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Ya know......as much as I hated Bush in his day, he was never a nazi. I called him a LOT of things over the years.....but I never remember calling him a nazi.
How the fuck are we living in a timeline where a president who used a terrorist attack as justification for invading countries that never had anything to do with it, is now looked at as "he wasn't so bad...."
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Bush is a war criminal, lied to the American people, and contributed to the pathway that created trumpism.
He's not a Nazi. But he's not a good guy either.
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His grandpa was though.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfather-helped-hitlers-rise-to-power
And his dad HW ran the CIA for a while.
Pardoned a good number of Iran Contra CIA people when he was President.
... And seems to have been working for or with the CIA for many years before he became director.
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/25/the-real-reason-the-cia-loved-george-h-w-bush_partner/
Zapata Oil was run by HW Bush... and very much seems to have been a CIA front company, assisting with many 'kinetic' operations in Cuba and Latin America.
... And if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, a whole bunch of people connected to Watergate, the Bay of Pigs... and JFK's assasination... are also linked to Zapata Oil...
... and HW himself was noted by J Edgar Hoover as working for the CIA, in 1963, way before HW ever admitted he worked for/with the CIA, in an official FBI memo investigating the assasination.
https://headlineusa.com/records-implicate-george-h-w-bush-in-the-assassination-of-jfk/
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/11/us/63-fbi-memo-ties-bush-to-intelligence-agency.html
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Yeah, the preceding years laundering his reputation and presidency has been maddening. His war crimes, foreign policy on essentially everything, domestic policy on education, carceral systems, tax reform, and the border should have him in solitary at The Hague for the rest of his life. The man is truly a monster, and walks among the nazis today. He's still a republican, so whether or not he's a nazi is perhaps an academic debate only.
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He paved the path for a Nazi
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And he is an avid painter. Wait...
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He was a fascist. He was always a fascist and his "War on Terror" laid the ground work for our current situation.
His presidency is when I first saw the Signs of Fascism.
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Yup, it’s when patriots and flags on cars took a nasty turn. Let’s not forget about Dock Cheney either. O matter what his daughter has tried to do to change that name, Bush and Dick belong in the Hauge.
Trump belongs in an orange jumpsuit and Musk belongs in South Africa, locked in a compound hiding from the world.
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bruh that shit's already gone. they're actually doing the salutes (the point of this thread)
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So you just aren't aware of the "PATRIOT [sic] Act" at all, huh?
Bush signing that into law was the moment I knew Bin Laden had won.
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Bush lied about WMDs to kill millions of people and steal their oil. He is not Hitler but he is not far. It will take more than a sieg to surpass Bush.
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The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
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My dearly departed gramps would agree. Man was on the ground walking across France and Germany on a mission to free concentration camps. He wouldn’t describe it in any further detail than that, ever, but he would shut down any murmur of racism. Silence a room shut down.
We lack that now which is why hx is coming back around again.
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I think it’s interesting* that as soon as everyone with a firsthand account of Nazis dies, Nazism comes roaring back. It’s as though there’s no generational memory in society.
*not to imply it’s good, it’s horrifying.
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It’s so sad that we are going to get this costly lesson again. It would be better if the guillotines came out, rather than panzer tanks.
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Third
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Man, that one was so much worse than I remembered. I thought it was just part of a wider gesture, but that heil and the wave that came afterward are clearly two different emotes
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W.T.F.
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My heart goes out to the American people
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Yeah, I'm pretty scared
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kind of a meme, because that's what they're claiming the gesture means.
also kinda not.
stay safe and organise.
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Please convert that into our preferred crisis currency, Thoughts and Prayers(tm)
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There's a 10% currency exchange fee.
Tip
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☑️ 40%
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That shit isn’t contained in the US unfortunately. As much as the right say that they are against globalism and globalists like Soros they have been manipulated by the biggest globalist. The entire international swing towards fascism in the West has been orchestrated by Putin. He is the New World Order. We will be seeing more Nazis take power across the world.
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Bannon is white fucking trash anyway. Not just saying that because he looks like human excrement but because he has the personality of a roasted maggot.
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His physical appearance suggests alcohol.
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He looks like he smells like one too.
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Surely them doing the Nazis salute counts as cultural appropriation. The right-wing German should be complaining about it. They need to come up with their own salutes
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Hey! That's our thing!
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Didn't we used to do the nazi salute for the pledge of allegience before ww2? I remember reading it somewhere but also FUCK NAZIS
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The pledge itself is already nazi bullshit.
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AFAIK it was a reference to the “Italian Salute”, aka Mussolini, the coiner of the term fascism… So not really all that much better…
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Second?
The first and second happened on the same stage within 5 second of each other
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And that was hardly the first...
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There's only one kind of good nazi. We should strive to make them all like that.
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This was a nazi salute, or at least a reference to it, you can obviously see it. However, and this is where it becomes slightly problematic...
Is it enough of a nazi salute to not work in their favor? We can easily compare Elons salute with a nazi one, just show it side by side with an actual one. But this one is obviously (you can see it on his face) meant to reference it, but it is not as explicit. The problem is that when it is called out, it is just another case of "the woke left screaming that everyone that disagrees with them is a nazi".
I have no idea how we should handle shit like this.
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The difference is Bannon knows what he's doing, while Ellonie is a moron.
Bannon did it just half-heartedly enough to throw doubt into it when asked. Elon tried his best.
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I was hesitant at first, but like. What the hell else is he doing? He isn't gesturing to emphasize something he's saying, he isn't waving at anyone, he isn't addressing the crowd. Literally the only thing it can reasonably be is a heil.
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If it looks like an intentional nazi salute then it is a nazi salute. No overthinking needed.
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It was enough of a Nazi salute for the head of France's far-right party, who are Nazis, to cancel his planned speech.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/steve-bannon-jordan-bardella-nazi-salute-cpac
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Why exactly are we repeating history
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This is what happens when you systematically destroy the education system.
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At least 3rd
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Moving rapidly, more like.
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Flabby white guys barely able to raise their arms.
Bannon’s not used to lifting his hand past his juandice tinged liver lips.
Elon so fucking out of shape he actually gasped for air and grunted.
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Do we have a video of this?
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Made this handy gif earlier but was too lazy to post it
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That's the most half-assed salute I've ever seen.
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"The Manson Family had a more coherent ideology than MAGA. And the liberal criticism that American ‘fascism’ is merely a personality cult around Trump seems justified,’ notorious white supremacist Richard Spencer said on Friday
Couldn't get past the subheading....I guess today is the day I agree with a white supremacist.
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I know i had the same reaction...
They really doing this and that's it, fuck all we an do.
This is the regime we got in charge for next four years
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Four years if we are lucky. They’re already preparing to make it more.
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I hear if we can get a third before the end of the month, those egg prices will start tumbling!
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Bannon looks like old dried white dog shit, I hope mortality catches up with him soon
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it's a national sport now
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Fuck off sloppy steve
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Somebody should tell him that if he's going to be a Nazi then he needs to have acquire a snazzy sense of style. He looks like a random old man down the sports bar.
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Aka "karate chopping the Plausible Deniability right in the throat"
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
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Here's the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cxg3Ho4rgjg
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Hmm... I wonder if this because the Republican party are NazisWake up people...
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It’s true that symbols and gestures can have historical origins that predate their modern meanings. However, intent and context always matter. The Nazi salute, whether or not it had roots in an earlier Roman gesture, is now overwhelmingly associated with fascism, white supremacy, and authoritarianism. When a public figure—especially a political leader—uses a gesture that resembles it, people have every reason to question why.
Dismissing those concerns as “a stretch” ignores the reality that optics matter in politics. If a leader doesn’t want to be associated with fascist imagery, they have a responsibility to be mindful of what they do. The burden isn’t on the public to assume good intentions—it’s on the leader to avoid any association with dangerous ideologies.
As for the claim that Democrats are “closer to democratic socialism” and thus closer to Nazis, that’s a misreading of political history. The Nazis were far-right ultranationalists who used state control to consolidate power, suppress opposition, and enforce racial supremacy. Democratic socialism, on the other hand, is about expanding worker protections and social welfare within a democratic system—not authoritarian rule.
Finally, while I agree that finding common ground is valuable, pretending that ideological divides are just trivial differences overlooks the very real stakes involved. Not all disagreements are just about policy—they’re about fundamental values, including democracy itself. If one side is leaning into authoritarianism, that’s not a “both sides” issue. It’s a problem that needs to be called out.
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