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Zachariah 232 points 2 months ago

The next slogan dropping from the Department of Labor:
work makes you free

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ramble81 60 points 2 months ago

I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t.

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LemmyPlaceDN 27 points 2 months ago

Very fitting when half the country is already like a forced labor camp

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nilloc 3 points 2 months ago

It’s way more than half. Between just Amazon and Walmart they employ 3.5 million.

And there are plenty of other shitty jobs besides those two.

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Malica 10 points 2 months ago

"We've always been at war with Canada"

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Zachariah 6 points 2 months ago

Oh, shit! Are they renaming the DoD “The Department of Peace” now?

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DakRalter 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, that's too sissy and woke for Real Men™.

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Rooster326 3 points 2 months ago

There is no war in Ba Sing Se the Strait of Hormiz

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aeronmelon 5 points 2 months ago

Naw, that sounds too communist.

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boonhet 11 points 2 months ago

It does but arbeit macht frei was a nazi slogan and tbh it goes well for the bootstraps folks: "you just need to work harder for a better life" essentially.

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Tiresia 4 points 2 months ago

"Freedom takes work"

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SlurpingPus 3 points 2 months ago

Annoyingly, Nazis stole each one of their slogans. “Arbeit macht frei” is from the 1873 novel by Lorenz Diefenbach, in which gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour, alluding to John 8:31–32.

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boonhet 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah they don't exactly have a lot of creativity of their own. But much like the swastika and certain tunes, it's now associated with nazis rather than its original source

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Sirdubdee 3 points 2 months ago

In corporate HR culture jargon, teamwork brings opportunities.

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wewbull 170 points 2 months ago

Remember who you are....

A nation of immigrants!

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DarrinBrunner 29 points 2 months ago

"No! Not like that!"

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5715 5 points 2 months ago

This is de facto true, but de jure it was a nation of settlers and slavers

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Wytch 131 points 2 months ago

I remember who I am. Not a fucking Nazi

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hanrahan 3 points 2 months ago

yeah, lot of Germans said that as well and yet...

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obvs 119 points 2 months ago

I remember in the 1990s when I was fairly young, and I was having a discussion with other people, and I kept saying the Republican Party was a fascist party, and I remember one of the people in the discussion taking me aside afterward and telling me that I couldn't say that(not because it wasn't true, but) because people would get offended.

I remember after the September 11 attack, that they named the department for the country's security "The Department of Homeland Security" and I had extreme concerns about their intentions by naming it that. I could see what they were moving toward, even back then.

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jtrek 39 points 2 months ago

not because it wasn’t true, but because people would get offended.

I have a hypothesis that as society we're too polite. We don't tell people they're being assholes because that's uncomfortable, so they continue being assholes without appropriate social pressure.

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NewSocialWhoDis 19 points 2 months ago

My FiL intentionally takes advantage of this in people. His family try to give him the benefit of the doubt that he is just "unaware", but I have been in situations where 1) I point out his imposition on other people to him, 2) he continues to engage in said behavior, 3) I subsequently call him out on it publicly, and 4) he calls me disloyal.

Of course he's an evangelical MAGA voter with misogynist leanings.

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BooBees 8 points 2 months ago

Which disproves the idea above yours that simply being curt and telling people they’re being assholes or inconsiderate or wrong or evil doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter to them. Being ostracized doesn’t work. Imprisoning them doesn’t work.

But you can reduce their numbers by improving the situations that allowed their ideas to develop and spread or be preyed upon by bad actors.

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NewSocialWhoDis 4 points 2 months ago

If enough people are against him, he will relent. Social pressure and/ or ostracization does work on him. He won't resort to violence or direct confrontation to try to get away with his inconsiderate BS, but if he thinks

  • you will think it's too much trouble to confront him,
  • you will forget about his transgression, or
  • you won't notice his transgression

then he will (continue to) try to get away with it. He has no baseline conscientiousness of other people, even people he supposedly loves.

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SalmiakDragon 7 points 2 months ago

Kinda like that quote about confusing peace with quiet.

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decolo 1 point 2 months ago

Hot take:

This is why the French culture is the platonic ideal. The average French person is a feral chain smoking time bomb and any they have no time for bullshit. Cutting in line in England will earn you a lot of judgemental stares, same thing in France will get you yelled at or stabbed depending on how the weather is.

The French government would love to be a lot fashier than it is, but it fears its citizens with good reason.

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OldChicoAle 28 points 2 months ago

"Sorry the truth is uncomfortable. Maybe don't be fascists?"

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captainlezbian 92 points 2 months ago

Also like, we famously have very many heritages.

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Godric 64 points 2 months ago

Our whole heritage is being a melting pot of every heritage mixed together. Blood nationalism makes ZERO sense whatsoever.

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Nonconfrontational 14 points 2 months ago

Actually your heritage is that of native American genocide, centuries of African slavery, and then countless illegal wars of aggression.

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Microtonal_Banana 14 points 2 months ago

Thats the heritage of most countries with European settler/colonial histories.

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Nonconfrontational -8 points 2 months ago

And? You want to widen the discussion or try and derail it?

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Godric -11 points 2 months ago

.ml account

Opinion discarded!

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StupidBrotherInLaw 13 points 2 months ago

Basing the value of a response on the user's Lemmy instance has to be amongst the stupidest forms of tribalism in human history.

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ameen272 4 points 2 months ago

context pls

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Nonconfrontational 3 points 2 months ago

That's not an opinion, lmao.

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Tomorrow_Farewell 1 point 2 months ago

Are you actually claiming that the 'heritage' of the country that engaged in slavery and multiple genocides, and still engage in such today is not any of those things?

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acockworkorange 0 points 2 months ago

Melting pot? I wouldn't call it that. More like a 70s jell-o salad: all the ingredients are visible, but separate. There's alarmingly little miscegenation in the US. Go anywhere in Latin America and you can see true melting pots.

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minorkeys 1 point 2 months ago

But also share one.

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Nonconfrontational -11 points 2 months ago

How many of them were granted human rights for the majority of the country's history, lol?

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captainlezbian 14 points 2 months ago

Very few, that doesn't take away from the fact that we're still a nation of immigrants and should reject the lie of a unified American heritage.

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Tomorrow_Farewell 0 points 2 months ago

Genocidal settler-colonialism is not "immigration", and neither is being enslaved and transported over the Atlantic ocean.

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vaultdweller013 3 points 2 months ago

There are plenty of folks who came over after the bulk of the genocide was largely done. Don't think an Italian coming over in the 1910s had fuck all to do with the Native American genocide.

But even ignoring that you are assuming that this is all a black and white situation when people are rarely that. For example the early Scots-Irish population in Appalachia generally got along well enough with native Americans often times even mixing together, you could also have the later Irish immigrants from the Irish genocide by the English inflicting the same fate apon Native Americans in the great planes.

Hell my own ancestors did seemingly contradictory shit as being slavers while murdering people for being bigots against Native Americans. Only for a generation later to be fighting for the abolishment of slavery and arming natives while really fucking hating newer Anglo settlers to the point of commiting hate crimes.

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Nonconfrontational -4 points 2 months ago

The unified American heritage is white land owners get rights and everybody else has to fight to get any.

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Spiv 70 points 2 months ago

"Quit calling us Nazis!"

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Kolanaki 60 points 2 months ago

We sure as fuck don't have one people or one heritage. We're a melting pot and the fascists are just the burnt crust around the edge of the pot that should be scrubbed the fuck off.

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FrChazzz 8 points 2 months ago

E pluribus unum. But since that's not in 'Merica talk, they don't understand it.

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bitjunkie -1 points 2 months ago

This comparison offends me in that fond can be used to make something good.

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balsoft 52 points 2 months ago

Yeah, chillingly similar to hitler's ideas:

The whole European continent appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

except whoops...

just kidding, this is actually a direct quote by a US president responsible for the total genocide of native americans a.k.a. "manifest destiny", which then inspired the nazis:

The whole continent of North America appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs

-- John Quincy Adams [source]

US elites have always been nazis, they just learned to hide it when nazism became unpopular after WW2. now the mask is coming off again

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ToastedRavioli 25 points 2 months ago

Jefferson said virtually the same thing about his vision for the future of North and South America

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Catoblepas 29 points 2 months ago

I don’t think anyone who has taken a history class is shocked by a US founder having genocidal intentions.

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SinAdjetivos 16 points 2 months ago

They shouldn't but almost always are.

They alsoshouldn't be shocked to discover that it's a long and storied tradition that continues to the present day and yet.

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Nonconfrontational 3 points 2 months ago

Lmao. Hitler's ideas were chillingly similar to American actions in the decades before. He and his top brass constantly took inspiration from the way America treated Natives and Africans.

They wrote about it.

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balsoft 5 points 2 months ago

that's... exactly the joke in my comment (?)

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Nonconfrontational 3 points 2 months ago

Ah, hadn't hit the spoiler button, lol. My b

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jtrek 46 points 2 months ago

At my old job, there was some back and forth about some feature detail. The product lady messaged me and said "do you have a few minutes to talk about the final solution?"

I was like, "uhh you mean the sorting filter on the projects page? Yes, so long as we don't call it the final solution"

I don't know if she knows that phrase already has a history

This lead me asking a bunch of coworkers if they knew. About half were familiar.

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locahosr443 13 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine forgetting that phrase from school over 2 decades ago. I get people not knowing lots of the details, but missing that, work will set you free.. etc etc. That's really bad.

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dev_null 2 points 2 months ago

Keep in mind English might not be someone's first language. They might have learned the phrase in school in their language, or even the German original, but not whatever is the accepted English translation.

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historicaldocuments 0 points 2 months ago

With the current media landscape I believe it's malicious intent rather than stupidity.

It's simliar to how an old artist's music being played on a pop station is a leading indicator that artist is going to put out a new album. The intended end users of the Nazi Germany phrases may not know/care what they're saying, but the people seeding it into the media are literally just following the playbook for what worked last time.

My bingo card has a spot on it for seeing unironic back-to-back commericials for gold sellers (who didn't get the memo) and reminders that the US has nationalized all its gold (again).

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MiddleAgesModem 0 points 2 months ago

Or she didn't learn that specific phrase. I don't recall ever hearing it in school.

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TheBloodFarts 11 points 2 months ago

Im a process chemist and we often actually form solutions at the end of a chemical process that are unfortunately deemed "final solutions". There's not really a way around it since it's the most technically accurate way to describe what we're dealing with

Edit: and I always find it uncomfortable to say

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motruck 8 points 2 months ago

Come on now. It was reasonable for someone to say the final solution in your scenario. It is totally reasonable to call out these things especially when it is purposefully being used like the OP. However, your scenario sounds like you are making a situation about something it isn't at all.

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jtrek 2 points 2 months ago

I accept that she wasn't referencing the historical meaning on purpose. She likely wasn't a classic Nazi trying to dog whistle. However, not recognizing the phrase is concerning. Especially given the current rise of Nazi-compatible ideology in power.

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MiddleAgesModem 1 point 2 months ago

If she didn't mean it that way, I don't see how it's concerning. A lot of people display swastikas with no intention of referring to Nazis. The words "final" and "solution" aren't owned by Nazi Germany into perpetuity.

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jtrek 2 points 2 months ago

Not sure if trolling, but: I feel like people show know relevant, recent, history.

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JasonDJ 3 points 2 months ago

I feel really uncomfortable when a black service worker calls me "boss".

Idk why...I think there was a book that we listened to in like 7th grade that was narrated by LeVar Burton where there was a character that was, I think, a freed slave, and he was travelling with some young abolitionist white kid, and he'd always call the kid Boss, and it made the kid like really uncomfortable, and that must've rubbed off on me.

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happysplinter 2 points 2 months ago

Was it The Cay?

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JasonDJ 2 points 2 months ago

Wow...yeah I think it was. Good job knowing the book with my partially incorrect summary of it from 30 years prior.

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happysplinter 1 point a month ago

I heard and read along to the same thing in sixth grade!

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EvilHankVenture 2 points 2 months ago

I was in a meeting planning a large corporate event. A chef was there discussing food options and how they were having trouble finding a kosher meal provider but they have a work around until they find a final solution. Me and one other person both looked up and made eye contact, but no one else reacted. I had to pull the chef aside and ask him not to use that phrase when speaking about kosher meals.

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Diplomjodler3 43 points 2 months ago

Ein Reich. Ein Volk. Ein Führer.

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StillAlive 63 points 2 months ago

Ein bunker. Ein bullet.

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kestrel7_7 12 points 2 months ago

Ich bin ein Berliner

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craigers 4 points 2 months ago

I am a donut? Eddie izzard deep cut.

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ParlimentOfDoom 3 points 2 months ago

Is the Dressed to Kill set really a deep cut?

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Catoblepas 5 points 2 months ago

From your lips to god’s ears.

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idiomaddict 2 points 2 months ago

Aber sehr viel Cyanide, für die Kinder. Aus „Liebe“

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Valmond 1 point 2 months ago

I'm hoping that's what's coming for Putin, but I can keep an open mind.

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GreenKnight23 17 points 2 months ago

I'm conflicted upvoting this...

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SlurpingPus 1 point 2 months ago path: 0 25513762 25533171, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
ToiletFlushShowerScream 37 points 2 months ago

Keith Sonderling is the trump appointed Sec of Labor, who built his career as a vicious lawyer representing management in high profile labor disputes. He's spent his time at the DOL dismantling protections for minorities and women.

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Jiral 31 points 2 months ago

This slogan is obviously Nazi talk. The Nazi phrase in its entirety however would translate as "One Empire. One People. One Leader". "Homeland" is close enough but they apparently shied away from going all the way down to "one leader".

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adarza 13 points 2 months ago

they know who the leader is. it's not the dipshit with the poorly-fitting suits. it's heritage foundation.

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Jiral 4 points 2 months ago

Fair enough.

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wieson 2 points 2 months ago

I think "homeland" is even worse. Although "one leader" demands absolute obedience and is bad enough, "one homeland" clearly spells out anti-immigrant ideology.

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Jiral 2 points 2 months ago

Modern German Nazis also prefer to talk about homeland, I think Empire is not too catchy of a concept abymore even fir their target audience.

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RememberTheApollo_ 29 points 2 months ago

They just quote the nazis at this point.

One of ours, all of yours.

We’ll have our home again.

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buddascrayon 26 points 2 months ago

Remember who you are, American.

You mean the sons and daughters of immigrants? People who invaded and stole land from the people who were already living here? People who murdered and slaughtered innocent women and children for two centuries in order to legitimize our ownership of said land?

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mrmisses 5 points 2 months ago

People who invaded and stole land from the people who were already living here? People who murdered and slaughtered innocent women and children for two centuries in order to legitimize our ownership of said land?

Hey not me, I'm first Gen. I would happily go back to where they came from if they didn't make it so damn impossible to claim nationality. But they do because they don't want us back. During the first trump term I went through the trouble of even contacting lawyers to see if it was possible but I don't qualify.

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NewSocialWhoDis 25 points 2 months ago

Aren't we all blocking US federal departments from our feeds as far right spam these days? No? Just me?

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prettybunnys 27 points 2 months ago

I think we’re not on twitter, first of all

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NewSocialWhoDis 12 points 2 months ago

Or threads.

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Mulligrubs 3 points 2 months ago

Not me, I prefer being aware of their propaganda and spin. Why not?

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NewSocialWhoDis 2 points 2 months ago

The abuse of the platform and of the credulity of the office makes me too angry I guess.

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MiddleAgesModem 1 point 2 months ago

why use Elon's Twitter at all?

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idiomaddict 25 points 2 months ago

This is a pretty good response there:

Can't wait for the sequel! 'Labor creates Liberty' or 'Work earns Freedom' has that specific 1930s 'retro' energy that really matches the new vibe. History is so much fun when it repeats itself, right? 😉🇺🇸

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mirshafie 10 points 2 months ago

"America First" is so pedestrian. How about "America Above All"?

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FudgyMcTubbs 6 points 2 months ago

The alliteration really makes it pop.

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LovableSidekick 20 points 2 months ago

The GOP under Dubya tried to make "homeland" part of everyday speech back in 2001, but in spite of naming a govt agency after it, it never really caught on.

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remon 19 points 2 months ago

They messed up the order and got the last one wrong ...

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Denjin 62 points 2 months ago

Change it just enough to say "that wasn't our inspiration" but keep it similar enough that anyone clued into the dogwhistle recognises it.

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Zachariah 7 points 2 months ago

ai slop translator

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Alexfire 18 points 2 months ago

Was founded on theft,

Genocide and slavery,

Elected rapist

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klar 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, very good haiku Kyle!

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Goldholz 17 points 2 months ago

German here...i...i am not suprised but yet terrified

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shirasho 14 points 2 months ago

Huh? Why is the DOL spouting this kind of message?

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Nouvellalia 22 points 2 months ago

Because it's all part of a unified boot that they hope to use on the throat of the world. All the agencies you remember from the government, are not doing that thing you remember they did. They are now strictly there to support violence.

  • HHS - ensures people are malnourished and unprotected against viral attacks
  • CDC - encourages the spread of viral pandemics, and is now in charge of "health surveillance" (using medical data for state violence)
  • FDA - promotes the spread of bacterial and parasitical infections
  • EPA - tasked with increasing pollution
  • NOAA - in charge of species and biome destruction

I surmised all that from news reports. I can only assume the DOL is now responsible for the minimization of labor as a class, and the promotion of forced labor.

Anyway, these tweets come from all the above agencies too. They're like saying "heil hitler". It's the normal public display of allegiance that you find in any fascist system.

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arin 7 points 2 months ago

Presidential appointees directs the department🙄

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1337ESTbun 2 points 2 months ago

welcome to 2026 where war becomes peace and lies become truthes

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grrgyle 13 points 2 months ago

Interesting choice for a nation of mostly immigrants

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Fishnoodle 12 points 2 months ago

To be American is to hate authority to the extent that we have amendments to the Constitution that guarantee us the right to own and use arms against our own government in case it becomes corrupt and works against the American people.

We don't have any heritage, or any one culture.

You can come from anywhere and be an American as long as you hate authority and recognize that you have the right to violently oppose it

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balsoft 15 points 2 months ago

This is just historical revisionism, the USA was founded on the idea of unlimited authority of rich white men over all other people. The 1st amendment was designed to protect the newly founded regime from competition by the british monarchy, not to protect the people from the regime.

USA as a nation needs to go through the same reckoning with its past as germans. Currently it is culturally glorifying literal genocidal monsters and romanticizing its awful past, which leads to present perpetration of terrible crimes against humanity (see: Gaza, Iran, ICE).

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ZebulonP 14 points 2 months ago

Idk why you're being downvoted. The wealthy sold a lie to the masses that they too can come here and be free, with indentured servitude. So the wealthy could have their little feifdoms.

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balsoft 6 points 2 months ago

I'm not from the US but my understanding is that the way US history is taught in schools and sometimes even colleges is heavily whitewashed and romanticized. Pupils are also repeatedly taught "allegiance ... to the republic, one nation under god" (how dystopian). It is very difficult to accept that your entire understanding (and thus love) of the country you live in is at best heavily doctored and at worst just a total sham perpetrated by the elites.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!

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Godric -10 points 2 months ago

My ancestor: starved peasant with no rights, running from omnicidal invaders

Me: comfy knowledge professional

Yeah no, that's dumb, the promise of a better life for one's descendants was objectively fulfilled.

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kestrel7_7 8 points 2 months ago

This is another foundational myth of the USA. Most of the people who moved from Europe to the USA were relatively privileged, particularly early on. Most of the people on the Mayflower were what we would now call middle class. Educated professionals and skilled tradesmen from England. The Puritans who didn’t have money just couldn’t afford to get out of England.

There weren’t large amounts of poor immigrants until the 19th century, and the USA was deeply discriminatory against them when they came.

Also, I think many black folks and indigenous people did not experience “an objectively better life for their descendants.”

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frisbird 4 points 2 months ago

And yet the people who stayed in Europe are doing far and away better than the people who left to come to the US to participate in the fascist genocide of indigenous people living here and the fascist enslavement of indigenous people they paid kidnappers for

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balsoft 3 points 2 months ago

Convenient to ignore the fact that many descendants of those who stayed behind in Europe are currently also living a much better life than their ancestors, potentially even better than yours due to a robust social safety net, better public transportation and urbanism, free or very cheap higher education, and universal healthcare.

Human development, industrialization and imperial plunder improves quality of life in the empire, more news at 11.

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Nonconfrontational 2 points 2 months ago

You can come from anywhere and be an American

Not according to the American president, half or more of the American government, and about half of the American population.

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Bristlecone 1 point 2 months ago

Hell yeah, except the fucking ignorant bastards are ruining this concept for the rest of us

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Valmond 1 point 2 months ago

That's kind of a good change to your constitution, I hope you'll never need it ofc!

/js

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weps 10 points 2 months ago

one people, which one exactly? the French? the British? the indigenous? the Mexicans?

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Digestive_Biscuit 7 points 2 months ago

The white racists

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pineapplelover 3 points 2 months ago

I mean the way I believe American, is anybody who believes in the values of our cultural melting pot. But, we all know they're white nationalists so they don't believe this

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Lushed_Lungfish 9 points 2 months ago

To be fair, sending millions to their death has never been a problem for America.

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Atomic 7 points 2 months ago

I don't even know if this is real. Because it looks so bizzare.

My family have lived in the house at our farm, since before the first ever colony was founded in North America.

We've found actual stone axes by the lake that's only 300m away.

They don't know the meaning of the word "heritage"

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UnderpantsWeevil 7 points 2 months ago

Americans love to remember the time Germany killed millions of it's own people, back in the 1930s, before their country was covered in US bases.

They really don't like bringing up how Germany supported South African Apartheid or the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Nevermind the German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles.

The idea that Germany just "got better" after the War is the biggest lie in modern history. They became a beach head for a whole new generation of fascists.

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HarneyToker 3 points 2 months ago

What is your point?

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Newhere 6 points 2 months ago

It's sooooo funny, because Americans are only natives. Rest is just bunch of invaders from all planet.

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MutantTailThing 4 points 2 months ago

Is this shit for real?

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banazir 5 points 2 months ago path: 0 25530956 25531368, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
Goldholz 3 points 2 months ago

German here...i...i am not suprised but yet terrified

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Taleya 3 points 2 months ago

Meme the fuck outta this with homelander begging to eat Butcher's shit, folks!

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BrickEater 0 points 2 months ago

Lmao what does that happen in the show? I've only read the comics.

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Taleya 1 point 2 months ago
spoiler

At the end after they depower him he utterly, cravenly collapses. like full on, begging, will do anything. offers to suck butcher's cock, eat his shit live on tv the whole shebang.

Enjoy

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melsaskca 2 points 2 months ago

Remember your lust for money and material goods! You are AMERICAN! Fuck humanity!! /s

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Bluedragon012 1 point 2 months ago

They try, they die.

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gerald_eliasweb 1 point a month ago

"Eie volk, eie taal, eie land" (Own people, own language, own country)

Is the slogan used during Apartheid in South Africa.

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HubertManne 1 point 2 months ago

and remember america means the constitution. because america is the constitution. coming into existence with its ratification and losing who it is when its violated.

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Ensign_Crab 2 points 2 months ago

Which is why we regard our founding as June 21, 1788 and not July 4, 1776.

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ajikeshi -2 points 2 months ago

i would consider the us just being an ongoing insurrection, that will eventually die down

and... america is a continent... do you speak about canada, mexico, or south canada?

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HubertManne 5 points 2 months ago

yeah its a colloqueal thing. people in america if they say america mean the usa and since that is the way the flag wavers speak I use the same lingo. americas would imply the continent or several countries in it. of course you could also use the actual names with north or south in them.

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ajikeshi -1 points a month ago

i know... still something that could be changed and/or being mindful of it...

americas is a bit weird, since to me it always meant the whole of north and south america, which is also how it usually is being used in a corporate/business context.

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HubertManne 3 points a month ago

I don't see how you could. No continent is named america. If you don't use north or south then you have a question of which one. americas you are right implies both. America is used for the united states of america because its the only country that uses america in its name. Terrotories of the usa have things like america somoa. Its usage is correct as is. People just get wierd about it.

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bitjunkie 0 points 2 months ago path: 0 25534477, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 0
PissMissile -1 points 2 months ago

Whenever the word heritage comes up, you know it's white people shit.

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Mulligrubs -4 points 2 months ago

Nazis also said "Germany awake!" as a slogan, "Freedom and bread", "Victory!" and so on, simple phrases without any derogatory or fascist meaning, I don't see the problem.

"Jews are our misfortune" is another matter.

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__hetz 16 points 2 months ago

The problem is, contextually, this is a direct nod to the "ein volk, ein reich" shit of Nazi Germany. It is most certainly intended to be exactly that. For that reason it's invigorating to the far right, white nationalist, christofascist crowd. It's still appealing to the uneducated tone-deaf right who, like yourself, think (or are quick to excuse it as) "oh, it's just a happy simple little slogan about bringing America together 🦅🇺🇸🎆🔫." Which is great for the aforementioned fascists because they can hide behind that interpretation and know the people who only see it that way are dumb enough to continue to back them. Simultaneously it serves as a reminder to anyone not pasty enough of complexion that they are not welcome in the far right's idea of America. They are not welcome as part of the "one." "The melting pot has been switched off. Drop your culture and heritage at the door. If you assimilate maybe we'll use you as a token but we still really don't want you here."

I'm not one who is keen to ever hand over words, phrases, symbols and such to hatred. It sucks to let awful people appropriate them. But you'd need to have been living under a rock for the last decade to not see the obvious dog whistle for what it is. In a vacuum I wouldn't see the problem either. Here on planet Earth you'd need to be deaf and blind to miss it.

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theuniqueone -13 points 2 months ago

Germans aren't authorities on fascism because their grandfathers were mass killers who mostly got away with it.

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idiomaddict 17 points 2 months ago

And yet, when a country starts speaking like 1938 Germany, it’s a big fucking sign.

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Nonconfrontational 2 points 2 months ago

And their current government supplies roughly 30% of the weapons currently being used by Israel to do a genocide.

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