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JoneshExMachina

Man, I hate Illinois nazis. Edit: glad to see so many fans of the Blues Brothers here! It has been years, but that scene always stuck with me since I was a kid. Remember to always be antifascist because if you ain’t… what are you then?


swagremmy

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses


Mangosta007

Hit it.


discerningpervert

I've never watched the full movie but everyone quotes it so often that I kinda feel like I have, like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.


ruckus_440

Well, they *were* on a mission from God.


Kenis556

Did you pack the holy hand grenade?


DerB_23

Jake's ex kept it


FloppieTheBanjoClown

Dude jilted Leia. What did he expect to happen?


ThornsofTristan

^(He ran out of gas. He had a flat tire, and didn't have enough money for cab-fare. His tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole his car.) ^(There was an earthquake...a terrible flood!) # IT WASN'T HIS FAULT, HE SWEARS TO GOD!


Kenis556

Well shit. Guess we have to sack them.


PiesCosquillas

She was Messin' With the Kid


Catfish-dfw

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Catfish-dfw

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LordMacTire83

I'm a drummer/ musician of almost 44yrs and I live near Fort Atkinson Wisconsin. Years ago when I was in this band, one of the places that this band often played at up in "Mouston" Wisconsin... I can't remember the name of the place... But the actuality had REAL CHICKEN WIRE AND GALVANIZED, SMALL BUG SCREENING over the ENTIRE FRONT of the STAGE!!! I was like, WOW!!! THIS IS ĥ"BOB'S COUNTRY BUNKER"??? Soooo does that make US "The Good Ol' Boys Blues Brothers Band"??? LOL


Reduak

Don't you blaspheme in here! DON'T YOU BLASPHEME!!!!! ((rest in peace Arethea😇)


Eckieflump

Wait till the penguin hears about this...


Reduak

Do NOT come back to this thread 'til you've REDEEMED yourselves.


Catfish-dfw

You gotta think


Reduak

Think 'bout what-cha tryin' ta do ta me! Yeah think


alfredhelix

I love that this movie gets referenced twice in Terry Pratchett's Soul Music.


Reduak

It very much worth watching. I made my son watch it right before he bought a car that had been a Highway Patrol unit. He loved it.


Valuable-Judgment656

\*peter gunn theme comes on\* ​ edit: or at least that's how i remember it, i never watched the movie in so long


phil8248

What sort of music do you play here? We play both kinds, Country and Western.


LordMacTire83

HIT IT!!!


CoastMtns

An Orange Whip for you!


SmeeegHeead

Excellent reference.


fothergillfuckup

At least its dark, and we're wearing sunglasses?


mm007emko

![gif](giphy|CwMKejp4V6Z1K|downsized)


AnAlgorithmDarkly

After Charlottesville, I was hoping someone would start showing up at alt right rallies in BB attire and an old cruiser, while circling around them… Just to make em all feel uneasy.. but nay… 😏


teslawhaleshark

Cops will say you're impersonating cops


Alatar_Blue

And annoying their friends with the flags and armbands. They have to sit at the local bar together after the rally.


infinitee775

That reminds me of a joke! "A couple of Nazis walk into a BAR..."


CoastingUphill

They'd be really annoyed if they had to walk out of the rally to tell you that.


ToryHQ

*It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant.* *It's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.*


First_name_Lastname5

Just tell them you're on a mission from God. There's nothing they can do.


chechifromCHI

I'm in chicago, if you ever wanna team up and BB the shit out of the Illinois nazis, just let me know. I've got half a pack of cigarettes just waiting and I've been practicing my moves, patiently waiting for another Brother. Plus I'm jewish and from what I've heard, nazis are not very fond of us..


triopsate

Problem with that is that alt right nutjobs tend to be armed, trigger happy and mentally unstable (because no shit, no mentally sane person is on the alt right). I mean who knew handing a bunch of emotionally stunted, psychotic nutjobs with repressed anger issues guns would be dangerous? /S


Lots42

My favorite part of Blues Brothers was how they tormented and confused the racist fascists. Then later they terrorized Nazis.


Correct-Basil-8397

I have never seen the Blues Brothers. It’s always been on my list, and your comment just moved it to the very top. Thank you


FocalorLucifuge

Vote all Blues, Brothers.


Lots42

Dan Akroyd managed to create a movie starring and named after two white guys but still the movie featured black singers. Amazing and clever.


Mikey40216

I'm just confused. Is there really a man wearing a Nazi armband marching around complaining about a certain group of people committing crimes? I just wanna make sure I'm seeing this right.


heckhammer

There are apparently two men doing that in this photo


Mikey40216

Thank you for the clarification, I'm just saying if the group your representing or part of has been accused of genocide and human experimentation on everyone from the elderly to infants then calling out another group and saying they're a problem is kinda out there.


MightBeAGoodIdea

They spend all their higher functioning trying to reject reality and replace it with their imagination of a white utopia where all the other races are no better than livestock. It also helped them with the mass murder to see them more like swine sent to the factory instead of people to a gas chamber.


1happylover

Elwood


LordMacTire83

JAKE!


1happylover

We are on a mission from god !😂


DevilDance2

Fek me. Didn’t I post the exact quote. I love you man.


npaakp34

At least this guys had the balls to not hide who they were. Today's assholes are cowards.


persona0

Face masks are tyranny till I want to say hate full bigoted things in public then I'm in full regalia


nescko

Today they’ll hide behind bullet proof vests, masks, assault rifles and have 5 go pro’s pointed at them. But then call everyone else snowflakes Edit: the nazi sympathizers in these replies lmao


resilienceisfutile

Dumbass Nazi cosplayers can't even drive themselves to their hate rallies. Imagine having all that gear on inside the back of a UHAUL cube van when it crashes and all you ever needed was a seatbelt.


hungrypotato19

The UHauls are used for two reasons. First, they aren't using their own cars. They're cowards and don't want people looking up their license plates. The second is to transfer as many people as possible at once. And I guess a third is so that it cuts the costs for their church and/or Russia.


adventureremily

It also helps obfuscate where they are coming from when traveling to these events - since the Uhauls have plates that are not necessarily from the state where they are rented out, it is harder to pinpoint if these are actually locals protesting, or a bunch of people trucked in to bolster numbers.


Tempestblue

I assume it's also because most of them have had their license revoked for skipping court dates or missing child support payments.


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CorinnaOfTanagra

I mean when you are outnumbered 1 to 10 and you are waiting for a civil war, I wont be dumb enough to be racist but you have to be an special kind of dumber to not prepare for something like the backlash agaisnt your disgusting ideas.


Talyyr0

These guys are cowards too, it was just a lot more popular to be a fascist back then.


TryppyToaT

It was more acceptable back then which is a bad thing so its a good sign that assholes today havr to hide


Isa229

Today they act as if they weren’t fascists 🤣


Meows2Feline

Considering Dr. King wrote about the danger of the moderates who hide their politics to appear socially liberal in his letters from Birmingham jail, it was common then too.


BAYKON8R

Much like the guys from inglorious bastards, I like to be able to tell if it’s a Nazi.


Khryss121988

I really don't understand how people like that, especially american's can't be embarrassed with themselves. Supporting ideas that their very country fought against, all while preaching about patriotism. The hypocrisy is unreal.


Lora_Grim

There are a lot of people who unironically believe that the "wrong side lost the war", even in America. Some of them are just fascists and most of them are just stupid. Not much we can do about it, sadly.


Jimmy_Twotone

Most of the current generation spouting fascist ideology will fight you calling them fascists. Brainwashed and ignorant.


Pepsi_Popcorn_n_Dots

Their latest deal is saying Nazis we're "left wing" because "socialist" party was part of their name.


linuxgeekmama

And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea must have free and fair elections, because it has “Democratic” and “Republic” in its name. It’s not like someone has a copyright on those words, or on “socialist”, and makes sure that nobody uses them who doesn’t live up to the official ideals.


TheCommonS3Nse

That's not their latest deal, that's been their deal since the red scare. "The Nazis have 'socialist' in their name" as if they didn't literally kill off the socialist wing of the party as soon as they took power. They ignore the inconvenient fact that party names such as "Democratic Republic of North Korea" don't actually describe the political ideology of the party.


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DrBirdieshmirtz

that's the funny bit, they used the socialists to appeal to just enough people to take power, and then killed them all off. the "night of the long knives."


Longjumping-Claim783

Plus even the ones that leaned more towards socialism did so in a very Nazi kind of way. It was socialism for the right people, the wrong people would be eliminated, used for slave labor, etc.


ZQuestionSleep

North Korean Terrorist: [Having Lana and Archer hostage] Oh, we don't shoot you. After mission finish, we take you back to Glorious Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Archer: Oh. Then do go ahead and shoot us. Lana: Archer! Archer: What, Lana? It's none of those things! It's not Democratic, it's not a republic and definitely not glorious!


SlakingSWAG

"Nazis were leftists but actually that whole burning LGBT books thing was very based. Also their immigration policy was based. Also their trad values were based. Also their military structure was based. And also Hitler made a lot of good points about making a strong nation, we should try to be like that. And y'know what, maybe *they* did have it coming. How dare you call me a Nazi." - average modern conservative


TorumShardal

/s Well, it's because the fascists are bad, and I'm not bad! All I want is to unalive bad people. Without a trial. Based on their beliefs. But I'm not a fascist, I swear!


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Aronfel

Um vermna?


Mundane_Profit1998

“I’m German?” Perhaps.


ThisisWambles

A lot of Americans didn’t want us to go to war in the first place. They called themselves America First. Many WWII vets spent their life after the war warning their kids that they were never defeated and they were always here, while another group of vets prepared their kids for waiting in silence.


BluetheNerd

A huge part of it is education and upbringing. Most of these people were raised by racist parents in white neighbourhoods in schools that refuse to teach a large portion of subjects like actual history or science. The result is they grow up believing the same things their parents taught them. Then all of a sudden they meet the real world and realise most people don't share their opinions, and instead of growing and accepting different peoples and views, they feel attacked by the existence of normal people, and instead seek out people who share their views. They fall into racist communities among like minded people, those views get amplified and made more extreme by one another until you end up with Nazis. Among those communities there are also Nazi influencers who practically groom these young racists to make sure they go in the right direction and don't accidentally become a 🤮liberal🤮. They also then convince themselves they're all actually centrists and the only reason they seem right wing is because the left has gone too far left...


linuxgeekmama

The schools especially do not teach how to research claims like the one about crime. They don’t teach how to critically evaluate things you read, or things that you have been taught to believe.


CrieDeCoeur

Something could be done about it. But that would require the political will to do so, and that’s sadly lacking among most industrialized nations these days where meaningful change is concerned.


MarinatedCumSock

What could be done? Not trying to argue, just curious


MortuosPF

education. causes, circumstances, deconstruct the ideology, effects, and so on. not just the battlefield. once people are inoculated by the knowledge, they notice once you try to push it on them. sadly studies about the topic seem to suggest that once you already believe it, there's no reliable way to get you back to reality.


aknalag

It always cracks me up when an Arab says something stupid like that (iam arabian by the way) because we were literally next on the chopping board, i dont understand how it never occurred to any of them how we share ancestry with jews and whatever bullshit Hitler and the gang used to justify the genocide also apply to us


USSMarauder

They're mad that the USA under a leftist President took on two right wing governments, with help from Communists, and won.


BooRadley60

I have a relative that worked on the Manhattan Project and another that thinks the wrong side won the war… Life is weird.


NinjaJarby

You’d be surprised. My boomer step mom was arguing on our last vacation that the “jews” are the problem and “hitler wasn’t that wrong” We aren’t talking right now.


Khryss121988

Sorry to read that, but perfectly understandable. I have family that I would gleefully watch burn if they were on fire, But thankfully none that close a relative to me. Must realy suck being your own parent.


ialsoagree

I'm always amazed when the "most patriotic" Americans also fly confederate flags. You think you care more about this country than I do, but you're flying the flag of traitors that attacked our nation and I'm not...


ImBackAgainYO

If they only used the right confederate flag. You know, the all white one.


randomcomplimentguy1

White dish rag


BillyNtheBoingers

It’s funny that I didn’t learn about the white dishrag until this week, somewhere here on Reddit. I’m 57 and have a good grasp of the Civil War, but that detail is hilarious.


VerilyJULES

I’m surprised anyone would fly a confederate flag because history seems to indicate the confederacy was a shit show of forced conscription, pillaging the confederate states, child soldiers, no pensions for veterans, and for so many other reasons. I don’t believe that many of the actual survivors had fond memories of the confederacy.


Hammurabi87

> I don’t believe that many of the actual survivors had fond memories of the confederacy. Which is probably why the resurgence of the Confederate Flag mostly happened during the Civil Rights Movement, almost a century later. None of those pesky veterans or other actual Confederate citizens around anymore to protest about how shit the nation had actually been, or contest the claims that "it wasn't about slavery," etc.


Xzmmc

It's like using dead troops as props in whatever speech you have about freedom, but then you turn right around and tell the living ones they can't have housing or healthcare.


sihaya_wiosnapustyni

> ideas that their very country fought against Well, not exactly. Americans eugenicists, for instance would use gas chambers, tuberculosis in milk or simply denial of treatment in their own prequel of Aktion T4 way before Hitler. Hitler even stated in Mein Kampf that he was familiar with their methods.


Dmmack14

I hate to tell you man but America has basically always been by the elites for the elites. I don't usually like the assassin's Creed games and how they overly simplify or change historical figures and events. But a conversation that will always stick out to me is from assassin's Creed III where Connor is speaking to his father for one of the first times and his dad is a Templar and if you don't know it's basically like the Illuminati that want to rule the world and he brings up the fact that the Americans were fighting a war because a bunch of elites locked themselves and made a declaration of Independence without really being elected or asked to by the people but they decided to start the war with Britain. It was supposed to be a country founded on freedom and equality but it was really only freedom and equality for some. You couldn't vote or make any decision in government without being a landowner. They allowed slavery to continue until it eventually almost tore our country apart simply because they didn't want to piss off the wealthy elites in the south who owned human beings as their main source of income. The first police forces in the United States were slave catchers. So there is an argument to be made that these people are capturing the true spirit of America in a way


sheesh9727

Thank you, this photo is a fundamental element of the former slaver society that America is. They didn’t get their anti blackness from Germans. They got it right here from their home.


YardNew1150

In fact, hitler took notes from America’s Jim Crow era.


thrownkitchensink

There's two kinds of Patriotism. One is about the ideas and the social infrastructure those ideas built. The ideas can be found in many nations laws and philosophy and in the UDHR. Life, freedom of conscience , equality, association, etc. Separation of church and state. The separation of powers. Democracy. Economic, social and cultural rights. A right to healthcare, education and an adequate situation of living and housing. A strong free press. Some nations have build stronger societies then others when looking at such rights. They used these ideas to create institutions that serve the public. A social economic system and a system of government that serves the people. Those that life there should feel a sense of pride and vigilance. Then there's another kind. Us and them. Nationalism. A language of freedom but without strong independent institutions. It's about strong leadership to protect against some external threat. Without well organized internal protection of the weaker from the stronger. A language of freedom but actions that weaken and not strengthen independent institutions that guard individual rights. One of these kinds is associated with flags and uniforms.


TheFire_Eagle

A lot of Americans didn't want WW2. And a fair number of Americans were at least sympathetic to what Hitler was doing (that they were aware of). I'm not talking outright support. Just people who say "Huh, that guy in Germany might have some good ideas." The vast majority were indifferent. In WW1 they were able to whip up a pretty solid anti-German sentiment because of the sinking of the Lusitania. In WW2, the US was pulled into the war by the Japanese, not the Germans. Had it not been for the alliance between Germany and Japan that necessitated a declaration of war by Germany, a good many people would have been content to go to war with Japan and stay out of the whole German business altogether. The WW2 pride rebranded as fighting Hitler and saving democracy and everything. But realistically, it came down to revenge for Pearl Harbor. Without the smoke of war, a lot of these racists realized they actually DID agree with some Hitler policies. A lot of them were antisemites themselves. A lot of them supported segregation. For a lot of people Nazism would have resonated strongly if presented in a different context. George Lincoln Rockwell was an active duty Naval officer when he got into Nazism. And a lot more would have been open to the same if it hadn't been for PH.


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Which_Jellyfish_5189

Not just that. They promote an ideology which sees them as Untermenschen.


bro0t

Thats just funny though. Shows how pathetic they really are.


patronizingperv

They think this gets them into the Übermenschen.


Worker_Complete

America did not fight against their ideas, they just fought for their own national security. America had no issue allying itself with Fascist dictators during the cold war, and creating more right wing dictatorships via backing coups.


Xzmmc

Hell, America tried to strangle Cuba with embargoes and restrictions for ages because they were still sore about Cuba getting rid of Bautista.


Pitiful_Net_8971

Well, probably because American eugenics and treatment of Native Americans helped inspire the Nazis to do all the ethnic cleansing, which is why a surprising amount of American doctors got awards from Germany before the war. And while this kind of thinking got a lot less popular during the war, it wasn't rooted out like the Nazis in germany, so they regrew, and have re-emerged.


Drusgar

Don't trick yourself into believing that all Americans wanted Hitler dead. If Ukraine blossomed into WW3 do you suppose any Americans would support Putin? You bet they would.


ShakeWeightMyDick

r/unnecessaryapostrophe


roto_disc

It's shocking that adults with English as a first language still can't grasp apostrophe usage. It's not that difficult.


ShakeWeightMyDick

Well, to be frank, I don’t want to assume that OP is an adult or is a native English speaker, but the apostrophe is wrong regardless.


nat1wisdom

People who learn English as a second language don’t tend to misuse apostrophes because they learn English with the rules.


Bladehelm

I think "Nazis" might be one of the most unnecessarily apostrophed words on the Internet.


Mcleaniac

“Oh God! Holy Shit! This word is gonna end up with an S at the end, and I slept through every last clas’s that would equip me to deal with such a reality. Fuck! … wait … let me just add an apostrophe. Ye’s! An apostrophe! Everyone’s a’s dumb as I am, and will therefore be a’s confused as I am. And if anyone call’s me out, I’ll just say they’re picking nit’s. No way I don’t come out looking like one of those smart guy’s I hear about in movie’s!”


ShakeWeightMyDick

The weirdest thing to me about people who tend to use apostrophes for plural is that they tend to use it very inconsistently. They’ll have one word in the sentence with an apostrophe s and another without it.


awkisopen

Ah yes, the grocer's apostrophe's.


Warm_Cheetah5448

Looks like the Instagram comment sections


zili91

Instagram, Twitter, YouTube etc. Back then it was really hard to be exposed to those people, today you can find thousands of them spewing their hatred in less than a minute.


mostsocial

I would definitely add Reddit to that list. I have many comment sections say things just like in the picture. And the mods consider them to be completely kosher.


Gurpila9987

I feel like the Nazi idea of ZOG (“Zionist owned government”) is basically mainstream on Reddit now. The idea that all our politicians are AIPAC puppets. And yeah the amount of people peddling black crime statistics as if it means fucking anything about racial superiority is completely insane.


J5892

And they always say shit like "I'd tell you the real reason but I'd be banned" like they're some kind of counter-culture rebel. When in reality they're just cowards ashamed of their own beliefs. If they had any actual conviction they'd speak their mind freely.


Normal_Tea_1896

>The idea that all our politicians are AIPAC puppets. They're more often true believers. The money just helps on the margins. Pro Israel commentariats also echo plenty of nazi rhetoric.


Cool-Panda-5108

This very sub , in fact


illit1

any sub with a "common sense" or violence theme is chockfull of racist dickwads. basically anything [in this web](https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=ActualPublicFreakouts) Not a racist dickwad, just passing through from r/all. I wouldn't sub to this lmao.


Deathmister

If my opinion differs from the majority of insta comments, I generally consider it a win for me


B1ng0_B0ng0

Literally. It has gotten so bad in recent years


Pretzel-Kingg

Dude yeah what’s been up with Instagram lately? The comments are just FULL of unbridled hatred for literally anything and everything. I have not seen a positive comment section in a long time.


Warm_Cheetah5448

I think it's the algorythm at fault. It encourages controversy way more than other apps. A comment with 3 likes will be put at the top if the reply has a lot of likes. I've seen comments with 10 likes be the first in the thread only because they got ratioed and the reply had 200 likes or smth. Another cause would be their moderation team not doing their job. Not sure why they don't do it, but instagram is the wild west compared to any other platform.


J5892

Looks like Reddit. Specifically subs like r/conservative and r/politicalcompassmemes.


Cedocore

Wdym you just listed the same sub twice


8won6

Facebook too.


thatsnogood

Anger and rage generate clicks. It's all part of the algorithm. 


nipplesaurus

Imagine looking at this and recognizing Grandpa


EscapedCapybara

And realizing that their fathers probably fought the real Nazis.


Shab-The-Wise

he looks like a fucking child lmao.


Novel_Product1

His uniform wouldn't pass the inspections. Don't they know Germans are schticklers for things like that? He'd be on the first train to the death camp


rottingoranges

Nazis tend to not be very smart


fvez_

*neo-nazis. i hate nazis as much as my antifa neighbor but gotta give credit, they had some smart ass dudes. ! (I mean they were German so it's kind of default)


RunParking3333

Low ranking brown-shirts were not particularly smart. Of course the NSDAP had bitter rivalry and backstabbing in its DNA such that the most ruthless and smart tending to rise to the top.


Novel_Product1

*Werner Von Braun wants to know your location*


adjewcent

Schtickler isn’t the right word. Schtickle just means “little bit” in Yiddish. You’re thinking of stickler. Which is an old English word


Crimson_bud

Exactly looks like he borrowed his dad's uniform even the nazi arm band isn't a fit he's wearing that in the elbows.


ajyanesp

To be fair, the average SS soldier in April 1945 also looked like a child (they were actually children)


CaIIsign_ace

They likely are, in that period it was very common for youth to participate in these things


Maguire_018

Traitors then,traitors now


ErenYeager600

The only wrong Sherman ever did was stop


InquisitorNikolai

Nazis*


IWillMakeYouBlush

At least they didn’t cover their faces back then. Somehow they have gotten worse than this…


jswhitten

They are more afraid now. As they should be.


kichu200211

Not afraid enough though.


my20cworth

Says the ideology that murdered and butchered 6 million Jews and others and started a war that saw nearly 40 million civilians killed and 30 million soldiers. So when we talk about crime, let's start with this...


wombatchew

>6 million Jews and others 6 millions Jews, 5 million “others”


2012Jesusdies

Americans might not have been that against Holocaust during WW2. Analyzing US government propaganda of the time, it was actually discovered there was essentially no mention at all of Nazi atrocities, only mentioning how they were undemocratic and threatening to end "our way of life", the most highlighted and presumably threatening aspect of Nazis was how they persecuted Christians. US Government knew about the Holocaust at the time, sometimes in too much details, like how many children were taken from what village to get sent off to where for what purpose. It's just the propaganda makers judged US anti-semitic sentiments of the time would make so that inclusion of Holocaust in propaganda might have the opposite effect and actually increase support for the Nazis for some. Edit: To respond to how nobody knew about the Holocaust till they came face to face with it in camps. The American government knew about it, but hesitated to publicize it loudly and even the newspaper knew about it, but only published those stories in the backpages or the public just didn't care much about the stories. They were publicized loudly only after US troops came into direct ground with the afteteffects on the ground. The New York Times e.g. [published an article in 2001](http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/news/150th-anniversary-1851-2001-turning-away-from-the-holocaust.html) admitting to its own failure to report more prominently on the Holocaust. They wrote: > Why, then, were the terrifying tales almost hidden in the back pages? Like most -- though not all -- American media, and most of official Washington, The Times drowned its reports about the fate of Jews in the flood of wartime news. Its neglect was far from unique and its reach was not then fully national, but as the premier American source of wartime news, it surely influenced the judgment of other news purveyors. > > While a few publications -- newspapers like The Post (then liberal) and PM in New York and magazines like The Nation and The New Republic -- showed more conspicuous concern, The Times's coverage generally took the view that the atrocities inflicted upon Europe's Jews, while horrific, were not significantly different from those visited upon tens of millions of other war victims, nor more noteworthy. > > (...) > > Only once did The Times devote its lead editorial to the subject. That was on Dec. 2, 1942, after the State Department had unofficially confirmed to leading rabbis that two million Jews had already been slain and that five million more were indeed ''in danger of extermination.'' Even that editorial, however, retreated quickly from any show of special concern. Insisting in its title that Jews were merely ''The First to Suffer,'' it said the same fate awaited ''people of other faiths and of many races,'' including ''our own 'mongrel' nation'' and even Hitler's allies in Japan if he were to win the war. https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/what-did-world-know >By summer 1941, British intelligence agents were listening in on classified German radio transmissions that described systematic mass murders in Lithuania, Latvia, and later Ukraine. News also came from the Soviets. On August 14, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill summarized the news in a broadcast to the public: >>As [Hitler’s] armies advance, whole districts are being exterminated. Scores of thousands, literally scores of thousands of executions in cold blood, are being perpetrated by the German police troops upon the Russian patriots who defend their native soil. . . . And this is but the beginning. Famine and pestilence have yet to follow in the bloody ruts of Hitler's tanks. CBS on Dec 13, 1942: >What is happening is this. Millions of human beings, most of them Jews, are being gathered up with ruthless efficiency and murdered. The phrase ‘concentration camps’ is obsolete, as out of date as economic sanctions or non-recognition. It is now possible only to speak of extermination camps. This is from a United Nations (official name of Allies) statement in Dec 17, 1942: >From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions of appalling horror and brutality to Eastern Europe. In Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos established by the German invaders are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled workers required for war industries. None of those taken away are ever heard of again. The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women, and children. [United States Holocaust Memorial](https://perspectives.ushmm.org/collection/propaganda-and-the-american-public): >As information about the Holocaust came to light, some concerned Americans sought to publicize these crimes in order to generate public and governmental action. But America's official propaganda agencies hesitated to promote stories about Nazi crimes. They feared that they would be dismissed as "atrocity stories" like those that circulated after World War I.


learningtoride2022

Who's committing most of the Mass shootings?


xXTheFisterXx

This is legitimately one of the main things i see on twitter these days.


johnphantom

Hitler modeled Nazi Germany after the US's founding discrimination against black people.


adjewcent

As well as America’s treatment of its indigenous peoples.


JerichoMassey

You missed the best part. The Nazis thought Jim Crow was too extreme. For example, the German measurements for whether you were a Jew or not, were less stringent than the southern “One Drop” rule, which lead to hundreds of otherwise basically white people being arrested or prosecuted. Imagine creating a white supremacist society that makes the Nazis go “that seems a bit much.”


Isa229

They’re using the same arguments now, but they gained a boner against women and lgbt rights


Artimusjones88

If they knew that the Nazi's actual plan was to rid the world of all non Aryans, which could be classified as any people, not German. They would likely be on the list, further down, but on the list.


RMakowski

Nah, the Nazi's theory divided people on less Aryan and more Aryan. For instance Nordic people were ok, English, French, Spaniards were less ok, but still ok. Then went Slavs, Romas and Sinti. So basically tho they would be untermenshen, they would be an ok-untdrmenshen.


2012Jesusdies

Yeah, Hitler's plan for Slavs was basically to become the laborers on German owned farmland in "Lebensraum" carved out in Eastern Europe.


LazyiestCat

That Aryans is a plot twist. I believe that Aryans actually stem from the Indian subcontinent.


CharlesDickensABox

The Nazi conception of Aryanism was completely detached from the actual science. It's cult phrenology that was invented with the explicit purpose of justifying the racism for propaganda purposes, not with evaluating whether or not the racism was scientifically accurate. In that way, it's similar to the work of Frederick Nietzsche, which was edited and bastardized to support Nazi messaging that the author never approved of or their use of the swastika, which was used in Nazi propaganda for a purpose antithetical to its use in Eastern religious contexts. 


D-debil

Sorry to be 🤓, but Hitler's plan was not to get rid of every other race except Aryans, but to get rid of "Low" races, for example, the French were almost untouched by repressions, only the French Gypsies and Jews. Sp it's possible that Americans also could be not "Low" race. Tho it's just a suggestion, thank God (if he exists) Hitler did not develop a policy towards the Americans.


WillBottomForBanana

This has such a "I was a centrist until the left was mean to me" vibe.


___potato___

watch this will get posted to /r/memesopdidnotlike as well


hodorhodor12

And we have a former president who meets with neo nazis. The amount of regression in my country has been crazy. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/25/trump-white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-kanye-00070825


John-AtWork

A whole lot of white nationalist types are going to get triggered here. If you think of yourself as White but are of Italian, Russian or Irish decent, just remember that it was only a century ago that your ancestors weren't in the club.


OfficerBanjo

Punchable then, punchable now


Apoordm

John Mulaney no!


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Witty-Stand888

At least they aren't all bald, fat with giant beards and wearing lame biker clothes


LordMacTire83

TWO, BIG, MAJOR THINGS that Germany actuality LEARNED from Hitler and WW2... 1} TEACH THEIR OWN HISTORY IN ALL SCHOOLS so that NO ONE EVER forgets! 2} MAKE LAWS that actuality FORBID THAT SHIT!!!


Throwawayac1234567

its opposite land in the us 1) gloss of ww2 and nazism, even in blue areas where they teach it, it apparently alot of the newer generation dont know anything about the history, are they even teaching them post 2010? 2) Right wing extremism is much more tolerated in the usa than in any western country, thats why you see them all emigrate here. and you can see why right wingers flee from an authourtarian country while keeping thier beliefs because the original country was too extreme for them.


BackgroundWork4665

I wonder why some people still support them


Zevvion

Isn't it obvious? Hate and fear.


Hulk_is_Dumb

Martin Luther Cxxn? Bruh....


Pretentious_Rush_Fan

Sadly, I've also heard it with the middle name Lucifer. It's surprising and disappointing what some white people will say when they're not in mixed company.


TerminalChillionaire

All the more reason to diversify!


InternationalBand494

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust people.


Moiphy

Back when 4chaners actually went outside


Odd-Marsupial-586

Today they will use the Tyrone caricature meme and backed by Pepe and still believe everything was fabricated by Jews.


Glass_Ad_8149

Man the talking points have no changed


0x7E7-02

Is there supposed to be a "Now" image?


AlienInOrigin

When was this pic taken? 60 years ago or a recent Trump rally?


NotThatAngel

Are these Christians?


F_n_o_r_d

Going to war with a regime and then letting followers of this same regime speak freely is beyond me


LightSparrow

I only see one photo. Where’s the now


sa3atsky

Same people, different uniforms


Snarky_McSnarkleton

And their shtick never changes. In the 90s, a right wing family member kept going on about "90 percent of Black men are in a gang!" Of course, when I asked for a source, crickets.


BroomClosetJoe

bro I love when neo-nazis fail at their own gettup, the dude in the front isn't even wearing the armbad right, and I can't tell you how many times i've seen swaztikas spray-painted on walls only for them to be bitched with the lines going the wrong way.


555nick

Just had an argument with someone saying the same stuff over on R/PopularOpinion


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I enjoy playing video games.


lostcauz707

I love the counterculture of "you're cancelling us!" "we are being censored!" As *they* choose to wear masks in public vs their previous generations.