• LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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    These people look like they have water in their legs at age 30.

    “Hitler this Nword that” and then you look like all you eat is pie. So bizarre.

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    they are Nazis and posted Nazi ideas in a chat they didn’t expect to be leaked.

    their ages matter because JD Vance excused the behavior “because they are kids”.

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    These are young Republicans caught in a scandal where their private chat logs were leaked revealing disgusting hateful racist speech. JD Vance, the vice president, defended them as being just young kids who shouldn’t have their lives ruined over this. One of them is already an elected official and none of them are actual kids.

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      And their fashion sense is atrocious.

      Just look at the shoes of the two outside dudes, for example. Who wears that shade of leather with that shade of suit?

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      I don’t condone body shaming but I am a big fan of realism and want to emphasize that they somehow think they are the Aryan race? wow talk about delusional

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        Hitler thought the Proper Aryan Look was blond with blue eyes. If you’re not hard-mode cognitive-dissonancing, you’re not a fascist. They live in a fantasy world inside their heads. The problem is they want to force that world to become reality.

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          This has always been hilarious to me, considering that I am from a country whose name is the plural of Aryan. Iran is Aryan in plural form, and I can assure you that blond with blue eyes is not the look of people in central Asia, where Aryans originate.

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            lol yes. I remember Tolkien snarking about that once to some officious Nazi back in the day.

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    Well. They are all white. They are all chunky. I have one of those scratch and sniff computer screens and boy did they ever smell racist!

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    Why do these people who think nazis are funny and epic always look like people the actual nazis would have forcibly sterilized?

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      The actual Nazis were nothing but hypocrites themselves. Propaganda did a good job of only showing the elite troops, but not every Nazi supporter looked like a buff soldier with a strong jawline. Most of them looked like normal people living normal 1930s lives, bad teeth, malnourished, scarred by measles and what not. They were telling themselves that their Aryan ancestry made them superior despite their obvious flaws, it’s the traditional Nazi coping mechanism.

      And keep in mind it wouldn’t make their ideology any more right if they all looked like demigods. The problem isn’t them not conforming to their own ideals, it’s the violent oppression justified by those ideals.

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      I think this is just what the average American looks like these days.

      But yeah, they certainly would not have been part of the Master Race ideal of the Nazis.

      From the outside, I really hope the tide turns. The only good Nazi is a dead one.

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        Depends where you live. This level of obesity would be highly irregular to see in parts of the western US and Canada.

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    Those grown adults are Nazis within the republican party. They’re being defended by the republican party for being Nazis, specifically as JD Vance put it: “Kids will be kids”.

    Which is to say that every child near the age of 30 is allowed to be a Nazi.

    According to our Vice President.

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      But if you want to have sex with them, RFK says that girls start puberty at nine so that should be the line.

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    Right wing media media is trying to spin the Politico chat leaks as just “kids being kids” because of the group’s name, The Young Republicans, ignoring the fact that “young” here means 18-35 years old (IIRC) and several members implicated hold office or positions in the GOP

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      Ooooh. Thanks friendo.

      Not sure being any age makes some of those messages remotely acceptable (I’m not enough in the loop to know much about it, other than a couple of things that were said).

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        It doesn’t, but it definitely makes the already flimsy “they’re just dumb kids saying dumb things” excuse completely garbage

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        Well, if the person writing them was 5, it would raise a completely different set of concerns.

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    Vance is only 41. I don’t think anyone should call someone else a “kid”, unless they are young enough to actually be their kid. Also, none of these people are couches.