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Elon Musk slammed for joke tweet with image of Nazi soldier
Arutz Sheva ^ | 8/11/22

Posted on 11/08/2022 7:51:37 AM PST by Eleutheria5

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To: Izzatso; Worldtraveler once upon a time
I'd appreciate a source for that, thanks.

I was mistaken about Shirer. It's Von Kuehnelt Leddihn.

From page 162, "Leftism Revisited"

"Not by accident was the Nazi flag the red banner. In early 1933 many Nazi flags were only adapted communist and socialist flags--the center cut out and replaced by a white cloth or covered by a sewn-on "mirror" (when it rained, the red shone through).


41 posted on 11/08/2022 1:34:57 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: x

The second image doesn’t show up for me. Who is it supposed to be?


42 posted on 11/08/2022 1:36:10 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Thanks. Absent any additional sources I'm skeptical of that historian's claim, based on the fact Hitler himself wrote in 1925's Mein Kampf about having designed the Nazi flag.
43 posted on 11/08/2022 1:48:21 PM PST by Izzatso
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To: Izzatso
He was regarded as a serious man by William F. Buckley who wrote the preface in that particular book.

Look him up. He's got some pretty serious background.

44 posted on 11/08/2022 1:51:39 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Izzatso

My high school had an old yearbook predating Hitler. It has a large reverse swastika on the cover. Apparently, this was a Cherokee symbol. There were many Cherokee in the area.


45 posted on 11/08/2022 1:52:32 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DiogenesLamp

His background may be “serious” as you say, but then again there’s the fact Hitler wrote very specifically, in 1925, about having designed the Nazi flag with the red background, white circle and black swastika.


46 posted on 11/08/2022 1:57:21 PM PST by Izzatso
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To: Eleutheria5

Musk was implying that Twitter’s censorship policies were Nazi, but no longer now that he is at the wheel.

From the article -

“Getty Images lists the photo in its archives, describing it as “a German Wehrmacht soldier part of the unified Nazi armed forces — carrying messenger pigeons on the Western front during the German invasion of France, known as the Battle of France, in WWII, circa May 1940,” according to the New York Post.”


47 posted on 11/08/2022 2:27:01 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: 17th Miss Regt

So it’s a pre
-1939 photo then? In other words WW1.


48 posted on 11/08/2022 5:10:58 PM PST by toddausauras ( Free Speech or death)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Guy in a British comedy show, Mitchell and Webb. Do a search for “Are we the baddies?”


49 posted on 11/08/2022 5:13:00 PM PST by x
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To: DiogenesLamp; Izzatso
Thank you for citing the source. When we were legal residents in Germany, I read a number of the early Goebbels' tracts, as well as other documents of the era kept in university libraries. Weasel words abound. But in answering your post, I happened to come across this quote for English speakers, which amazingly still remains on Wikipedia, under the heading "Joseph Goebbels."

"After reading Hitler's book Mein Kampf, Goebbels found himself agreeing with Hitler's assertion of a 'Jewish doctrine of Marxism';.[47] In February 1926, Goebbels gave a speech titled "Lenin or Hitler?" in which he asserted that communism or Marxism could not save the German people, but he believed it would cause a "socialist nationalist state" to arise in Russia.[48] In 1926, Goebbels published a pamphlet titled Nazi-Sozi which attempted to explain how National Socialism differed from Marxism."

As the American and postmodern European Left pretend there is an "extremist right wing," based on an utterly failed model, the simple fact is that Nazism was a kind of corporatism like Italian Fascism, a Marxism without Marx, or as Hitler would argue, an Aryan Socialism. Today's socialists can only lie and clutter with terms the salient fact that ALL the twentieth centuries Left -- National Socialism, Soviet Socialism, Sino-socialism of the CCP, and the many minor governments of the same ilk are OF THE LEFT.

50 posted on 11/10/2022 2:59:00 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
Thank you for citing the source.

Well you are welcome. I think the detail is important, and i've remembered it for several decades because I think it is so important.

As the American and postmodern European Left pretend there is an "extremist right wing," based on an utterly failed model, the simple fact is that Nazism was a kind of corporatism like Italian Fascism, a Marxism without Marx, or as Hitler would argue, an Aryan Socialism.

And this is the direction it feels as if the country is going. There is way too much interaction between government and corporations.

American government policy from the 1790s had two views during that era. There was the Jeffersonian view that government should pretty much leave everyone alone, and the Hamiltonian view that government should set policy that aids industry.

Just this morning I was thinking to myself that this "mercantilism", which is what they called it in the 19th century, would seemingly evolve into fascism as government and industry became closer together in doing favors for each other.

This looks like where we are headed.

Today's socialists can only lie and clutter with terms the salient fact that ALL the twentieth centuries Left -- National Socialism, Soviet Socialism, Sino-socialism of the CCP, and the many minor governments of the same ilk are OF THE LEFT.

Exactly the point Erik von Kuenhelt Lehddin makes in his book. He really goes deep into the history of leftism movements. I highly recommend it.

51 posted on 11/15/2022 12:39:28 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Thanks. I made a point of reading through quite a lot of the materials, plural, since so much is also posted to Mises....

It would seem that the average Joe -- and Jean and Juan and Ioan, ect. -- will in time be so attacked by their own governments as to attack back. Tick tock....

52 posted on 11/19/2022 1:04:01 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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