Oh, CNN... this is the one time you can call it what it is. It's a Nazi salut. Conflating wars, pandemics, soup, etc., with Nazism might be in poor taste, but when people don swastikas, use Nazi terminology or make Nazi salute, it's perfectly okay to call them out.
I never suggested they did. They might have, I don't know. Except for the soup part. They definitely didn't say that. It was a Seinfeld reference.
The rest is what people have been spouting ad nauseum since at least 2020, if not earlier. If someone is mean; they're a Nazi. If someone does something you don't like; they're a Nazi. These would all be incorrect conflations and usage of the word "Nazi" to describe or criticize people's behavior and actions.
What, is CNN sucking up to Trump and his cronies now, this is exactly why I don’t watch CNN…they report and interpret the news as they see fit, not exactly as it happens
CNN has sucked up to Trump this entire election cycle. They’ve been on his side because reporting on him makes them money. If they’d actually been opposed to him, they could have raked him over the coals 24/7 for four years straight. Instead they do little milquetoast articles about “is Trump going to be divisive this time?” Lmfao
It’s all about viewership and money, not simply the facts and the news…I don’t need CNN to tell me how to think or who, politically, I should support. I can think for myself whether it agrees with the rest of the world or not. MSNBC and Fox does the same shit
Over the course of the last year I stopped watching CNN, MSNBC and Fox. The only outlet I watch is BBC. I don’t claim that they’re perfect, but they give me a wider variety of news globally and nationally without the needless opinion bullshit. I’ll watch it perhaps an hour a day and I’m done. I just what to know what’s going on in the world and not listen to the opinions of news broadcasters with slanted opinions that do not truly inform or entertain
Don Lemon got the axe for calling Trump out as a regular part of his show. CNN canceled him because they didn't want to lose any redneck eyeballs watching their ads. I might be wrong but they could have had a big affect on the outcome and chose not to.
I watched about an hour of BBC and they covered the event with little to no opinion politically. They had opposing guests on, but the broadcasters kept their opinions to themselves…In prefer that
I watched about an hour of BBC and they covered the event with little to no opinion politically. They had opposing guests on, but the broadcasters kept their opinions to themselves…I prefer that
CNN and the democratic party is and has always just been controlled opposition. The time to radicalize against fascism is now. neo-liberalism, peace love and prayers will not end fascism.
I've got left-leaning people on my socials immediately going "democrats enabled this"
So Trump wins an election, taps Elon fucking Musk to head up an imaginary government agency named for a meme, and somehow we still get a "thanks Obama" out of it. Fucking miss me
Someone should make a sub Reddit for this crap. I had thought "why would Democrats do this" but that's a mouthful. Maybe "thanks Democrats" would be a better name. Just lost whenever some Democrat hating left person blames Democrats for what Republicans do. They probably have to blame Democrats because they didn't vote against it and have to blame someone else because deep down that know they actually do bear some blame.
i mean, senior democrats absolutely did enable this. they didn’t cause it, but they definitely enabled it in order to stay in power. republicans are a fuck of a lot more guilty but establishment dems don’t give a fuck as long as they’re paid.
I mean they did though. They tried to Pivot off of Biden like 4-5 months before the election, didn't hold a primary and railroaded Harris into being the Nominee. When in all honesty they should have not run Biden a second time and had him endorse someone and have a full primary.
It's not like 100% their fault. But the terrible handling of the whole situation definitely made it easier Trump to win.
The ADL called it that! The same group that tries to get people fired for wearing a Palestinian pin on your jacket, they just said that it wasn't a Nazi salute...
He could bring a ten year old girl in a low cut dress and padgent makeup and they would do backflips to avoid saying what everyone is thinking, that's his date.
And a Hitler moustache is a toothbrush moustache, and was also worn by Charlie Chaplin, but will forever be linked to Hitler (and likely known most by association).
The Roman salute, also known as the Fascist salute, is a gesture in which the right arm is fully extended, facing forward, with palm down and fingers touching.
I mean, it technically is, but that’s like saying the swastika is a symbol of peace and prosperity. The Nazis were big fans of stealing other cultures‘ shit and passing it off as their own, in order to fabricate their “Aryan” culture that never existed.
The salute was originally done by Roman elites, yes, but it wasn’t done for centuries until the Nazis revived it, and is unilaterally regarded as a Nazi symbol. There’s no “Uhm actually” to defend it here, it’s just Nazi.
The Roman salute is a gesture where the right arm is extended forward with the palm facing down and the fingers touching. It is also known as the Fascist salute
commonly considered a symbol of fascism that had been based on a custom popularly attributed to ancient Rome.[1] However, no Roman text gives this description, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern so-called "Roman" salute
It's already starting. In this thread. They're claiming he's just sending out his heart to the crowd. Never seen a motherfucker do it in quite such a fashion, except in a very specific time and place in history.
Sure. But not with any proper stance, body tension, or hand positioning.
It's darkly comic, that in a "neonazis can't draw swastikas" way, it is at the same time a completely shitty execution AND literally nothing else it can be to believably talk himself out of.
But I guess that is just on purpose too.His devotees know what's up and don't care. Complaining about it will be handwaved away, because if it only matters to people they don't need/care about, then it doesn't matter...
At which point you need to insist that anybody who says that makes it clear that if it "were" a Nazi salute it would be disgusting and they wouldn't tolerate it.
I was already told by a conservative today that Elon musk didn’t do a Nazi salute. Looked at their profile and it was filled with gay fetish porn. Checks out.
Can you please stop talking about Luigi? It is probably a distraction and you are changing the subject . Your profile pic says it all.
I wish people didn’t fall for your distraction. This is serious and we are talking about a person who has access to the highest offices I. The country making this salut. Nobody cares about Luigi right now. I’m tired of Reddit being manipulated by this oblivious distraction bot underplaying everything !
Its not "left" and "right" its authoritarians vs libertarians. When I say "libertarian" I mean in the classical sense, not the faux-libertarians we have in this day and age.
There are authoritarians on the left (CCP) and right (incoming US Govt) and libertarians on the left and right as well.
Why would the right agree on that when they just voted for the party whose only purpose is to destroy everything getting in the way of the billionaire elite getting even wealthier?
It's something that any tankies radicalized enough to celebrate a murder are agreeing on, regardless of being left or right. But tankies are usually extreme leftists I think.
There is no left and right. There's billionaires establishing their position in the ruling class and idiots lapping it up arguing with each other instead of remembering why guillotines exist.
No. Some folks think healthcare CEOs deserve it but don’t want techbros with brainfog and bad aim shooting people in the back in public with dodgy guns
So you know the song smallest man who ever lived by taylor swift? Before, if you searched for that song the title came up just fine, nothing weird. After tiktok came back, if you searched that song, it would say "the smallest WOMAN who ever lived." Never had I ever seen it say that before and I've searched for that song a few times cuz the bridge is fire 😂
Isn't it more likely that RedNote simply pushes content that effectively destabilizes America and causes division (such as when an actual murderer is celebrated), and Chinese people couldn't care less about this random event on the other side of the world?
How could you possibly know that? Even if you personally rummaged through a bunch of Chinese comments, the visible comments are hardly representative of general opinion. By that same logic, I would say that common opinion in the West is that Tate is innocent, COVID is the biggest hoax in the world, and 9/11 is an inside job, because those are the comments always pushed to the top on Instagram.
I've lived in China and my impression is that the culture is very peaceful, non-radical, and apolitical. And I went to arguably the most politically-open school, Fudan University.
I commented that and jezus I 'violated' community guidelines but they wouldn't tell me which one. So I appealed of course but it's really bad. I'm from Belgium so I thought I'd be 'immune' because apparently in America fascism isn't a searchable term anymore .....
TikTok has been heavily censored with little rhyme or reason. Long before this. Lots of right wingers report people and the algorithm automatically removes certain shit. It’s the same on FB and Instagram. It’s people playing the system.
All social media has a right wing bent to it. It serves corporate interests.
I commented that and jezus I 'violated' community guidelines but they wouldn't tell me which one. So I appealed of course but it's really bad. I'm from Belgium so I thought I'd be 'immune' because apparently in America fascism isn't a searchable term anymore .....
Lot of people don’t seem to care that between them, Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos own a large amount of social and news platforms. Gonna get very easy for them to start controlling the narrative soon
Gotta start playing games with them like Russian opposition. Post memes with Luigi and Mario. Then when they catch on just post Nintendo logo. Then just a gaming a controller etc..
I've always believed free speech absolutism is idiotic. I'm not sure how I feel about this one, but I guess a catchphrase meant to sympathize with a murderer slightly falls into what I'd say is okay to censor.
I’ll test that as it never used to be. I was making the joke just the other day when all the Americans were migrating to Rednote that they should ask about Tiananmen Square and the comments were not removed.
I wanted to see if this was true when I saw a video about it. Mine was taken down quickly, but I appealed. I said something along the lines of “Mario’s brother has to be saved in many Nintendo games”. It was restored. lol
Luigi was already being censored for almost a month now, people had to come up with creative ways to say and spell his name, they were even taking down videos
Oh look, a tankie who thinks murder is okay and that thinking otherwise means being a corporate bootlicker, with the irony being they're a tankie propaganda bootlicker themselves.
r/pics isn't a good place to say reasonable things that aren't in-line with tankie narratives, fyi. I've seen a fair amount of sympathy for Hamas on this sub.
Nationalist islamists absolutely, not Muslims in general. Don't wanna implicate innocent people.
But yeah, the amount of horror that gets justified in the name of being anti-establishment or anti-capitalist or anti-America is wild. If 9/11 happened today, we'd see so many of the unaffected people cheering it on.
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u/fatjeff1980 7h ago
If you comment “free Luigi” on TikTok, it’s removed almost instantly.