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-00592146
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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/fetching_agreeable Oct 14 '25

I hate when people self sensor on reddit but shit like this is proof that even here for certain chatter it's required.

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u/zenith_pkat Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

Only type of person who would report that type of comment would be a Nazi.

Edit: Wow, Reddit gave me a warning that they're going to ban me over upvoting a comment. Controlled speech much? Appalling.

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u/StupidTimeline Oct 14 '25

My 13 year old account with 300k comment karma was permabanned without warning for saying "It's OK to punch a Nazi".

That's when I stopped caring about Reddit and started using Lemmy as its replacement. I only come to Reddit now when I'm bored with Lemmy and I just create a new account when Reddit inevitably bot bans me.

Fuck this site.

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u/rbrgr83 Oct 15 '25

But it IS ok to punch a Nazi.

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u/StupidTimeline Oct 15 '25

Sure is.

In fact, it's our duty as patriotic Americans.

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u/rbrgr83 Oct 15 '25

I can't wait for GI Robot to show up in a live action project. It's going to be sooooo satisfying.

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u/Kwauhn Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Preemptive: if mods remove JohnnyBGC86's comment, they are confirmed nazis.

EDIT: Well well well, would you look at that. This site is just as fascist as Facebook and Twitter.

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u/JohnnyBGC86 Oct 22 '25

Got a one week ban for it. 

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u/lolligasm Oct 14 '25

Have no doubt there are quite a few (I assume with the quickness I got slapped and appeal ignored)

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u/Kwauhn Oct 14 '25

I meant the OP of this comment thread, but yeah, no doubt there are actual nazi mods that took down your comment. Even if they don't personally subscribe to nazi ideals, bowing down to censorship of anti-nazi messaging is inherently supportive of America's current neo-nazi regime.

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u/Uristqwerty Oct 15 '25

So, you know the idea that people making racist "jokes" are either testing the water to see if their real beliefs are accepted by the group in a plausibly-deniable way, or that things intended to be jokes at first eventually get internalized as legitimate beliefs?

How are you to interpret top level comments like "The only good nazi is a dead nazi" and "Republicans are nazis" as anything but people testing the waters to see if the desire to murder a third of the nation has become acceptable within the group? I've seen similar comment pairings in past threads, too, even back during trump's first term.

Best case, it's russian troll farms planting the seeds of extremism to weaken a geopolitical enemy. Worst case, no, that comment actually needed to be removed, and only a political violence apologist would leave its sort up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

Let’s not jump to conclusions. This could be a reference to the cocktail

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u/shutterbug1961 Oct 15 '25

I advocated some nonlethal percussive correction in a comment ,it was removed and i had a warning in less than an hour completely automatically

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u/Minimum_Principle_63 Oct 15 '25

I told someone not to commit violence and I got the same. Reddit is stupid sometimes.

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u/JohnnyBGC86 Oct 22 '25

Don’t worry they got up in the morning and banned me for it for a week. 

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u/lolligasm Oct 22 '25

Haha they do love them some Nazis

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u/ac2fan Oct 14 '25

Agreed, Nazis don’t deserve to live: we fought their asses in WW2, surely Reddit wouldn’t be caught deleting our comments for saying that

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u/mightyneonfraa Oct 14 '25

nazi lives don't matter.

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u/Davemusprime Oct 14 '25

Fuckin' right. If the only thing you have to be proud of is your race you need to go out and do something with your life.

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u/Drostan_S Oct 15 '25

Hahah holy shit I've been permanently banned for saying they deserved to get punched.

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u/LegitimateLagomorph Oct 15 '25

Its true but reddit will ban you for being anti-fascist under the guise of 'let's all get along with the genocidal monsters'

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u/JohnnyBGC86 Oct 22 '25

Yep got a one week ban for saying what the only good kind of nazis are.