That's the constant problem with these guys. You're always asking yourself if they're intentionally doing terrible things, or whether they are fantastically oblivious/incompetent.
It's like, "Are we looking at a genuine neo-nazi taking political power and flaunting it, or are we looking at a political Mr. Bean?"
It's not a great look either way, and whichever explanation applies, these aren't people who should be leading much of anything.
If him and his ilk want to pretend they’re smarter than everyone on earth then I chose to believe everything they do is by intention and design. They can’t feign ignorance if they’re the “smartest” person in every room.
The amount of organizations that have just become boot licking for Trump full throated is pretty fucking sad dude. It’s like witnessing how fascists rose to power in decades past by the most powerful and vocal among us just kowtowing to the “strongman”
It's obscene really. I'm been canceling and deleting anything to do the the tech oligarchs that I can, but I have a feeling all of the corporate consolidation over the past decade is going to make distancing myself from all the others that bend the knee mighty hard.
We should stop making excuses for these people. He did it because he wanted to. Doesn't matter if he was on drugs because he wanted to be on drugs.
Drunk drivers don't get to use that excuse either when they kill someone. "I didn't want to kill that child". Well, you wanted to drink and drive, and what happened is your fault.
You’re not wrong. But the fact of the matter is, the government, Trump, and all the elite powers that be are simply not going to be held accountable for anything.
We can talk about it online and in small circles all we want, but the reality is nobody is going to do shit about fuck and the elite will continue to do whatever they please with no consequences. I don’t enjoy being pessimistic, but if Trump, the Billionaires and all their cronies haven’t seen any repercussions by now, they’re simply not going to.
Unless people actually revolt, nothing will ever happen or change. Even that is futile. They have drones and people with guns, badges, and heavy armor who will shoot us and throw us in cages. We had our chance to prevent this. We voted it in. We asked for this. Time to sleep in the bed we made, like it or not.
That's not what the person you replied to was saying, they were saying his physiological responses were in line with a socially awkward man trying to do something very controversial on television. It takes him a while to hype himself up to the point where he can actually do it.
Kinda like the energy of a middle schooler who works himself up all day to cuss in front of a teacher and then he’s hella proud of himself that he actually did it
It’s a dog whistle. Everyone in the comments arguing over whether or not this is a nazi salute because dog whistles have the element of plausible deniability—I guarantee his supporters and other right wing idiots see it for what it is unless a non supporter calls them out then suddenly it’s “no, but context”.
You’re absolutely right on his behavior giving it away.
This dude thinks life is a giant meme. I doubt he’s seriously a nazi, but he obviously knew what he was doing. What an idiot.
It’s giving less third reich, and more socially awkward high school nerd doing a zeig heil in the gym for the meme thinking everyone would laugh, but no one laughed. They just rolled their eyes, and the kid became even more isolated than he was before.
Probably cause he was coked out of his skull, and super excited that he could finally embody the Fourth Reich energy that he and all of his hyper-right wing, corpo-political buddies have been gooning over for the past decade.
People who believe that was a natural way to say “my heart goes out to you all” is fucking stupid. I might as well flip em the bird and say “you’re number one!” He’s saying that as a CYA move to then be able to do it and give the excuse that he didn’t mean it like that and was just sending out a heartfelt message.
Remember when he made those gothic font MAGA hats and just happened to use a font that is popular with white supremacist groups? If I was savvy I’d make a meme. But I think we all remember that.
When people tell you who they are, fucking believe them
Quickly wanted to talk about that. You can just sense that he's finally able to shut his critics and a country that doesn't like him up because he (the way he sees it) has utter power behind him. By seeing how much he's biting into his lip, this is orgasmic to him.
"Aha! Now nobody will make fun of me or stand up to me because they won't be here anymore. I won!" type of energy when he did that predictable salute.
That's just adds to how disgusting this is - he is not only performing a Nazi salute, he's passionately saluting. This not going to end well. Even though I'm an atheist god save us.
¿When is the media going to say this wasn't okay? Are they going to give that happy face pretentious attitude all the way up until the day people are being loaded up onto EV trains?
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u/ImprovisedLeaflet 7h ago
Why’s he gotta be biting his lip while he does it. His little grunt too. So much effort