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Yes, nazi salutes can hurt you. But nazi policies can hurt you much more.

How're people more agitated by a nazi salute than by nazi policies? I don't get it.🤷🏿‍♂️

👨🏼"Well, now it's open fascism!"

Why is closed fascism any better? The same policies are happening.

Your assignment hasn't changed: Protect the most vulnerable.

@mekkaokereke Uhmm so you think the previous government was Nazis too?

@kimschulz

"So you think pancakes are waffles?"

Nowhere in my post did I even hint at the previous administration. I have literally thousands of posts criticizing the previous administration. You can go through each and every one of them and see if I called the previous administration nazis even once. My numerous criticisms of the previous administration are in no way unclear. I have been extremely, excruciatingly, specific.

This post is about people being concerned over a nazi salute.

I said what I said. Nazi salutes can't hurt you. Nazi policies can.

@mekkaokereke @kimschulz So what exactly does "the same policies" refer to if not the previous administration? Clearly you're not a clear as you think in your communication.

mekka okereke :verified:

@kimschulz

Everyone else got it except for you.

And I'm not rewriting what I wrote just for you.

If a teacher teaches a lesson, then gives a test, and all students get an A except for one student who got an F? That's very sad for that one student.

Everyone learns differently. I would agree that the way the teacher explained it might not have been clear *for that one student*. I can see how that one student might genuinely think that the best approach is for the teacher to change their whole lesson plan and teaching style, to be more clear for them as an individual.

But that's not going to happen.

@mekkaokereke @kimschulz And now you just described one of the reasons why the US school system is failing so miserable.

And, how would you really know that everyone else understood it? I mean, most dont really care or just ignores it for being an unclear rant

@kimschulz @mekkaokereke Your assumption that he was referencing the previous administration (who have been described as lots of things, but rarely - and never by OP - as being Nazis) in as opposed to the explicitly fascist and Nazi endorsing incoming one is your issue. It was *not* unclear or equivocal, and your response showed zero reflective rather than defensive thinking.

Stay in the now, have the maturity to say, “oh, I didn’t get that” and move on or block.

@Caution
I didn't assume anything. I asked a simple question if that was what he meant. It wasn't clear to me and I wanted to understand exactly what was meant. No hidden agenda, no endorsement of any administration , nothing. Just a simple question.
@mekkaokereke

@kimschulz I follow @mekkaokereke because he can communicate about American politics in a very clear way that few other people around here can match.

I recommend just listening to his feed for a while before injecting your own unrelated agenda. You might learn something.

@juergen_hubert
Thats the thing. There were no agenda beyond getting clarification. But everyone are on their guards and think there is an agenda 🤷‍♂️
@mekkaokereke