Uh, since when has intimating your own similarities to literal Nazis been an an effective dogwistle, and to whom? Does Trump think he is winning anybody's support with that kind of talk, other than the KKK?

Are we at the stage where the right unironically identifies with the actual, historical Nazis?

Maybe it's time that Western popular culture stopped glorifying Adolf Hitler as some kind of evil genius.

If your ordinary schoolyard bully can converge to similar ideas just by instinct, that's a hint that perhaps Nazi ideology isn't really deep enough to put on a pedestal, even as an archnemesis.

A topologist is someone who can't tell the difference between a donut and a coffee mug.

An member of the alt right is someone who can't tell the difference between... (?)

We've talked about it quite a bit on here, but the biggest factor in the U.S.'s economic success in the mid 20th was because the rest of the industrial world blew itself up.

A topologist is someone who can't tell the difference between a donut and a coffee mug.

An member of the alt right is someone who can't tell the difference between... (?)

Wait a minute...

What if... what if, we blew ourselves up. Start a war with North Korea.

Would that be good enough to restore the greatness?

Warcraft and medieval history.

It would help make Germany great again.

Also, funny what Jon`C said about universities and talent, because, guess which country had the best universities and attracted the best minds across Europe before a certain political group chased them out?

Actually, I read somewhere that some unsavory types seem to have infiltrated medieval studies in academia for exactly this confused viewing of culture and history through their racially motivated lenses

"We wuz Vikings `n sheit"

I think it's a little more pernicious than that.

AFAIK medieval studies is already quite Euro-centric, and spends a lot of time obsessing over stuff that white people did a long time ago.

Which is exactly what racists would like, even in the most innocent and genuine of ways. It's just that these genuine interests are held for all the wrong reasons.

So I have really been liking the tone of this thread so I recorded a musical interpretation of it. I left it on the other laptop though so I will gift it to you all when I get to internets next with that one.

Nazis weren't that bad and Trump is like Hitler

So I have really been liking the tone of this thread so I recorded a musical interpretation of it. I left it on the other laptop though so I will gift it to you all when I get to internets next with that one.

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