• Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
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    One instance is a coincidence

    You have this picture here as one ( we won’t even talk about he made the eagle more Nazi like)

    They use a Nazi rune for the stage at the RNC where they proudly post the “joke” that they are domestic terrorists.

    Their side is EXCLUSIVELY made up of Holocaust deniers.

    Their side is made up of EXCLUSIVELY of this country’s neo Nazis and white supremists

    Stephen miller plagiarized Goebbels

    Trump kept and read Mein Kampf next to his bed

    Trump, Vance, and musk campaign for and donate money to the German AfD party who are KNOWN to be NAZIS

    Elon Musk “jokingly” sieg Heiled twice so forcibly that he grunted

    They have built, and are still building , concetration camps.

    Their new illegal bunker has a, very legal I’m sure, medical research facility in it

    They all constantly talk about Eugenics.

    They are bringing back public executions

    This is all aside from. Their policy decisions. At this point, if I meet you on the street and you say that they ARENT NAZIS, we will have problems

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    How much do you want to bet he studied that exact photo to get the iconography and pose right?

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      It is ironic that his flavour of fascism includes adoring israel not hating it. Anyway, he’s not smart enough to be a very successful villain, hope to see him removed soon

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        They love to force suffering on others.

        It’s like a pressure release valve for them. When they make others suffer it slightly lessens their own terror for a moment.

        Whatever bullshit they have to say or do, incantations, prayers, dumb hats, whatever to get to the part where millions suffer, they’ll do it.

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        his flavour of fascism includes adoring israel not hating it

        Obviously for money, for that country is one of the largest purchasers of US military equipment.

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    The eagle is clutching arrows, representing a fasces, the root of the word fascism, representing the power of the state. Traditionally depicted with an axe at the centre, a fasces was a tool used by the roman armu to discipline soldiers. An axe for decapetation, rods for beating.

    these things are everywhere un modern nation states, but I’m told it’s not important, it doesnt mean what i think it means.

    it is also the root of the word f*ggot, a bundle of sticks.

    :3

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    Just because he idolizes the nazi military doesn’t mean he’s a nazi. He is of course. But that’s not why, everything else he does is why.

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        Honestly the Nazis were not this Uber competent group. Tons of in-fighting, poor strategic and logistical choices, and they did not run the government nor country in this rigid orderly way that is and was projected by their propaganda.

        I would say they had a very good propaganda campaign that’s still ongoing and paying dividends. Once you look under the surface some and start learning more about how the country was governed it becomes clear there was plenty of room for improvement.

        I mean, think about it this way, they chose to commit an industrial genocide on a hellacious scale wasting men, material and destroying the soul of a nation. How much more manpower would they have had if they didn’t commit these crimes against humanity and instead had drafted these folks.

        Like I know it’s not a great comparison or awesome though experiment and lacking any nuance but I think it makes a point.

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          Yeah that dividend still pays out, it’s insane. Take a country that ruins itself so badly so quickly, and the propaganda works anyways ??! The human brain is wild.

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        yeahhhhh but just barely, hitler was just ass much of a fucking nut-job as trump… he advised his generals to read less sun tzu and more karl may; a children’s book author, who wrote stories about cowboys and indians, who had never even visited the US.

        this would be like trump telling hegseth to read more harry potter to figure out how to strategize better in the straight of hormuz…

        fascists are always incompetent, because they are fucking clowns…

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    I’m not saying this image is generated, but it is at least a little bit weird that a reverse image search only shows this specific comparison. I even tried Google Images for a “Visual Match” instead of just Tineye, and nothing.

    That, and Hitler’s eyes look weird, and the folded Nazi flags in the back look garbled. Circumstantially, it’d be extremely fucking weird if whoever planned this layout put a plant obstructing the view of the symbol on the podium. And what the hell would that cut-off, stark white symbol at the bottom right be?

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    Symbols are for the symbol minded - George Carlin

    The thing that makes this regime similar to the Nazis isn’t the way they draw eagles.

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      The new name is oddly truthful, really not in line with their common stance on truth.

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        for being a ‘department of war’, one would think they’d actually be good at it.

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          Interestingly “ministry of war” used to be quite frequent names for these institutions. The “defense” euphemism only came later in many countries. Austria-Hungary also had a “Kriegsministerium” (“war ministry”). It also had a much more badass double headed eagle bolted onto the building. Well, the building still has, after the country started a big war that was also the last thing that ministry did.

          https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia04.meinbezirk.at%2Farticle%2F2024%2F03%2F01%2F3%2F38736453_XXL.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bb3075f40aeff447cf708abd0b8c9b89fbfe1ccb42fc580c740792f4717615a0&ipo=images

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            I mean, I get and like the honesty. But keep in mind the administration that’s doing this; it’s different when a fascist country says “ministry of war” from when, say, a country like New Zealand or some other innocuous country like Norway or Portugal or current day Japan.

            When the current fascist-US admin says they’re going to be ultra aggressive, they not only end up being ultra aggressive, but they end up being ultra ultra aggressive and fascist.

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              I get your point, but Austro-Hungary started WW1, not nothing either. The reason I was mentioning it is that the US might just as well be in its late days imperialism. One of these wars might actually end the days of US Empire.

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                Will end the days of US empire. That’s the plan.

                trump is not your typical fascist strongman. He is an intentionally destructive force, sent in to make the country insolvent and unmanageable. So the old structure can be saddled with the debt of the people and organizations that are destroying it, and its physical resources can be parted-out.