I think it's because what defeated them was violence and "violence is bad". Because the problem of nazism definitely could've been solved diplomatically... >.>

Conservatives can't let people know that nazism is just a flavor of conservatism. They can't have people openly pointing out how every genocide ever commited in human history was caused by conservatives.

Conservatives would rather burn everything to the ground than admit they are all racist, dog-fucking, traitor, pedophile bigots. It's almost like they can feel shame. They can't, but it almost seems like it.

Nazism never went away. The Prescott Bushes and Joe McCarthies were always there, pulling the strings of the Nixons and the Reagans.

They were in your schools, in your hospitals, in your commerce. You just never saw them because they were at the upper echelons, rubbing their grubby hands together in satisfaction while looking down on you like a spider watching its prey get inextricably tangled in its web.

In other words, yeah it was on purpose. My theory is that it was their plan all along to make a resurgence now, when the last of the WWII vets and people who remember that era are either dead or in assisted living homes.

Even people who were kids during Nixon are retiring now. The new norm has shifted gradually, decade by decade, and now almost no person still working in the US is old enough to remember the FDR economy.

They played the long game, dude. This is their culminating event.

I got permanently banned from Reddit for saying that Child predators should be killed.

I mean, they made admin (or supermod, can't be arsed to remember) a known child-predator enabler and issued bans on anyone complaining; that should have been a sign of where they were going...

It's reddit. It's run by nazis, for nazis.

i got nuked from reddit because of Emil Nolde of all people. Someone posted his painting on r/museum and i made a comment about the demented irony of his life - he was hardcore nazi but he ended up in Entartete Kunst exhibition - so somehow mods thought that's condoning nazis and breaking the community rules - boom boom boom and here we are.

I appreciated reddit very very narrowly, and entirely because every time I had a problem, the internet search result for said problem would be a reddit post with the solution. . Which isnt even true anymore, between people having scrambled posts before deleting accounts, and just the passage of time, and due to the friendly, helpful people disappearing.

beyond that interaction with reddit, it was a festering shitpile of hatred, bigotry, and pedophilia, and it continues to amaze me how it maintained such a popular position.

I have been banned from several comms on lemmy for saying very similar things. Most comms seem OK with it, but there are definitely a few conservative mods on lemmy that will protect their own.

Both of those perfectly reasonable opinions unfortunately still fall under reddit's site wide umbrella bannable offenses of "inciting harm or violence." 🫤 I know because I'm here for the same reasons.

I mean I grew up with that being told my grandparents were from another time and that's why I couldn't bring black friends around when he was there.

You have to work a little bit harder at them today, but they can still be found.

Dog parks were my favorite place to interact with regulars back when I had a dog. Met lots of good friends and neighbors that way.

Volunteering can be great, too. I sometimes sign up for cooking/prep shifts at a local kitchen that feeds the community, and it's an easy way to hang out with like minded people.

Independent bookstores and libraries are still around, too. They're obviously more common in densely populated urban areas, but if you have them around you they can be great.

Conservatives love to brag about their various bigotries. Many have even collected the whole set.

Oh yeah. "I'm not vaccinated and neither are my kids." Sorry, I didn't get your name when you introduced yourself to me literally 10 minutes ago and immediately started your increasingly unhinged monologue.

"You know what, this milk reminds me of another white fluid..."

Sounds like someone doesnt know their Nyet's from their Nein's.

Lemmy has some corners that still act like that

Wait, your clothes don't change color when you sweat?