We must be more critical as a people of political images these days, the hitler image is AI… :/
One instance is a coincidence
You have this picture here as one ( we won’t even talk about he made the eagle more Nazi like)
They use a Nazi rune for the stage at the RNC where they proudly post the “joke” that they are domestic terrorists.
Their side is EXCLUSIVELY made up of Holocaust deniers.
Their side is made up of EXCLUSIVELY of this country’s neo Nazis and white supremists
Stephen miller plagiarized Goebbels
Trump kept and read Mein Kampf next to his bed
Trump, Vance, and musk campaign for and donate money to the German AfD party who are KNOWN to be NAZIS
Elon Musk “jokingly” sieg Heiled twice so forcibly that he grunted
They have built, and are still building , concetration camps.
Their new illegal bunker has a, very legal I’m sure, medical research facility in it
They all constantly talk about Eugenics.
They are bringing back public executions
This is all aside from. Their policy decisions. At this point, if I meet you on the street and you say that they ARENT NAZIS, we will have problems
Trump read… bwahahaha thats a good one.
Not how exclusively is used in this context and unfortunately not true with the correct phrasing with Yakubites running around some parts of the DNC
Whoa you found a typo, good job refuting, GENIUS
wanna be temu hilter
Rear-echelon motherfucker wants to wear Hugo Boss. And maybe something he can’t take off.
It is ironic that his flavour of fascism includes adoring israel not hating it. Anyway, he’s not smart enough to be a very successful villain, hope to see him removed soon
They love to force suffering on others.
It’s like a pressure release valve for them. When they make others suffer it slightly lessens their own terror for a moment.
Whatever bullshit they have to say or do, incantations, prayers, dumb hats, whatever to get to the part where millions suffer, they’ll do it.
Hitler hated the communists, but sided with the Soviet Union until attacking them was his next step.
I don’t think this is the case here, but these people are like children playing villains for as long as their power allows them
They all adore ethno states.
his flavour of fascism includes adoring israel not hating it
Obviously for money, for that country is one of the largest purchasers of US military equipment.
How much do you want to bet he studied that exact photo to get the iconography and pose right?
The new Wolfenstein looks like shit.
RAM prices
I’m not saying this image is generated, but it is at least a little bit weird that a reverse image search only shows this specific comparison. I even tried Google Images for a “Visual Match” instead of just Tineye, and nothing.
That, and Hitler’s eyes look weird, and the folded Nazi flags in the back look garbled. Circumstantially, it’d be extremely fucking weird if whoever planned this layout put a plant obstructing the view of the symbol on the podium. And what the hell would that cut-off, stark white symbol at the bottom right be?
The image of Hegeseth is real, at the 5 second mark in this video
The image of Hitler may be altered
The image of Hegeseth is real
Sorry, I should’ve been more clear; I was never questioning the Hegseth image.
The image of Hitler may be altered
Generated, not altered. I don’t think this speech footage/image existed at all. The angle is weird along with the other points.
It’s very clearly generated. None of the flags make any sense, there are so many odd things that are AI specific details.
There has to be some image that’s similar to this though.There probably is, but to OPs original question, if you’re going out of your way to find footage of Hitler that matches Kegsbreath, then it probably is a coincidence.
Yeah pretty sure it’s generated. Look at the flags in the background, the black in the centre doesn’t make sense on a lot of them. And the people in the bottom left corner also look strange. Another strange point is the swastika below the eagle: the upper arm seems to be a bit shorter than the others. And the style of the eagle itself looks strange to me, but I’m not a historian, so that is just feeling,not knowledge.
It’s definitely not a good sign when we’re talking about a picture of Hitler being a Nazi is AI generated, but it’s a given that Hegseth being a Nazi is legitimate.
The Swastika is somehow completely flat but the flag is folded. It’s a not real image
It’s definetly slop.
So we’re all going to mass downvote the slop so as to deter further slop, right? Right?
I guess
spreading disinformationdunking on the opponent everyone already hates is more important than standards concerning slop. =.=
Hegseth probably did the AI himself.
The bottom right looks like the top of a heart, it’s a screengrab from a video
Just because he idolizes the nazi military doesn’t mean he’s a nazi. He is of course. But that’s not why, everything else he does is why.
Nazis were a lot more competent and did drugs that improved their performance (in the short term)
Honestly the Nazis were not this Uber competent group. Tons of in-fighting, poor strategic and logistical choices, and they did not run the government nor country in this rigid orderly way that is and was projected by their propaganda.
I would say they had a very good propaganda campaign that’s still ongoing and paying dividends. Once you look under the surface some and start learning more about how the country was governed it becomes clear there was plenty of room for improvement.
I mean, think about it this way, they chose to commit an industrial genocide on a hellacious scale wasting men, material and destroying the soul of a nation. How much more manpower would they have had if they didn’t commit these crimes against humanity and instead had drafted these folks.
Like I know it’s not a great comparison or awesome though experiment and lacking any nuance but I think it makes a point.
Yeah that dividend still pays out, it’s insane. Take a country that ruins itself so badly so quickly, and the propaganda works anyways ??! The human brain is wild.
There’s a reason the regime collapsed in less than a decade.
Nazi economy was dependant on war. Their propaganda that Nazis have fixed the economy was so good that it lasts to this day. While the person responsible for it was ingenious his policies went all against at the time rules of economy and for a reason. It was just masking the problem which could be hidden only as long as there was war. In defense of the economist it was not his plan unlike other nazi’s to expand the war, but to stop pretty early compared to what happened. I would love to answer any questions but even after spending 90 minutes on a 30 minute video I was not able to understand it completely.
The German economy under the fucking Nazis was a Ponzi scheme and the German worker was earning less than the incomes from late 1920’s. That is f’ed up and MAGA continues to guzzle down their Orange Kool-Aid.
Yes, they controlled inflation by controlling unions and ceiling prices.
yeahhhhh but just barely, hitler was just ass much of a fucking nut-job as trump… he advised his generals to read less sun tzu and more karl may; a children’s book author, who wrote stories about cowboys and indians, who had never even visited the US.
this would be like trump telling hegseth to read more harry potter to figure out how to strategize better in the straight of hormuz…
fascists are always incompetent, because they are fucking clowns…
I remember back when Cracked was good a writer doing a number of articles aiming to dispel the “mystique” of the Nazis as some sort of genius-level evil and expose their incompetence. Iirc, documents have shown that the Nazis would’ve imploded on their own due to their own idiocy.
Growing up I heard all this “the German people are the smartest people in the world and Hitler was able to pursuade them through his charisma to create this insurmountable enemy that we were blessed and lucky to defeat…” Hitler won mostly through election interference and their own bloviating stupidity was a key factor in their downfall. Fascists are stupid. Deadly and dangerous, yes. But ultimately really stupid and we need to not allow any mystique saying otherwise to crop up. Fascism always fails. It hurts a lot of people in the meantime. But it will always fail.
Ahh , so that’s what the testosterone is all about.
Dog whistle
More like a fog horn.
Dog whistle implies they’re trying to hide it
Well idk if most (non-nazi) americans can see the similarity with the right picture missing
More of a train whistle. And that train is heading for the camps.
I’ve always thought the stylized eagle was an odd choice.
"For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
"With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country…
“I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Suits the US to a fucking tee.
Bald Eagle takes food from the Fishing Hawk like USA takes oil from any country who has oil. Seems Bald Eagle is a suitable mascot for USA. Although with all of USA’s other bullshit, probably a huge insult to the Bald Eagle.
I saw the op and was going to add something but you managed to say it more smarter like.
he says all that but we all know its because he thought they were making fun of his baldness
It’s not odd. It’s a perfect fit for them. It’s intentionally on brand
The eagle is clutching arrows, representing a fasces, the root of the word fascism, representing the power of the state. Traditionally depicted with an axe at the centre, a fasces was a tool used by the roman armu to discipline soldiers. An axe for decapetation, rods for beating.
these things are everywhere un modern nation states, but I’m told it’s not important, it doesnt mean what i think it means.
it is also the root of the word f*ggot, a bundle of sticks.
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Fasces are bundles of sticks, not arrows. The American eagle has always held arrows, along side an olive branch. Peace and aggression juxtaposed. Unless you’re saying that the US has always been a fascist state hiding in plain sight, it’s not the same symbology.
As to “faggot” meaning a bundle of sticks, yes that’s one (non-slang) definition of the word. Another is a type of meatball. The slur having any relation to the “bundles of sticks” definition is urban legend
Hegseth has obviously nazified the eagle, and made himself echo Hitler in an ill-fitting suit, for sure, but the links you’re coming up with are just bollocks.
Eh, the fasces has a different meaning when you don’t include the axe. Unless you think fascism is when people work together.
When I had the misfortune of travelling in the US one of the many things that were striking to me was the use of fasces in monuments, including engraved in marble on a war monument in Washington Square Park in NYC.
Of course it’s far from the most fascist thing about modern day America, but it was fascinating to see how blunt it is. I’d jump if I saw the same thing in Europe.
Many in Madrid in Spain too. So there’s that, I sure thought it was weird too.
Huh, I missed them when I was there. At least it makes sense historically, and considering how Spain deals with the memory of Franco I guess it makes sense that they wouldn’t erase symbolism from public spaces.
Will pay attention next time I’m there!
What the USA is doing right now is unique to her history and it does the gravity of what’s happening a disservice to pretend otherwise.
Oh. If it always has been, then why fight it
If you’re diagnosed with cancer, or a rare genetic condition, would you sit and wait to die?
Well, when you are american…
Nah, here in America if you have a fatal disease or become crippled physically and you sit there half the nation will call you lazy for not getting on your feet 18 hours a day to work for slave wages, not even making a dent in your cost of living, not able to even get treated still.
The genetic condition is the better analogy than cancer. Cancer develops you’re not born with it.
Yes… Nazis, they’re all Nazis…
Goldberg fallacy in full effect.
American fascism was a huge inspiration for German fascists.
E.g. Bellamy salute
That wasn’t what the Nazis took as inspiration, so much as Jim Crow laws, and the extermination of indigenous peoples.
Lebensraum was just Manifest Destiny for Germans.
I’m not familiar with the Goldberg fallacy and a quick google search failed me. What does it mean?
Maybe they meant Godwin’s law but now it is a fallacy because they really are nazis
Symbols are for the symbol minded - George Carlin
The thing that makes this regime similar to the Nazis isn’t the way they draw eagles.
This regime is symbol minded though, they do this shit on purpose.
Just as the greased back hair seems to be popular in the cabinet and therabouts.
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