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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES IS CALLING FOR LAWMAKERS TO BE EXECUTED FOR UPHOLDING THE LAW! WTF IS GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS SHIT?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

NOTHING AT ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE EITHER CONTENT WITH THIS OR TOO COWARDLY TO DO ANYTHING!

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 7 points 16 hours ago

How long before this becomes the official flag of the United States?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago

What the fuck‽

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Did nazi that coming?🙁.

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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 223 points 1 day ago (8 children)

What IS a fucking hate symbol then????

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 169 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

LGBTQ and trans flags

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 82 points 1 day ago

The American flag.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 points 18 hours ago

A rainbow swastika (for whatever the fuck reason that would ever exist), that is where the line is it seems.

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] TheMilk@lemdro.id 27 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

I'm still wondering when time travelers are gonna fix this timeline.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Nazis from the past used the Nazi time machine to travel to the future and destroy our society here in 2025.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

I hate how everything about this is makes sense including the fact that if Nazis made a time machine it would just move forward through time at a rate of one day per day.

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[–] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Following the double negative rule: Anti Anti Fascists leaves you with

Fascists

The USA is dropping the mask for all the world to see.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

AND STILL PEOPLE ARE ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL! AT THIS POINT I WANT TO SEE MASS PANIC SO I KNOW I'M NOT CRAZY! AND I'M IN CANADA, I WANT MASS PANIC IN CANADA! I AT LEAST WANT THIS SHIT TAKEN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH THAT CANADIANS STOP FUCKING GOING TO THE STATES AS IF EVERYTHING IS NORMAL!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

It would be nice if Canadians would also stop voting for politicians who lead Canada in the same direction as the USA. We need to turn left, not right.

[–] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 5 points 18 hours ago

Be nice if someone could offer an actual choice.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (9 children)

AND STILL PEOPLE ARE ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL!

Nope, we'rs not. But I, like many people, am in a marginalized/bum-fuck town. So, my opinion doesn't matter until the polls open. We voted against this evil, and we will again. But, our government wants to embrace the evil.

We can see it wants to. We don't want it to. But, most of us don't matter to the government. We're not big-dollar donors, so our politicians will ignore us. They've minimalized most people so all that we can do is vote against it.

But, with where the Overton window is, we have one party running with regular evil while the other suggests a diet version of evil.

I AT LEAST WANT THIS SHIT TAKEN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH THAT CANADIANS STOP FUCKING GOING TO THE STATES

With how dried up tourism is, it would seem like they're already doing it. Yet, the government is still going down this path. So, it's not that big of an impact.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

The mask had been poorly held up for ages, people just chose to believe them 'cos Russia bad.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 18 hours ago

"Opinion is divided on the subject. All the other captains say it is. I say it isn't."

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 107 points 1 day ago

Combine this policy with declaring anti-fascists as terrorists, and I think a pattern is emerging here.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ah, a potentially divisive hand gesture, inscrutable, controversial and puzzling. What on Earth could it mean?

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago

Oh for a moment there I was beginning to doubt the direction of USA.
Well I guess it's still full steam ahead to dismantle democracy and introduce an authoritarian dictatorship.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Brief anecdote. In school, we used to draw swastikas on everything in order to get others in trouble or to make ourselves seem like assholes. At no point did we consider what we were doing ok, it was just kids riding the edge of something they couldn’t understand for the sake of ignominy. Even we, as ignorant as we were, recognized that the swastika was a hate symbol and thoroughly unacceptable, we were, again, just assholes.

I’ve been saying this quite a lot but this culture war bodes poorly.

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] _absolve723@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 12 hours ago

I didn't know Birmingham, Alabama had its own Wiki.. Interesting

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump’s dream of Nazi America is taking shape.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago

Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag

Threatening racial lynchings is "potentially divisive" but not hateful, apparently. I guess there are very fine people on both sides of the white supremacist lynchings debate.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 10 points 22 hours ago

Good! MORE Swastikas LESS Rainbows!

-NOT Nazis!

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