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#276601: Apr 5th 2019 at 1:10:01 PM

End of the day, I'd rather be sitting here going, "Wow, a dozen squad cars for one dude? Man, that was overkill. At least we got him, though."

As opposed to, "Whoops, he got away. He's a personal guest of Vladimir Putin now. We will never, ever get him. Assange won forever. Maybe should have put an extra officer on that."

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#276602: Apr 5th 2019 at 2:18:11 PM

He wouldn't even have to make it to an airport, he could just leg it to the Russian embassy.

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Grafite Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: Less than three
#276603: Apr 5th 2019 at 2:26:11 PM

I don't usually post stuff about specific congresspeople, but I thought this was abominable and morally repugnant enough: Mo Brooks from Alabama compares Democrats and "fake news" allies to Hitler, with Trump as the persecution victim. Only in the American South.

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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
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#276604: Apr 5th 2019 at 2:30:51 PM

Now recall how often the right complains about leftists calling everything and anything they don't like "nazis".

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#276605: Apr 5th 2019 at 2:34:30 PM

Keep in mind that the alleged perpetrators of the "Big Lie" in Hitler's mind were Jews.

So a Republican congressman quoted Hitler to compare Democrats to Jews.

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#276606: Apr 5th 2019 at 3:03:50 PM

Mmm.

I'm not sure just saying the words "big lie" constitutes quoting Hitler.

I mean, he's totally Fake-News-wanking and saying the Mueller Investigation was a political stunt and shit. He's reading right off of today's Standard Right-Wing Script. But I feel like saying he quoted Hitler 'cause he said "big lie" is overselling it.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 5th 2019 at 4:05:29 AM

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#276607: Apr 5th 2019 at 3:12:14 PM

How about saying he quoted Hitler because he recited two whole paragraphs from Mein Kampf?

Edited by Parable on Apr 5th 2019 at 3:12:32 AM

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#276608: Apr 5th 2019 at 3:17:05 PM

He did?

*goes back to article*

Oh, so he did. They stuck an ad at the bottom of all the talk about Big Lie and I thought the article ended there.

Never mind, then.

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#276609: Apr 5th 2019 at 7:20:53 PM

Huh. Are we sure that that guy wasn't trying to complement the Democrats by comparing them to Nazis? Like, if you can rattle off two paragraphs from Mein Kampf from memory without prompting, chances are you don't think Nazis are all that bad, so.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#276610: Apr 5th 2019 at 7:26:55 PM

For a conservative, that's a bit like comparing someone to Godzilla. Sure, he's a monster and all, but also a bad-ass.

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#276611: Apr 5th 2019 at 7:52:19 PM

[up][up]I mean, he and people like him probably do, but it's not that crowd he's trying to reach there.

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#276612: Apr 5th 2019 at 8:11:17 PM

Also something of note, Brooks is continuing this trend among right-wingers to disassociate Nazis with their end of the political spectrum and insist they were actually socialists.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#276613: Apr 5th 2019 at 8:12:30 PM

Haven't they always done that? "Socialist is in the name!" and all.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#276614: Apr 5th 2019 at 8:12:50 PM

Fascists don't want to associate Nazis with fascists.

It's kind of funny in a horrifying way.

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akanesarumara Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#276615: Apr 5th 2019 at 8:14:42 PM

[up][up][up]... Whaaaaa...? Ok I seriously don't see how this piece of doublethink is supposed to work. Claiming the Nazis were actually Socialists... as in the ones who got blamed for the Reichstag burning and were later sent to camps as politicals?

Edited by akanesarumara on Apr 5th 2019 at 5:15:08 PM

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#276616: Apr 5th 2019 at 8:17:10 PM

... Whaaaaa...? Ok I seriously don't see how this piece of doublethink is supposed to work. Claiming the Nazis were actually Socialists... as in the ones who got blamed for the Reichstag burning and were later sent to camps as politicals?

"They were the national SOCIALIST party! It's in the name!"

And from that a bunch of really disingenuous comparisons/takes on some of their policies. Ignoring of course how Hitler hated marxism and said that his idea of "socialism" was completely different from what it meant conventionally.

akanesarumara Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#276617: Apr 5th 2019 at 8:24:30 PM

[up]Yeah it is in the name but like you pointed out as well this is ignoring Hitler hated the Socialists.

Looking at the other wiki tho, if they had said "they grew out of a labor party!" now that would have been accurate (the party was actually called German Labor Party or German Workers' Party before 1920 and after that they just tacked the National Socialist at the front).

Edited by akanesarumara on Apr 5th 2019 at 5:29:07 PM

CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#276618: Apr 5th 2019 at 8:32:04 PM

[up]x4 Well, fascism did start with the Italians, not the Nazis, but the Nazis were the ones who added the racist stuff to it.

Edited by CookingCat on Apr 5th 2019 at 8:34:03 AM

wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
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#276619: Apr 5th 2019 at 9:10:33 PM

Goddamn. Turns out while Buttigieg sucks up all the oxygen, Warren has been killing it. This anecdote is... goddamn.

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#276620: Apr 5th 2019 at 10:03:41 PM

On to less (semi)heartwarming, and more alarming news:

The U.S. State Department is apparently going to label Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

Now, as the article states, the U.S. government has been blacklisting those with ties to the IRGC since at least 2007, but if it's true then this would be the first time the U.S. has designated another country's military as terrorists.

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#276621: Apr 6th 2019 at 12:54:00 AM

~wisewillow: Um, is "Warren has been killing it" supposed to be a criticism or a praise?

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#276622: Apr 6th 2019 at 1:12:43 AM

Praise I think.

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wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
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#276623: Apr 6th 2019 at 3:53:31 AM

Praise. That’s a great speech.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#276624: Apr 6th 2019 at 8:16:14 AM

[up]

Please copy/paste the content or a brief summary for those of us that can't/won't access Twitter. You're far from the only one, and it's rather irksome to have context-free posts like that.

@Revolutionary Guard = Terrorists

Well, considering their actions during the Green Revolution about a decade ago... But that said, such a label would also need to be applied to other governmental Secret Police organizations in order to be equitable.

Edited by ironballs16 on Apr 6th 2019 at 11:17:43 AM

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#276625: Apr 6th 2019 at 8:20:30 AM

Interesting, since it opens the US up to similar accusations from other countries. It's been an open secret the most governments around the world reserve the capability to carry out rather unsavory actions when they deem necessary. While I wouldn't want to draw an exact equivalence between the Revolutionary Guard and, say, the CIA, I wonder where exactly that you draw the line?

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