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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Pink triangle was reclaimed though. So IMO pink triangle with a cancel sign over it shouldn't be seen as nazi-level homophobia, just regular homophobia for Trump. Admittedly, Trump's a nazi, so...

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, so you’re saying that using the hard R is fine because black people reclaimed the word?

Or would that be different?

[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

You would think the GOP and right wing in the U.S. would have put the main culture war issue behind us after Barack Obama and the Roberts Supreme Court told them it's all good now... But here we are...

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I wonder if this dude is an actual nazi or just a delusional wacko steeped in nazi ideology...

(jk they're the same thing)

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 94 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Show of hands anyone who truly expected differently from this miserable attempt at an administration or from the current occupant(s) of the oval office.

🤦‍♀️ 🙄

[–] upandup@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

I’m not a brain-rotted idiot, so, obviously, yes.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Please excuse me while I go bury my hand.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

He was. Not for that. Didn't stick.

[–] upandup@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

Far too kind.

It would just be another photo op for merch and the White House Wall of Fame.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Somebody should propose something effective and realistic.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Have at it.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's gotta be uncomfortable being a journalist on Truth Social who only has an account there specifically so they can capture screenshots of Trump's latest dogwhistle post to publish in articles.

And doesn't Truth Social require users to upload photos of their drivers licenses in order to sign up? Or am I thinking of Parler?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I dunno if that photo id requirement is TS or Parler, but I do know that ironically enough Truth Social is a self non-federated Mastodon instance.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TIL. Ew. Thanks, I hate it.

I guess that's part of the definition of Open Source, though. "No discrimination against fields of endeavor."

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I think that should stop at Nazis. Like how the seeming paradox of how to have a tollerant society is that you cannot tolerate the intollerant.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My head canon has the 'Greatest Generation' rising up from their graves ghost-like to attack the White House like a scene out of Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' movie.

'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'

(Assuming the Nazi claim is true and Trump wasn't just being his normal clueless self.)

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[–] diverging@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

FYI, I was talking about Allied citizens who fought in World War II, not Nazis.

I do understand that you were talking about Nazi citizens, in relation to your LGBTQ comment.

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[–] diverging@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was also talking about the Allies. The Allies kept homosexuals in prison when the camps were otherwise freed. The Allies kept the law banning homosexuality, while removing all the nazi era laws.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Never understood people of today trying to judge other people from yesterday's gone by to the same morals standard that they have today.

Humanity evolves forward, societies change from the past to the present and into the future.

There was a lot of wrongs that aocieties of that day was doing, not only to homosexuals, but to people of different skin colors as well. But say what you will about it, we're all here today to argue about it because they stepped up and did the thing that none of us had to do, fighting a global war where everything they know might go away and be replaced with evil.

For that, we owe them a level of respect, and to judge them through a lens of time.

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[–] diverging@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Then maybe leave them in the past. Don't wish for them to rise up out of their graves and fight your foes.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Then maybe leave them in the past.

You should never forget your heroes.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

Sodomy was illegal in most of the allied countries as well, not just Nazi Germany.

[–] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

I think his actions speak far louder than symbols in articles he links.

[–] upandup@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I’m sure it’s not the first, and absolutely positive, that it isn’t the last time