Comment on This community needs some uplifting posts now more than ever!
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month agoSo then don’t debate it. They keep doing Nazi shit, so clearly they are Nazis. Anyone claiming otherwise isn’t woeth listening to
Comment on This community needs some uplifting posts now more than ever!
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month agoSo then don’t debate it. They keep doing Nazi shit, so clearly they are Nazis. Anyone claiming otherwise isn’t woeth listening to
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think it’s worth being compassionate with people who try to rationalize it because I found myself doing so from the shell shock of the whole thing. I just didn’t want to believe it.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I think a healthy amount of skepticism is good, that the likelihood of an awkward still out of context or AI generated slop is significant enough to always be doubtful. So yep, when I saw the still, ok, maybe it’s awkward still. Then a 2 second clip. Ok, maybe AI generated. Then certainly real and I’ll try to watch more for any plausible context I could have not imagined. Yeah, that was full stop a “Nazi salute but I can say it wasn’t a Nazi salute”.
It’s not that I doubted he would be totally game for some Nazism, just disbelief that he would openly do the salute, especially on the first day.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was fucking flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I knew the man has some far out there right wing views and is a fucking edge lord. But when I saw it I found it unbelievable.
So I related the action to myself, and tried to find an explanation where I could maybe see myself doing it. But honestly after sleeping on it I did realize what actually happened.
Of course while I slept, my comment was attacked. I don’t really blame anyone, commenters outside Lemmy Shitpost are barely aware of me, but I do think there’s room for understanding that seeing that was fucking jarring.