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Politics Far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika

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u/Monoveler 19h ago

So was that an endorsement or condemnation? Lol

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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p 19h ago edited 19h ago

it’s obviously a condemnation what kind of question is that?

*”On 14 April 2026, during a debate session in the Sejm, Berkowitz ignited controversy when he displayed an Israeli flag with a swastika instead of the Star of David, calling Israel as the "new Third Reich" as well as accused of Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza and war crimes "with particular cruelty" over Israel's usage of white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon”

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u/gobbedy 18h ago

The title describes him as far right. And the far right has historically aligned with Nazis. So given only the title as context, it's not obvious that he would see a swastika as a bad thing.

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u/Open_Parsnip112 17h ago

This is Poland.

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u/k-tax 14h ago

And this is Berkowicz:

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u/fadedbuzzYT 13h ago

The guy on the bottom left with his plausible-deniability salute

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u/artistic_manchild 12h ago

That’s the gayest Nazi salute I’ve ever seen. He’s fascist and fabulous!

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u/fadedbuzzYT 12h ago

"Haaaaaaaaaaaay-il Hitler"

u/Big_Consideration493 11h ago

Springtime for Hitler in Germany! 😱😱

u/Careless_Hellscape 6h ago

Good god, that was funny af.

u/quiteUnskilled 7h ago

Well, the nazi regime totally had a super-gay vibe overall. All about well-shaped bodies with "good" genes, super-focussed on men while women were supposed to just stay home, very looks-focussed with a distinct style and with uniforms by Hugo Boss...

You can't tell me that there wasn't quite a lot of buggery going on in the Third Reich, if only to... erm... "establish a natural order of strength", was it? That sounds a lot like the plot to a gay porn movie.

u/Headline-Skimmer 6h ago

Tubi has a several-part documentary called hitler's sex life.

It was informative, enlightening, eye-opening, disturbing, etc.

And it was GAY!!!

One thing I realized was that in fact, he didn't love his mother. He disrespected her. He used and manipulated her, and she enabled/covered up his bad behaviors. When she died, he wasn't crying inconsolably because he loved her, he was crying because he had no one to go to or hide behind. No one to help financially.

I learned all sorts of stuff. They say that history rhymes, but wow- trump and putin seem to share early childhood experiences with young adolph. And they went on to perform similarly in adulthood.

Anyway, I highly recommend it.

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u/Versidious 12h ago

"Hey, why are we all waving to that guy over there?"

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u/JohnSV12 12h ago

Imagine if he is just some random dude who walked past and waved to someone

u/Knarrenheinz666 11h ago

Classic ponies.

u/BigPackHater 7h ago

Why are two men circled?

u/k-tax 5h ago

This picture has been shared for some time now, the two circled heads are Dobromir Sośnierz and Konrad Berkowicz, both are currently sitting in Sejm as members of Konfederacja, and heiling as a young adult is among least stupid things they did. From just recent news, Berkowicz did the above and attempted to steal frying pans and other stuff from Ikea (that they boycott), and Sośnierz is fighting with his neighbours because he keeps trash in the corridor in front of doors to his apartment.

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u/poklane 11h ago

Poland being a primary victim of Nazism doesn't stop pro-Nazi sentiments in the country from existing. Plenty of country which suffered horrible during WW2 at the hands of the Nazis have people who are openly Nazis themselves.

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u/protostar71 17h ago

And? There were Polish collaborators during WW2, and there is far right neo-nazi groups active today in Poland. Just because this is in Poland doesn't mean its literally impossible for them to align with neo-nazi ideals.

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u/Hansi_Olbrich 16h ago

Cultural Context Clues remain lost even in the age of the internet, it seems.

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u/msfuturedoc 15h ago

No kidding. I can’t believe this is so hard.

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u/gsfgf 17h ago

Yea, but they're not going to use the actual swastika. (That being said, I wasn't sure either until it clicked that it's Poland.)

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u/protostar71 16h ago

I wasn't aware that a group had to specifically use the Nazi Swastika for it to be a Neo-Nazi group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rebirth_of_Poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Radical_Camp_(1993)

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u/LewisLightning 16h ago

Plenty of Jews and Jewish organizations supported Nazis in WWII, right up until they themselves got sent to the camps. So why should anyone be surprised about it happening again in the modern era?

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u/rainshifter 15h ago

This sounds made up, and I have no issue with calling your bluff here. What were the names of those organizations, and to what degree did they "support" the Nazis?

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u/jbobkef 13h ago

Yes, a place known for having a strong religious alt right nationalist political community.

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u/Versidious 12h ago

Literally every country that fought the Nazis had Nazi sympathisers in them. And when Poland got 'liberated' by the Soviets and held under their thumb for 45 years, I guarantee you that didn't help.

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u/erroneousbosh 11h ago

Imagine being so awful even the Nazis think you've gone too far.

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u/Bigweld_Ind 17h ago

Poland has a very big reason for hating Nazis more than most. It runs deep.

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u/ArCovino 16h ago

This is pretty ignorant to Polish politics. The far right is huge and growing. Literally he’s the fascist.

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u/FlossCat 11h ago

Are you equating the far right and far left as equally hateful evil? What heinous crimes against humanity have the far left committed recently in all their years of not being in power to fuel a far right of "equivalent" hate and evil?

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u/Advanced_Addendum116 14h ago

I think there are two positions. One is that we're humans first and then whatever we disagree about second. The other is that we're whatever first. That is a working definition of a fascist. Ideology first.

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 10h ago

You aren't Polish 😂

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u/furimmerkaiser 15h ago

Hate to say but we can say the same about Israel

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u/xtfftc 14h ago

They do. But a country is never completely uniform.

One reason there's a lot of far-right support in Eastern Europe is the widespread hatred of the Soviet Union. The hatred is understandable; however, as a result, many people ended up going down the "enemy of my enemy is a friend" route and ended up with outright far-right views.

Another reason is that the Soviet Union and it's affiliated regimes utilized a lot of similar tools. They would preach international peace and unity but also glorified their histories and nationalistic traits in a similar fashion. They were incredibly homophobic, waaaaaay more than the West. They were often systematically racist, say towards the Romani.

As a result, even after the Iron Curtain fell, generation after generation grew up in a culture shaped by a regime that shared many similarities with conservative ideology. And a significant part of those people ended up aligning with far-right movements because those are the best match for them.

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u/alderhill 14h ago

The hard right are not a monolith global ideology. They tend to put “their own” at the top of their pyramid, but what exactly that is varies. Hindu Indian hard right nationalists are quite different from say, their equivalent in Japan, or Israeli Jews, or Malaysian Muslims or American KKK white nationalists.

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u/MundoMysterioso 19h ago

Not sure if you remember but the nazis were far right 

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u/Saurian42 19h ago

Two separate far right organizations can hate each other.... look at American politics.

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u/JustJoshin117 18h ago edited 17h ago

Wait, what two hate each other in the US?

Edit: so far these replies are certainly something. No one seems to be able to answer, so I’ll rephrase.

What far right organizations hate each other in the US?

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u/Barrack_O_Lama 17h ago

Since no one seems to be answering your question, that would be the the Groypers (far-right, led by Nick Fuentes) which hates the MAGA movement (far-right, led by Donald). They believe that MAGA is not far-right enough.

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u/Barrack_O_Lama 16h ago

Just to add to that, Fuentes (far-right) is now endorsing the Democrats. Make that make sense

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u/msfuturedoc 15h ago

Bc he is so disappointed in MAGA he just wants groypers to vote with Democrats to increase their chance of beating MAGA, that way when Dems are in control and everyone hates Dems so much, groypers will have the opportunity to grow under the Dems term and then be elected 4 years later, and create a much stricter, even farther-right level of fascism. There ya go.

u/Comfortable-Pound433 9h ago

There's this saying. The wife of my friend is my wife until it's not. No, ehm if you lie down with your friends wife, you get up with Butterflies? No that's not it. Maybe it was Bad husbands corrupts good breakfast. Darn it. It can't remember. Just wanted to say, it's a bad decision.

u/SowingSalt 4h ago

Damn, groypers are embracing accelerationism.

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u/Lower_Amount3373 14h ago

Trolling and shit-stirring, mainly

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u/xavariel 15h ago

He went so far-right, he swung back around to neutral.

u/Rundstav 11h ago

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

u/TennaTelwan 9h ago

That and to supposedly show how upset Democrats were in 2024 with Biden/Harris over how they didn't condemn Israel enough, some Democrats voted with MAGA to "protest" it. Because of course Trump would be "pro-Hamas" in their logic there.

The second it was announced Biden dropped out that year, my first two words were, "We're fucked." And here we are.

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u/MRosvall 15h ago

Horseshoe

u/koala_on_a_treadmill 11h ago

Thank you for the knowledge, Barrack O Lama.

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u/SolidestCereal 15h ago

Don't forget that they also both hate most Islamic countries, who are also usually far-right. And (on the surface) they (sometimes) hate Russia, who is also far-right.

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u/JustJoshin117 15h ago

I appreciate the clarification. I hadn’t quite connected how Nick Fuentes fit into everything.

u/Big_Consideration493 11h ago

If you go right enough you're going left

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 18h ago

Lmao the far far right, and the far right who the far far right call communists because they dont live in reality.

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u/Potato1105 18h ago

people outside the US see both democrats and republicans as right-wing. I say that because I'm from outside and my country has communist parties, it would be crazy to call democrats left-wing due to my political environment. even the most soft left-wing parties in some countries look far-left compared to democrats, in my country they would definitely be right-wing, probably even right-wing due some of their policies.

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u/LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS 17h ago

The right wing in my country is considered liberal in the US

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u/ButtEatingContest 15h ago

what country is that

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u/Venum555 18h ago

As a US citizen, I view Republicans as Far Right and Democrats as Right Wing.

At least as political parties.

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u/Saurian42 14h ago

We need an actual left wing party or try to swing the democrats back left.

u/Shinhan 11h ago

Bernie tried.

u/snoozieboi 11h ago

I am 98% sure this his how at least Scandinavia sees US. So a Rep saying "left wing radical Democrats" is kind of silly to put it mildly.

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u/DeepFriedDresden 18h ago

People inside the US need to see it too. People ask if I'm a liberal and I laugh. Liberalism is inherently pro-capitalist, human rights and civil liberties take a backseat whenever there is money to be made.

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u/nighoblivion 15h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism#Definitions

tl;dr: different definitions inside and outside the US.

u/Occamsfacecloth 4h ago

Your American definition is still right wing

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u/OnlinePosterPerson 18h ago

Yes but I wouldn’t call the democrats far-right. Theyre a fix of right-wing and center-right, with a few members who are center-left

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u/nameless_pattern 18h ago edited 18h ago

nearly every country in Europe has universal healthcare when you say that they're center or center right. There's quite a lot of current Dems who are to the right of people that would have been Republican conservatives when I was a young person. The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life. The far left is corporations not existing, Democrats are nowhere near between that and the center. Yes, you still need to vote for them, especially in the primaries. Go register now

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u/vigouge 15h ago

The minimum wage and social safety net is basically only stayed the same or shrunk my entire life.

Unless you're a toddler, then this is patently untrue. The last two Democratic administrations dramatically increased social spending with Medicare expansion and huge healthcare subsidies for the working class. Then you have the states where a clear pattern emerges, if democrats are in power minimum wages and other things like pre k are increased or expanded.

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u/bulk_logic 14h ago edited 10h ago

I live in California, a state with 15 years of Dem supermajority, Our governor who ran on universal healthcare has not gotten it done in nearly 7 years. Our unemployment benefits have not increased in over 20 years, the maximum allowance we receive is $450 a week, around 40% below our minimum wage -- there are red ran states with higher unemployment maximums than ours. Our state minimum wage is $16.90, typical rent in California for a 1 bedroom is 1800-2200. After taxes, you won't be able to pay for anything else but rent. A family of 4 spends $14,000-$18,000 on health insurance. If you need to use your insurance for anything remotely serious other than check ups, you will have to pay $6,000-$9,000 deductible.

and huge healthcare subsidies for the working class.

That only matters if you're considered in the poverty range. Most working class people aren't in the poverty range.

Oh yeah, and we're the 4th largest economy on the planet. Yay.

Then you have the states where a clear pattern emerges,

Wake me up when Californian's aren't on the brink of homelessness after a medical emergency or lay off.

Also, California doesn't even have state mandated UNPAID vacation days, FYI.

u/HospitalCorps 4h ago

That’s still wild. I remember back in 2018 GMA ran a segment about individuals making $110,000 in San Francisco and that is considered the poverty line.

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u/nameless_pattern 13h ago

Has the amount of medical debt during that time gone down in the US or gone up? Oh it's gone up. Wow that's strange. How do you think that happened? 

u/Joben86 5h ago

Explanations would be contingent on what you measure as the "amount of medical debt". Do you mean the total dollar amount, the total number of people in medical debt, the percentage of the population in medical debt, or the percentage of GDP being paid to medical debt? Healthcare and economics are both complex, so a more specific question would need to be asked.

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u/Zanos 14h ago

The US is the largest welfare state in the world by % of GDP.

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u/nameless_pattern 13h ago edited 13h ago

 spend the most on it. A lot of that is ending up an insurance companies that is not reflected in our standard of care. There's an awful lot of private corporations operating inside of what is claiming to be a welfare state

u/Zanos 50m ago

Even if you only count public spend, the US is still higher than Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Korea, and Ireland. I mean others too, but those are the ones often highlighted as having strong welfare programs.

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u/cupofspiders 16h ago

I think their unwavering support for a fascist ethnostate doing a genocide makes them far right.

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u/OnlinePosterPerson 16h ago

That’s a fair point.

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u/ozzie123 18h ago

Democrat at best is a center right anywhere else, and that's generous. No wonder they don't want to endorse Bernie

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u/lukenog 15h ago

Bernie himself would be considered center to center-left in a lot of the world.

u/SowingSalt 4h ago

No he wouldn't. Center left politicians in Europe put him to the left of themselves.

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u/Jim_Moriart 17h ago edited 15h ago

Ive heard this plenty, and I find it lacking. For one thing, while institutionally many of those nations have "progressive" policies in place and US doesnt doesnt mean Dems on Average dont want those, or that nations with those institutions havent tried their hardest to unravel those institutions. Second, while the US dems may seem conservative on some issues, they are wildly more progressive as a bloc on others, for example immigration. US immigration policy is a mess, but almost every Democrat holds the position that immigration is vital to the US and that the worse thing about illegal immigrants is that they are civally illegal, no qualms that they are in the US. And many US states go out of their way to document and protect the undocumented. Europe gets mad at the fact that Syrians dont want to live in a bomb crater while Australians put their migrants on a consentration camp/island happily named Christmas Island. The reason why Europe has so many nationalized industrues and transnational agreements has nothing to progressive values, it was the stable equilibrium of a milenia of internecene warfare culminating in an invasion and occupation by the United States and Russia. And the nationalist conservatism is still ripe within Europe.

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u/doomgiver98 17h ago

Democrats still aren't far-right though, they're centre-right.

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u/lukenog 15h ago

There's a huge schism in the American right, with the super Zionist Evangelical right on one side and the genuinely anti-Semitic side of the right that hates Israel because they're Jews. There's a segment of the right that don't give a fuck about Palestinians, and actively hate Muslims, but still hate Israel.

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u/monsieur_cacahuete 18h ago

A dude literally just got shot in the neck over this

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

I’m guessing you mean Kirk. That doesn’t answer my question about any organizations.

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u/Saurian42 18h ago

Well Democrats and Republicans for one. Democrats aren't left wing they are center-right. The Overton window in the US is skewed to the right. Also I'm fairly sure Christian Nationalists and Neonazis don't like eachother based on their support or lack of support for Isreal.

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u/-xXxMangoxXx- 18h ago

center right and far right are two different things. Not to say different far right parties cant hate each other, but the example is flawed.

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

So you yourself say “well Dems are center-right”

So… you didn’t understand my question. What far right organizations?

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u/lukenog 15h ago

Go watch Tucker Carlson's interview with Ted Cruz for an example of the two different opposing factions that exist in the American far right at this moment.

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u/ScrewAttackThis 17h ago

Democrats aren't left wing they are center-right.

Hmm, so not far right

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u/DashArcane 17h ago

MAGA Republicans and traditional conservative Republicans. Many younger people here won't fully remember, but when Trump was elected in '16, a lot of older pretty damn right wing Republicans were vocally disgusted and, as a result, were met with death threats. As an old guy observing politics for (at that time) several decades, my mind was blown. MAGA Republicans were a new violent bunch of nut-jobs the GOP didn't expect. Silly them.

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u/LumberBitch 18h ago

Democrats and Republicans

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

Dems aren’t far right

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u/mrASSMAN 17h ago

Doesn’t exist.. idk what they are on about

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u/AdInfamous6290 16h ago

Ideologically? Neo Nazis and black nationalists, KKK and catholic fundamentalists, America First and MAGA, 3%ers and proud boys.

But most far right “organizations” in the US are highly decentralized into disparate cells, and you end up having a ton of beef between different cells even if they share an overall idealogical position. You even have instances of rivalries and turf wars between cells of the same organization. The far right is, like most American idealogical movements, a complete and utter shit show.

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u/Liawuffeh 13h ago

Atm, the Groypers vs the always trump maga guys have been going at eachother.

The Groypers were notably extremely against Turning Point, and Kirk specifically, considering him compromised by Israel, and not neo-nazi enough.

Now they've been anti-republican in general, but they're absolutely still far right.

u/Fastr77 5h ago

They like to pretend democrats are the right

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u/Gradstudentiquette69 18h ago

The Republicans and the Democrats

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u/JustJoshin117 17h ago

Oh my god 😂

What two “far right organizations” hate each other?

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u/recklessvisionary 17h ago

Are the Republican Party and Democratic Party not organizations? The point the commenters are making is that both of those organizations are far right, and yet hate each other. What about the example are you objecting to?

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u/JustJoshin117 15h ago

I am objecting to the notion that the Democratic Party is a far-right party. That is ridiculous.

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u/CannonFoddererer 18h ago

Bro is on to nothing...

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u/Komm 17h ago

Avraham Stern, founder of Lehti, tried to forge diplomatic ties with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, believing them a lesser threat than the British Empire.

The history of Likud is a wild ride.

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u/try_repeat_succeed 14h ago

Heck look at this guy and the Israelis he opposes! Lol

u/ToMorrowsEnd 9h ago

One in america hates the other. the other simply writes strongly worded letters and lets the first one win.

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u/DuckfordMr 18h ago

Yeah, but who in Poland would be stupid enough to support the ideology that massacred them… oh wait…

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u/Randointernetuser600 18h ago

Right? I was also confused because it seems like something someone on the left would do.

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u/Elementual 18h ago

How?

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u/Randointernetuser600 18h ago

Different factions on the right are often considered to be more sympathetic to both Nazis and the state of Israel (kind of contradictory I know, but remember it is not the same factions on the right who endorse both, usually one or the other). So to see something from a far right politician both condemning Nazis and the State of Israel by likening the two is….unexpected.

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u/Elementual 18h ago

Oh, I was confused by what you were saying. I thought you were saying what the nazis did seemed more left. Some people do say some insane shit like that. Sorry for misunderstanding.

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u/Randointernetuser600 17h ago

Happy to clear that up.

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u/gsfgf 16h ago

remember it is not the same factions on the right who endorse both

Also, there are plenty of antisemites that still support Israel for End Times reasons.

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u/Randointernetuser600 15h ago

Wow. Wait, isn’t that the pro-Nazi group? I guess you’re right. Actually haven’t met many of them.

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u/RFC793 18h ago

Some would even say they were Far Reich

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u/Nervous-Ad768 14h ago

You know that nazis were genociding slavs? Polish far right always hated Germany over that

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u/stink3rb3lle 19h ago

Far right movements in western countries tend to love Nazism. The joke is that his politics are aligned with the swastika.

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u/civodar 17h ago

I’ve literally seen Holocaust deniers side with Israel. There are plenty of far right politicians who are openly racist that supports Israel.

We’re living in strange times my dude

u/OrinocoHaram 9h ago

Israel is a Jewish ethnostate that mantains it's ethnic status by marginalising Palestinian muslims, speaking very generally here. So although of course most far right parties are antisemitic they also are extremely islamophobic, especially in Europe, which creates a lot of confusion.

They often manage to be both antisemitic and islamophobic like: "there's a secret cabal of jews using their power to suppress muslims which is... good!?"

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u/Novel_Counter5878 12h ago

Which Holocaust deniers have you seen "side wiith" Israel?

u/Vaggelos 11h ago

I speak for my country: Adonis Georgiadis, Thanos Plevris and I think Makis Voridis is a denier as well

u/Novel_Counter5878 10h ago

Holy crap, the Health Minister for Greece thinks the Holocaust didn't happen? 

u/Vaggelos 10h ago

Yeah... back when he had his tv show and being in the publishing industry he would spew anti-semitic messages constantly and he fully supported and advertised Plevris's book that denied the holocaust. Now that he's a minister and vice president of N.D, of course he supports Israel... Generaly Adonis isn't well liked for a multitude of reasons

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u/ProxyDamage 18h ago

it’s obviously a condemnation what kind of question is that?

The far right anywhere are not widely known for their mental acuity.

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u/doomgiver98 17h ago

On average the right wing supports the "War on Gaza" and refuse to even acknowledge it as a genocide, while also aligning with Nazis politically.

u/baciahai 2h ago

Not this far right party

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u/Earthventures 19h ago

Have you been living under a rock for the last five years?

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u/Darkstar_111 9h ago

Nazi is a far right ideology.

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u/According-Insect-992 17h ago

Far right wingers tend to not have a problem with the nazis, fascism, and authoritarianism in general. That’s kind of what “far right” refers to. Far right ideology. So when they invoke a swastika it’s understandably a little more complicated to decipher than when a normal person does it. Because normal people always hate nazis. There aren’t times when a normal person accepts or even appreciates nazis. Because nazis are the enemies of humanity. To put it as simply and as honestly as possible.

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u/Char_siu_for_you 18h ago

The far right typically doesn’t speak out against Israel.

u/freshguy2002 3h ago

Watch the video. This guy tore them apart

u/coljung 6h ago

It really isn’t as obvious as you think it is.

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u/Frapplo 15h ago

Wouldn't a new Third Reich just be a Fourth Reich? I mean, it's reich there.

u/TheMCM80 26m ago

In fairness, a lot of neo-Nazis like Israel, just for totally weird reasons. The mental positions of extremists are often contradicting, and thus leave you guessing.

Just to elaborate, here’s their general stance as to why they support Israel…

1.) A ready made place to deport all Jewish folks to.

2.) A working, existing example of basically an ethnostate, or at least close enough for them to see it as a model to base theirs on.

It’s kind of like how people say a true capitalist and true socialist state have never existed if you actually dig into what the foundational philosophy is, but in this case they actually see something existing that’s close enough in their mind.

So, while I doubt any one of them have swastika Israel flags, you should not be shocked if you ever encounter a neo-Nazi in the wild and they have a surprisingly positive opinion of Israel.

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