• So where are these salutes coming from? Are all of these shitstains attending nazi rallies somewhere amd are literally knee-jerking when they get to a podium?

  • Meh, that was a pretty weak nazi salute. I care less about that stuff and more about thier actions that affect actual policy and such. Those actions are usually worse anyway.

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    This was in the same speech where he said that the Holy Spirit was working through Trump to do all of this, and that Trump should have a third term and beyond.

    It’s becoming obvious that we should be treating Trumpism as a religious cult, not just a political movement.

  • @forrcaho@lemmy.world
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    The real headline should be “CPAC audience cheers Bannon’s Nazi salute”, because they totally did, and it leaves no doubt that CPAC is full of Nazis.

      • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        They were sitting down in a room in which the speaker gave a nazi salute. They did not leave when it became apparent that he would not be ejected.

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          I mean, they also intentionally planned ahead to be in the same room with Bannon in the first place, to give him attention and listen to whatever “good” news he had to say.

          Any sounds of people getting angry at the salute should only illustrate the incredible ignorance we’re dealing with in this country. Blame it on stupidity, or hate, or indoctrination & conditioning, whatever you want. It’s all accurate to certain degrees depending on the individual.

  • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    It’s not exactly the same as Musk’s (doesn’t thump his heart first) – which is probably the point. Trying to sneak in more completely implausible “plausible deniability.” Nobody’s fooled. It looks like a duck, it’s a duck.

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      I agree mostly but #1 and #5 just look like a sideways wave. I don’t think it’s a duck and shouldn’t be thrown in as a duck when there’s 5 other pictures that very much look like a duck

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        The #1 clip is Eduardo Verastegui, a former actor who is now trying to start a far right political party in Mexico, so he knows what he’s doing there. He outwardly said that he was following Musk’s lead and “threw his heart out” like he did.

        At the end of his speech he did an actual sideways wave, but the one in this clip is the heil, make no mistake

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      he didn’t cover it though. that cunt from fox news was more savvy about it. this guy just did the salute but didn’t grunt like a fucking troglodyte.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    562 months ago

    And every conservative in America is silent.

    Silence is complicity.

    No more excuses. No more feigned ignorance.

    • Dragon
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      So far the only papers that I’ve seen cover this unequivocally are foreign ones

    • @nieminen@lemmy.world
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      It’s super annoying isn’t it? The video is superbly clear. He did it, he did it on purpose, and he knew what it meant. You can see it, and his intent easily.

    • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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      Fascists always end up swinging.

      The problem is a ton of decent people usually have to die first. Economies have to be destroyed. Rights have to be won back. Allegiances broken.

      They’ll get theirs. But what do we lose in the process?

    • paraphrand
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      He fucking nodded in confirmation. “Yup, that’s what it was.”

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        musk is the type you call “stupid confidence” and bannon is unsure if its the wrong thing to do.

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          He’s not unsure about whether it’s the wrong thing to do, at least not in any sort of moral sense. He’s just not 100% sure he’ll get away with it.

      • @BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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        He looked very anxious doing it, tbh. Pathetic. Like a child muttering a swear under their breath before nervously scanning the room to see if anyone heard.

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          That’s it! I was sleepily writing my comment, having not long woken up this morning, with a thought in the back of my mind that i couldn’t reach.

          Perfect analogy!

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          It’s like he was told to do it in order to take attention away from whichever part of the government is being dismantled today, and he just wasn’t 100% sure it was the right tactic at the time.

  • Skua
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    Fuck me, I’m scared for my friends in the States

    • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Me too, and in my 17 years of living there many people were trying to tell them what was happening, but their “American Exceptionalism” and “I don’t care about politics” or “I’d rather just work on myself” mentality they used to ignore the writing on the walls makes me feel for them a lot less. If anything it makes me more afraid for them than ever now that it’s gotten this bad and there’s still nothing close to the 1960’s in terms of leftist movements. It’s just hard to organize in a country that’s willing to drop bombs on Philadelphia in 1985 when people start organizing.

      But then I remember how okay Americans are with all this, and that in reality all along they’ve been a fascist country that has wanted and practiced fascist ideals for a long long time now. I remember what Americans do to people that try to help - not just kill them, but worst of all ignore them afterwards. A big part of me thinks America needs to go through an unspeakable horror of their own making, otherwise they can never wake up. And you can bet that Russia and China will rush in to give weapons to both sides of the next American conflict (one could argue they already are.)

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      I would worry much more about refugees and people outside the imperial core. Zios are literally genociding people in Palestine…