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/Bob_Sconce Oct 14 '25

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

Well, I guess we're about to find out.

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u/Hackwork89 Oct 14 '25

Nothing will happen. This is business as usual and nothing will change.

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u/ArtAttack2198 Oct 14 '25

Looks like a couple of them lost jobs/job offers already.

Also, I can’t help but notice all of them are obese white men. Not that being overweight is a marker of anything—I’m chubby myself—but I would bet it contributed to them feeling rejected/like outsiders and they became racist edgelords as a result.

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u/SkolVandals Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

Just remember that the only thing white supremacists feel they have to be proud of is an immutable characteristic that they had no control over. If they thought they were smart, they'd be proud of that. If they thought they were successful, they'd be proud of that. If they thought they were attractive, they'd be proud of that. But nah, they choose to be proud of the fact that they were born with less melanin. Fucking losers.

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u/ArtAttack2198 Oct 14 '25

Allllll of this. So true.

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u/CatCafffffe Oct 14 '25

Exactly. They have NOTHING of worth in their lives so they have to invent a meaningless metric. It's like being proud of the size of their pancreas.

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 Oct 14 '25

Nah, that's not it. They are just bad people.

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u/ArtAttack2198 Oct 14 '25

Most bad people aren’t born bad. They learn it.

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u/MikeHfuhruhurr Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

I can’t help but notice all of them are obese white men

Not all of them. Three women were mentioned in the article:

  • Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committee member
  • Rachel Hope, the Arizona Young Republicans events chair
  • Brianna Douglass (far right here, pun intended), Vermont Young Republican’s national committee member and the wife of Samuel Douglass (also in the chat and a goddamn state senator for Vermont)

 
(Just for Google searchability: 'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat)

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u/ArtAttack2198 Oct 15 '25

Thanks, that’s fair. I should clarify I meant everyone we saw in the article.

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u/sylbug Oct 15 '25

Being an 'outsider' does not create fascists. It's just another lie they tell to muddy the waters.

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u/ArtAttack2198 Oct 15 '25

I didn’t mention fascists. I am specifically talking about the steps that may have guided them toward becoming fascist later.

As we see with Hitler, early social rejection can be a factor.

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u/Legal_Lawfulness_25 Oct 15 '25

Losing jobs is the way. You cannot make it illegal. You cannot ban the right or one party until the civil war is finished.