Depending on your pov, the US has always been in its nazi phase. Ask the natives or people of color.
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So much so that the US inspired the Nazis
Germans borrowed it from us, rode it hard, and then cleaned it off hoping that we wouldn't remember that they still had it.
But then we saw it sitting in the corner and offered to help them fix it up. They said nah, let's just forget about it. We said that we really wanted to fix it and that it would be a fun project to work on together. They told us to take our drunk asses home, so we got mad and dragged it back home.
But here we are! We've got it back and we finally fixed it! Now we're practicing donuts while the tech crew is building the ramp. We keep talking about how we're gonna do the biggest jump ever with a triple backflip, and everyone said that we're gonna chicken out. The extra-concerning part is that we never bothered with a landing ramp.
Nah man, we're gonna jump this thing straight into the stadium seats. We're revving that engine and y'all better hope that we loosened the nuts enough for the wheels to fall off, or that the sugar people are putting in the gas tank works so that we crash out halfway.
Especially those idiots who paid extra for front row seats.
then cleaned it off hoping that we wouldn't remember that they still had it
They said nah, let's just forget about it.
Except Germany has a rather unique culture of remembrance about it. I'll never forget the school trip to the Bergen-Belsen memorial site, that historical video where they used shovel loaders to push hundreds of corpses in mass graves which we just stood in front of is permanently engraved in my head. This culture is one of the reasons US Jews who once fled from Germany, or their descendants, are now increasingly getting out of the US and regain german citizenship through Article 116 of our constitution with a simple letter to the Embassy (usually followed by an apology letter including an invitation from said Embassy). It's quite the irony.
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Fascism is just capitalism in crisis, imperial boomerang shit.
It's just visible now to Americans now that the guns are being turned inward
nazis literally based the design of the holocaust on the american genocides and reservation system.
they taught the nazis how to nazi.
they just arent as subtle about it anymore.
jim crow laws/segregation, is what nazi took from the americans.
That's a lot of learning from the British Empire too then.
And from that other moustached Austrian/German, Ed Bernays, on how to sell the genocide to the public. Top "advertising or marketing" ["crystalizing public opinion"/"manufacturing consent"] you got there, USA.
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What do you mean "enter"? The entire country is built upon genocide and slavery.
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entering? we were alway in the nazi phase, they were just figuring how to make it look appealable for decades. us is the most right wing of all western countries, thats why nazis from other countries flock to the states.
🔫👨🚀”always has been”
Wait till you learn where the nazis got the idea for concentration camps from...
and actual concentration camps during ww2 in america
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i think that happened years ago
So Obama for example is a Nazi in your eyes?
I think the differentiation between imperialist, facist and Nazis sharpens your argument. And the positive alignment with the actual historical Nazis is something which only became main stream with trump.
I wouldn't say it is gonna be a Nazi phase, I am guessing it will be a fascist Italy phase, that, however, will not last because Trump is a fucking idiot
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Awww, we'be been sliding for over 40 years.
And now they arrived
Me when someone suggests calling my senator to oppose fascism
You only just noticed this now?
Ever wonder why America likes to go to war so much? Check out who benefits from the manufacture and sale of armaments. It's a straight line.
I'd say it's more of its neoconfederate phase. Turns out leaving a seditious rotten core as part of your government isn't a good idea. But hey, at least you are now indivisible with fascism.
Memes like this usually resonate because they capture a feeling of uncertainty rather than making a literal statement. Sometimes humor is just a way people process anxiety about rapid change.
Just looked this up recently.
estimate populate of the new world right before Columbus: 50-100 mil
Estimate population of Europe at the same time: 60 mil.
Granted it was mostly due to disease, but to Europeans that was just a happy accident.
And unlike nazi Germany, the colonists didn’t do a 180 after a decade or so, they kept that shit going until today.
The most recent estimates are between 2.5 and 7 million people in the area now covered by the US and Canada. The areas further south were a lot more populated.
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The nazi didn't "do a 180" out of good will. They were forced to stop. In America we see what happens when there is no one to stop them.
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Entering the realization phase that the US is a Nazi.
Realizing that the Nazis were inspired by the USA.
Concentration camps let's gooooooooo. /s
The only people still visiting the U.S. are ones that regret not being around to participate in the Third Reich so badly that they want to watch and support the Fourth Reich rising.
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Correction: use present perfect. You're not witnessing it, you have witnessed it. The "Why didn't the Germans do something about the nazis?" phase ended in November of 2024.
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Man 1946 was wild
was long nazi phase. [see OSS>CIA]
just malignant metastasising now.
good. now it's bad enough to see, to evoke deploying remedies.
we are in a lot of trouble (and long have been ~ less so now that we know). we can still mend this.
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Next they’ll start enslaving people and giving out infected blankets to drive tribes off the land.
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It fucking sucks here.
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