But he seemed like such a nice guy up until now!
So I guess the Nazi overcoat wasn’t standard issue after all? Shocking.
I so wish this sort of shit was actually considered scandalous and reprehensible. But there are a shitload of people cheering him on.
This country fucking sucks.
But there are a shitload of people cheering him on.
Lots of polls have shown for months now that there are several shitloads who don’t like this administration’s immigration policies and think the Nazi shit is disgusting
This country fucking sucks.
The systems in it that give disproportionate power to bigots and oligarchs certainly do. But the average American really is no different than the average European or Russian person or whatever, for better and worse. They can be a little dumb and selfish but they’re not heartless monsters on average.
As a unitedstatesian, I gotta say I disagree with the benefit of the doubt you’re providing here.
Yes, there are outliers (I consider myself one of them), but there is a strong 30%-ish incredibly regressive and bigoted core demographic here, and it tends to be super prevalent in the Bible Belt and many of the flyover states - locations that correlate with shuttered, dogmatic thinking, and populations that tend to have no desire to go further than a few dozen miles from their hometown. And, yes, a lot of this is exacerbated by a concerted effort by conservative politicians and the GOP to hollow out public services - specifically including education - and I absolutely do think that the root cause needs to be addressed. But the problem is that at this point, it’s become a vicious, self-reinforcing feedback loop, and the symptom is now being folded in as a part of the cause. A lot of people ARE cheering him on. It’s absolutely fucking reprehensible, and I am horrified that that category of person are countrymen of mine.
As to the thoughts of the average American: again, yes, outliers exist, but the vast majority of people here just keep their head down and don’t do anything out of incuriousity, ignorance, misguided (and imo caustic) individualism, exhaustion, or outright greed (the “fuck you, I got mine” mentality). Community-oriented attitudes tend to be much stronger in urban areas, but there’s a very real sense of living under an occupation - which it extremely intentional under this regime. Not to mention, the whole narrative of American Exceptionalism is simply categorical bullshit, and a vanishingly small fraction of our populace is able to admit - let alone understand - that point.
Genuinely, I have never felt more politically or ideologically alienated from my birth country in my life.
there is a strong 30%-ish incredibly regressive and bigoted core demographic here
Sure, like there is in every country
the problem is that at this point, it’s become a vicious, self-reinforcing feedback loop, and the symptom is now being folded in as a part of the cause
That also happened in Orban’s Hungary, but these displays of fascist violence and intimidation are just as likely to alienate people as they are to rally the fascist base. People think they like mass deportations until their kid’s science teacher gets body slammed by masked government agents in the school hall in front of all their kids and then they start going to those protests that have been happening in front of immigration detention centers in America every day for over a year.
As to the thoughts of the average American: again, yes, outliers exist, but the vast majority of people here just keep their head down and don’t do anything out of incuriousity, ignorance, misguided (and imo caustic) individualism, exhaustion, or outright greed (the “fuck you, I got mine” mentality)
And we are not at all exceptional in this regard. Look at the UK far right, the Italian far right, the way the average Russian has publicly conducted themselves since their government invaded Ukraine, etc. The United States has serious and terrifying problems, but it’s not because we’re exceptionally evil people on the individual level, it’s because the shithead 30% of our society has had better luck here than they have had in other places.
Not to mention, the whole narrative of American Exceptionalism is simply categorical bullshit
Honestly that’s all I’m trying to say here. We’re definitely not exceptionally good, but we aren’t exceptionally evil either. We’re just people with a lot of farmland and other natural resources who didn’t get bombed as often as other places during the 20th century, so now we’ve got a big ass military and GDP and a lot of us think we’re special.
Gregory Bovino — the now-former tactical commander-at-large for U.S. Border Patrol official who oversaw the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaigns in U.S. cities before Trump removed him last January — spoke alongside fascists and neo-Nazi at a “remigration” summit in Figueira da Foz, Portugal last weekend.
The summit’s lead organizer, Afonso Gonçalves, once said, “Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions,” a reference to the rise of Nazi Germany under Hitler’s Third Reich, the independent journalistic outlet The Redoubt reported. Gonçalves also founded the far-right, anti-Muslim group Reconquista, the outlet added.
Holy shit, really?! I’m shocked! Shocked!
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In an interview with a far-right website ahead of the summit, Bovino called Nazi Germany’s lead general Erwin Rommel an inspirational figure
Trump has now turned on Bovino firing him. Perhaps Bovino is telegraphing his future plans.
Quelle surprise.
To no one’s surprise Lockjaw
Short guy Napoleoning…nothing to see here.
No offense to our short kings, and I don’t believe in eugenics, but I doubt anyone would consider someone that’s 5’4" a part of the master race.
Every chud who claims to be part of the master race looks like a 90s happy meal toy that got left out in the sun too long
A Nazi doing Nazi things?
I do so enjoy it when they straight-up just furnish the world with a fuckin’ excuse. I can just sit back and bank on the eventual schadenfreude.
