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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago

Punching Nazis in the face is a long-time beloved tradition. I suggest everyone try it sometime.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (68 children)

Earlier, imgur removed a post featuring a Nazi getting punched and so, the Front Page and a nice chunk of Usersub, is all Nazi-punching and fash-bashing.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I got permabanned from reddit for posting the question "what would Eisenhower do if he was present with a machine gun?" underneath a picture of a Nazi march in Wisconsin. Apparently, that is inciting violence in reddit view. Gotta keep those Nazis safe.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I got banned for replying to a sexist bigot who was saying gendered slurs and I quoted him and got banned also for using the quote feature to keep him from editing his comment. Mods banned me, didn't listen to appeals, then it became an admin issue and the admins chased me around banning my accounts for ban evasion and then eventually hit me with an IP ban and ignored all appeals, because "the original comments have been deleted." So if I want to talk shit to nazis there now I have to use a VPN.

A 12-year-old account perma'd because I called out someone for using the B-word in a relationship sub.

I am just so thrilled that our largest communication platform is being so diligently managed with such great common sense and healthy community standards. I bet the AI is going to make it even soooo much better.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No one regrets getting banned from nazi digg.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the right is the most delicate of snowflakes. They'll ban you for asking a question, they'll plug their ears and yell shit about emails if you say something that hits home and they don't have an answer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I got banned for implying that the Israeli palatine conflict is more complicated then an episode of G I joe. And I have said some crazy fucked up shit that flew by the radar.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The Americans certainly took their fucking time to get involved though.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

You can always count on America to do the right thing... after they've tried everything else.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

And the nazis were inspired by the manifest destiny and praised the Jim Crow system.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Don't touch my boats.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you want them to get involved quickly you have to have socialist revolution.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anti-fascism is so Orwellian that Orwell himself said that every fascist should be shot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Orwell himself said that every fascist should be shot.

Actually, he described the method that should be used to burn them in their tanks... but it comes down to the same thing, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm paraphrasing for effect. I'm specifically referencing his statements about why he joined the Spanish Civil War. I'm pretty sure he never said "every fascist should be shot" but it makes for a shocking surprise for a chud who thinks that antifa is "Orwellian" because they're "the real fascists".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I’m pretty sure he never said “every fascist should be shot”

Probably not, but he sure as hell thought it - as we all should.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Remember, we didn't beat the fascists during WWII using arguments and polite discussion. We bashed the fash back then, we can and must bash the fash today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

we didn’t beat the fascists during WWII using arguments and polite discussion

Ironically enough, we beat the fascists with a command economy aimed squarely at maximizing war materiel production. Free enterprise my ass ...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's be fair to the alt-right. Oppression, racism and all their other values are also American traditions. What a great melting pot!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

(insert kanye west level take here)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Yes, the great American Traidtion of gross indifference until the Japanese attacked Pearl harbor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

That's really not accurate. Prior to Pearl Harbor we were 1) helping extensively to re-arm Britain in their fight against Germany, 2) fighting an undeclared but active war against German U-boats in the Atlantic, and 3) placing an economic embargo on Japan in response to their ongoing invasion of China - the very act that precipitated the Pearl Harbor attack.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So's shooting traitors and burning their fields!

Get Billy back out here so we can do it proper this time!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Do it again Uncle Sherman

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Since the captain america of the past was the result of a military program initiated by a government directive. Any such program today would likely result in a super nazi So, no thank you. Pity

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, right here, we are looking at a pic where Captain America could have killed Hitler but instead chose to give him what is, by his standards, a love tap.

Cap isn't even one thats opposed to killing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Gotta keep in mind comics are funhouse mirrors for the society theyre created in. Pretty sure killing hitler wouldve been seen as the perfect end to a campaign, but then there would be less chance Cap would be needed again

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It also has a tradition of fighting communists.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Make America Fighting Nazis Again -- MAFNA!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

So much for the tolerant left!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm curious: who is the great artist who drew this panel?

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