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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Someone is going to have to define "maga" as anything other than a nonsense baby-word that sounds like goo-goo and gaa-gaa.

For the most part, it has only meant people stupid and terrible enough to buy into a washed-up never-was like donnie and to put on that stupid hat [1]. So when people talk about who or what is "true" maga, it just makes me laugh because it just looks like The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair finally found someone awful enough for them to worship.

[1] By the way, anyone ever see any of them wearing that hat when they aren't in a big group of them? I never see any of these pussies wearing that hat by themselves.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

MAGA is the name of the US neo-fascist movement. It will be viewed in textbooks the same way we view Nazis, the PNF, the Argentine Dirty War, Operation Condor, and other fascist movements. ICE will go down as the secret police/death squads.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, it makes a certain kind of sense that both fascism and "maga" don't really have an ethos and no real literature about defining their supposed moral imperatives and philosophy and so on. All "maga" seems to have been, so far, is a bunch of the worst types of people fawning over one orange man. But fascism was not really all that different.

When I hear the likes of Ben Shapiro or MGT going on about who is the "real" "maga", it makes so much more sense to remember that fascism had no real tradition of formulating anything in writing (probably because that's for wussy intellectuals) and that's why it just sounds like that Marklar episode in South Park -

"These so-called Marklars are not the real Marklar, the Marklar base don't back that Marklar and don't think they are Marklar, this other set of people are the true Marklar...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSymxjrzdXc

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By the way, anyone ever see any of them wearing that hat when they aren't in a big group of them? I never see any of these pussies wearing that hat by themselves.

My dad did. He's dead now and my mom opted not to put the hat on him in the casket, so not anymore.

She also decided to throw out his "Nazi shirts" (her term) rather than donate then with the rest of his clothes.

She's also MAGA, but not quite as rabid sr he was.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry to hear about your dad. She's maga, but she called his shirts "Nazi shirts"?

Also, I guess I did see one person wearing one of those in public, but I think it might have been some School of Mines student in Golden. The other college-aged people sitting with him were not wearing anything politically affiliated, so I'm not even sure it was the actual hat.

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's maga, but she called his shirts "Nazi shirts"?

I'd love to hear the thought process on that one, as well.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's MAGA that think they aren't fascist, and there's MAGA that embrace the fascism. That might be the political difference between my parents.

My mom didn't want any of his DVDs, but I'm always down to add more movies to my media server, so I took them. Among the westerns and the war movies were some documentaries about WW2 German military leaders which I didn't find particularly surprising or disturbing. However, there was also a copy of Triumph of the Will.

It's very strange for me. I loved my father, and I know he loved me. I'm pretty sure I was his favorite. I'm also the most farthest left of his children, and two of my three kids are trans.

Complicated doesn't even approach the same universe as my relationship with my father.

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That clears things up. Interesting. Thanks for taking the time. Best to you and yours.

[–] 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would be too "politically charged" to just call them neo-nazis :c

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Well, many of them proudly call themselves Christian Nationalists and so we should just call them Nat-C's for short, and they should not really object.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Speaking of the hat. I know someone who is retired military and one day the hat that they always wear (that said navy, the group and other things) suddenly changed to the same bright red color that MAGA hats are. He’s trying to be subtle if called out on it “it’s just my navy hat!” But the color is a hell of a dog whistle.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yup. These jackoffs ruined probably a few team hats, too. I know I sometimes see a red hat for something else and look again to be sure I'm not in the presence of a Nazi.

[–] Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My dad wears it all the fucking time, and tries to hand them out to. Keeps tons in back seat of his truck.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm assuming it's a certain part of the country. I think wearing that in some places would get you into fights.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder if the MAGA faithful are smart enough to ask, "How does renaming Lake Ontario help us?"

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They just ask: "did it own the libs?"

They don't ask, they simply declare that it did.

[–] suigenerix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I used to say they shoot themselves in the foot and yell "take that libs!", but they do it so often, they don't have any feet left to shoot off.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

They aren't smart enough to read or write, much less have the presence of mind to ask questions of those they believe to be their superior.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Easy, it distracts from the Democrat Hoax Epstine List that also onky contains names of Democrats despite also being a Democrat Hoax.

Duuuuuuh

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Brah, we just pranked ourselves nahahaha!