Longer. Since about Vietnam. And that’s if we excuse genocide, slavery, and Jim Crow with a blanket ‘it was the times’ exception.
On the plus side, nations can’t be the good guys or, indeed, bad guys. They are too fractious to have moral agency so clear-cut. But they can do good or do ill. Right now you are doing ill. For the sake of us all, please stop.
"They elected a two-legged pig"
Well, hey, a pig like that you don’t eat all at once!
Yeah. You don’t even lose “Godwin’s Law” points for pointing out that the politician giving a speech at Auschwitz after talking about how all Muslims should be hunted down and killed is not on the side of goodness and niceness.
The Nazis thought they were the good guys too.
Well, you’ve ruined Auschwitz, for him…I hope you’re satisfied…
You made me LMAO on a thread about a crappy politician and a nazi death camp!
To take notes.
I don’t understand how you see it as a neo-nazi pitch.
Why would a neo-Nazi sympathizer broadcast from Auschwitz unless he was also discrediting it (a la Leuchter). To not do so validates the sane, non-denialist view. He’s acknowledging gas chambers and the fact that there was the physical capacity to murder millions of people there, something neo-nazi denialists would never ever do, and so this does not appeal to neo-nazis.
He’s expressing sympathy (albeit in a grandstanding and melodramatic manner) for the victims and describes their suffering. This would not appeal to neo-Nazis.
The video closes with a US flag and an Israeli flag. This would not appeal to neo-Nazis.
His video has Schindler’s List soundtrack in the background. Referencing Speilberg’s Holocaust movie would not appeal to neo-Nazis.
This isn’t a neo-Nazi wolf whistle. Its just a straight-up appeal to fear: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid; Inflate the Defense Budget; Build the Wall; Support the Muslim Ban; Support GOP Chickenhawks.
Exactly…
Sad to be liking this, but truth sometimes hurts.
Mixed feelings. Sure it was a dick move, yet a GOP rep acknowledging that the Holocaust existed at all and that it mostly affected Jews feels like progress.
If you disrespect something you’re not validating its right to exist and the rights of others to respect it.
It’s like saying a beating is an improvement from stonewalling, because at least the bully SEES me now.
oh yeah, that looks like something I want to click on.
(oh, now that it’s renamed it’s not nearly so worrisome)
Because they are numerous, and mindless jackasses believe someone like themselves would make a good leader
Stalin. That’s why WE need one too! Samesies!
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