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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 12m

Yes this has been a problem with cops for decades, you just now noticing?

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

It's because they realized he was a Jew and there is no greater offense on this site than to exist while Jewish.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 11h

My grandparents and so, so many others from their generation sacrificed on an almost-incalculable level to roll those Nazi bastards back across entire continents and liberated millions, and to see the kind of bunk revisionist shit NOW right when Nazis are staging a comeback attempt makes me livid

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

It also conveniently overlooks the British Empire and the Bengal Famine and the USSR and its slave labor camps, with Vorkuta and Kolyma death camps in all but the narrowest technicalities. Stalin having his own death camps never seems to weigh on judgments of Russians for some reason.

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 11h

None of this excuses the very real societal issues the US of 1939-1945 had, at all, of course, but the idea we were a nation with a Secret Nazi majority based on the above points when we *saddled up and made an entire industry of turning Nazis into Incredibly Dead Nazis* is just TBI-territory wrong.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 11h

The entire German American Bund consisted of about 25k people at the time it was disbanded in 1941 by the US gov't, which represented less than 0.019% of the entire US population. 16.4 MILLION Americans served in the national effort to kick Hitler's fuckin' teeth in. Run the fucking numbers, folks

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 12h

Also the "famously there was a giant 1939* Nazi rally at MSG" skips over the fact that while 20,000 showed up from all over for the rally, more than FIVE TIMES as many local NYCers alone showed up to tell them to eat shit and get in fights with them!

(*yeah '39 not '35, they're wrong again)

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Hitler literally cited Genghis Khan three times as much as the USA and said that as Genghis Khan's atrocities were heralded as nation-building, so would his be. By that logic the real architect of the Shoah is Mongolians.

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 12h

I also don't get the "Hitler thought we were all Nazis, that's why he created/modelled/etc. ____ [ergo this is somehow reflective of what the US/world actually was at the time]" argument; Hitler, famously *very wrong about a lot of things*! He was wrong about the entire war and ate his gun over it!

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

I don't think giving the President the power to send the SS to haul you off and specifying that he has that power is the act of a politically skilled man.

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 8h

"As the legal scholar Peter Shane ’74 wrote in The Atlantic in July, Roberts’s opinion didn’t anticipate Trump acting in any of those ways"

Please. Only a political naif would not anticipate that. And Roberts is highly politically skilled.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, that's my point. The Nuremberg Laws were not written in imitation of Jim Crow, despite what many people like to think. The Nazis *did* look at American segregationist policy when they were drafting their legislation, but it was *not* the reason they drafted it, nor did it have much influence.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

The USA did not, in fact, have analogues to the SS, nor really to labor camps, let alone death camps.

Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 12h

It's hard to dispute that Nazi Germany cribbed a lot of the actual mechanisms by which it enforced its leaders' bigotries from the US, though, even if the British Empire also shares a certain amount of blame.

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

The actual term itself, though, was invented by a German to replace the older term Judenhass.

Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 12h

Most modern-as-of-the-early-twentieth-century antisemitism can be most completely traced to Tsarist Russia (guess who wrote the Protocols and coined the word 'pogrom'?), which is one reason why it was so especially intertwined with anticommunism.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

the agency itselt should be bureaucratically re-arranged in a way that allows us to effectively abolish it in its current form without explicitly doing it in a way that makes us politically vulnerable. call it the “homeland protection enhancement” bill or something

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Now I realize that you're too stupid to understand grown up talk, so let me put it in a way you might be capable of understanding it:

Me no like ACAB because ACAB think only SCAB.

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

No, it implies contempt for lying frauds who only object to police who kill people for reasons they disapprove of while fawning over the likes of Beria and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

It's because he's a Jew and on this site the only greater offense is to be Joe Biden.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

Fascinating dichotomy right now:

Political Theorists: Oh god it's Prussia all over again, personalist control of the military.

Political Admins: Wait.. how are they actually going to *do* that, that's not how money actually works in the government.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

He literally promised 'massive' reductions and then went down to 4,100 people, most of whom were going to quit anyway. Please stop making the dude into some kind of supervillain. He's a nut and a loser who looks like he's already 80 when he's 45.

Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 11h

I firmly believe it was intentional. Remember, this is Vought. I think he knew it wouldn't hold, so, instead, he is seeking to cause chaos, make people dread coming to work to begin with, and degrade overall capacity. Makes the final hostile takeover much, much easier.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13h

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Your reading into that statements that do not exist, because you're so desperate to back Trump by ignoring actual opposition and too much of a coward to actually face the fash in the streets yourself, is on you and your shriveled mockery of a conscience.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Where in your squirrel brained stupidity did you read that I support them in literally anything I've said? Whoever taught you reading comprehension should be refunded by you with compound interest in hard cash. I said that Pritzker doesn't control them.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Some Americans think making America weaker, poorer, more chaotic, less reliable, with fewer friends, worse relationships with democracies, and damaging international institutions America set up and benefited from is good.

Not sarcasm. I think they’re very wrong, but they’re getting what they want.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10h

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

LOL, blocked by the tankie for noting that Communism enabled fascism and that fascism jumped *it*, not the other way around. Too bad that this can't change how actual history actually happened.

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

No, see, that'd be you dumbfucks who can't tell Putin and Stalin apart who think like this. Normal, civilized people understand that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was both a crime and what you people are deep down. Cowards and fash enablers.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Boy nothing makes the KGB fanboys madder than to note that they do, in fact, love a state with one of the most powerful murder cop organizations in human history. Too bad for them that facts don't change because they start bawling about it.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

No, see, that'd be you dumbfucks who can't tell Putin and Stalin apart who think like this. Normal, civilized people understand that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was both a crime and what you people are deep down. Cowards and fash enablers.

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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Maduro and Iran stans can't call out people on supporting dictatorship because you're too busy fellating the boot to the knee.

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Aww, did I hit little baby's nerve by calling you out on the dictatorship fetish? Fix your heart, Bolshevik.

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 8h

Liberals will see the politicians on their "team" literally send the cops to brutalize peaceful protesters, and exclaim, "No, that's not fascism!" They don't care that cops murder innocent people all the time. They love licking fascist boots, while attacking everyone that calls them out on it.

Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Fascism is not bipartisan, the people insisting this are the latter day version of this:

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