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Mivey

Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,827
She should have gotten rid of that mustache way earlier. Not a good look.
 

iksenpets

Member
Oct 26, 2017
6,499
Dallas, TX
I don't think even in the right-wing fever swamps have I heard the accusation that Merkel is a secret Nazi. Usually the right-wing line is that she's one of the dreaded globalists. This just sounds like someone using Nazi as a generic slur against Germans they don't like.
 

tuxfool

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,858
"Nazis are actually from the left, it's in their name 'National Socialists'" is an old chestnut that is starting to grow in popularity again to disassociate some modern conservative movements with fascism. Since Merkel is seen as the de facto head of the European Union she is a convenient target to be labeled as a 'real nazi' and blamed for everything from subverting western democracy to allowing 'ethnic displacement' through her refugee policies.
Merkel is the leader of a center right party
 

JORMBO

User requested ban
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
458
You randomly walked by 3 different people casually talking about Merkel in the past week?
 
Oct 27, 2017
2,853
Orlando, FL
She isn't a Nazi at all. That's ridiculous.
That said, I hope the new migrants to Germany are educated about the dangers of anti-Jewish hatred and the horrific results.
 

johancruijff

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,232
Italy
But i thought the jews ruled everything?

Joking aside, is due to the prominent role of Germany in the EU

Now the jump from that and the fourth reich is the usual bullshit
 

L Thammy

Spacenoid
Member
Oct 25, 2017
50,046
I think it's the same they know that if you focus on reforming criminals instead of punishing them as much as possible they'll just become criminals again, like how if you take away the guns the bad guys with guns will take over, and if you give an inch on free speech you become a police state.
 

Dyno

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
13,323
Conservatives and projection are like flies to shit. Can't keep an apart. It's tough being in the UK where we literally openly accept their shit at large despite knowing they're lying to our faces.
 

hurroocane

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,869
Germany
I've heard the Fourth Reich thing a couple of times over here in Europe. It's usually from people who don't really know a lot about the European Union, how the EU works, what the EU does but are somehow convinced that the EU is just Germany's long-con masterplan to overthrow the continent.
 

Chrome

Member
Oct 25, 2017
378
From what I've seen, the CDU seems like a rough equivalent to the Democrats here in the US. For some reason people here think Obama = socialist and socialist = national socialist, therefore Obama is a Nazi. So maybe that's the connection?
 

Lord Hypnos

Member
Oct 31, 2017
1,110
UK
The CDU are a centre-right party as far as I know but they probably seem like a bunch of loony lefties to certain American conservatives.

The Nazi thing is probably being thrown around by ignorant people because they've heard how powerful Germany is becoming and Merkel being so prominent makes for an easy target. It's sad how often 'Nazi' is thrown about when it comes to Germany and its people, you hear it all the time from morons here in the UK.
 

Zukuu

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Oct 30, 2017
6,809
As a German, I can't tell you how often you get called Nazi once they find out you are German. It's like "Germans = Nazi trololol". Such an original thought. So yeah, Merkel being the head of Germany makes her obviously a Nazi. Coupled with the "Europe is Germany's bitch"-agenda that gets thrown around, and you can easily see where the rhetoric comes from.
 

AussieCedric

Member
Oct 25, 2017
188
People who don't live in Europe or have any connection to Europe and make big rash statements about how evil Angela Merkel is tend to be drinking from the 4chan/InfoWars/alt right toilet