NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.


I’d love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.

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    This is the Streisand Effect across generations.

    Censorship doesn’t work the way you people or your puppet-masters want it to. It just makes things worse.

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    And some idiot in one discussion still tries to convince me there is a difference between Republicans and Nazis…

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    As if to put an even finer point on it. I just watched blackkklansman today and they really hammered home that that bullshit is not in the past, it is the present reality we live in. Opening lemmy to see the exact shit the white supremacists in the movie spewed is almost poetic in a fucked up way.

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        Reddit will never take a stand against sexist, womanizing creeps.

        Their communities are too large and bring in too much consistent ad revenue.

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    I’d love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.

    100%. These assholes have been trained to gaslight and trot out nonsense about Robert Byrd being in the Klan like 100 years ago, or that Democrats were the real racists because of shit that happened before the 1960s, and completely ignoring (or lying about) things like the Southern Strategy and how the parties completely re-aligned since the Civil Rights era.

    Thing is, I’m a white guy and I know how these motherfuckers talk when they think they are in a safe space. I grew up in an area that was overwhelmingly Republican, deeply racist and nearly 100% white.

    They ain’t fooling me, I can tell you that much. This ain’t my first rodeo, I’ve heard all this shit before, and I’ve seen these mofos in action online since the BBS days, and shortly after that, the USENET days. I don’t care what kind of rhetoric they try to dress their “movement” up with and it doesn’t matter what protocol or platform they are on…their methods and tactics like employing the Gish Gallop should not fool anyone, either.

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      and how the parties completely re-aligned since the Civil Rights era.

      “Completely” is wrong. The economically progressive policy on one side and crony-capitalist on the other have not shifted places.

      One can rather describe it in the “Nazi bar” terms, racists jumped from the Democrat “bar” to the Republican “bar” and changed it for their ideas, but only where the racist categories were not orthogonal.

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    What is so goddamned infuriating is how the RW assholes like Tucker pull that Murc’s Law shit - that if he finds that he “has” to vote for fascists, it is the liberals that made him do it, because they have been (rightly) pointing out what fascists the Republicans and conservatives really and truly are.

    That’s some serious mental gymnastics there - the fascists that keep showing their hand are going to end up fascists because the meanie smarty-pants liberals called them fascists, and that’s the only reason they are fascists. Well, that, and most entertainment and universities and science and culture really are not overly friendly to the far right, and even might have - gasp - not attacked the already-marginalized. Those monsters. Yep, it’s entirely the fault of the “woke” mind virus that the fascists became fascists who voted for other fascists. No other reason. Some blue-haired trans with too many face piercings stole their masculinity or something.

    Even worse, the fucking Tone Police among the “centrists”, the corporate/conservative mainstream media that is called the “liberal media”, and not a few Democrats help them in this bullshit narrative.

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    “If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr,” he wrote.

    Get cooked, fuckface. nihilist racist pieces of shit

    Great job on Politico’s part, though.

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        Say what you want about the tenants of National Socialism Dude, but at least it’s an ethos.

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          I thought that at some point, but after encountering many real people in my life (doing all the human things, like breathing, eating, walking, sleeping, not an alien at all) I don’t anymore. It doesn’t fucking matter which consistent ethos a person has, all of them are fundamentally inconsistent due to human psychology or conflicts with the complexities of reality. And some of those suck donkey balls. Like National Socialism.

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    A whole new generation of shitheels coming down the pipe. Would be a shame if someone connected all their hate speech to them on the Internet so all future employers, friends, and romantic interests can know about their true colors.

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    Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic

    Not that I expect anything from these people, but… seriously?

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      And his last name is “maligno.” Even Disney wouldn’t use a villain name that blatant. Is really just a really bad fanfic at this point?

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        The Simulation is running low on RAM and using quite a bit of swap space atm. It’s tricky to prioritize the constant gestures broadly with trivial things like names. It’ll eventually sort itself. Maybe.

        -The bird running shift #773930

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          More like a DM who was not prepared for the players inquiring about the name of one of the random goon NPCs.

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      It’s YOUR JOB to give them consequences.

      But no, just go to your No Kings parade and pat yourself on the back for “doing your best.”

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        This is like telling someone that is depressed that they need to smile more.

        Makes you feel better anyone who has dealt with it just sees an asshole.

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        Wha do you reckon Americans do? They’re fucked no matter what. You can condescend all you want but you have just as much power as they do to help them: None

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          Yeah. You might remember us from a few solid decades of telling you this was going to happen. Remember, when you got shitty and belligerent about it? “America’s hat?” Something like that.

          It’s interesting how when US liberals get defensive about their inaction they start sounding like US conservatives.

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            It’s more interesting when America’s hat won’t shut the fuck up about a situation they have no power in effecting. Go bitch about your countries own shortcomings.

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                And you’re a high horsing twat curiously ignoring your own country falling off a right-wing cliff right behind us.

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                And you’re a current era Canadian with no power in US affairs. Don’t you have your own issues with corruption, genocide and rightwing bullshit? Fuck how pathetic to sideline whine about a game you aren’t playing in.