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@cjd That's weird. Ugly. Radiant in combo with black. Maybe they want to say something? 😎

@cjd just because the Hateful Bros are wearing them, does not mean it's 'in vogue'. Like with most of their actions, just because they have bought themselves a stage does not make them more attractive or trendy. It still just sucks.

@sj_zero @cjd @Lioh Hitler shook Jesse Owens' hand and congratulated Jesse Owens on his gold medal, unlike America. The framing that the Nazis were all about hate for others rather than love for their own is actual propaganda. I am not a Nazi, but realizing this makes it easier to understand WW2 and current events from a more honest perspective.

@HWABAG @cjd @Lioh @sj_zero Hey you're right. My bad.

Hitler did not meet or shake hands with Owens. That said, there are several reports of a salute or wave. According to sports reporter and author Paul Gallico, writing from Berlin, Owens was “led below the honor box, where he smiled and bowed, and Herr Hitler gave him a friendly little Nazi salute, the sitting down one with the arm bent.” Owens himself later confirmed this, claiming that they exchanged congratulatory waves. So, Owens was not personally snubbed by Hitler. However, Owens did feel that he had been snubbed by someone: U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. A month after the Olympic Games, Owens told a crowd, “Hitler didn’t snub me—it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”

@cjd They coopted the "Socialist" name and the "Workers' Party" name for branding reasons, not because of any ideological alignment, not because of any care for the workers. It was corporatism and rule by hierarchy, and they got away with it by scapegoating the Others, not by their actions but by their identity, just like Trumpism is doing today.

The core of the socialist idea is not the totalitarianism the Bolsheviks decided was was necessary to implement it, it is to remove the class hierarchy that fascism and nazism reinforce. The class hierarchy that Trumpism reinforces.

Horseshoe theory is so tiresome.

@cjd You know the modern industrial welfare state was introduced by conservatives? By Otto frickin Bismarck? It's not a good signal to point to and say look, socialism.

The connection between public healthcare and concentration camps is such a mindboggling take I don't even know where to begin. There is nowhere to place the slippery slope, helping people live and killing people are opposite things.

What evolved into holocaust was Hitler's wish for a holocaust. It wasn't like "hey let's treat people's tuberculosis" led to "while we're at it let's also destroy the 'unworthy' races". It's perfectly possible to do one without ever doing the other.