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34 sats \ 12 replies \ @kepford OP 10h \ parent \ on: The Bellamy salute and Nazi Germany culture
He's a douchebag regardless. Does this change your opinion of him? Do you think he and Trump are secretly Nazis? I mean, we see what they do in the open. This obsession with Hitler and fascism is pretty tired. I could write thousands of words comparing some of what most American's think of as the greatest men for their similarities in policy to fascism. Its not hard to do.
If you think he intentionally did a Nazi salute that's fine. He's a troll as I said in another comment. Its possible. It doesn't matter. People that hate Trump will say he did and those that love him will say he didn't. Its not important.
He's also not American. Maybe South Africans aren't endlessly bombarded with World War II shit the way Americans are.
If he had made some gesture that's associated with Pol Pot, or almost any other horrible genocidal maniac, we wouldn't realize it.
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Most Americans don't even know who Pol Pot is...
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My point exactly. We're familiar with what those in power push on us.
Beating the Nazis is exhibit A in the "America's the good guy" mythos.
South Africa presumably has something else, although it's hard to imagine what. Their history is pretty ugly.
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Americans aren't always the good guys, you know.
Life isn't a cowboy movie with John Wayne.
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You're missing my point.
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There really aren't any good guys when it comes to governments. There are bad guys and worse guys.
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I don't hate trump.
I fear him.
And you should too.
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lol...
You think he's coming for you? I'm not gonna be afraid of any president. Not Biden or Trump.
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When your fellow Americans turn on you and they will eventually because
you're different
you opted out of the 'nonsense' they bought into or
maybe just because you have Bitcoin...
You will think wow I was really stupid. I should have been less trusting, and more critical of the information around me.
The power of governments to invade peoples lives, to make life extremely difficult, and to exert the 'power of the state' is ginormous. It's very big.
Is "the government" coming after you or me? No as individuals no I think that's silly. But have we sleepwalked into an anti-privacy surveillance state? Yes. And the only way to possibly change that is to first recognize what's happened and take it seriously. We don't want any politicians with as much power and influence as governments have right now.
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Dude I watched some of this. I know it's trying to be funny... but it's not.
Snowden tried to warn people, back in the 2010s about governmental surveillance in the name of 'freedom' or 'fighting terrorism' or whatever and today essentially nothing has changed if anything it's gotten worse.
Ross, who Trump said he would pardon (Trump doesn't even know who he is) is still in jail. Why? Because Mr. Trump doesn't care about him. But he pardoned 1500 loyalists who will now probably do anything to support the president now that they are free.
All the Kamala rainbow flag jokes won't help... when noone and I mean no-one in traditional society has ever even heard of Bitcoin for peer to peer or MoE transactions.
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You are arguing with a ghost man. I think we agree like 99.9%.
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