• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    I firmly believe this is because we’ve lost almost all of our world war two veterans. These shitlords kept it under wraps all these years because deep down, they knew pap paw would 100% get up out of his wheelchair to kill one last Nazi.

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      I think calling it a Musk Salute might actually be a great idea if the media is so unwilling to call it a Nazi Seig Heil.

      Call it a Musk Salute to the Nazi flag.

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        It also makes a lot of sense because in German the salute is called “Hitlergruß” (which literally translates to Hitler salute), because the accompanying words were mostly “Heil Hitler” and not “Sieg Heil” (which also was used, but less common), so you were saluting Hitler. So when Musk does it is in fact a “Sieg Heil”, but when somebody else salutes the American flag it is a Musk salute because you are saluting Musk, the Führer of the USA

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      Whole world is going crazy like that nazi/right way. Not just Utah. There is no place to escape. We should be strong and withstand these “tests” of our worldview.

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    That’s because love and compassion for others is obviously evil.
    While hatred and oppression of minorities is good and righteous.

    But of course you have to be an idiot to understand that, so you probably don’t.

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    Approved flags for display in government buildings and schools would include the Utah state and U.S. flags, military flags, flags for other countries, flags for Native American tribes and official flags for colleges and universities. The bill also allows for the flying of a “historic version of a flag … that is temporarily displayed for educational purposes,”

    So, fuck it, every school in Utah should do a special educational bit about the history of the city of Cusco between 1978 and 2021..

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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    You know how people say the fact that we never excised confederates/slavery from amongst us has led to modern issues? Well, the same holds true of Mormons. Most Americans have no idea the level of money, clout, and insane shit based in Utah. For example, I bet you didn’t know the Mormon church owns approximately 1 in every ~550 acres of privately-held land in the United States. Warning: the Mormon bullshit rabbit hole is deeper than you can imagine and may cause you to start writing a years-long book project, in my experience. You’ve been warned!

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      Mormonism is America’s future. It’s the prosperity gospel attached to a powerful lobbying contingent that exists to perpetuate MLM schemes.

      If you think things are bad now, wait until Mormons are fully in control of California.

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      That’s a strange veer towards a completely unrelated topic… But anyway, considering that roughly 1 in 100 people are Mormon in the US, it’s not that surprising that 1 in 550 of the land also is. It’s surprising they’re trailing so far behind the average actually.

      EDIT: oh wait, you mean the church owns it. Yeah, ok, that is very weird. But Mormonism is a very weird thing by definition…

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        Yeah, that’s church-owned. But does raise the interesting point of prominent Mormon billionaires/CEOs. And investment firms. And investments. And their history with the federal government/Republicans. And…

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        Holy christ on a pogo stick, I had no idea on the population stats for mormon’s. We really are a stupid species lol. I had a good neighborhood friend growing up who’s family was mormon, didn’t persay have anything against the religion then but later found out about all the racists connotations and how members are treated. If anyone wants to learn more there’s a good Ex mormon vid going over the southpark mormon episode and the religion etc.

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    If you read both the linked story and its update you will see a good example of how the press is supposed to interact with power. In sharp relief to the cringing fawning appeasement we see the mainstream press engaging in with this criminally insane presidential administration.

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    I’m guessing that soon it might even be obligatory to wear certain arm bands, maybe of the yellow kind? Adorned with a pretty star, perhaps?