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I’m honestly surprised and shocked that Nazism is rising up again. It is a scary idea that, that ideology is growing bit by bit.

Have people not learnt about and from the past?

I think it’s quite likely they’ve learned too well about the past. If recent history (and internet-documented behavior patterns) are to be analyzed, I think it shows that people yearn for power and control over others: just look at all the karens, the reddit mods (you know which kind), the trolls, supporters of certain parties and so on.

I guess they imagine that extremist regimes will provide them with that power, without taking a moment to think “oh, wait, the chances that I’ll be the one oppressing and not the one oppressed are miniscule” (and that’s setting all other moral things aside).

It’s a scary thought, like you said.
- I think part of that stems from a lack of control over their own lives. They feel powerless in their own situation in life, and an easy excuse fed to them to satisfy that lack of control is by stomping on somebody else. "It's not our fault that your life sucks, it's obviously insert minority here who's to blame!"
- I guess they imagine that extremist regimes will provide them with that power, without taking a moment to think “oh, wait, the chances that I’ll be the one oppressing and not the one oppressed are miniscule” (and that’s setting all other moral things aside).
  
  I'm pretty sure the ones oppressing and the regimes always have something in common (race most often, then wealth). Even if there is a slight chances the regime might turn against them, the minority and the rest will be the first to bear the brunt of the force which will be cheered on. And by the time the regime turns on them (unlikely), most will have had enough of a clue to prepare or escape.
- I think it shows that people yearn for power and control over others just look at all the karens, the reddit mods (you know which kind), the trolls, supporters of certain parties and so on.
  
  I think that's way too generalized. "The internet" paints a very distorted picture picture. First, the absolut vast majority of people online are lurkers, so you don't see what they think or do at all. "Nuanced takes" barely exist because people just blast whatever is on their mind right now into the void that is then interpreted by millions of differently biased people.
  
  The mods, trolls, etc. are the fringe of the fringe, often the types of people who have no real life, who cannot really fit into society and who have to find other ways to get attention/validation.
  
  Mods aren't some kind of villanous power hungry monsters, they are socially untalented nerds who want to do something that feels important, but who often feel unthanked, underappreciated and feel as if everything they do is wrong no matter what they do and who have to deal with the worst of the worst on the internet constantly. And then they are expected to have a discussion about every second decision they make because somebody feels that their comment was not interpreted the way it was intended and cries censurship if the discussion is blocked.
  
  Given that it is somehow expected that moderation often happens without compensation (even though it is essential to a community), I'm suprised it even works as well as it does. If people in general were as powerhungry as you seem to make it out to be, people would kill for the chance to become a mod. In reality, the absolute vast majority of people doesn't even think about it, which means the job is left those who probably having human interactions in the first place.
  
  I guess they imagine that extremist regimes will provide them with that power
  
  Most don't think too much about that stuff (or anything really) in the first place. Many "right wingers" aren't like the disturbed "true believers" you see at rallys or stuff like that, for many it's just the community aspect they crave and the rest is no mostly larping.
- I think it shows that people yearn for power and control over others:
  
  People don't do that as such. They search for power as a result of being under power. In a sense complaining about Nazism is like complaining that some people, when trying to get rid of their shackles, flail violently instead of using a lockpick: It's a symptom of a symptom, by no means core nature.
The United States was the primary source of inspiration for the German Nazis. Even as the fascist Nazi party was rising up in Germany. They were mimicking fascists in the United States. The German beer hall putch was not an isolated or unique event. The fascists here in the United States had the business plot. Which FDR almost completely dropped the ball on in exchange for short-term gains. Letting these seditious fascist escape with their lives to regroup and continue plotting. Long ago having clawed back most of the short-term gains FDR got.

Within barely a generation they were running bigoted racists like Nixon and winning. Soon followed by the rather open protofascist Reagan. Whose vice president was former head spook at the CIA. The same CIA that had spent much of the early 20th century overthrowing democracies and destabilizing the rest of the world. He also happened to be the son of the man that was most likely to have been their intended leader to install as fascist dictator. Who's coke adult son a little over a decade later followed in his father's footsteps.

Fascists in the US at least have never had consequences to learn from. They've barely had to setbacks. They just slow boiled it here. But we still arrived at poisoning the blood of our country and blood and soil. Eventually. January 6th was not even the first Republican coup plot that we know about.

And there are plenty in the UK and Europe that learned the wrong lessons from world war II as well.
- Long ago, I saw a documentary series about dictators, and it had some interesting things to say about the source of inspiration Hitler had. You see, Benito Mussolini transformed Italy and wrote the book on how to build a fascist country. Hitler took those ideas and started applying them on a larger scale.
- Always weird how excited people are to shoehorn blaming the US imo
People HAVE learnt from the past. It’s just the wrong people, and they learned the wrong lessons.
It's kind of a cycle with capitalism. There's no real way to control it other than to get rid of capitalism altogether.
- yes! historically, the only way we have ever defeated fascism so far was with socialism.
  
  i hate that people are watching nazism grow and are still timid about actually embracing the fight against it.
I’m honestly surprised and shocked that Nazism is rising up again

Have people not learnt about and from the past?

or have you just not been paying attention? Nazism and fascism never went anywhere, and have been openly on the rise again for a significant while now, and those of us who it already impacts have been fighting them as best we can every step of the way. So maybe instead of pointing your finger at others, you should be asking yourself how this can possibly be taking you by surprise, unless you weren't paying as much attention as you like to think you have..
- Don’t know about you but in my country there’s barely to no Nazism. Sorry if I don’t go out of my way to search for it.
  
  ETA: It is also illegal in my country.
- This comment reminds me of the Chumbawamba song "The Day The Nazi Died", the lyrics are about pretty much what you said.
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkPwxcIji0
As the number of people who personally had interactions with the OG Nazis continues to reduce toward zero, the people who are following that same fascist ideology will start to slither their way into influence and the whole cycle will try to repeat.
Yep, they didn't learn anything.
I dunno about other countries but here in Poland (the same Poland that the nazis invaded) some teens joke about it all the time. I'm pretty sure that it's probably some teenager tryin to be funny instead of an actual nazi
The Telecommunications Act was passed in 1996 and there have since been thousands upon thousands of radical fascist talk shows all over the US airwaves for millions upon millions of hours. This is Hitler + a PA system all over again. Nazism is rising because it is encouraged by the right and supported as free speech by liberals.
Is it though? Or are we just calling more and more things nazi that in reality aren't? I can only speak for myself but in my case that word has entirely lost its meaning. It's basically calling someone stupid.
- That is literally a swastika.
- If you read the news there has been multiple neonazi parties getting arrested for gathering guns for some nwo shit. And conservative and borderline faschist politicam parties are on the rise in multiple european countries. So no we are not just calling stuff nazies for no reason
- Found the Nazi. You're welcome to interpret whether this is meant literally or if I'm using your definition.

Is that 1d mean it was posted a day ago?

Shit, how come it can survive a whole day without being removed.

A bunch of friends who actively use the app were praising it for its “freedom of speech” and “unmoderated nature”. Showed me some pretty foul things while they were at it :)) safe to say, I’ve started to move away from them
- A bunch of friends who actively use the app were praising it for its “freedom of speech” and “unmoderated nature”. Showed me some pretty foul things while they were at it :)) safe to say, I’ve started to move away from them
  
  And that's why any social media algorithm would think you'd be interested in such things. Report and block.
Looks like they got it by now.

Must’ve had tons of engagement (hopefully comments decrying it). Perhaps more comments than reports, and/or an underfunded moderation team.

Who am I kidding, definitely underfunded moderation teams.

I'm not so surprised

SANTA IS A MARXIST??? HAHHAHA!
- It all starts with the beard you see.
Beyond dumb, it's hilarious
- I’m pretty sure it’s satire and not even trying to hide it considering all the angry emojis and the fact that they’re a comedy sketch duo.
The fat, jolly, red-suit-wearing Santa as we know it today, created by Coca-Cola to sell more product, is a Marxist. TIL. 😂
- Take a lesson from Coca-Cola: If you can't beat them, co-opt their propaganda.
  
  Turning Santa into a lesson for Marxism is fine by me.
- No he wasn't.
- Revisionist history is really making the rounds these days.
  
  I just learned the other day Jesus was a Palestinian Arab which is really amazing because the history books seem to indicate that Jesus died before Islam was founded or the term Palestine had been placed on that piece of land by its colonizers.
  
  I'm learning so much from Instagram and tik tock. It's amazing. Who needs university degrees anymore!!!
Reminded me of this video
I am more willing to believe that this is satire than that anyone anywhere on planet earth legitimately holds that view.

What the fuck?

I saw a couple other screenshots of unhinged threads post ads on insta that were straight up trans hate posts. Guess they're really trying to show off their "free speech"

Based Meta marketing person making ads that turn people away from Threads.

Or trying to attract people that prefer Twitter :P

The funny windmill men also 8 thousand likes WTF

The number of Nazis on the internet should come as no surprise. It's not even surprising that so little is done about it or that almost no one cares. The only surprising part is that advertising used to be free of this shit.
this won't stop until pictionary bans the word windmill
- Unexpected Community

Just fyi and not that it matters too much, but I'm pretty sure that if you have an instagram account, you've also got a threads account, even if you've never used or even seen it, that's how they got "millions of new members" when they first launched..

Either way, this is gross, but I'm almost glad they're going masks off to compete with xitter's "free speech" because while this is definitely dangerous and scary, I'd rather those who feel the same actually see them for what they really are.

Yeah, you’re right. When you log in, apparently it prompts you to follow all your instagram friends, and it doesn’t say that they have or don’t have accounts, just that your request is “pending”, like you’re waiting for them to reply.

🦣🦣🦣Mastodons unit! Defederate Meta!!🦣🦣🦣

A great screenshot nevertheless. This ugly thing always peaking from around the corner for any chance to thrive.

They seem to know their clientele

It's not an ad. It's Meta showing how it's.

That’s what advertising is.

They did nazi that coming

I wonder how many people actually are nazis and how many are edgy teenagers trying to piss off people online. Surely the number of true shitbags can't be this high.

They may start off as edgy teenagers, but there’s that whole gazing into the abyss thing you have to worry about
When someone tells you they're a nazi, there's no downside to taking them at their word.
- Maybe but ruining the life of a 15 year old saying dumb shit doesn't feel quite the same as an adult who knows the weight of their position.
You touch on a REALLY interesting point actually, where this whole thing of "being a Nazi" has sorta gone underground in the last several years (evolution = survival of the fittest, so if the feds crack down on any group that CLAIMS to be Nazis, hence all of a sudden the remaining groups that were not cracked down upon yet find it expedient to no longer make that CLAIM... while being essentially the same in every other respect, though this is a vast oversimplification).

Thus there is a truly astonishing number of people who literally are not even aware that they are Nazi-adjacent, perhaps 1 or 2 or 3 steps away from it while continually being groomed to be actual, full-on Nazis, and/or to support their policies. i.e. they might not hate Jews yet, but do worry about why illegals are not being deported with haste b/c they are "stealing our jobs" (never mind that they... are not, at least not those jobs that anyone actually wants - those are facts and always remember that those have no place in brainwashing techniques:-D).

The Alt-Right Playbook series by Innuendo Studies goes into great depth on this subject, if you are interested. Especially "How to Radicalize a Normie" iirc (but I'm not logged in right now and it's flagged as age-restricted so I cannot double-check - anyway the entire series is VERY eye-opening and I think extremely worthwhile).

So in one sense you are correct: the number of people who unabashedly admit to being "Nazis" has fallen sharply, and the number of teenagers (+ adults:-P) who are shitposting will (thankfully?) never change, whereas the number of people who will be e.g. fascist while claiming to fight against fascists, really, truly, honestly, and unironically actually are fairly high. So high that in fact there is a very good chance of them winning the next presidential election in the USA. And buried within that enormously large group, deeply hidden so that very few barely admit even to themselves more than a tiny portion of that reality, are a core that are true, full-on Nazis. Of the kind that will go, plus take along as many sheeple as they can gather around them (to use as meat-shields as nothing else), to bloody violence to achieve their ends. After all, just like Russia pushing into Ukraine, if nobody acts to stop them, then why not?

As far as I can see the moderation there is shit.

Non-english posts are a shit show.

Ok, that one is a legitimate concern.

edit: post appears to have been deleted, but the account is still there

They're beginning to federate with Mastodon, though at least so far it's only developers and employees at Meta. If it becomes an issue later though I'll just block that whole domain from appearing in my feed.

A lot of instances have agreed to pre-emptively defederate from Threads. I reckon that's probably wise. In fact, I think it might be the majority of instances; but not the majority of users, because mastodon.social and some other big ones aren't doing it.

It's literally just shit like this every time

Saw the same thing twice on one of those “advertisements”. I guess it’s probably trolling and mostly lack of moderation

Nobody saw Godwin's rule coming.

Those Threads posts seem to be selected based on the same algorithm used by regular Instagram. I only get shown accounts similar to those I interact with on IG. Never any Nazi shit.

Seems like Lemmy is leaking into twitter. Not surprised.

I wish my lemmy client could hide this post in a way besides blocking the user or community.

For the same reason you don't want to see this on Instagram, I don't really want it on my screen in public either. I appreciate the call-out this post serves, but one view is enough.

You laugh but there are actual Nazis on some internet platforms

I don't think most of us here are laughing, a motivating factor to move away from places like Instagram and Reddit for me was their habit of ignoring far-right activity while punishing left activity. Some of us here are active on the internet in part because we know there are a lot of Nazis active too.
- I'm pretty sure reddit and most social media is bias to the left. Maybe you should check your own beliefs as it sounds like you are part of the radical left like most people here.
  
  When I say far right I'm talking about antisemitic beliefs that are often rooted in racist religious beliefs. That's not your average conservative.
Duh doy

Have you ever thought that the add is based on your interest. Stop following nazis and you won't get this adds. Easy.