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[–] 232 points 1 month ago* (13 children)

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

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    [–] 171 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Remember who you are....

    A nation of immigrants!

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    [–] 132 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I remember who I am. Not a fucking Nazi

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    [–] 119 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 92 points 1 month ago (50 children)

    Also like, we famously have very many heritages.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 month ago (42 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (40 children)

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

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    [–] 70 points 1 month ago

    "Quit calling us Nazis!"

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  • [–] 61 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    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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    [–] 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 47 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    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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    [–] 43 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Ein Reich. Ein Volk. Ein Führer.

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    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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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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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    [–] 29 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 26 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    This is a real post on x. It technically isn't the same as the nazi slogan, but weirdly close. More info: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/labor-department-post-slammed_n_696499cae4b0db619f4af95e

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Was founded on theft,

    Genocide and slavery,

    Elected rapist

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago

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

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month 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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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Interesting choice for a nation of mostly immigrants

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (33 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (29 children)

    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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