Vance’s Telling Defense of a Racist Group Chat | How a trove of bigoted and violent texts among young Republicans indicates the future of the party.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/jd-vance-republican-group-chat/684580/?gift=7rgxnvizdapVUCjziTXDxil5SopGWUBeR09eJidtlW8
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Montagge@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 321d
Future, present, and past
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 321d
But, tell us all again how the "radical left" is the problem with the current state of political discourse?
silence7@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 321d
The "radical left " had the temerity to object to the hate
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 320d
They called the snowflakes things like fascists, Nazis, etc.
It's so mean and hateful.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
But muh freeze peach!
someguy3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 321d
Current, not future.
yakko@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 321d
Was going to say, the time to worry if right wing American discourse would lead to literal full and complete Nazism was, depending on your personal taste and historical acumen, no later than the eighties. But you could go back as far as you like. Even to before Nazis existed, really. America has been evil so long that Hitler was apparently surprised we didn't side with him. Guess he wasn't wrong, just early.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 320d
Hitler sent envoys to the US to study Jim Crow laws. The anti-Jewish laws of the Third Reich were inspired by and heavily based on Jim Crow laws.
Except…the Nazis thought Jim Crow was too severe. Seriously. Under Jim Crow you were considered Black if you had “oone drop” of Black blood. In other words, if any ancestor of yours was Black, no matter how far back that may go, you were Black.
In Nazi Germany, you were considered Jewish if one of your grandparents was Jewish.
How racist do you have to be for the literal Nazis to go “wow! That’s a bit racist!”
yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 320d
Funny isn't it. Under Jim Crow, technically we're all black. We originated in Africa, after all.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 321d
American companies were too busy profiteering from both sides to side with either at the start. They only joined the allies because the Japanese had already partnered up with the Nazis because the US was boycotting them for expanding into the Pacific, which what the US wanted to do.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 320d
these aren't children. 'young' is only relative to the ancient fucks that just won't die like trump
Placebonickname@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 320d
No one I know is surprised by this news article. My only reaction is that it's hard to believe that such young men posted such despicable content, and they aren't higher up in the MAGA/GOP food chain.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 320d
Those guys use signal, remember.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 320d
And invite journalists to their secret chat.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 320d
The future? This is where they have been at for quite some time. They've been saying the quiet part out loud for over a decade now. They might have been somewhat muted during the years before Taco came along, and since the Southern Strategy....that's why they bitch so much about "political correctness" and "wokeness".
They want to go full 1950s-era unchained in their racism. And some are even worse - they want 1930s level Germany...
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
yes
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 318d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 318d
It's the literal and explicit connection to republican officeholders.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 318d
devolution@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
The Conservative party has always been a den of cousin fucking racists. I'm saying conservative because I'm tired of these fucks saying "dur hur hur the Democrats were the slave owners."
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 320d
Vance's wife: *slowly moving towards the door*
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 320d
How is a couch moving on its own?
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 320d
It's basically toy story rules. When youre not there your couch, TV, and lamps go on wild adventures. It's why the remote goes missing sometimes.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
Brave Little Toaster.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
This is who republicans have always been. Mask is just fully off