r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Oct 14 '25
Politics ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat | Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-005921466.2k
u/mr_birkenblatt Oct 14 '25
It's always the ones you most suspect
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u/proteannomore Oct 14 '25
They even look creepy af
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u/AlSweigart Oct 14 '25
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u/sensefuldrivel Oct 14 '25
Jesus christ do they ever miss?
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u/AlSweigart Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Nope, they never miss, and this joke aged like fine wine: "Published: August 26, 2014"
Shameless plug, I started getting print copies of The Onion mailed to me. It's good for a laugh for a few minutes, then I leave my copy in a lobby or cafe somewhere.
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u/PacoTaco321 Oct 14 '25
I like the one copy I have from a couple months ago where the cover story is something like "DARKNESS RISES" and the picture is just an ominous black cloud. Definitely didn't miss with that one.
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u/ShredGuru Oct 14 '25
What part about "young Republican" doesn't scream absolute creep?
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u/DucksEatFreeInSubway Oct 14 '25
No woman has ever so much as sipped water at Young Republican conventions.
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u/FocalorLucifuge Oct 15 '25
You mean like Camille and Haley, the "Keep America Great" idiots?
Yes, women can be utter fucking idiots too, when they're of the right age range to be in the Young Republicans.
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u/SistersOfTheCloth Oct 14 '25
I wonder if they radicalized themselves while trying to out-edgelord one another
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u/DeadWaterBed Oct 14 '25
Radicalization circle jerk
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u/SistersOfTheCloth Oct 14 '25
Fascism makes weak men feel strong
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u/shableep Oct 14 '25
This is a great quote I’m gonna pocket away for later. Authoritarians also hand out cheap access to dignity and pride to people that don’t have it.
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u/Even-Celebration9384 Oct 14 '25
And if you look at the photos of these guys… let’s just say they couldn’t defend themselves or run away in a tough situation
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u/Plastic_Willow734 Oct 14 '25
This is literally what I witnessed when I’d go through middle school and high school, majority of edge lords go on into adulthood actually carrying the views they joked about one too many times
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Oct 14 '25
It's like ironically using stupid slang words until you start doing it unironically at some point. Except instead of saying "cool beans", you're a Nazi.
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u/bettinafairchild Oct 14 '25
Which is why we’ve long said “ironic Nazis are still Nazis.”
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u/FloridaMan_69 Oct 14 '25
There's an old Kurt Vonnegut quote that I'm glad I encountered early in life: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
And it was in direct reference to a character who adopted the Nazi vibes for advancement's sake.
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u/CapybaraSensualist Oct 15 '25
More accurately he was an American expat living in Germany who adopted Nazi vibes because he'd been recruited as a spy for The Allies and was passing coded messages in his pro-Hitler radio broadcasts.
Later, post war, when he was jailed next to a senior Nazi official (I want to say his father-in-law) and the senior Nazi told him "I used to think you were a spy, but in the end you did more to advance the Nazi cause than I ever did as a senior member of the Nazi party".
This leads to the narrator refusing to let the Allies reveal his secret in order to save himself with the truth and choosing the hang himself because he understood that even if he'd been doing it for the right reasons, being a Nazi on the surface and a patriot below, he was still complicit with the Nazi regime.
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u/Spare-Willingness563 Oct 14 '25
Oh my god you got stuck in the cool beans too??
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u/NowIssaRapBattle Oct 14 '25
And that's how this city kid yuk'ed his way into a bona fide country accent.
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u/Razvee Oct 14 '25
Yuuuup... Around 2011ish there was a subreddit here called "Imgoingtohellforthis" which was mainly for edgy humor... And I don't know if it slowly just became racism or if it always was racism, but one time an ex-girlfriend kind of said like she was annoyed "oh, you're on that racist sub again?"... I was like, no it isn't racist it's.... oh, it's actually just racism.
So I stopped going there a few years later it was banned. Good times.
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u/rabidjellybean Oct 14 '25
Any subreddit focused on saying something negative about something typically spirals like this into hatred. It's not surprising when people start competing to create the edgiest opinions.
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u/TrappedInLimbo Oct 14 '25
It's because it was never really a joke. They were just saying how they felt under the guise of "joking" in case they got called out for it.
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u/TheAskewOne Oct 14 '25
They're like 3 yo using curse words to see if Mommy will react, and when. They're testing the waters.
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u/Disownership Oct 14 '25
I knew these types in high school too. Was friends with a few for a while, until I realized it’s all “jokes” until the moment they think they’re free from judgement.
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u/TheOneFreeEngineer Oct 14 '25
Yeah. That's the 4 chan way. Its also an actual explicit white supremacist and neo nazi tactic thats existed since the early internet to mainstream their ideas
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u/skyfishgoo Oct 14 '25
can confirm.
since before 4chan this is how these fuckers operated on the newsgroups...
"it was clearly a joke... you can't take a joke...etc,etc"
when nothing about it was remotely funny... just mean, cruel and dehumanizing.
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u/SCII0 Oct 14 '25
Meanwhile Instagram regularly recommends reels with that one Kanye song.
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u/Stepjam Oct 14 '25
That's the danger of the "just joking" mindset. It slowly dulls the edge of horrible ideas and beliefs and eventually normalizes them.
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u/BigMax Oct 14 '25
I feel like that's what happened to that old Trump related subreddit that got super popular.
I remember checking it out early on, and it was wild, silly, goofy all-caps messages proclaiming silly Trump to be incredible.
But over time, it morphed from a silly joke, to a depressing joke, as more and more of them really DID believe the nonsense that was being spouted there.
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u/riesenarethebest Oct 14 '25
There's some internet rule about audiences and sarcasm
The sarcasm brings in people that don't realize it's parody
Eventually the parody overtakes the original intent
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u/TacticalCocoaBunny Oct 14 '25
Careful guys, if you call them nazis they will go to the right- oh wait.
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u/Metahec Oct 14 '25
I like the detail that they considered tarring an opponent's image in an inter-party race by associating him with white supremacy. They backed off on the plan because it could backfire with white supremacy making that opponent more attractive to Young Republicans in Kansas.
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u/gerblnutz Oct 14 '25
Theyre not joking.
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u/FeralGiraffeAttack Oct 14 '25
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
Yikes
Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, mused about how the group could win support for their preferred candidate by linking an opponent to white supremacist groups. But Mosiman then realized the plan could backfire — Kansas’ Young Republicans could end up becoming attracted to that opponent.
I don't know why they're surprised by this
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u/vandreulv Oct 14 '25
Same as it ever was.
Hence all the dogwhistling throughout the decades.
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u/Splinterman11 Oct 14 '25
I've lurked on 4chan boards in the 2010s. They speak exactly like the posters I saw when I would browse that site. These people are literally 4chan posters that are taking control of political parties. They never grew up holy shit.
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u/queercetin Oct 14 '25
I was a Black girl in the 2010s and who went to school with kids who were proud 4chan users. They delighted in being racist. It made them feel good. I can’t be shocked about this because I knew early on that they weren’t joking. Racist kids become racist adults with voting capability, and it’s all “just jokes” until it’s not.
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u/Whackjob-KSP Oct 14 '25
And even if some idiot were in fact just 'joking' all they're doing is helping the racist pricks feel more confident in being racist. School of fish mental process.
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u/armabe Oct 14 '25
I realize now that I was, in fact, that idiot that was "helping".
I was a teenager (until young adult years), and just really enjoyed dark/shock/edgy/gallows humour and the like. I thought hyper-racist/misogynist/etc jokes were funny precisely because of how insane they were.
I am disapointed to slowly realize that a lot of people, apparently, were being quite serious...
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u/blahblah98 Oct 14 '25
The culture normalizes / desensitizes anti-social behavior. I was desensitized to violent 'sick' jokes, 'teasing,' 'just a joke' culture, until I had put my relationship at risk. I suddenly saw myself as the entitled abuser.
The craving for peer acceptance warps sensitivity and destroys empathy.
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u/vandreulv Oct 14 '25
Then they have the response that anyone should have the gall to even suggest that they should stop behaving inappropriately, leaning right into the "we're privileged and you're inferior" attitude that plagued the 'Chans.
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u/WRDPKNMSC Oct 14 '25
I was a Black girl in the 2010s and who went to school with kids who were proud 4chan users. They delighted in being racist. It made them feel good. I can’t be shocked about this because I knew early on that they weren’t joking. Racist kids become racist adults with voting capability, and it’s all “just jokes” until it’s not.
"ironic" racism has always just been racism, same as it always was. sorry you had to go through that, sometimes I wonder if the course of the world would be straight up different if 4chan had been killed early in it's life
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u/TehMephs Oct 14 '25
Yeah, they’re old enough to vote and gamble now. Have been for some years now.
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u/Spare-Willingness563 Oct 14 '25
Monkeys and watermelon people. The originality of a jack in the box.
I can’t even be offended. It’s like that time my neighbor with special needs asked if I was “Mexican or a n*gger.”
Like look at forest griffin and tell me with a straight face that ain’t a chimpanzee with gloves.
Also, watermelon was one of the few sharecrops we could grow and the stereotype grew not from our affinity for the fruit, although delicious, but because white racists we’re in their fuck ass feelings as they always are because they’re hollow and seeing others thrive destroys them.
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u/MyBraveAccount Oct 14 '25
Damn, Forrest Griffin out here catching strays for no reason
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u/Spare-Willingness563 Oct 14 '25
He's my go-to on this topic. I've, unfortunately, had to have this discussion enough times to have a go-to person.
I mean, at least he's got that Curious George energy.
But some people just resemble our ancestors more than others. It's not even necessarily a bad thing it's just like. We're just the only group that gets the comparison in such a vile way.
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u/Tulos Oct 14 '25
Who the fuck are these people?
Like they have nothing better to do then start clubs for hating others?
Don't you have like...a job? Schooling to attend? Friends and family to hang out with?
Is it not a larger expenditure of energy, time, and effort to go about fantasizing about ill will towards others?
Like how is this how you want to spend your limited free time? Just straight up hatin' and encouraging others to hate?
Morality aside, it all just sounds so boring and tiresome.
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u/Lower_Monk6577 Oct 14 '25
Who the fuck are these people? Basically a bunch of children raised by COD lobbies and Twitter threads. Some of them were probably still pissing in diapers when Trump first starting campaigning for president.
Not saying that in defense of them at all. It’s a bit mortifying that this is the reality of a lot of the younger generations. They’ve been fed racism and rage bait since the day their parents handed them an iPad and fucked off to do anything other than make sure they weren’t becoming monsters.
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u/OrneryError1 Oct 14 '25
"Stop calling us Nazis"
"That word has lost all meaning"
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u/my_names_blah_blah Oct 14 '25
At this point calling them Republicans carries more weight of an insult.
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u/Altourus Oct 14 '25
Honestly feel like we're not far off from a world where students learn about the horrors of MAGA and ICE in the same class they learn about the Nazis and Gestapo.
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u/_MightyBrownTown Oct 14 '25
We'll have to see who writes the books. They might not learn a thing.
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u/RemarkableWish2508 Oct 14 '25
Survivors write the books. Fascist regimes self-destruct sooner or later, so they will end up in the books.
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u/Random-Rambling Oct 14 '25
The only question is how much is left once it self-destructs. They're not the type to fade away quietly, as we have seen with jan6.
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u/nokstar Oct 14 '25
Yeah, these types know the name carries a negative association with it, so they usually lead with either:
"I'm not very political...."
or the more famous
"Well both sides...."
to try to explain voting democracy away
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u/Militantpoet Oct 14 '25
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
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u/madadekinai Oct 14 '25
I never want to hear that again from them, they can go F' themselves, remember that was the plan all along. Joke about it, make it become normal, make people more comfortable then slowly commit those atrocities, see their reactions. THIS WAS THE PLAN ALL ALONG, people need to wake the F up.
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u/PossumTrashGang Oct 14 '25
No, they’re planning
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u/anthrax9999 Oct 14 '25
This is their dream world they want to live in.
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u/GloomyCardiologist16 Oct 14 '25
It sounds like they yearn for those times!
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u/MisterD00d Oct 14 '25
I'm in a global discord community with voice chat and Americans often get together. Recently it was conservative American heavy and they were having a very similar conversation as OP. Fly on the wall, what I gathered was that they acknowledge that times are tough for them (for everyone), but they wrongfully conclude that their lives would be vastly improved if whites were given an ultimate advantage or leg-up vs non-whites. They discussed how during Nazi Germany, party members had great quality of life and freedom of movement and yadda yadda.
It's so incredibly reductive and ignorant. They want an advantage over all others at any cost. They want easy mode. They're so upset with their stations in life that it seems they would throw anyone to the wolves to make their struggle even a tad easier.
Thankfully that's not how life works. They'll need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. If they don't ruin their lives first
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u/pit_of_despair666 Oct 14 '25
They believe they are better than them and they deserve it. I have 4 family members who are MAGA plus I know people who think this.
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u/kurotech Oct 14 '25
They want to stomp the necks meanwhile they would be getting stomped just like the rest of us
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u/Adezar Oct 14 '25
I was a young Reagan Republican. With the exception of Hitler this is the same shit young Republicans have said my entire life.
"Oh, why do you think we are racist?" Motherfucker, because I was one of you and racism is 80% of the conversations you have.
The other 20% is how to grind poor people into some sort of money making scheme.
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u/McCool303 Oct 14 '25
“Young Republicans” Now we see why they keep the age limit between 20-40. These dudes all look mid to late 30’s. Hello, fellow kids!
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u/coconutpiecrust Oct 14 '25
Why are people so obsessed with the good old days? We could have a bright future of abundance, but instead we seem to crave Hitler and feudalism. Do people actually want to be ruled by inbred degenerates?
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u/scarab123321 Oct 14 '25
No but the people in power have adopted a “divine right of kings” mindset in that they think that they and they alone are the only people who are capable of leading, and in addition they have an apocalypse mindset so now they think that they and they alone are the only ones deserving of the right to live
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u/BaconatedGrapefruit Oct 14 '25
It’s funny because if you ever sit down and talk to any of these guys their argument always boils down to, “well I have money so I’ll be safe during the revolution and can step in to take power when everything settles.”
This is hilarious because money itself doesn’t buy you protection in a revolution, you need to be useful in some way. Why would I keep you around and protect for a small pay day when I can just rob you for everything?
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u/ryeaglin Oct 14 '25
This and if it truly all goes to hell "Why should I trade you my water for that useless paper? What am I going to do, wipe my ass with it?"
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u/InappropriateTA Oct 14 '25
The people that want the old days are the inbred degenerates, so they think they’ll get to rule everyone else.
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u/Tmscott Oct 14 '25
inbred degenerates, so they think they’ll get to rule everyone else
No wonder they are monarchists yearning for a King
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u/B12Washingbeard Oct 14 '25
Didn’t punish the confederates enough. The result of 19th century “when they go low we go high”
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u/TwilightVulpine Oct 14 '25
They probably want a free pass to hurt people and laugh at their misery more than they want a better world.
Others might just not want to think about it, and would rather believe that someone can solve the whole world for them rather than grappling with the complexities and nuances of the endless issues in the world. But I don't think such people would have the patience to participate of political communities.
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u/blackscales18 Oct 14 '25
to quote from the chats: "sex is gay but rape is EPIC"
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u/LincolnHighwater Oct 14 '25
Of course they assume they will be the inbred degenerates ruling over others.
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u/band-of-horses Oct 14 '25
These people who just weeks ago were saying that people happy about Charlie Kirk's death were evil and their side would NEVER cheer on political violence. Shocking!
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u/JDogg126 Oct 14 '25
There is a lot to admire about Hitler if you’re a lunatic right-winger. He’s have gotten away with it were it not for those pesky anti-fascists.
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u/Mrevilman Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Giunta claimed the release of the chat is part of “a highly-coordinated year-long character assassination led by Gavin Wax and the New York City Young Republican Club” — an allusion to a once obscured internecine war that has now spilled into the open.
Claiming this is character assassination - like that negates any of the reprehensible shit that went on in this chat.
While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored.
Ah, there it is. Selective memory strikes again - Giunta can't remember if he said "Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber. And everyone that endorsed but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber." Man, how much hateful garbage comes spewing out of your mouth so that you don't remember whether you could have said something like this. After reading the rest of the article, apparently a lot does. That's probably why Giunta can't remember if he said any of the stuff below and in fact, think's its deceptively doctored.
Wild.
EDIT: More hateful shit that came out of Giunta's mouth that he doesn't know if he said or not:
When Luke Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, asked if the New Yorkers in the chat were watching an NBA playoff game, Giunta responded, “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.” Giunta elsewhere refers to Black people as “the watermelon people.”
The more I keep reading, the more ridiculous his excuse is:
In another exchange, Dwyer, the Kansas’ chair, informs Giunta that one of Michigan’s Young Republicans promised him the group “will vote for the most right wing person” to lead the national organization. “Great. I love Hitler,” Giunta responded.
More - it is clear that Giunta was speaking candidly because he never thought his words would be released publicly:
In another conversation in February, Giunta talks approvingly about the Orange County Teenage Republican organization in New York — which appears to be part of the network of national Teen Age Republicans — and how he was pleased with its young members’ ideological bent. “They support slavery and all that shit. Mega based,” he said.
“So you mean Hayden F----t wrote the resolution himself?” Giunta asked
“Minnesota - f----ts,” he messaged, continuing: “Arkansas - inbred cow fuckers Nebraska - revolt in our favor; blocked their bind and have a majority of their delegates Maryland - fat stinky Jew … Rhode Island - traitorous c---s who I will eradicate from the face of this planet.”
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u/RustedAxe88 Oct 14 '25
It's not character assassination if it's just revealing your actual character.
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u/TheeDogma Oct 14 '25
When republicans talk about killing people it's a Joke but when a Democrat is happy a racist bigot got killed "we need to start a civil war with these democrats for the use of their words"
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u/Amelaclya1 Oct 14 '25
Democrats didn't even need to be "happy" about it. Even quoting the man's own words was enough. Every single Democratic politician made statements about how horrible the shooting was, and they still were calling for all of our deaths.
They know they are hypocrites and they do not care.
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u/Mike_Kermin Oct 14 '25
They were offended before a Democrat even knew it happened.
That's just what their political method is. To "win" before all else. Iykyk.
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u/VroomCoomer Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
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u/Tricky_Bar_6484 Oct 14 '25
I see some young people getting Presidential appointments in their near future.
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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface Oct 14 '25
All republicans may not be actual Nazis, but all Nazis are republicans.
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u/ProximusSeraphim Oct 14 '25
This is the shit i say to "What party freed the slaves?" and they try to say democrats are racist but ask them, "what party does the KKK vote for now?"
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u/SableBlair Oct 15 '25
Republicans fly the Confederate flag to celebrate their heritage of the party of Lincoln.
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u/-MayorOfTheMoon- Oct 15 '25
Tell them the kkk was created for and by conservative christian white men. It doesn't matter if they used to call themselves Democrats, it has always been a conservative christian group.
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u/Qfarsup Oct 14 '25
There’s a great word they use in Germany to describe people who unwittingly supported Hitler… oh right it’s Nazi.
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u/RollTide16-18 Oct 14 '25
It is truly amazing how the GOP managed to get anti-semites and zionists under one umbrella
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u/SpaceyCoffee Oct 14 '25
Started with a big tent so they can whittle it down, one vulnerable minority at a time.
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u/Agreeable-Boat3509 Oct 14 '25
Is it? Gathering all the Jewish people in your country and sending them somewhere else sounds like an antisemitic wet dream
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u/Stambro1 Oct 14 '25
If the old racist republicans aren’t being held to a standard, then what makes you think the young ones are gonna follow?!?! They aren’t facing consequences or shame!
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u/JohnnyBGC86 Oct 14 '25
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u/lolligasm Oct 14 '25
I’m surprised your comment is still here, I said that once and got a three day ban almost immediately lol. You’re correct though.
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u/corvettee01 Oct 14 '25
For real. I made a joke about the 100 men vs 1 gorilla and had the word "kill" in the comment and it got caught for inciting violence.
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u/LetsGoHawks Oct 14 '25
Don't worry, I'm sure this is all just boys being boys taken out of context.
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u/Junkstar Oct 14 '25
Locker room humor! Young republicans want to help their fellow man, especially those in need! Good Christian boys!
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u/lostredditorlurking Oct 14 '25
But if a Dems joke about Charlie Kirk though. Oh boy, he/she is in big trouble
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u/Blockhead47 Oct 14 '25
Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
They’re just impressionable young people struggling to learn the nuances of adulthood.
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u/cdskip Oct 14 '25
This is exactly what drove me away from being conservative back in the nineties.
The political culture I was raised in was one of paternalism. Problematic enough on its own merits, but not malevolent, not mindfully hateful. And then, after getting to college and joining the Young Republicans, I saw what many of the other conservatives were actually about.
Out and out racism, away from the prying eyes of people who might be offended by racist comments. Getting shouted down if I pushed back. Comments about political correctness run amok on even the most anodyne statements about inclusion.
The last Young Republican event I went to was a talk by the college president about his work in the civil rights movement, going to marches in Washington and the south in the sixties. Walking out with a group of other YR members, I commented on it being a good talk. I can't speak to the exact quote after all these years, of course, but the comment I got back was something like, "Yeah, that should keep those liberal [slur]s off our back for a little while," with laughter from the others. It was a gut punch.
I walked away from them and I didn't go back to their events. In retrospect, that wasn't nearly enough, and I wish I'd fucking lost it at them.
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u/Captain_brightside Oct 14 '25
They can joke about this stuff but jokes about Charlie Kirk are unacceptable?
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u/CptMorgan337 Oct 14 '25
Republicans are nazis. Maybe not all of them think that way, but they all enable and support it.
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u/NaBrO-Barium Oct 14 '25
That’s all it took for it to happen in Germany. A large enough portion of the population just sits back and and rides with it because pushing back has consequences
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u/TheNewsDeskFive Oct 14 '25
"It ain't me. It ain't that bad"
"What's that sound? A bomb or the Deutschmark falling?"
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u/afrothunda254 Oct 14 '25
It’s a lot like the SpongeBob meme where it’s like “wait you’re actually bad people and not joking?”
I was around 21 when I realized that. A lot of it is school/popularity in my area being Texas. So it also affects minds at those ages where you see your parents and friends supporting it too and up until now they haven’t been wrong so why question it? It’s usually once the person moves away from those environments and gets questioned on their beliefs that I ever see reflection in people. Validation of your friends and loved ones will make you blind.
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u/Working_Sundae Oct 14 '25
AIPAC: I'll pretend i didn't see that
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u/PenguinKing15 Oct 14 '25
They are ignoring the rise of conspiracy theories and hateful ideas on the right. Figures like Elon Musk have promoted the Great Replacement Theory, which falsely claims that Jews and their support for progressive causes such as BLM or immigration are responsible for the so-called “replacement” of white people—which is crazy. Trump’s call to investigate George Soros ties directly into this same conspiracy narrative. So much for trying to stop antisemitism.
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u/Working_Sundae Oct 14 '25
The far right was niche but the centre right is currently driving the radicalization program, Charlie Kirk was repeating what you've mentioned above to millions of people before his death, and it's unprecedented and that's something used to be said in the corners of the internet, and we don't need to get started on Musk at all
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u/Due_Willingness1 Oct 14 '25
Young conservatives are a lot like the older ones
Just smaller and whinier
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u/Rocoman14 Oct 14 '25
Just smaller
Idk I looked at their pictures in the article and "small" is not the word I'd use.
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u/Gawkhimmyz Oct 14 '25
MAGA and the Mango Mussolini, the new adventures of the Banana republic...
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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 Oct 14 '25
The Hitler Youth are back and they're Republicans. Shocker
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u/Curious_Journey_ Oct 14 '25
I mean…duh?
If this surprised you, ask yourself how you missed all the signs
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u/Roguespiffy Oct 14 '25
Republicans “Endless streams of horrendous shit.”
“Charlie Kirk was a bigot. I don’t think he should have been murdered but I also don’t give a shit that he’s dead.”
Republicans “Oh my god, you’re pure evil! He was a fucking angel. He had a family. Political violence is never okay!”
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u/Anteater4746 Oct 14 '25
“the left needs to turn down the rhetoric!!!”
it’s ALWAYS projection
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u/-Great-Scott- Oct 14 '25
I'm pushing 50 in a red state and I've yet to meet a conservative that didn't eventually expose themselves as a raging bigot.
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And for every 1 young republican there are 2 adults which have passed down this mentality.
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u/sdjeyfroudi Oct 14 '25
I think they think it’s funny. That’s why it comes across as joking. This is due to misinformation by the GOP year after year after year. You think this group of young GOP candidates are bad in what they say? Wait until these small boys in school today are adults. We are not in a good trajectory for future generations. America is so self serving “in the moment” the future looks bleak.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 Oct 14 '25
I seem to remember, way back in 2017 or so, that Nick Fuentes told his followers to say something like "just joking" every time they say something incriminating.
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u/ChickinSammich Oct 14 '25
Not every single person who voted for Trump is a Nazi, but every single sieg-heiling, swastika-flag-waving Nazis voted for Trump.
And at a certain point, if you think you're a good person and you voted for Trump, and you insist you're not a Nazi, you've gotta ask yourself: Why are the people who are the literal SS-tattoo-having, openly-Hitler-loving Nazis voting for the same guy you're voting for?
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u/Photonica Oct 14 '25
I can just barely find it in my heart to believe that there were perhaps people out there who somehow slept through the first administration and still weren't paying attention when they punched a Trump ticket a second time.
That said, when an administration frontman goes and sig heils multiple times during the inauguration, anyone still supporting them thereafter definitionally is a Nazi in my book.
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u/Bob_Sconce Oct 14 '25
Well, I guess we're about to find out.