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1. Actually, if you take where the expression "Nazi" came from, he is dead on accurate
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 05:15 AM
Jan 2021

The NSDAP, Hitler's "national socialists," starts out in German with the word "National." In German, this is pronounced "nah-tsee oh-NAHL." The spelling of the word is actually French. Like all Europeans, the Germans love their abbreviations. "Nah-tess-oh-nahl-zo-tsee-ah-list" is cumbersome, so they just used the first two syllables of the word "national," but spelled it in German. In German, the "z" is pronounced like the English "ts." So "National," pronounced "nah-tsee-oh-NAHL," was shortened to "Nah-tsee," and spelled the German way.

And Bonehead nails them when he recognizes them as fanatical nationalists. They just make up their own version of America, and what it means to be American (i.e. they are, and everyone else is not). They even think they speak "American," when what they speak is really European. American languages are Lakota, Navajo, Hopi, Seminole, Nahuatl, Cherokee, and a LOT of etc. England is located in Europe, although it is probably a stretch to think they would know where anything is on a map.

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