At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening a group of Nazis, who openly identified as national socialists, mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed race science and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

          • It is the runic letter Othala. It is just a letter in the runic alphabet. Beyond being a letter though often runes had an individual meeting or association in the cultures that used them.

            It, along with many other symbols were adopted by the Nazis. Now among white power groups it is has a meaning of racial purity. “Keeping the white race pure”

            Oh and the picture is real I looked it up.

            • Thanks for the info, I only knew of the swatiska one really , didn’t know that group used several symbols. Kind of not wanting to dig too deep and be flagged is why I don’t know, I guess. Much appreciated for sharing the awareness.

              • Yeah that is fair, it is hard to keep track of everything especially with co-opted symbols. I know I can’t. Though here is an okay rule of thumb with Nazi shit.

                Does it look “Viking/old Germanic”? No - probably not a Nazi, Yes - maybe a Nazi

                Is the person using the symbol new age hippie looking? Yes - probably not a Nazi, No - maybe a Nazi

                I know that leaves a lot of vagueness, but it is a good place to start. Then you can double check any suspects symbols.

                Just remember different groups can have vastly different ideologies and look somewhat similar. For example the SHARPs (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) are very anti Nazi. But just looking at a group of them you might be confused. As they tend to be mostly militant white young men wearing leather with shaved heads.

                • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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                  I hate that that’s not even incorrect as I’ve met multiple Norse pagan antifascists. One common line from them is asserting that Odin is the all father not the some father.

  • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    This headline is misleading. It should read CPAC is a nazi organization. Something about dining with nazis.

  • teft
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    Are you telling me the group that used a nazi symbol as the shape of their stage is now openly affiliating themselves with nazis?

    Quelle surprise!

  • @ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    No that can’t be.

    Conservatives are always telling us how Nazis were actually left-wing… it’s in the name, socialists?!

    How quickly they forget, once the racist and antisemitic nonsense circulates.

    And if anyone is wondering:

    • Human rights for Palestinians = not antisemitic
    • Nazis at CPAC = 100% antisemitic
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    But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017.

    At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed so-called “race science” and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

    One member of the group, Greg Conte, who attended the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, said that his group showed up to talk to the media. He said that the group was prepared to be ejected if CPAC organizers were tipped off, but that never happened.

    Another, Ryan Sanchez, who was previously part of the Nazi “Rise Above Movement,” took photos and videos of himself at the conference with an official badge and touted associations with Fuentes.

    Other attendees in Sanchez’s company openly used the N-word.

    republiQans: this is you

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    How do you spread Nazi rhetoric at CPAC? Sell merch? Because one would think market saturation would already be at 100% for that sort of ideology at an event like that.

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    In other news:

    Skiers mingle openly at ski resort.

    Golfers mingle openly at country club.

    Trekkies mingle openly at ComicCon

  • Cylusthevirus
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    So there’s definitely a Zionist wing of the party. What’s gonna happen when they come into contact with the Nazi wing of the party?

    • DarkGamer
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      A lot of the support of Israel is not because they like Jews but rather because many evangelicals believe supporting them will hasten the apocalypse.

      A 2017 LifeWay poll conducted in United States found that 80% of evangelical Christians believed that the creation of Israel in 1948 was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would bring about Christ’s return and more than 50% of Evangelical Christians believed that they support Israel because it is important for fulfilling the prophecy.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        Also, shipping the Jews off to Israel means they’re away from here. Zionism could be restated as “Jewish removal.”

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          Exactly. They don’t like when some of us say that Jews belong in our communities alongside us non-Jews. When we encourage people to celebrate their presence as an important part of our community and culture

      • speck
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        Goddamn we are a bonkers species. Really gives credence to the idea of memetic evolution, at least to me

      • @Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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        This is the increasingly stupid part. The fuck are they gonna do when Christ gets back? He’s a straight up communist, they have no use for him. Hmm… I wonder.

    • @jonne
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      It seems like a lot of Nazis tend to make common cause with Zionists. Remember that the first plan the Nazis had was to deport all the Jews, so having them all in one place is fine by them.

        • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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          A lot of racists don’t think they’re racist because they don’t hate “others”, they just think they belong in their own place. They’re angry that the “others” are where they are.

          They’re still raging pieces of shit. I’m just sharing some of their thoughts. Being a white drunk in Texas gives me the opportunity to hear all kinds of dumb shit.

    • @fluxion@lemmy.world
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      They all set aside their differences and appreciate their true goals of enriching themselves through being fascist bootlickers

    • @audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      They’re the same wing. They believe that the current Jewish state isn’t Jewish enough and that the true Judaism is actually Christianity.

      I wish I was kidding, but I actually know people that fall into this camp.

  • @spider@lemmy.nz
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    Does anyone remember this?

    House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. — who recently went viral for engaging in a contentious exchange with university presidents at a congressional hearing on antisemitism — on Saturday praised the resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill.

    “One down. Two to go,” Stefanik wrote on X. “This is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most ‘prestigious’ higher education institutions in America.”

    So where the f**k is she now, during CPAC? Is she hiding out or something?

  • @TheJims@lemmy.world
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    Conservatives and Republicans are synonymous with Russians and Nazis. The CPAC convention is the indisputable proof.

  • Alto
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    So how long until they just go back to being outright silver shirts