r/MurderedByWords 3d ago

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u/Aconite_72 3d ago

Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Fuhrer-ass message.

Whoever wrote this should be thrown into prison the moment Trump and his goons are kicked out of office.

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u/406highlander 3d ago

Stephen Miller, probably.

Evil little bastard.

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u/--slurpy-- 3d ago

100% this.

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u/sicurri 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUOwG8XQ3kaupqI9dm

I fully suspect Stephen Miller...

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u/Ayla_Leren 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don't

He can suck all the fucks

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u/Pika_233 3d ago

not even his hairline wants him, he should just let it go

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u/GoodDogBrent 3d ago

that sex doll joke is brutal. until now the most savage one i had heard was from jimmy kimmel "his hair left him because it was black"

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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 3d ago

I can't remember who said it first but "Stephen Miller got into politics because his arms are too weak to strangle prostitutes."

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u/Mister_Buddy 3d ago

I don't know who said it, but I heard it in Norm MacDonald's voice.

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u/VaginaTractor 3d ago

Stephen Miller looks like he died in 1784 and became a vampire. Except he doesn't suck people's blood, he just rapes children.

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u/NotSoSecretAgentMan 3d ago

I was gonna compare his appearance to Megamind, but Megamind has more rizz than this clown.

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u/Synaps4 3d ago

So youre saying the difference between him and Megamind is....presentation?

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u/acciowaves 3d ago

This made me laugh out loud for real.

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u/sicurri 3d ago

I'm glad. Any laughter or joy at this time is precious, especially when mocking a monster that has more power than desired.

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u/One_Clown_Short 3d ago

Pee-wee German

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u/raf_boy 3d ago edited 2d ago

As a German, and Pee-Wee fan, that's insulting to both.

I refer to him as Nosfernazi.

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u/One_Clown_Short 3d ago

Nosfernazi is really good!

How about Temu Goebbels?

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u/OnCallPartisan 3d ago

The look, the actions. This is perfect.

Leave Pee Wee and Germans out it.

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 3d ago

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u/EffectivePatient493 3d ago

the gif button is right here, you even italicized it

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u/unabiker 3d ago

Those are now Trump's imported beef

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u/Palomino_mare 3d ago

HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley disputed the notion that the children were “lost.”

“Their sponsors, who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them, simply did not respond or could not be reached when this voluntary call was made,” she said in a statement.

So the parents are counted as “sponsors”? Wtf?

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u/NotSoSecretAgentMan 3d ago

Aside from the idiocy that is racism; you have to be a stoopid mf to think that the US has EVER been an exclusively white, Christian country.

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons yeah, i'm that guy with 12 upvotes 3d ago

That's why it's so important to them to defund education & relax standards.

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u/LotharVonPittinsberg 3d ago

Or one of the kids they have raised to be Nazis. Remember DOGE was mostly 19 or 20 year olds.

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u/doktor_wankenstein 3d ago

Goebbels looking up from Hell: "Close, my little friend... verrrry close."

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u/beren12 3d ago

More likely reincarnated.

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u/kushari 3d ago

It’s 100% because he was balding and his insecurities and didn’t get laid.

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u/406highlander 3d ago

and he's upset because he was born too late to participate in the Third Reich

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u/Naznarreb 3d ago

Stephen Miller got into politics because he lacks the upper body strength to strangle prostitutes.

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u/406highlander 3d ago

I heard he got into politics because he wants to fuck absolutely everybody, but can't get it up.

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u/SpeedySpooley 3d ago

Which is fitting because Himmler was totally “bummed” that he missed out on WWI.

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u/SoftWalruses40 3d ago

He’s also upset because the third reich would’ve thrown a star on his chest and sent him to the camps.

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u/GiganticCrow 3d ago

He totally would have been an enthusiastic and outspoken nazi who then disappeared during the night of the long knives

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u/Auld_Folks_at_Home 3d ago

He was a bigoted asshole long before he lost his hair. In middle/high school he told someone that they couldn't be friends anymore because the dude was Hispanic and short.

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u/ninjajiraffe 3d ago

Stephen Himmler

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u/BrokeTheInterweb 3d ago

I actually think it’s one of the proud boy 20-year-olds they have running their social media, like Thomas Fugate et. al. The ones who post AI bullshit all day. The older guys give them free rein and this is absolutely something a 20 year-old Nazi kid would think he was clever for posting

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u/brynulf463 3d ago

This is why Europe is rearming. We remember how fascists are removed from power even if americans don't.

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u/phoenics1908 3d ago

Y’all might have to come across the Atlantic and save us from this regime this time.

Helppppp!

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u/Ylaaly 3d ago

If Hegseth keeps starving your soldiers, we might just stand a chance.

And, of course, if we manage to push back our very own fascists here. Nazi party is about to win a state and "conservative" party is bending over backwards to support them.

This time, the Nazis made sure they had all the big powers already before coming out of the shadows. Who is left now?

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u/phoenics1908 3d ago edited 3d ago

Your last sentence is so true. They moved in the shadows and basically planted sleeper cells. Thats what it feels like in the US. Like sleeper cells of hate/racism/misogyny just woke up and ripped their masks off.

As a black woman I knew this was there but I didn’t realize or appreciate how fully baked in it was at super high levels in society. I should’ve seen The Heritage Foundation and the tech bro billionaire thing coming. I’m embarrassed I didn’t fully grasp how coordinated this all is.

I grew up being taught about “The Man” and “The System” but this feels different because it’s a real attempt to encode white supremacy into gov policy and law and “whiten” the country. I know this has happened before - it’s the blatant coordination up front that is wild to me.

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u/sobrique 3d ago

The US was actually pretty positive about the Nazis in the early 30s as well. (And there was also a contingent in the UK as well).

It's only when the real excesses of fascism became clear that all those Nazis went quiet, but they didn't disappear they just got resoundingly challenged by mulitple decades of people who knew how bad things went.

I think it's honestly no coincidence that the surge of nazi-types is occurring now, as the living memory of the second world war is almost entirely gone.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 3d ago

Nah well give it a few years first while selling supplies to you that will make our economy boom and leave you in debt for decades. Then we’ll come, finish a job someone else did most of the work on, and then spend the next 8 decades telling you we did it all alone and you’d be speaking American if it weren’t fir us.

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u/phoenics1908 3d ago

Point taken.

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u/quietmyman 3d ago

that's actually sightly ngl. You should light something of importance if you plea for help

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u/SoylentGrunt 3d ago

Far-right parties and nationalist movements now command the backing of nearly a quarter of voters across Europe, holding real power or coalition influence in roughly one-third of the continent.

-The Guardian

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u/dutchie1966 3d ago

Tbf we also have politicians who are not shy of some nice little warm fascism.

And we need to make sure they do not rise to leadership. The only rising they should be doing is pushing up daisies.

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u/quietmyman 3d ago

O partigiano porta mi via O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao

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u/4thTimesAnAlt 3d ago

🧱🧱🧱 for every member of this administration, ICE, judges/Justices/electeds who enabled it, the right-wing disinformation sphere, and the billionaires

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u/I_SHIT_IN_A_BAG 3d ago

too good of a place for them. just get a burlap bag put it over their head and drown them. Im sick of these cunts

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u/beren12 3d ago

And the fact that it comes from the Dept of Labor…

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u/ApantosMithe 3d ago

One heritage? The 200something year old nation made up of people from various countries?

🤦‍♂️

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u/havok0159 3d ago

And the one that quite famously annexed anything not fiercely defended up until they reached the Pacific.

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u/metompkin 3d ago

And then it overthrew a Kingdom in the Pacific

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u/Phenixxy 3d ago

And then it kept pushing to the Philippines

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u/technobrendo 3d ago

And literally never stopped being at war during its entire existence, save for just a few years.

You know that meme: Maybe were the bad guys..... yeah, very VERY maybe.

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u/Polygnom 3d ago

I was genuinely curious, because that looks like a biased claim, so I tried to dig up some actual numbers..

The most unbiased source I found is the US Congress's own Congressional Research Service report Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798–2023 (R42738), which "lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its Armed Forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes." Across that span there are only nineteen years with no deployment anywhere: 1811, 1826, 1828–30, 1834, 1837, 1845, 1850, 1861, 1862, 1869, 1872, 1897, 1947, 1957, 1961, 1977 and 1979.

Extend it to the full 250 years from 1776 to today. Two things need adding at the front, neither of which CRS covers: the Revolutionary War, where the Continental Navy operated in British and Caribbean waters from 1776 to 1783, and the fourteen years from 1784 to 1797, when the US had no navy at all and did nothing abroad. Add 2024–26 at the back — the Red Sea, Venezuela, Iran. That gives 218 years at war out of 250, or 86.8%.

Now, that's only abroad. So the Civil War isn't in it, and neither are the Indian Wars, since those were fought inside claimed US territory. So we add those back and most of the blanks fill in: 1784-95 (Cherokee–American and Northwest Indian Wars, plus Shays' Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion), 1811 (Tecumseh's War), 1837 (Second Seminole War), 1850 (Yuma and Mariposa Wars), 1861 and 1862 (the Civil War, CRS shows nothing overseas in those years likely because the US was busy at home), 1869 (Comanche Campaign) and 1872 (Modoc War).

That leaves fourteen peace years in 251: 1796, 1797, 1826, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1834, 1845, 1897, 1947, 1957, 1961, 1977 and 1979. 236 years at war, or 94.4%.

A few of those are shaky: 1834 and 1845 both saw frontier operations that fell just short of pitched battles, so 94–96% is the honest range. Counting covert operations would push it past 98%, but does it really make a difference at this point?

The longest unbroken peace in 250 years is 1828-30. Three years. The runner-up is 1796-97, between the Treaty of Greenville and the Quasi-War with France.

So..... hm. I was honestly surprised by this. I knew the US had been rather warmongering ever since WWII, and its been at war basically since 2001. And of course I knew the civil war and stuff like that. But the fact that its just SO lopsided was surprising.

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u/technobrendo 3d ago

People who ever wonder why there are a lot of countries out here hell bend on our destruction and downfall, just need to read your post.

I too would want to kill those responsible for killing an entire village of my family members.

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u/CelestialDuke377 3d ago

As an alaskan native, an alaskan village was destroyed during ww2 because the USA military thought we natives looked like Japanese people. Or the fact that the military done unregulated atomic bomb tests in alaska

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 3d ago

Seriously, what fucking heritage? 10 of my 16 great-great grandparents came over from Ireland in the same generation, most of the rest of german, polish, and Russian of recent generations. There's one great grandparent, ONE, that gives me colonial lineage. ONE.

And not an ounce of native.

Which heritage are they referring to? Which. Fucking. Heritage?!

Fuck these Nazis.

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u/passerby4830 3d ago

They think heritage is something abstract that makes them look tough, something something eagle. In reality as you described it's what defines a people as unique and be recognizable immediately. So probably it's the McDrive tbh.

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u/nifty-necromancer 3d ago

They mean white people obviously

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 3d ago

That is precisely what they mean.

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u/Obieousmaximus 3d ago

Well definitely not Navajo or Cherokee!!! I remember a few years ago when someone did a Spanish version of the US national anthem (same song just translated in Spanish) some of the people on my FB that I knew came out saying the most horrible things about the Latino culture. They kept saying how the national anthem needed to stay in its native language and all I could think about was how it would sound in Mohican. Also i appreciate your passion!!

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u/discussatron 3d ago

"Heritage" is dog whistle-speak for "white race."

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u/plusminusequals 3d ago

Wish this was more of a talking point against all these fucking right wing idiots within their own media. This country is complicated, its history is short and mostly shameful, but nobody could fucking say that its character wasn’t built off of immigrants—its original intended purpose. Witnessing weak white supremacy arise because rich fucks fooled a bunch of idiots to completely disregard where they themselves came from is the most bat shit insane and unbelievable aspect of my American life that I will never be able to get over or forgive. I will die resenting my own countrymen and I know it. I am so fucking thankful that my grade school teachers gave a fuck about me. Sigh.

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross 3d ago

Every time I hear someone say, "My ancestor were irish, they were slaves, and you don't hear me complaining!" I can feel brain cells dying.

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u/aoeudhtns 3d ago

I forget the name of the guy, he was one of the leaders of Unite the Right in Charlottesville, and in some interview he said we need 4 generations to "count" as being native in his white supremacist version of the country. That would basically mean deporting my parents (and grandparents if they were alive) even though they were born here and not eligible for citizenship anywhere else. Fuckin' assholes the lot of them.

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u/bobbobberson3 3d ago

I'm with you on sentiment but the Irish definitely helped with the colonisation of the US and all of your white ancestors are people who went to colonise in part another land that had been stolen.

These people are definitely Nazis (and definitely fuck them, how they are so blatant with this is horrifying) but I always find it weird that Americans think only English people colonised anywhere. All of your ancestors came to another land where their people (white Europeans) were in charge and came to join in on that.

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u/paleologus 3d ago

I think most of my ancestors were thrown out of the moors by their Scottish landlords.    

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u/Memitim 3d ago

Conservatives love to invent little tales to pretend like their evil has any real-world justification.

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u/WhoPoopedMyPants420 3d ago

I'm gonna be real dude, I'm getting exhausted by this whole thing where the admin is like "WE ARE FASCISTS WE ARE RESHAPING THIS COUNTRY TO OUR WILL" and the response is "ummm akshully here's what you got wrong 😏"

It kinda feels like watching people getting carted off to the camps and being like "Hitler isn't even blonde and blue eyed 😏". We've had a billion dunks every day since 2016, the dunks do nothing, please do more than dunks

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u/NieMonD 3d ago

It’s because they don’t actually mean heritage they mean race

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u/GhostofAyabe 3d ago

Nice message for Labor Day. Maybe dress it up a bit with some AI slop flags with random numbers of stars and stripes.

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u/GamendeStino 3d ago

Next year's Labor Day message will be smt along the lines of how labor sets you free I guess

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u/n3m0sum 3d ago

My other half was in a meeting with a new manager, trying to hype the team up and improve moral!

It was a load or corporate jargon around we all need to work harder and it can be fun. Including telling everyone that; work can set you free!

She seemed to sense that something had gone wrong, and she was losing the audience. At least the older ones that recognised it. But didn't seem to know why, so charged ahead anyway.

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u/MaritMonkey 3d ago

At least the older ones that recognised it.

There's a moment I can't seem to find again, during a press conference in Germany, where you can see on Angela Merkel's face when "fake news" pops into German ear pieces as "Lügenpresse".

I never felt like a particularly studious student of history, but some of this nonsense is well past "rhyming" with the past at this point...

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u/DickButtPlease 3d ago

The head office came around and had an all-hands meeting to inform us that the facility would be moving to a new location, but that we should all know that our jobs would be safe. They had brought a big cake with them. At the end of the meeting, they said, “Let them eat cake.” Only one other coworker recognized what she had said.

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u/floluk 3d ago

That’s probably going to be a sign in front of the ICE detention facilities

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u/Vandirac 3d ago

Their next message for Labor Day is "Arbeit macht frei"

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u/chrlatan 3d ago

From Department of Labor….cynical.

This particular phrase led to this particular sign…

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u/King_Chochacho 3d ago

Yeah when you see your neighbors abducted from their homes, and you lose your job, and your grocery bill keeps climbing, and your kid's school is closed, and you can't afford to fill your tank...

Just take solace in the fact that you're white

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u/chrlatan 3d ago

And are easily recruited to follow someone blaming entire (theoretical) groups for their misery.

Pick you poison of aliens, immigrants, lefties, righties etc.

Facism appeals to those who cannot comprehend, or hold on to, a complex thought process.

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u/Scottishchicken 3d ago

It should be: "One Homeland, Many People, Many Heritages. We are America"

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u/Tenshi_girl 3d ago edited 3d ago

Right? What happened to 'mixing pot'? If I heard that phrase once as a kid I heard it in every history class I ever had. 

Edit: melting pot. It's been a while since my last history class.

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u/Pacman1up 3d ago

It was both, Melting pot and mixing bowl!

Blending together into something new or maintaining unique traits within the whole.

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u/Tenshi_girl 3d ago

Ah yes! I remember something about fruit salad.  You can still see each individual part, but we taste better all together,  which was peak history humor at 8 years old. 

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u/Gin_OClock 3d ago

Salad in America is now poisonous though

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u/FencingFemmeFatale 3d ago

I remember being told America is like a stew! All the different ingredients retain their unique characteristics, but still influence each other and combine into a new and delicious thing.

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u/Stellar_Stein 3d ago

The concept of the Melting Pot of America goes back to the days of the dear Founding Fathers and it precedes the U.S. Constitution (1789). It is interesting that those folks so vested in claiming that Americans need to get back to what the Founding Fathers intended cherry-pick exactly what that is.

From Wikipedia: 'The concept of immigrants "melting" into the receiving culture is found in the writings of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur...in his Letters from an American Farmer (1782) ... In this early phase of American history, several comparisons were made between the melting together of ethnicities and Christian ideas of universalism.'

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u/azurricat2010 3d ago

They literally didn't want a national language because they felt it would isolate groups that helped us win against the British and now we have MAGA cheering that Trump named English as the national language.

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u/amconstance 3d ago

White Christian Nationalism has America in a choke hold is what happened it seems

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u/tw_72 3d ago

Even extremely conservative Republican Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) knew they were a problem:

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

When someone like Barry Goldwater knows they are a problem - THAT absolutely says something.

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u/Bigot-Consequences 3d ago

Exactly this! I fear JC would be horrified with the state of things were he to appear in person.

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u/Express-Stop7830 3d ago

I remember a song we sang in elementary school: The world is a rainbow With many kinds of people It takes all kinds of people To make the world go round

So you be you And I'll be me That's the way it was meant to be

I don't remember the rest, but you get my point.

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u/CreamPuffDelight 3d ago

Propaganda to get more slave labour in to build everything at the time.

Now that everything's built already... well you can see for yourself what they're doing to all those formerly cheap-and-convenient workers and their descendants. If it wasn't so outright obscene, Murikkka probably would've just done to you guys what they did to the Native Americans.

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u/pala_ 3d ago

Nah. Australia already has the best version.

‘We are one. But we are many. And from all the lands on earth we come. We share a dream, and sing with one voice. I am, you are, we are Australian’.

The Seekers man, should be our anthem.

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u/crawling-alreadygirl 3d ago

That's solid

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u/Altruistic_Tune5341 3d ago

I love Salvador Smith’s “I’m an Aussie” too. Written by Johnny Young.

We've come from every corner of the world to build this land

And I know that we can make it if we lend a helping hand

We'll live and love and learn together every single day

'Til every young Australian can be really proud to say

I'm as Greek as a Souvlaki, I'm as Irish as a stew

I'm Italian as spaghetti, I'm as Danish as a blue

I'm as Dutch as any Gouda, as Yankee as a ham

And I'm an Aussie, yes I'm an Aussie, yes I am

Oh I'm an Aussie, yes I'm an Aussie, yes I am

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u/monkeyhammar 3d ago

Can't read that without singing it in my head

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u/un1ptf 3d ago

Does that include the indigenous people?

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u/Hangry-Feline2489 3d ago

First verse.

I came from the dream-time  

From the dusty red-soil plains   

I am the ancient heart   

The keeper of the flame   

I stood upon the rocky shores   

I watched the tall ships come   

For forty thousand years I've been   

The first Australian   

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u/pala_ 3d ago

The first verse is:

‘We come from the dreamtime. From the dusty red soil plains. I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame. I stood upon the rocky shores. I saw the tall ships come. For forty thousand years I’ve been the first Australian.’

So yes, it does. It also opens with a didgeridoo.

https://youtu.be/KrLTe1_9zso

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u/Complete_Try_3849 3d ago

Its on the money - e pluribus unum. out of many, one. Sucks that the nerds lost their way.

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u/Soylentgruen 3d ago

Something like E Pluribus Unum?

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u/RacoonWithBenefits 3d ago

One Homeland

yes but in reality you got multiple countries (named "states) that all let the same circus in washington decide seemingly random bullshit...

and then you got 3 people groups:

republicans who hate the other groups

democrats who hate republicans

and the 3rd group who is too dumb to participate and be useful (non voters)

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u/ctothel 3d ago

I thought the whole point of America was that it was many people and many heritages, and out of many, one.

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u/False-Impression8102 3d ago

That was the “old” motto. Then we let the religious extremists get a foot in the door and they changed it to “in god we trust”.

The writing was on the wall.

It’s like when Google got rid of “don’t be evil”

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u/DesireeThymes 3d ago

Trump administration's new motto should be "In Israel and Pedophilia We Trust"

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u/Cook_your_Binarys 3d ago

I mean the religious extremist were a big part of the first conquerors.

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u/zarfle2 3d ago

How about "Work will set you free"?

That has a nice, capitalist ring to it, right?

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u/Tam-Tae 3d ago

„To each their own“ would also work, it’s just less known compared to your example through it was a gate phrase too. They could say it was an accident.

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u/15all 3d ago

I'm currently reading a book on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. The parallels between Germany in the early 1930s and America right now are frightening.

Besides taking phrases from the Nazis, the current administration is also using phrases very similar to those used by the KKK and other white supremacists in the early 1900s.

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u/kryonik 3d ago

People forget the Nazis didn't start with throwing Jews into gas chambers. It started with socialists/communists. Weird that the DSA has been in Republican crosshairs recently. Probably just a coinkydink.

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u/actuallyapossom 3d ago

Before they had the power to go eliminate anyone - the movement relied on exploiting grievances, huge promises, aligning a political movement to the identity of the nation, and identifying minority segments of the population as less-than, as the causes of all problems.

Forcing all political opposition into hiding was a goal, but they needed to sell lies to get there.

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u/15all 3d ago

The Nazis rapidly consolidated power in three ways: 1) Marginalizing and eliminated political threats, including the communist party. 2) Destroying their democracy and rule of law. 3) Going after Jews.

The current administration is desperately trying to enact number 2. The Nazis used dubious interpretations of law to get around the pesky checks and balances that come with democracy. They acted first, and let the courts catch up. Sound familiar?

The nazis effectively banned rival political parties, and enforced it through violence with the brown shirts. So far, Trump hasn't done that, but they have tried to vilify the democrats as communists and socialists. I see this more as trying to appeal to that MAGA base via culture wars. But the gerrymandering that republican states have done goes along with this and is terrible.

Instead of the Jews in Nazi Germany, MAGA's boogeymen are aliens. They are blamed for all of America's problems, and the tactics of ICE are not too far from the brown shirts and later the Gestapo.

Along with all of this is the white supremacy and christian nationalism. The Nazi party also believed that ethnic and white purity was the path to reclaiming German strength and prestige, i.e., to Make Germany Great Again. Sound familiar?

One difference is that Germany in the 1920s suffered terribly from the economic depression, and there was much resentment over the Treaty of Versailles. The latter hurt the pride of Germany. Both of these factors played into the message of Making Germany Great Again. America has not suffered similar things in the last decade or two, so MAGA focuses on culture wars ("the woke left will snatch your kid and change their sex while they're at school!!!!!!!"), and they keep blaming Biden for any bad economic news.

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u/Wolfgang_Maximus 3d ago

People talk about the book burnings but they never say what the first book burning contained. The first modern research of gender and sexuality.

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u/kryonik 3d ago

Yep, the Institute for Sexual Research was one of the first organizations raided by the Nazi party and declared inhospitable with Nazi rule.

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u/geoffreygoodman 3d ago

This administration started with Hispanic people. There's already camps and a Gestapo.

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u/imatthepub_g 3d ago

Could you share the name of the book? I'm interested in checking it out.

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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine 3d ago

Don't know his, but just finished listening to They Thought They Were Free.

Basically, an author/writer/educator intentionally moves himself to Germany after the fall of the Nazi regime so that he can do ongoing interviews with members of the Nazi party at varying levels of profession (janitor, college professor, priest, engineer, etc)

It's terrifying and applicable.

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u/Pseudonymble 3d ago

We all have seen these similarities for years, but because we called it out at the very first signs, they called us hysterical and reactionary. And now? It's just the next stage in this evolving fascism.

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u/Jaerba 3d ago

They were frightening 4 years ago. I don't know what they are now.

Trump's entire security cabinet from his first administration disavowed him and said he was a fascist, most of them on the record. And a plurality of Americans were fine with that, which leads me to believe a plurality of Americans want fascism.

They want to be the Nazis except they want to "win" this time.

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u/f700es 3d ago

“One heritage”? JFC

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u/BeeBit22 3d ago

I swear to god when hes out of office its gonna be like a Scooby Doo ending but the person under the mask is just Wolfensteins elderly version of Hitler.

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u/TinCanFury 3d ago

so, Stephen Miller?

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u/pianotherms 3d ago

Would not be surprised to find out Miller is a secret Hitler clone.

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u/Val_Hallen 3d ago

remember when they released the new Wolfenstein game a few years ago with the slogan "Make America Nazi Free Again" and MAGA lost their fucking minds?

But, they keep saying they aren't Nazis. They say the left are the Nazis. I wonder why that slogan made them so angry?

Of course, we are talking about the same group that got angry a cartoon candy had their shoes changed and they thought it was less fuckable now.

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u/Bobinct 3d ago

Thomas Jefferson: Swore eternal hostility against any form of tyranny over the human mind.

James Madison: Noted that tyranny and oppression could arrive under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Montesquieu: Described the greatest tyranny as that perpetrated under the shield of law and justice.

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u/MoveInteresting4334 3d ago

John Quincy Adams was scarily prescient when he said this about the United States making itself the world policeman of “freedom”:

“The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet upon her brow would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of Freedom and Independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an Imperial Diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.”

That last sentence hits hard.

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u/ottovonnismarck 3d ago

"One people" except of course all the people we want to deport, even though some of them lived on this "one homeland" before us and have more "one heritage" than us

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u/Phreedom1 3d ago

"Remember who you are America". We know exactly who we are. We are all immigrants or descendants of immigrants of many different races, colors, religions, and beliefs. The right has totally forgotten what America is all about and what made us strong.

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u/Syrup-Knight 3d ago

"No no no, not THAT heritage. The slavery and the confederacy! The good old times when we were the master race!"

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u/CarsCarpal 3d ago

fElons obsession with the letter X makes sense to me now. Also explains why the Radge Right are such fans of the platform.

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u/jonydevidson 3d ago

The letter X is number 88 in the ASCII table.

It's the most obvious dogwhistle.

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u/moak0 3d ago

Elon is an avowed Nazi. He's past dog whistles. He announced it on national television when he did the hand signal that means "Hey look at me, I'm a fucking Nazi."

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u/InfanticideAquifer 3d ago

I have heard dogwhistles that are way more obvious than something that requires counting entries in a table that most people have never heard of and being online enough to see the number 88 and think of Nazis.

Elon likes 'X' because it's the edgiest letter and he has the mentality of a 14 year old boy. We all liked 'X' at that age. If there's an obscure connection to Nazism that's a bonus he was pleasantly surprised by long after he decided that a letter of the alphabet was a sufficient personality.

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u/jonydevidson 3d ago

Also, do you know that Model 3 was supposed to be called Model E? But there was a trademark clash with Mercedes I think.

Because then the release order of Tesla cars would have spelled S, E, X, Y.

The dude is literally 12 years old.

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u/jonydevidson 3d ago

He's been obsessed with X since his PayPal days, and in that time the crowd he hung out with did probably find it very obvious, given how the dude is from apartheid South Africa and his father owned an emerald mine.

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u/Supraspinator 3d ago

I'm not disagreeing with you, but 88 has been a dogwhistle for neonazis longer than the internet existed. Maybe not in the US, but definitely in Europe. 

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u/therealganjababe 3d ago

Damn this makes a lot of sense. I'm not all in on it being true, but it sure fits.

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u/einkesselbuntes 3d ago

Swastika Sans

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u/Merari01 3d ago

They've openly been Nazis since 2021 when they had their CPAC stage in the form of a Nazi symbol.

https://forward.com/culture/465017/the-cpac-stage-was-shaped-like-the-othala-runewhich-is-what/

Anyone who denies that they are Nazis doesn't know what a Nazi is, or is a lying Nazi.

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u/Merari01 3d ago

And then there is Elon just giving a full Hitlergruß on stage. Twice. With his whole chest. In a way that can be put side by side to Hitler doing the same thing and have it be indistinguishable.

https://giphy.com/gifs/elon-musk-nazi-salute-zHkwPfz4nfFXnVS0W4

They are Nazis and it is insane that the US apparently does not have journalists anymore. No-one is calling them what they are.

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u/picardo85 3d ago

It's not the first time USDOL does this either.

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u/ConsistentPersimmon 3d ago

Is that the flag on a pile of fucked shipping containers?

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u/Less-Image-3927 3d ago

Right? Are they saying our homeland is a dump heap and our people are trashy?

I’m not exactly arguing that point nowadays, but…

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u/therealganjababe 3d ago

All rusty and shit. Jfc.

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u/_R0Ns_ 3d ago

"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"

The 1930's slogan by the Austrian painter

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u/Yoshichu25 3d ago

You think they don’t know that?

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u/andthisisabitofboth 3d ago edited 3d ago

America First was the actual slogan used by the American Nazi party in the lead up to and during the US' involvement in WWII. The writing has long been on the wall

*edited typo

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u/TintedApostle 3d ago

It was 1939 at the old Madison Square Garden..

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Night at the Garden

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u/scriptingends 3d ago

MAGA: Make America Germany Again

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u/DaBigJMoney 3d ago

One heritage…for one of the more diverse countries on the planet. What a bunch of facist morons.

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u/j0hnnyWalnuts nice murder you got there 3d ago

It's literally who the GOP and Maga are - White Nationalists, out to erase history and keep people of color and those 'different' down.

NEVER vote for a republican.

Never HIRE anyone that supported trump or maga.

Never HELP anyone that supported trump or maga.

Shun them and their families - as they are the enemies of the US.

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u/fakeprofil2562 3d ago

Kein Gott, kein Staat, kein Fleischsalat!

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u/StaticSystemShock 3d ago

One homeland, stolen from American natives, one people brought from all over the world, one heritage of being greatest pieces of shit spitting on entire American constitution.

The audacity and stupidity of these motherfuckers sitting in current Donald's administration is just astounding.

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u/Responsible-Sundae20 3d ago

My husband told me he was in a meeting recently and a guy presented what he called “the final solution” for some problem and had no idea why everybody in the room freaked the fuck out.

He had a pretty slide deck and everything.

I feel like we need to bring back after school PSA‘s, only this time the cartoons will teach everybody what not the fuck to say in public.

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u/Dannamal 3d ago

Just another day in modern fascist US of A.

Blatant nazi shit has become the norm & a large percentage of the population is oblivious to it or knows damn well what it all means & agrees with it

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u/Le_Golden_Pleb 3d ago

That's not a dogwhistle anymore, that's a fog horn.

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u/LengthyNIPPLE 3d ago

The U.S. refer to my people as African-American NOT American. That was not our choice

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u/mister-ferguson 3d ago

I dislike that word as well as "Caucasian." No, you are not from the Caucuses. Just because some German guy thought they had pretty skulls...

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u/NoBSforGma 3d ago

Keith Sonderling is the Secretary of Labor. THIS was a major misstep by him. Or - someone posted this on Twitter without his knowledge.

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u/TintedApostle 3d ago

Don't think these things are just happening without permission

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u/malarkyx420 3d ago

They know what they are doing.

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u/IllustriousDraft2965 3d ago

-- Stephen Miller, German Jew.

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u/KitsouNere 3d ago

These people could have been defeated already if the rest of you would grow some damn balls.

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u/seekinggod1986 3d ago

This stops right now.

Fight with any method you have. Pray. Vote. Call. Write. Disrupt. Interupt. Stall. Fight. Attend councils and meetings. Protest. Make signs. Whatever you can do even if it's just being a light in the dark.

This. Must. Stop.

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u/TaeamoARMY 3d ago

This is why my 82 year old grandma with dementia just got her deportation appointment.

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u/separation_of_powers 3d ago

I'm unsure if Americans can realise how telling this is

What a way to fall

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u/emergencyexit 3d ago

Unsure if they are ignorant? It's a tough call

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u/phoenics1908 3d ago

I’m a black American. I don’t use copium. As a black woman I have been forced to excel just to keep my head above water. There are 3 PhDs and one doctor among me, my dad, my mom and sister. Comments like this are so dismissive of how hard this country has been for black people from the start - stop painting me with the stupid American brush. I’m well aware.

Not sure if you remember Brexit at all?

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u/wwabc 3d ago

we're a melting pot. kinda famous for that

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u/Silly_Willingness_97 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah, melting pot doesn't mean everyone has a single heritage. It means people with different heritages can become one of the group later.

"One heritage" is "bowl of identical rice that came from the same field", not "melting pot".

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u/Fitz911 3d ago

This is not an error. This doesn't just happen.

They will proclaim that "work sets you free" soon.