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    I’ve never supported Hitler

    Guy wearing a Hitler 'stache as a “social experiment.”

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            It was called the Chaplin before Hitler grew one. Hitler grew it to help soften his public image. He was known to be a big fan of American movies. And had them imported during WWII for private screenings, even though it was illegal in the rest of Nazi Germany.

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              How ironic, then, that Charlie made such a scathing satirical movie about the absurdity of Adolf!

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            I have always read that the style was in vogue among men who had to fight in WWI where the use of gas masks discouraged keeping a full beard or moustache as it hindered adherence.

            You can see the shift in the American presidents too.

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      A National Socialist Experiment. He wants to find out how long he can survive in public with a hitler mustache.

      Me? Oh, ahah. no. These people need serious mental help, education, and time away from nazi propagandists.

      It’s the right-wingers that are the assassins, apparently. They really know evil, you know? Beats me, they’re cultist lunatics. It’s not going to be hard for them to detect the “Totally normal guy doing a social experiment” from their scope.

      School full of children > Hitlerized Alex Jones. Where would you rather have the christian terrorist shooting people up?

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    He’s just trolling, he needs to sustain attention which translates to income, now that it’s waning and he looks like a loser. What else is he supposed to do – get an HVAC license? Work at an Apple store? His options are limited.

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      100% this.

      It’s such a well established business model now.

      Stimulate outrage amongst sane normal people. Free publicity. Engage with assholes who will buy your snake oil.

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      I’d like to see him draining septic tanks. With a teaspoon. While wearing that stupid little mustache.

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      Gotta point out nazis when you see them, and that’s all this is. Alex Jones is a nazi, in a nazi party, as a nazi propagandist, with a hitler mustache to show his nazi allegiance.

      All these guys went to Epstein island, right? Or were they too poor? Bottom tier suckups?

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        I guarantee you Alex Jones did not go to Epstein island. That was for presidents and billionaires. They would have laughed at him and told him to get back to his trailer park and get some craigslist hookers or something.

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        and… all the hvac techs I know work. they fuckin work their asses off. often in sweltering attics or cramped industrial spaces. jones wouldn’t last a damned moment.

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        “Sir, the problem with your air conditioner is liberals.”

        “Liberals?”

        “See they put this coolant in that will make your daughter gay, we used to have good coolant in this country but I just don’t understand how people in this country don’t GIVE A FUCK and I said Charlie Kirk stood up and said what was right, and what happened to him? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? Where’s your daughter, I need to talk with her.”

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      well he could have worn a clown nose, put a shoe on his head or embrace nudism, but he chose the nazi option. i think that says enough about him

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      I wouldn’t call it “just trolling”. He’s normalizing supporting Hitler. What he says and does has a tangible impact on the world. It allows bona fide Hitler supporting neo-Nazis to openly support Hitler, then just make the same claim as Jones when challenged

      Once it gets normalized enough, they drop the plausible deniability

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        True that. They’re not fully mutually exclusive though. I’m just saying that I think he’s doing it more for the attention than because he’s decided this is the best way to promote Naziism. The Naziism he decides to openly promote is usually more disguised than this, I think most of even his audience would be more likely to be turned off by this (if they took it seriously) than taken in by it.

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    We’re tired of Democrats calling white men Hitler

    says white man intentionally making himself look like Hitler.

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    ‘It had a wild effect on women’

    They used to be disgusted by me when I talked to them, but now they are disgusted by me the moment they see me.

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      Tbh there are some absolutely derangenged people out there so I don’t doubt this making some women go nuts.

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      Or, they used to recognize him from a distance. The moustache changed his look enough that he was able to get closer before they fled.

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    Alex Jones: “Nazis? That’s just wrong terminology that the left uses to accuse everyone they don’t like of being a nazi! Because they’re the haters!”

    Grows Hitler mustache.

    Alex Hitler: “It’s a (nationalist) social experiment! If you call me a nazi, then you’re the real nazi!”

    For fuck’s sake. Why do I still meet people that think they could possibly not be nazis? You’re not sure? Really?

    They’re not time travelers from 1940. They’re modern nazis, and this is what they do. He’s just another nazi propagandist like limbaugh and kirk, except he’s got a fucking HITLER mustache!!!

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      There’s an amusing scene in Iron Sky where a 1940s style Nazi meets some neo Nazis and he ends up positively disgusted and calls the neonazis an insult to their race

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    ‘It had a wild effect on women’

    I suppose “revulsion” counts as a wild effect.

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    This is all dog with whistle on top.

    It’s the same thing as the Elon Nazi salute or speech Stephen Miller just gave echoing Goebbels.

    It’s explicitly showing support for Nazis with a thin veil of “no u” on top for those who will take an excuse.

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      If Adolf Hitler himself appeared today and shouted some furious hours-long speech about the superiority of the Aryan race at an assembly of tens of thousands of uniformed goose-stepping thugs, people would be asking, “was that a dogwhistle?”

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        I’m just waiting for them to do some like, DEFINITELY Nazi stuff before I condemn them and take action. You know stuff like shoving minorities in camps, or plainclothed thugs grabbing people from the street, or military deployed domestically, or maybe like a Wessel-esque state funeral, or declaring the opposition terrorists and arresting them. Idk the stuff so far could just be coincidence.