A boat bearing Nazi symbols alongside Donald Trump flags was hosed down after trying to join a Trump event in Palm Beach County.
  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Friendly reminder that Call of Duty made nazi zombies a game because while killing zombies is always ok because they’re already mindless monsters, making them nazis made them even more fun to kill.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’ve been playing some COD for the last month or so, after about 10 years away.

      It’s absolutely astounding to me the number of idiots that the game attracts. In my experience, the odds of joining a game where at least one person doesn’t have a [TRUMP] clan tag is about zero. Yesterday I saw someone whose name was along the lines of [USA]TRUMPWON. For a game that has traditionally included killing Nazis, the people at Activision clearly don’t give a shit about actual fascism.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I was already having fun in 92 turning nazis into Swiss cheese in W3D

      “Get psyched!” well of course, it’s nazi killing time

  • rsuri@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 month ago

    The sign shown says “My pillow, $14:88” 14:88 as pretty much everyone knows by now is a white supremacist meme. In the video they say “sieg heil, heil Trump” which sounds a bit over the top to me. Like you’d think they’d be aware that nazis are unpopular and aren’t doing Trump any favors…

    Of course I considered that these might be pranksters pretending to be nazis, but they just seem a little too into the bit. One of the guys on the boat has a German nazi t-shirt (probably rather hard to buy/get printed nowadays) and another has a “moms for liberty” shirt, an organization very closely tied to the GOP. I mean they really committed to it if they are pranksters. I think more likely these people are actual nazis, and particularly dumb ones at that.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      655·
      1 month ago

      Similar to this quote-

      There’s a saying in Germany. If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.

      ― Regina Jackson, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

    • Kayday@lemmy.world
      53·
      1 month ago

      In all fairness, the article says the Nazi flag boat was hosed down when they tried to join the parade.

      It still says a lot that our political climate let them think this was okay, but the people at the rally were not okay with it, or at least weren’t okay being that obvious.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            1 month ago

            They lost the war. Doesn’t change even if their ideology still exists.

            So Nazis are by definition losers.

            • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
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              1 month ago

              They are like a weed that has taken root and keeps coming back. I always argue that perseverance is victory and them still being around is a slap to the face to everyone globally that died to remove them.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 month ago

    One of the men on board appeared to be holding an image of Mike Lindell, CEO of the My Pillow company. Lindell, who is a well-known Trump supporter, recently hit back against claims that his product pricing was inadvertently linked to neo-Nazi propaganda.

    INADVERNTLY?! Fuck off. It was $14.88, he knew goddamn well EXACTLY what he was doing.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s one thing that these chucklefucks show up. Knuckle-draging jerks like this are always going be lurking somewhere, but what people in charge do about it is far more important, IMO. The lack of response from GOP leadership is the part that really gets me riled up; by saying and doing nothing they’re saying everything very loudly.

    Meanwhile, we’ve had things like this where the (Texas GOP) party leadership was split on a vote to not associate with these assholes:

    https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/02/texas-gop-antisemitism-resolution/

    What I dislike about this is that what was on the table were “holocaust deniers” and “Nazis.” So even with the most minimal definition of “people problematic to our brand” they couldn’t kick them out.