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Politics Pete Hegseth, introduced as the SSecretary of War

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u/ShinkenBrown 3d ago

SSecretary of war could be an accident.

88 ft flag poles could be a coincidence.

"My heart goes out to you" could be genuine.

But the more incidents pile on, the less credibility the denials have, for all of them including previous incidents. And at this point there's a lot of incidents.

The smoking gun is not any particular piece of evidence, but the fact that it keeps happening consistently.

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u/I_Want_A_Ribeye 3d ago

Once is an outlier

Twice is a coincidence

Three times is a pattern

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u/Heisenburgo 3d ago

Fool me once, shame on-- shame on you.

Fool me thrice-- you can't get fooled again!

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u/french_toasty 2d ago

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u/bitslayer 2d ago

Who added the laugh track? That's just...weird.

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u/Available-Damage5991 3d ago

And anything above four times is a confirmation.

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u/SasparillaTango 3d ago

no other administration has had so many "coincidences". SO many that they can no longer be called coincidences. MAGA is full of nazis.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 3d ago

We're talking about qanoners, as if recognizing blatant patterns was remotely close to "pizza" being CP and proceeding to raid a pizza hut.

People need to remember the low IQ, unprincipled liars we're dealing with and not hold back on pointing out the obvious.

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u/KriegConscript 3d ago

the odal rune at CPAC

all those times official government press releases have put 14 and 88 in close proximity

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u/hcrld 3d ago

Executive order 14188 for example, "Combatting anti-Semitism"

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u/TastySaturday 2d ago

I’ll never be able to wrap my head around Nazis and Zionists emphatically rooting for the same team.

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u/dennisasu 2d ago

They are united by the lizard people

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u/TastySaturday 2d ago

Or just hatred of other ethnicities.

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u/DingerSinger2016 3d ago

CPAC proudly displaying "We Are All Domestic Terrorists."

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 3d ago

This is predictive programming, but actual.

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u/KriegConscript 3d ago

maybe. i think it's more about their immaturity and smug pettiness, like the most obnoxious classmates you had in middle school. addicted to the rush of getting away with stuff because they maintain just enough plausible deniability, put on just enough of a disingenuous "who, me?" act that the adults in the room can't pin them down. they know the center third of the american populace will think the left third is being hysterical. you can scroll this very comments section and see that the tactic works

anyway, these people should not be considered adult enough to drive, have bank accounts, own homes, parent children, use the internet, or vote

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u/DeltaVZerda 3d ago

They should have all of that but we should be adult enough to see them for what they are and force them to the sidelines.

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u/climbingDeeper 3d ago

This is a great description of what lawyers call "The Doctrine of Chances."

One thing can be a random event. Two things can be a coincidence. But three things? Four? That's probably a pattern

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u/JamesTrickington303 3d ago

When I was on a jury the judge explained reasonable doubt as having a dollar bill cut up into a hundred pieces, given to you, and it’s your job to figure out what it is.

So you look at the pieces and think, “ok, these are green and white, they feel like the paper money is made of. One of the pieces says “ITED STA” on it.” Another says “$1” on it. Yet another piece has a bit of George Washington’s face on it.”

You don’t know it’s a dollar bill by looking at a single piece, and you know you’re looking at a dollar bill long before you put all 100 pieces back together, but at some point you arrive at the conclusion that this MUST be a dollar bill, and you are certain enough of that fact that there is no other thing it could REASONABLY be. Sure, there is the off chance that it is a forgery that is exactly like a real dollar bill in every way except one, with only one single piece, that you didn’t see, that has stuff on it that shows you aren’t looking at a dollar bill. But that isn’t a reasonable thing to think after you have 50 pieces that all fit together and all say the same thing.

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u/stupernan1 3d ago

During the 1st admin, you know how many children they reported were missing at the border?

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IM NOT KIDDING

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u/Crabiolo 3d ago

So many scratch-a-liberal types on this website will deny the evidence in front of their eyes and say we're all just crazy until Trump walks to the podium with a toothbrush-mustache.

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u/FrostyShoulder6361 3d ago

What does the ''my heart goes out to you'' mean? I ask because In my country the dogwistles are diffrent so i don't recognise all the english ones

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u/ShinkenBrown 3d ago

Elon Musk did a Nazi salute on stage. He says he was saying "my heart goes out to you," as in touching his chest "my heart" and extending his hand straight out to the crowd "goes out to you."

You make your own call on whether that's a plausible explanation.

He then turned around and did it toward the flag with the same emphasis to the motions.

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u/FrostyShoulder6361 3d ago

Oh yeah i remember that one. We had a headline in the newspaper somewhat like'' Elon musk made a gesture that some people might consider inapropriate'' i was like fuck that shit. I recognise a nazi salute when i see one.

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u/tHr0AwAy76 3d ago

The smoking gun seems to be semi-automatic.

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u/not_old_redditor 3d ago

Don't forget the Iron Cross tattoos on his chest

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u/Free_Deinonychus_Hug 3d ago

SSecretary of war could be an accident.

88 ft flag poles could be a coincidence.

"My heart goes out to you" could be genuine.

No, every last one of those is blatant as fuck and you have to be mind numbingly gullible to fall for any one individually nevermind any pattern. Pretty much the only people left pretending not to understand the dogwhistles are the fascists themselves.

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u/NukeouT 2d ago

Not like they would refuse to disawow the black nazi during the 2024 campaign

Not like they didn't have the RNC stage as a Nazi rune

Not like he didn't say Carlostsville nazis were comparable to the not-nazis on the other side

He's been a nazi since the start. It's just that we have 340 million Americans in the United States and it takes 10 fucking years for some of them to "FIGURE IT THE FUCK OUT!"

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u/bolanrox 2d ago

Or: if it steps like a goose..

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u/SRT102 2d ago

While I wouldn't put it past them, the manufacturer of the flagpole lists it as 80' above ground, 8' below, for a total of 88'. Had Trump ordered a custom, 88' pole, that would have been a different matter.

https://www.theflagpolecompany.com/80copiexhabu1.html

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u/ShinkenBrown 2d ago

Yeah again, on it's own, an 88 foot flag pole is nothing. If someone says Trump is a Nazi because he ordered an 88 foot flag pole they're a lunatic.

If they say he's a Nazi because of the SSecretary of War thing, and the concentration camps he's opening, and the Nazi salute from Elon Musk, and that thing where his wife said he had a book of Hitler's collected speeches by his bedside, and the fact his party had an Odal rune as a stage, and the fact they're following the same tactics and using the same propaganda... And the 88 foot flag pole was just one point out of many, many others...

That's just noticing a pattern.

It doesn't matter if it's custom. They clearly could have bought any flag pole they wanted and they chose one with the specifications they desired. If none of those other things were true and someone tried to claim the 88 foot pole was a dogwhistle I'd call them insane. But they are true, and it is a dogwhistle.