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[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

So a little history the swastika was appropriated from earlier civilizations the nazi salute was half of the roman legions salute so that was appropriated as well. So maybe the So called nazi salutes are the people appropriating half of the Roman legions salute. Either way it's all a stretch to call these a nazi salute. It seems that many liberals want to equate conservative as nazi's which is really funny to me. It's the democrat leadership with thier socialist ideals that are closer to democratic socialism that the republican leadership. So instead of talking about the differences between the Republicans and the democrats maybe both of your parties should focus on what you have in common. Then the differences will seem less important. Bit that's just my opinion that means nothing to anyone but me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

When exactly will you start believing the reality before you rather than the one you conjure to insulate yourself from reality?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Surely them doing the Nazis salute counts as cultural appropriation. The right-wing German should be complaining about it. They need to come up with their own salutes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Didn't we used to do the nazi salute for the pledge of allegience before ww2? I remember reading it somewhere but also FUCK NAZIS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 58 minutes ago

The pledge itself is already nazi bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

Second?

The first and second happened on the same stage within 5 second of each other

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Aka "karate chopping the Plausible Deniability right in the throat"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Somebody should tell him that if he's going to be a Nazi then he needs to have acquire a snazzy sense of style. He looks like a random old man down the sports bar.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 13 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago

Man, that one was so much worse than I remembered. I thought it was just part of a wider gesture, but that heil and the wave that came afterward are clearly two different emotes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Close, but trump does have his hand vertical enough to be a legitimate wave.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

They're just saying it doesn't count as two because Trump's doesn't really count. The one on the bottom left is absolutely a Nazi salute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Ah my bad, missed the comment asking if that counted as two.

[–] [email protected] 236 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Ya know......as much as I hated Bush in his day, he was never a nazi. I called him a LOT of things over the years.....but I never remember calling him a nazi.

How the fuck are we living in a timeline where a president who used a terrorist attack as justification for invading countries that never had anything to do with it, is now looked at as "he wasn't so bad...."

[–] [email protected] 138 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Bush is a war criminal, lied to the American people, and contributed to the pathway that created trumpism.

He's not a Nazi. But he's not a good guy either.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

His grandpa was though.

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfather-helped-hitlers-rise-to-power

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/02/25/the-business-plot-did-american-billionaires-plan-a-fascist-coup/

And his dad HW ran the CIA for a while.

Pardoned a good number of Iran Contra CIA people when he was President.

... And seems to have been working for or with the CIA for many years before he became director.

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/25/the-real-reason-the-cia-loved-george-h-w-bush_partner/

Zapata Oil was run by HW Bush... and very much seems to have been a CIA front company, assisting with many 'kinetic' operations in Cuba and Latin America.

... And if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, a whole bunch of people connected to Watergate, the Bay of Pigs... and JFK's assasination... are also linked to Zapata Oil...

... and HW himself was noted by J Edgar Hoover as working for the CIA, in 1963, way before HW ever admitted he worked for/with the CIA, in an official FBI memo investigating the assasination.

https://headlineusa.com/records-implicate-george-h-w-bush-in-the-assassination-of-jfk/

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/11/us/63-fbi-memo-ties-bush-to-intelligence-agency.html

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, the preceding years laundering his reputation and presidency has been maddening. His war crimes, foreign policy on essentially everything, domestic policy on education, carceral systems, tax reform, and the border should have him in solitary at The Hague for the rest of his life. The man is truly a monster, and walks among the nazis today. He's still a republican, so whether or not he's a nazi is perhaps an academic debate only.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

He was a fascist. He was always a fascist and his "War on Terror" laid the ground work for our current situation.

His presidency is when I first saw the Signs of Fascism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

Yup, it’s when patriots and flags on cars took a nasty turn. Let’s not forget about Dock Cheney either. O matter what his daughter has tried to do to change that name, Bush and Dick belong in the Hauge.

Trump belongs in an orange jumpsuit and Musk belongs in South Africa, locked in a compound hiding from the world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

So you just aren't aware of the "PATRIOT [sic] Act" at all, huh?

Bush signing that into law was the moment I knew Bin Laden had won.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

Bush lied about WMDs to kill millions of people and steal their oil. He is not Hitler but he is not far. It will take more than a sieg to surpass Bush.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

My dearly departed gramps would agree. Man was on the ground walking across France and Germany on a mission to free concentration camps. He wouldn’t describe it in any further detail than that, ever, but he would shut down any murmur of racism. Silence a room shut down.

We lack that now which is why hx is coming back around again.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I think it’s interesting* that as soon as everyone with a firsthand account of Nazis dies, Nazism comes roaring back. It’s as though there’s no generational memory in society.

*not to imply it’s good, it’s horrifying.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

This was a nazi salute, or at least a reference to it, you can obviously see it. However, and this is where it becomes slightly problematic...

Is it enough of a nazi salute to not work in their favor? We can easily compare Elons salute with a nazi one, just show it side by side with an actual one. But this one is obviously (you can see it on his face) meant to reference it, but it is not as explicit. The problem is that when it is called out, it is just another case of "the woke left screaming that everyone that disagrees with them is a nazi".

I have no idea how we should handle shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

If it looks like an intentional nazi salute then it is a nazi salute. No overthinking needed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

It was enough of a Nazi salute for the head of France's far-right party, who are Nazis, to cancel his planned speech.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/steve-bannon-jordan-bardella-nazi-salute-cpac

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

I was hesitant at first, but like. What the hell else is he doing? He isn't gesturing to emphasize something he's saying, he isn't waving at anyone, he isn't addressing the crowd. Literally the only thing it can reasonably be is a heil.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'm usually not a fan of zero tolerance policies, but I make an exception for Nazi shit.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

The difference is Bannon knows what he's doing, while Ellonie is a moron.

Bannon did it just half-heartedly enough to throw doubt into it when asked. Elon tried his best.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

My heart goes out to the American people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

That shit isn’t contained in the US unfortunately. As much as the right say that they are against globalism and globalists like Soros they have been manipulated by the biggest globalist. The entire international swing towards fascism in the West has been orchestrated by Putin. He is the New World Order. We will be seeing more Nazis take power across the world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Please convert that into our preferred crisis currency, Thoughts and Prayers(tm)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Bannon is white fucking trash anyway. Not just saying that because he looks like human excrement but because he has the personality of a roasted maggot.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Why exactly are we repeating history

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

This is what happens when you systematically destroy the education system.

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