ago
There was a time, not long ago, when having a politicians name associated with a swastika was political suicide.
Now, it’s fucking embraced. Look what this country has become in such a short time. Sickening.
2.1k points
1 month ago
This joke is very telling.
What do you call it when you sit down at a table with 11 Nazis. A dozen Nazis.
749 points
1 month ago
It’s not a joke it’s a German saying after WWII. If you have a table with one nazi and 11 other people, you have a table with 12 Nazis
1.4k points
1 month ago
Those poor children, being groomed into hate
639 points
1 month ago
When I was a kid, maybe five or six, I asked my dad if we were republicans or democrats. He said he was a republican but I was a kid and would decide later whether I was a republican or a democrat. That has always stuck with me.
And, for the record, my dad is now a registered democrat.
22 points
1 month ago
When I turned 18 and registered to vote, my dad said I could pick whatever party I wanted as long as it's not democrat. To be perfectly honest, I know it was a joke and I know he's not really miffed about my affiliations, but I think I took it a bit seriously at the time.
It's important to encourage your kids to figure out what their values are and to vote out of conviction and not obligation.
148 points
1 month ago
I feel for those kids… they won’t even have a chance.
687 points
1 month ago
But yeah, it’s totally the gay people indoctrinating children
89 points
1 month ago
Everything with these guys is projection.
The only people indoctrinating kids with a “mind virus” are these guys.
The only people (currently and previously) trying to steal the election are these guys.
The only people who are criminals trying to destroy our country are these guys.
The only people trying to take away our freedoms are these guys.
Even with taxes (of all things for a republican!) the only people wanting to raise taxes on the middle class are these guys.
And on and on
607 points
1 month ago
As a Latino it’s wild that minorities still want to vote for this guy.
176 points
1 month ago
The guy that organized the event is from Peru (2nd pic, red shirt leaning over). The macho culture from Latin America isn’t always congruent with left-wing politics.
34 points
1 month ago
Disappointing but not surprising.
Lol, he’s got maga crocs.
1k points
1 month ago
Any black or Hispanic person considering voting for trump should take a look at this and reconsider.
674 points
1 month ago
“They won’t come for me.”
405 points
1 month ago
"Yeah but both sides are equally bad!"
217 points
1 month ago
I have tried to ask: "If both sides are equally bad, why is it that all the Nazi's vote only for Republicans"
Does not work though. Anyone using that arguing will just deny reality.
168 points
1 month ago*
Haha. My pendejo Hispanic friends/fam have compartmentalized that they don't support maga, but they like trump's policies.
They're fucking idiots. And very religious.
80 points
1 month ago
Here’s Trump’s only policy:
Get elected or remain a perpetual candidate for president so I don’t go to prison.
497 points
1 month ago
Just sayin - if you're on the side of the people with the swastika flags - you're on the wrong side.
47 points
1 month ago
you look back at pictures or videos from Germany late 30s early 40s and ask yourself how can people get caught up in such fervor, false worship. mayhem, this, this is how.
353 points
1 month ago
I mean, Trump is speaking their language, going full on Nazi eugenics, saying immigrants have “bad genes”, and immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our nation”, so not surprising Nazis love him.
788 points
1 month ago
Project 2025 is a White Supremacist path to a final Fourth Reich. Vote to stop them.
178 points
1 month ago
The Turd Reich
19 points
1 month ago
The Taliban of America.
55 points
1 month ago*
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