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15. Nowhere near sophisticated enough to be real Nazis
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:37 PM
Mar 28

Just sick hate groups looking to hurt people. Tattooing a swastika on your arm doesn’t make one a Nazi any more than tattooing an American flag on your arm makes you a marine. The NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party for short) really did espouse a version of socialism. Read some of Göbbels’ early writing. He was a true believer in socialism, although his version evolved into a convoluted one in which the government controlled everything, with him firmly in the middle of it. Ironically, not far from W’s being OK with a dictatorship, as ling as he was the dictator. W was making a bad CNN joke. Göbbels was deadly serious.

The difference is that the original Nazis were an organization with an ideology and a plan. These low lifes we see now may tattoo swastikas on their arms, but their sophistication ends at making up signs, posting hate on the internet, and doing physical harm to Jewish people. In the USA, half of them would be just as happy beating up Palestinians, if they were to find any in their midst.

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