Labor department rhetoric, such as ‘One Homeland. One People. One Heritage’, prompt comparisons to Nazi slogan

Union leaders have accused the Trump administration of a “rhetorical shift towards white supremacy” after social media posts by the US Department of Labor drew comparison with a Nazi slogan.

Recent posts from the agency include a video captioned “remember who you are, American”, with the phrase: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.”

Users of X, formerly Twitter, and Grok, the platform’s AI tool, highlighted a similarity with the Nazi slogan: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” (“one people, one realm, one leader”).

“The similarity to that Nazi slogan is bad,” Christopher Hayes, a labor historian and professor at Rutgers University, told the Guardian, expressing alarm over “the motivation behind it, the message, the sentiment and desired outcome”.

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    Shift? How can they shift towards white supremacy when they are already 100% white supremacy?

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    No shit ya dumb fuckasses, you knew this and tacitly approved. All unions that back any republicans need all their leadership violently ousted.

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      Two unions are mentioned: ‘International Union of Painters & Allied Trades’ and ‘National Nurses United’. I understand that the term ‘uinon’ in the states has been heavily associated with construction , and there tends to be a conservative lean in construction, but not all unions are like that. For instance, I’m in the UAW branch for scientific researchers. Just writing this to put out there that unions can, and should, be in every industry and that the political leanings of unions is case by case.

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    What does it take for people to realize that the pooch is screwed, the frog is cooked, the tomato squashed, the cat’s out of the bag and dead in the box? The emperor is naked, and doing a nazi salute, the evidence has been lost in the noise, the law broken, the perpetrators have gotten away with it, the grand wizard revealed behind the curtain, the good guys lose, it’s really dark outside, the dragon ate the fucking hobbit AND STILL people are saying “You know this could be not cool” instead of “It’s general fucking strike time”.

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      Most people are still too busy shifting the blame from the latest failure of the opposition party. It’s everyone else’s fault they chose candidates everyone hates that didn’t offer popular reform when everyone is pissed and the other guys are one election away from fixing elections forever if they can.

      So now it’s just if they can, fix the next election, there is a chance in the succession. But due to the shifting of blame so inherent in all of our leaders nowadays, the same ones control the opposition party. Far from repentant they are more arrogant than ever, seeing their reason for being as preventing popular reform from taking hold in the party, the only thing that could unseat the other guys.

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        Do you do anything besides blame democrats for shit republicans do? Didn’t you vote third party? So you explicitly voted for maga.

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          Answer the question of why your opinion isn’t to be discounted if you want to discuss things. If you recall I rejected everything you think because your refusal to own up.

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        Any protests we should be organizing everyone we can. Into innumerable groups federated on a general forum of sorts, to organize around what we agree on.

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    You don’t say…

    You’re telling me the guy who had a book of Hitler speahes on his nightstand is a white supremecist?

    Who could’ve predicted this?

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    Why say white supremacy when it’s fascist. They are not the same thing. Fascism is promising much more change. This isn’t the kkk, this is a group trying to overturn representative government, fix elections, persecute critics and opponents, and scapegoat an ever expanding group of others for all of society’s ills.

    Run by a supreme leader, or group of leaders, they will become mad with power and become worse, and are already starting off from the worst people in the country by character.

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      They are two sides of the same coin. It’s not like you can achieve one without the other. One is tactical focused, the other strategically guided. One devides the other controls.

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        Fascist can be other races other than white though. It is becoming rather popular in latin america. Including with latin americans in the US.

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    “One Heritage” so, it’s just going to be Germans at the end of this? Because that’s what Trump is. Same exact goal as Hitler too, what a coincidence.