• @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2263 months ago

    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…”

    • @robocall@lemmy.world
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      1343 months ago

      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.

      • @apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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        313 months 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.

    • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • @anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        173 months 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.

    • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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      163 months ago

      Let’s be real, the best part of Bush Junior was Sam Rockwell playing him in Vice.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      143 months 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.

    • @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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      103 months 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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      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.

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        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.

  • @Placebonickname@lemmy.world
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    393 months ago

    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.

  • toomanypancakes
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    263 months ago

    There’s only one kind of good nazi. We should strive to make them all like that.

  • @MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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    213 months ago

    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.

  • @DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    193 months ago

    Flabby white guys barely able to raise their arms.

    Bannon’s not used to lifting his hand past his juandice tinged liver lips.

    Elon so fucking out of shape he actually gasped for air and grunted.

      • @Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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        53 months ago

        Fuentes is getting uncomfortable? “Just kidding” he says. I fucking hate people like this. Same people that googled if they could change their election vote.

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          Whatever Fuentes is, he’s in an entirely different category than people who googled if they could change their election vote. Those people were straight up ignorant low-information voters. Fuentes is either trying to use a “Schrodinger’s douchebag” tactic deliberately (99% chance) or is somewhat genuinely reformed (LOLWTF% chance), but is definitely not ignorant.

      • @garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        "The Manson Family had a more coherent ideology than MAGA. And the liberal criticism that American ‘fascism’ is merely a personality cult around Trump seems justified,’ notorious white supremacist Richard Spencer said on Friday

        Couldn’t get past the subheading…I guess today is the day I agree with a white supremacist.

  • @zib@lemmy.world
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    103 months ago

    I hear if we can get a third before the end of the month, those egg prices will start tumbling!