I remember someone saying during his first term, "Not everyone that voted for trump is a Nazi, but every Nazi voted for trump."
That was true in 2016, but not 2020 or especially 2024. In 2024, everyone knew or should've known what they were supporting.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
I no longer believe that.
In this case, a lot of them actually did explain how bad they wanted to hurt the libs.
You might be right under certain circumstances, but they cop to actual malice in this case.
That's been the case since Nixon unveiled his 'Southern Strategy' in 1968.
Oh please..... They were racist, anti environmental, authoritarian thugs for all of the 60 years I've been alive. This isn't a new thing.
Nixon started a secret war and bombed a neutral country.
There is more than one kind of evil in the world. They've changed which one they are
Lived through both facades and definitely disagree.
It's all the same underneath. Greed, lust and the absence of empathy.
The seven deadly sins has always been with us.
And their current leader is an unrepentant walking embodiment of ALL seven
You haven't heard? It's eight deadly sins now.
Slop -> sloþ -> sloth
I'll never figure out what shmust is
Also:
You’ll notice that most of these people are in their 20s and 30s. That is no coincidence; it is clear that among the young staffer and operative class of the Republican Party are people with neo-Nazi sympathies and white supremacist views. Last year, for example, leaked messages from a group chat of Young Republicans from chapters across the country — who ranged in age from 18 to 40 — included racial slurs, support for Nazi ideas and a declaration of admiration for the leader of the Third Reich, all framed as jokes.
Holy shit, kudos to this guy for not doing the brain-dead and completely lazy nonsense of blaming all this horribleness on old people (or "boomers").
People need to wake the fuck up and stop engaging in ageism and thinking "young people will save us". First clue is that is the exact same shit boomers would tell each other when they were adolescents - they invented the "don't trust anyone over 30" horseshit.
Because it's not like the young are somehow magically inoculated against horribly stupid ideas. I'd say on things like vaccines, they may be arguably worse (measurably so) than boomers. And when it comes to understanding just where fascist ideas lead, they may be in the very worst position to resist this sort of thinking...
I’m going to provide a potential explanation to this, but first I want to say this: I don’t doubt there are a number of influencers/personalities that lead to a Nazi view. It’s definitely more common. But…
No reasonable 18-30 year old would align themselves with the GOP. So they gravitate towards a place of power where they are accepted—with others that have fascist tendencies.
I'm not sure any reasonable person 18-N years of age would align themselves with the GOP.
But yeah, I think there is an industry of people aimed at "red pilling" younger males who are probably single and not having much success in the dating pool and/or their careers.
If I wasn’t clear: Only unreasonable people would align with the GOP, hence the disproportionate number of fascists.
I don't think this is anything new.
Only difference is Turnip tripped over the curtains and now everyone can see the stage.
They've been off the deep end since Clinton was in office. Nice of people to finally realize it.
Try 1968.
The Southern Strategy has really paid off.
You helped create this situation NYT. I remember a NYT reporter being interviewed on a podcast. The interviewer asked if he would prefer Trump as prez or not because of the views. He responded that he preferred to have Trump. Although I know that that's just one reporter, I know some of their journalists do good work, they still did a lot of harm to this country for money.
I remember them covering for GWB during the lead up to the Iraq war and covering for Reagan during Iran-Contra. They are 110% bootlicking collaborators who will always side with whoever they think is the most powerful.
GOP is a fascist party.
The Republican Party is a neonazi problem.
Correction. The GOP is mask off.
Seems like the republican party has no problem whatsoever with neo-nazis.
NYT when Republicans are polling well: "Here's our fifteenth interview with a Trump supporter and why this kind of person truly represents the heartland of Real America. Look at his beautiful family. He's a small business owner, even! What's not to love?"
NTY when Republicans are polling badly: "Here's a photo of a twink in a badly fitted suit and another guy with face tattoos smoking from a crack pipe. Can you believe how nasty these freaks are? Ew! Nobody likes them. Certainly not us."
FYI archive.is will turn your browser into a botnet node to attack others
Man, what an absolute rabbit-hole this turned out to be. This comment from a lobste.rs post seems to have a timeline of the whole ordeal. This seems to be the blog post that kicked everything off. Calling that doxxing strikes me as making a mountain out a molehill. The blog author found some names attached to domain registration (if the registering individual didn't want those public then they should've enable domain privacy), inferred the archive.is site admin's location to maybe Germany, maybe Eastern Europe, maybe Russia (based on publicly accessible forum posts), noted that it's a one-man show that can't possibly cover its own costs and may not exist in the future, and even offered to support the archive.is admin:
It’s a testament to their persistence that they’re managed to keep this up for over 10 years, and I for one will be buying Denis/Masha/whoever a well deserved cup of coffee.
And for that the archive.is admin changed their site to hijack visitors into a DDOS botnet against the blog site. That is some crazy work.
Archive.is came out of gamergate as a tool to enable kicking women out of video game journalism. It's not shocking that the person who controls it behaves badly. They're also by far and away the most reliable way to hand out a paywall bypass. Which completely stinks
They’re also by far and away the most reliable way to hand out a paywall bypass.
Except that they have been caught altering the content of some pages that they had archived. Those alteration were part of the above linked grudge/DDOS with lobste.rs linked by another user above. Since they did it once, it makes me suspicious of pages loaded from them as I cannot be confident that they wouldn't again change a snap-shot's content.
They're also the only ones who mean that people don't need to register to access the NYT right now
Lol no shit
Who flies the flags?
The Republicans make a lot of noise about being the party of Lincoln but who still flies the traitors flag?
Before the mustache man put too fine a point on things, there was a rising American fascist party. Now hawkish Republicans are the loudest braggers about saving Europe, but who still flies the Nazi flag?
who still flies the traitors flag?
Something of a historical joke that you'll find the Stars and Bars in modern day Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as often as Texas or South Carolina. And the folks waving it? People whose parents were voting for John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter on the eve of de-industrialization.
There was an entire Nixon-Era Southern Strategy playing out across the Gulf Coast and the upper midwest for the last 60 years. In the modern day, the biggest indication that you're in a Republican enclave has nothing to do with whether your ancestors owned slaves. It's got to do with whether your paycheck hinges on the local mining, refining, and export of oil and natural gas.
From the lobster dens of Maine to the nude beaches of Southern California, the single biggest indicator of your county's electoral valiance is their addiction to fossil fuels.
to add to this
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
man exits rock after a decades of living under it
Paywalled
Nazism is just a flavor of conservatism. Conservatives are cancer and must be treated as such. If we allow this cancer to continue to exist, it will kill us all.
Is this article from c. 2008? or c. 1974? or c. 1980? or c. 1992?
In all seriousness, this is from Bouie and he's great at pointing at the epic level nonsense about how the right (and their collaborators in the Murc's Law Media) were crying about how they were suffering under some kind of "woke" regime.
I've posted this a few times already, but here it is again. Very worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tpqFxfomI
I do wonder how long he'll be able to contribute to Murc's Law Media.
Gone off? They’ve been sitting in the Mariana Trench for years.
You don't say!
You sure they view it as a problem? Seem like the kind of folks that would find it a feature, not a bug.
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Gone off or just announcing where they’ve been for a while?
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