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Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president’s xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology

Neo-Nazi groups and the online far right are latching on to the anti-immigration rhetoric coming from Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House in an effort to recruit new supporters and spread their extremism to broader audiences.

After the Republican national convention in July, where supporters waved “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!” placards, it became clear that Trump’s xenophobia has become part of the Republican establishment. Upon his return to X, formerly known as Twitter, Trump released a stream of images targeting Vice-President Kamala Harris’s stance on the border and immigration.

Among them were memes inferring the Democrats will bring rapists into the country and a 2012 photo of men in Karachi, Pakistan, burning an American flag with the caption: “Meet your neighbors [...] IF KAMALA WINS.”

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then all your white asses can get on a boat and sail back to Ireland or Germany, or wherever your alien, immigrant ancestors came from and we can give this land back to its rightful owners, Native Americans. We are all immigrants/refugees, you dumb fucks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

No thanks. We didn't send them and we don't want their descendants.

I think we all agreed this was what Australia was for a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that the indigenous Australians agreed to that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah they'd have a valid grounds for resistance if a load of white people who had been deported decided to show up and take their land, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Europe didn’t send their best went they founded America…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Australia is taken now, so Send them to Antarctica this time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Central Australia is fairly open

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

First off, youse did send them. You exiled your religious nutters to the US, and let them fester.

Secondly fuck off, America was the penal colony before Australia. It only stopped because they wanted to kill more indigenous peoples and so had a revolution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I assure you Ireland didn't "send" anyone.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Many of youse came over voluntarily as free settlers. And youse still continue to voluntarily come today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you understand that someone moving for economic, cultural or pleasure reasons is not the same as their country sending them? What responsibility do we have for them that we should take then back?

Ireland's population didn't stop shrinking after the 1840s Famine until 1963. Those that stayed turned the country from agricultural backwater to a net-contributing EU nation. We didn't have to displace anyone, strip mine a continent, or restrict immigration to whites only either to achieve that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They hoped on boats from Ireland and Britain and sailed from there, that’s the same shit matey. Youse sent them to us. Doesn’t matter why they were sent but Ireland allowed it and continues to allow it, so they have blame.

Stop acting so smug. And your economy is from being a tax haven.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ireland allowed it? That's a very interesting take. Could you expand on that please?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ffs! What do these fascists have to say and do for the billionaire-owned media to admit the obvious fact that they ARE a right wing extremist group??

It's not hyperbolic rhetoric: the Republican party is LITERALLY a fascist party and every bit as extreme as any of the other groups mentioned in the article!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

So long as both sidesing brings in outrage clicks and views, they won't.

Pretending that the latest monstrous and insane thing out of Trump's hate hole is somehow breaking news is the same shit they've been playing since... forever.

Some of their own people (reporters) may get ground under the millstone, but that's a price they're willing to pay. Just the price of staying on top.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Man I wish we could mass deport magas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We send them to Gaza let the Palestinians have Florida?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol, Florida's got the largest Jewish population in the US after NY/NJ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm just trying to help 😂

[–] jaemo 3 points 2 months ago

I prefer a "death star trash compactor" style solution to this problem. One where an astromech droid could not shut it down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That headline implies that Trump wasn't "neo-nazi and far right". Which is decidedly wrong. It's just sharing of hate topics among the like-minded.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They're making up a story about a Venezuelan gang taking over an apartment complex in Colorado. It's just like the "caravan" story from 2018.

[–] andrew_bidlaw 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These placards are top design lmao. Highlighting something with a darker color on a dark background is exactly the thing you'd imagine from them.

"Meet your neighbors [...] IF KAMALA WINS.”

Meaning all these racist dummies holding these pictures? They won't go anywhere anyways. Big sad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re similar to the ones the good liars we’re handing out at a trump rally. It reads “TRUMP IS [NOT] BORING” with the part in brackets in a dark red.

[–] andrew_bidlaw 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It’s excellent. They heckle and call him boring during speeches, ask rally goers if he’s boring, and when they always say no they get a sign!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They're running out of things he hasn't flipped sides on.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 2 months ago

Fascists agree with fascist.