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In reply to the discussion: Know your hate symbols. A Democratic candidate for president used one today. [View all]orthoclad
(4,728 posts)65. We need to do everything we can to help sink that cesspool
I guess it was a useful thing once, but it's now just cover for Nazis.
We need a global town hall that is not vulnerable to investors or private puchasers who just want a rubber duckie to play li'l hitler with. Mastodon looks likely, it seems to be a co-op, not a corp.
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Know your hate symbols. A Democratic candidate for president used one today. [View all]
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
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re:being a target. RFK Sr. was assassinated bc he was a liberal. Jr. won't have that problem. nt
okaawhatever
Jul 2023
#52
Was hoping people would focus more on the white supremacist dogwhistle here
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
#21
seeing as the ass who made that used a swazi, I am surprised they did not use POWER instead of PRIDE
Celerity
Jul 2023
#27
White Pride has been used interchangeably with White Power deliberately in recent years
msfiddlestix
Jul 2023
#90
The issue is not the Secret Service protection. The issue is him using a neonazi symbol in his
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
#9
Obama and McCain offered Secret Service details in May 2007. Obama accepted, McCain declined.
WarGamer
Jul 2023
#14
Yep. Around the same time, he also used another dogwhistle: the "Frenworld" Nazi frog meme.
keep_left
Jul 2023
#64
RFK Jr. is many things, but he's not a neo-Nazi or a white supremacist. This is numerology BS.
TheRickles
Jul 2023
#28
Covid is was designed to spare Jews and the Chinese. His words. He is a neo-Nazi.
AZLD4Candidate
Jul 2023
#33
Sorry, not his words. He said it was a possibility, but implied that China was behind it, not us.
TheRickles
Jul 2023
#45
Nazis aren't nazis until they say something nazi-ish. Being Jewish, I'll take his words, not your
AZLD4Candidate
Jul 2023
#57
As it happens, I'm Jewish too, not that that matters. It's ironic because one of my main critiques
TheRickles
Jul 2023
#71
Being supportive of Israel does not mean you can make nazi overtones. Most people know what 1488
AZLD4Candidate
Jul 2023
#72
Yeah, you're right. Nazi speaking that COVID was designed to hurt everyone except Jews and Chinese
AZLD4Candidate
Jul 2023
#74
You want to support someone trying to primary Joe Biden, go ahead. Anti-vax nazi fuck that he is.
AZLD4Candidate
Jul 2023
#76
Well, thanks for trying. Pretty depressing to see what is showing up on DU.
TheRickles
Jul 2023
#114
I meant that people are willing to jump to all sorts of conclusions based on the tiniest of clues.
TheRickles
Jul 2023
#117
You didn't need to search at all. RFK Jr put it out there for all to see - plain as day.
SMC22307
Jul 2023
#59
I quit taking this stuff seriously when people were trying to ban the use of the "OK" hand symbol
Midwestern Democrat
Jul 2023
#97
Well the first and most obvious is a big red elephant. That is number one.
republianmushroom
Jul 2023
#31
Sorry, Bobby, but if you become a "major candidate" of the Democratic Party for President in 2024
DFW
Jul 2023
#42
Denied because he is not a serious candidate and running against the sitting President?
Brainfodder
Jul 2023
#63
For those insisting RFK Jr. is not a white supremacist or neonazi or racist or anrisemite, what do
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
#82
RFK Jr. is an extreme conspiracy theorist. Him being anti-Semitic wouldn't be a shock.
DickKessler
Jul 2023
#103
It also looks odd that the tweet writer added hyphens after the "14" and "88"
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2023
#89
+1. Nobody writes "1-week has 7-days" - incidentally he knows how to use hyphens:
dalton99a
Jul 2023
#95
Professional conspiracy theorist aligned with the far Right is anti-Semitic? Shocking!
DickKessler
Jul 2023
#104