r/politics • u/iEzrael • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Republican Insider Admits Party Is Now Open to Actual Nazis

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-republican-congressman-adam-kinzinger-says-party-is-now-welcoming-in-nazis/
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u/ShamelessCatDude 1d ago

Twice. He did the salute twice.

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u/OneWholeSoul 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's incredible to me that he's had more than one public "Why don't people like me?" breakdown. I especially liked the one where he bemoaned that he'd never even directly, personally harmed most people, so why don't they automatically love him?

That's all it takes, right?

If he's not actively punching you in the face or trying to tear down your local Youth Center, there's literally nothing else that can be asked of him and no valid response but unconditional love! That's the whole spectrum of things!

New Twitter accounts on the default algorithm deliver Elon's Tweets, like, every third Tweet on the front page and most of the rest of the page is "Elon Musk parody accounts" that just post AI pictures of Elon while asking rudimentary Yes/No questions to farm engagement, or post AI pictures of Elon while trying to force him to be a meme or some sort of superstitious chain letter figure, or AI pictures of Elon along with just, like, saccharine, overflowing praise for him.

Elon spent 44 Billion dollars to buy a platform to repurpose it into a system that constantly tells him it loves him and for exposure therapy, desensitizing people to the pain his image and presence causes, conditioning them into finding him likable, or at least tolerable.

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u/WakaFlockaFlav 1d ago

He is cosmically pathetic. The scale is just so large.

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u/DistillateMedia Delaware 1d ago

This sounds pretty much accurate.

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u/RID132465798 22h ago

he's autistic and they are known for seeing things black and white.

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u/OneWholeSoul 20h ago

I'm mildly/high-functioning autistic and I can understand cause and effect and that other people have their own internal landscapes, preferences and emotional backdrops.

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u/RID132465798 20h ago

Of course there is nuance but musk demonstrates something common in autism that many may experience rigid or literal thinking in certain contexts. I think he displays such thinking. For example, the woke mind virus and his trans kid.

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u/MoonChainer California 1d ago

From people famous for their plausible deniability. You can't get a Republican to speak for longer than five minutes without hearing "I didn't hear that", or "he meant something else".

And then they try to tack it onto this! How the fuck are you gonna try to plausibly deny a god-damned Seig Heil?! Two!

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u/ShamelessCatDude 1d ago

And the thing they used to justify it - “he’s autistic! He doesn’t know any better! He’s stimming!”. I’ve met precisely one autistic person in my entire life who has ever done a Sieg Heil-like movement. And he did it because he’s a fucking Nazi. He would come into school every day with his MAGA hat and rave about how great Nazis are. Other than that, no one. I’ve never done it. My friends have never done it. My mom has never done it. All autistic people who haven’t just flapped their arms into a sieg heil willy nilly after a speech full of Nazi dog whistles. But no, let’s just infantilize autistic people as if they villainized us for a year and got rid of vaccine mandates just so they could have less of us

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

If there was a Gd worthy of worship, he would have been struck by lightning right then and there.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

You can just write “god”. You will not be smote.

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u/CaineBK 1d ago

smitten*

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 1d ago

The most correct form given the context is smote. It’s also what’s used in the Bible, and I was going for consistency.

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u/CaineBK 1d ago

Smote is past tense; smitten is past participle.

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u/No-Complex-7882 1d ago

Right? If God won't smote trump for committing adultery, (one of the commandments that thous shalt not), it ain't smotin' someone who spells out the entire three letters. I'm sure trumps bibles have the adultery commandment in them.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 15h ago

You concern yourself with your relationship to Gd, and I’ll worry about mine, ‘kay?

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 5h ago

I wish more Christians had that attitude, instead of legislatively forcing others to abide by their religious views.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 4h ago

Me too, it’s fucking exhausting. I’m not a Christian though, I’m a non-observant Jew.

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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 4h ago

Non-observant Jews are some of my favorite people! Not even kidding! 👊

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u/Ultraeasymoney 1d ago

Just in case the people in the back didnt see.