• ameancow@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    20 hours ago

    If you’ve ever been in or known anyone in the service, you would know that it’s massively overblown and doesn’t “mean” anything. There are thousands of different varieties of skull and crossbone out there, you would have to be really deep in the nazi sauce to use that particular design as a signal.

    This is pretty much a “hasan’s dog” thing, it’s being overblown because of the desperate need by media personalities, including youtube streamers, to harvest money from reaction content, driving up everyone’s black-and-white thinking.

    We have actual nazis in office and running for office, people who don’t even hide it. We have to stay focused on what the actual dangers are.

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      14
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Honestly his military service is even more disqualifying as far as I’m concerned, but I guess spending years gunning down brown foreigners appeals to the median democrat.

      We have actual nazis in office and running for office, people who don’t even hide it. We have to stay focused on what the actual dangers are.

      It’s a year out, if it’s that serious surely someone without all this baggage could run for office.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        20 hours ago

        Being against military service is a far more honest criticism, but also utterly unrealistic. We just don’t live in that world.

        • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          8
          ·
          19 hours ago

          sadly we’re in the world where the bipartisan consensus is for endless warmongering and turning a blind eye to nazis

          • ameancow@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            18 hours ago

            That’s a pretty 1-dimensional perspective. If you understand both the shitty reality we live in AND that nothing is black-and-white, you will be a lot more effective at actually pushing the needle towards progress, like so many actual great activists have done which has gotten us to a world where your chances of being murdered and raped and eaten by bandits has fallen dramatically low.

              • ameancow@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                4
                ·
                18 hours ago

                if it means supporting someone like this guy I’d rather be rotating on a spit tyvm

                That’s just utterly insane hyperbole that most likely has the opposite effect as you might think. I hope you grow more.

              • Maeve@kbin.earth
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                15 hours ago

                I understand that 100. People kept quiet about Fetterman and his worrying behavior before he was elected, then after his stroke when it was brought up repeatedly, people kept blaming the stroke.

                Yes, people change and maybe Fetterman did and the stroke caused regression; and maybe he didn’t and it didn’t.