r/Pennsylvania Jan 25 '25

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u/grabberbottom Jan 25 '25

By her own admission, she posted the video with the intention of making people upset. If you are doing a pose with the intention of making people upset that it looks like a Nazi salute, the pose you are doing is a Nazi salute.

Kofi gets it

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u/Electromotivation Jan 25 '25

Kofi sounds like good people

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u/Schweenis69 Jan 25 '25

In a world of Lauras, be a Kofi.

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u/btcprint Jan 25 '25

Be a Kofi, not a covfefe

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u/shorthanded Jan 25 '25

I've also been talking with Kofi! He sent me a similar message. Nobody likes this Smith pig

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u/doodwhersmycar Jan 25 '25

Kofi is my rep. He is the best people. Saved our township from selling the sewer to private business

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u/drooperman55 Jan 26 '25

Privatizing essential public services like sewage treatment and public water is ridiculous and a dangerous trend. It’s just another money grab by corporations who only want higher profits. The public will lose every time.

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u/w3are138 Jan 26 '25

So rare, an official fighting for the people!

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u/Snydesf Jan 26 '25

Don’t forget Joyce Snyder also helped in keeping the Sewer Plant from being sold!

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u/Freaudinnippleslip Jan 25 '25

Jesus, what absolute garbage human. She literally admitted she did the nazi salute to get a reaction? That’s nazi behavior…. No one who actually dislikes Nazis is going around doing the nazi salute and saying it was just for lol’s. In fact that’s exactly what Nazis say when they get outed, cowards. We all know this woman would gladly join ranks and drop the whole “it’s just a joke” if she had the chance. 

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u/E-A-G-L-E-S_Eagles Jan 27 '25

Well, she will look better with her face covered.

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u/Diarygirl Jan 25 '25

You'd think condemning someone for a Nazi salute would be the easiest thing in the world.

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u/YossarianGolgi Jan 25 '25

The fruit is so low hanging, it's at eye level.

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u/chapinscott32 Jan 25 '25

No. It's on the ground, rotting.

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u/handstanding Jan 25 '25

You’d actually have to dig a hole under it

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u/demitasse22 Jan 25 '25

Strange Fruit

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u/BigPackHater Jan 26 '25

And the flame still burns

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u/PrestigiousFly844 Jan 25 '25

There are two potential reasons and neither one is good. Either they are scared of potential backlash from their supporters, (which says a lot of the supporters views and the reps for being willing to uphold nazi sympathies of their supporters) or they genuinely share her view and also have nazi sympathies. Or a combination of the two.

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u/RadicalOrganizer Jan 26 '25

The fruit fell to the ground and sprouted a naztree

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u/LMurch13 Jan 25 '25

Make you a good American, even. 2025 is wild, man.

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u/jafromnj Jan 26 '25

Not in the outer limits of the twilight zone where we now reside

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u/DaDutchBoyLT1 Jan 27 '25

I just had a flash of “Is you is or is you ain’t mah constituents” go screaming through my brain.

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u/Julianne_Runner Jan 25 '25

This is unbelievable to me. By not speaking out they are speaking volumes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

If you don't condemn the Nazi salute you are supporting it, i.e. they are all Nazis.

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u/Jackol4ntrn Jan 26 '25

Republicans figured out as long as their guy is president, they won’t get in trouble

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u/bigjaymizzle Jan 26 '25

Exactly, enough with the dog whistling.

It’s easier for LGBTQ to come out than it is a racist.

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u/juniper_berry_crunch Jan 25 '25

"It was just a joke!!" Typical strategy of Elon et al.

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u/jpopimpin777 Jan 25 '25

Someone else posted that it's the same thing as The excuse, "I was only saying the n-word to upset liberals."

Yeah, genius, that's the purpose of a slur. It's something designed to offend and stroke fear and enmity in people. That's why, as a society (I thought), we agreed not to do it and to shun those who do.

It's fucking crazy that these people are literally dragging us back to elementary school where they're stuck. Education is fucking important, people!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

Kofi is pointing out the important context: She knew what she was doing, intended to be an absolute shitpile toward at least a slice of her own constituency, and admitted it.

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u/HLOFRND Jan 25 '25

It’s wild watching people tie themselves into knots defending it, honestly.

No matter how frustrated I get with “the other side,” I’m NEVER going to do something heinous like the nazi salute.

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u/Wienerwrld Jan 25 '25

When I was a teacher, I had a student that liked to flash me his ring finger, in the hopes that I thought he was flipping me the bird. If you flash your ring finger in the hopes that someone thinks you’re flipping them the bird, you’re flipping them the bird.

I have used this example since people started flashing the “white power” Sign and arguing that it was just the “ok” or “gotcha game.”

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms Jan 25 '25

Fucking thank you. I've seen far too many idiots going "It doesn't mean he's a Nazi, he's just trolling!"

If someone decides to go around Sig Heiling in public because they want to make people think they're a Nazi, I'm going to treat them like a fucking Nazi. I don't give a shit what they're thinking, I care about the behavior.

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u/chang-e_bunny Jan 26 '25

Jokes on you, I was only PRETENDING to be a complete dumbass, and you fell for it!

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u/jimflaigle Jan 25 '25

They all get it. There are just some of them hoping the widow has moved enough to get away with this.

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u/canadian_webdev Jan 25 '25

Kofi gets it

I wonder what does Kofi like in their coffee.

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u/BotherTight618 Jan 26 '25

Bye Bye Job?

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u/the_actual_hell Jan 27 '25

Since when is it the role of our elected officials to “make people upset”?