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Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’ (heartlandsignal.com)

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[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 222 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“The bad guys won in WWII. There were no ‘good guys’ in that war. The controlling interests had a jump ball. If you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the Allied forces.”

Just another demented MAGA turd trying to sound intelligent. All the buzzwords are there to keep the base frothing at the mouth: liberal, controlling interest/deep state, bad, communism.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"both sides" too

E.g.:

Being genocidal racist fascists

Or...

Wanting affordable healthcare for all Americans and therefore being "communist"

How does one choose between such evils?

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a fucking Nazi coward afraid to speak their true feelings. They say both sides, pretending they feel both were bad, but you can see their real opinion.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

If you look closely

Holy fuck that is funny. As though an analysis of factual information were even in the realm of speculative potential for the republican brain.

He's clever. It's a great joke.

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

perhaps it takes them great mental investiture to see the link between the soviet union and communism

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I know I struggle to see the link between the Soviet Union and communism, but I suppose that's what I get for getting my definitions of words from the dictionary.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 97 points 2 months ago

Good old GOP, still sending their best.

In one specific interaction from Monday, White told a potential voter to “pull their skirt down” and that “nobody cares about your preferences,” to which the voter replied “f— you then! You just lost my families support.”

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago

What a charmer.

Also, he's a deadbeat dad.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Guy can't even take care of his own family.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

His wife had "options" thanks to the liberal commies.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

Paying child support? Sounds like redistribution of wealth to me. Let the kids fend for themselves in the free market!

[-] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This guy has been a piece of shit his whole life.

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-basketball/minnesotas-white-pleads-guilty-in-shoplifting-case

https://www.startribune.com/when-it-rains-it-pours-al-nolen-out-royce-white-charged/82401077

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago

A second Black Nazi has hit the GOP.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh yeah, Hitler loved mixed race citizens 😆🤣👍

This dude’s relatives would have been gassed and cremated or introduced into a life of indentured servitude had his revisionist fantasy come to fruition.

Dude thinks because his last name is “White” that he is white.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 2 months ago

Is this the same guy who flipped out about the word “weird” with tons of posts about trans people like a demented moron? Looks similar.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago

MAGA = insane idiot.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Another ~~day~~ hour, another weird statement from a GOP member

[-] nemonic187@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Poor guy is just a walking CTE lesion at this point. What a waste of basketball talent.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago

Is there some sort of training which teaches you how to be a grifter?

Because this 2024 class is full of people imitating Uncle Ruckuses.

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

Sure, there are no good guys in any war, since the good guys are never the ones with guns killing each other.

But the more genocidal death camps you have, the bigger a baddy you are. It's not that difficult to understand.

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Wow. If you can't see which side was good in WW2, I'm seriously concerned for you.

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

I'm Jewish, I'm very aware that the side running brutal racist internment camps was meaningfully less bad than the side running brutal genocidal death camps. Neither qualify as good.

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The Axis existed as a coalition of countries who wanted to expand their lands at the cost of their neighbor's lives.

The Allies existed purely as a defensive response to the Axis.

A person with a gun fighting to defend their families is not "just as evil" as a person with a gun invading the home of others. Before we even get into camps, unethical medical research, and genocide, you really can't "both sides" this one.

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

I don't think it's fair to characterize global colonialist powers like Britain, France, or the US as not violent expansionists.

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Don't put words in my mouth.

I characterized the Allies actions as a defensive response. And they provably were not violently expanding during WW2. I didn't say a word about their actions and behaviors prior to WW2.

The fuck do you suggest "good people" do facing invasion? Lay down and let the Axis steal, rape, murder, and genocide their way through Europe?

Good people fight back against bad people. Saying or doing anything less is to be complicit in their actions.

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Apologies.

But if being a violent expansionist makes the axis bad (which it obviously does) then the allies are clearly just less bad in this particular situation rather than actually good, since all the allied powers have extensive histories of violent expansionism.

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thank you.

I'm not saying you don't have a point, but the people are not their countries, their ancestors choices, or their governments, and vice versa. I fundamentally reject the premise of your argument.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Inaction is as much a choice as action. When an invader comes to your town and starts killing innocents like children, and you chose to not act, you’re a little bit complicit.

Pacifists are just as unethical as the rest, because it allows, permits and other condones violence.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

These trash humans need to crawl back in their garbage dump of a life.

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not even worth putting the time into writing why his opinion is based on imagined idiocy and not historic fact thinking the liberals and communists were aligned after WW2 at the start of the cold war and the Warsaw pact and NATO squaring off or Patton was assassinated, just a grand display of the best and brightest moron Minnesota conservatives have to offer.

[-] xploit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To a degree yeah, bunch of them made it to US and went unpunished and now spew this shit.
(edit: or obviously whoever heard them and thought "Hmm yes yes genocide and stuff great ideas dad/grandad/friend/whatever." Probably can't even specify if it's the Nazis or Russians since they would have rather worked together, until the backstab...

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

they would have rather worked together

The USSR spent the 30s trying to form an alliance with literally everyone in Europe to fight the guys who declared communism their enemy. The western allies expected Germany and Poland to invade the USSR, for them fascism was the answer to communism, hence why they gave the Sudetenland to Germany and Poland, made the Anglo-German declaration of 1938, and why Britain tried to join the Winter War, but was only stopped by Sweden refusing transit.

The USSR wasn't trying to work with Germany, they were taking the only path that would give them time to build up and draw the rest of Europe into its war with Germany.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

There needs to be a word for "shocking and expected"

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But we have a pretty decent education system in MN. Maybe not the best, but far from the worst.

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Err, that was your side my dude, like wtf?

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