• @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    323 days 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…”

    • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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      23 days ago

      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.

      • ddh
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        23 days ago

        It’s so sad that we are going to get this costly lesson again. It would be better if the guillotines came out, rather than panzer tanks.

      • @Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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        23 days 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.

  • @MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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    023 days 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.