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Holder9000
Dr Seuss! Always relevant.
daliamonra
This should NEVER have become relevant again in American history. I am disgusted with so many aspects of my country right now.
ICannotSanctionYourBuffoonery
"America First"s long history in the American Pro Nazi party baffled me the entire 2016+ Trump insanity. How TF were people not recognizing?
BlackAshesDawn
time...le hitlerus one testiculus...man of the year...yay...
Sturmeltier
I am a German living in the US since two years (I'll leave again, no worries). I was and am shocked by how nationalistic the US actually is.
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AlwaysUpvoteBeerCigarsWhisky
Nothing.
420supercoolusername69
Comment was deleted. What did it say?
AlwaysUpvoteBeerCigarsWhisky
Everyone should post this as profile pic on social media and see what happens...
TheGriffin
The US used anti communism to rehabilitate Nazis and did its best to make sure war crimes tribunals didn't happen, even in the UK
Humanzee2
Never stopped. Still supporting dictators against unions & democracy.
TheGriffin
Kinda their modus operandi
ErniesWidow
Wow. I knew it was Dr. Seuss even before seeing his name in the bottom left.
Walksie
What? It says it in the title!
ErniesWidow
I saw the figures drawn before looking at the title. What I am trying to convey is that his drawings are pretty distinctive.
Zixtank
Dr. Seuss did not give any fucks at all.
NVGoddesscottage
We taught him eugenics. He rounded up disabled in little black buses & needed a quicker way to kill them: gas showers. Disabled rights save
BellsTheorem
Still relevant.
WoodHandle
Prescient.
skapanda616
Still relevant.
Markamanic
Nationalism leads to bad things.
crusadurus
Is the the original comic he made or was this comparison added onto a generic comic?
Necc0
original. dr seuss was pretty aggressive in calling out nazi sympathizers in the states
crusadurus
And yet none of this can convince a trumpist sadly.
bojim1965
GQP's real motto has, and always will be, Russia first, keep America dead last.
SidneyHarbor
Instructions unclear, I may have just declared war on Germany. I mean, it's hard to go wrong with Germany being the bad guy in history.
imouttahere87
Umm who do you thing created Osama Bin Laden..... the us
Bizarkly
Classic burn!
thatsmyfetish69
Dr. Seuss DOES NOT APPROVE
SupplyinTheFlyin
I say America last. Let the rise of the new communist country we’re building be first!
Bizarkly
Go read 'The Gulag Archipelago' -- and then come back here and say that. *You won't.*
MrNecrophile
I do believe that they're being facetious and sarcastic, my friend.
Bizarkly
OK -- that's a reasonable interpretation.
DarkSock
FattyLumpkin3
Anglo-Saxon political tradition? So what, fucking feudalism? Gonna start working the fields on a manor for my liege lord?
DarkSock
*skittering keyboard sequencer* “? Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals; I get my back into my living...?”
ctriis87
"What if we merged medieval British monarchy with Nazi fascism?"
TheAngryMarineBiologist
Isn't that basically what the traitors were trying to do on January 6th
Valaar
Some have already tried, a few decades away
KevlarKobra
I'm starting to think she might be racist. Also have you guys heard anything about water being wet?
IndianaJawns
I haven’t but she was quite descriptive about Jewish space lasers.
Longbowgun
Water is not wet. But, she's DEFINITELY a racist.
SleeperXib
"America first! Like medieval Europeans intended!" Do these people ever think to at least make their bs make sense?
SleeperXib
You could at least pretend it wasn't about race if you claimed to be for reviving post American revolution culture/values.
activeracer28
I shared this cartoon to my conservative friends when they were crying about Suess being "canceled".
onecowboytoo
I didn't know Syfy or Fox had a Dr. Suess TV show.
thevortexmaster
Shoulda shared this one
skrimg59
wow
Sebaspwn
Why? Then they'd like him more!
toxcrusadr
Jeebus.
lozeldatkm
Jeez... if that's the book people are raising a fuss about, I completely understand now.
RoscoePSoultrain
It's not one of the ones that was "cancelled" but earlier work of his, which he later disavowed.
onepinksheep
Now why would that bother a conservative, I mean, white supremacist?
thevortexmaster
Well half my family is conservative but they're definitely not racist, or religious, or any of that kind of stuff.
imgonnahurtu
They're racist. All modern conservative platforms are built on racism. It's just that they (until recently) are built to shield that truth.
thevortexmaster
Dear lord. My conservative uncle married a black woman and their kid has downs. You may be thinking American conservatives
iTakeQuotesOutOfContext
So... what are they conservative about? Giving money to rich people? Protecting mass murderers? What do they stand for?
Mokelzwerg
Oh come on...
thevortexmaster
They're Canadian conservatives. Believe in only money and the economy thrives no matter what. No handouts
ostater
“America First”... now where have I heard that recently?
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fiftydollarbill
Yikes
iTakeQuotesOutOfContext
Hey 12 dipshits remember their own dipshittery enough to downvote you
JoeT85
"America First" never should have meant "Fuck everyone else". Every other country on Earth put themselves first, so should we but >>>
JoeT85
stupid bumblefucks have managed to co-opt it to mean it's ok to be a Nazi. Nazi = bad.
Vietnamiks
We're also lucky enough to have Britain First. Fighting for our great British values which seems to just mean hating brown people
iwanttobebobdylan
And stealing their resources
DarwinGreen5
As an indigenous dude, these people can eat-shit and die.
HockeyGuy1985
Funny, what is being said here given the context of the time is completely different than how you think you are tying it into modern events.
iTakeQuotesOutOfContext
Haha what the actual fuck. It’s the same shit! Close the borders, control voting, trade wars, blame the immigrants... read a book!
HockeyGuy1985
Amazing how little people know about that time period. Woosh right over your head.
iTakeQuotesOutOfContext
Yeah you’re the smartest guy in the room. We peasants couldn’t possibly be on your level.
newsguycraigevans
+1 for paying attention
ShotgunPauley
Where have I heard socialism before? Oh yeah, national socialism. Whose platform was that? These are fake grievances that both sides play.
captainikag
Hitler killed socialists.
newsguycraigevans
The above is an example of the damage right wing propaganda does to your brain
VitaminBeaPositive
Socialism is indeed a scary word if you're an idiot.
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
You do know that Nazi Germany wasn’t actually socialist right? It was just in the name of the party?
mikeymikec
We run a democracy? Like the Deutsche Demokratische Republik? So we're communists? /s
iTakeQuotesOutOfContext
This intentionally dumb duck doesn’t care about the actual truth
zxwaffen
Hold up, next you'll be saying that North Korea isn't a democracy and that just will not stand.
PballQhead
MrJimmyRustles
iTakeQuotesOutOfContext
Uh... no one said anything about socialism? And it has nothing to do with nationalism? Wtf are you smoking, my guy?
ButteredNoodleDriver
Not sure but I really feel like part of that would include making it... Hmm... Grumpy again? Something like that
Rkfinecake
Wait I thought Dr. Suess was bad.
PandAnomoly
He was, then he got good.
Wolvenlight
Semi related note: I find it ironic that people think liberals are bad because some conservatives lied about liberals hating Dr. Seuss.
Rkfinecake
So you speak for all of them?
Wolvenlight
Do you?
Rkfinecake
Umm... no...
Wolvenlight
Same.
lvn0
Let’s changed “america first” to republicans ... and then change “nazis” to Russia ... same difference
updootyourpootsnoot
While Seus was very critical of America's lack of involvement in WWII, he was fairly racist especially against Asians
SidneyHarbor
FDR's Executive Order 9066 was probably one of the most damaging EOs to ever be enacted. They highlight the danger of Executive Orders.
kojenk
He's one of the few who went out and checked it out for himself, got over his prejudices and made up for it
DisgruntledFerret
Yeah. He had the good sense to be ashamed of that later in life, though. He grew as a person.
dreamwriter45455772
Pearl Harbor was in the headlines at that time. It was kind of a big thing.
TheGriffin
So much racism in the pacific theatre. From both sides. But yeah the Americans were horrendously bad
SooperStanky
You need to read. Start with “The Rape of Nanking”. Beheading competitions. Women raped to death. Japan murdered on a Holocaust level scale
TheGriffin
Worse than that even. Unit 731 committed war crimes beyond that of Nazi Germany. They were spared war crimes trials because the 1/>
TheGriffin
2/> information gained through their actions was the basis for a lot of western medical texts. Japanese saw the Americans as decadent 2/>
TheGriffin
3/> weak. Americans saw the Japanese as, well, words I'm not going to use
Rangerbobby
Looking back on the US/ Hitler relationship is embarrassing due to the fact that early in his political career he was highly regarded
SamuthNBS
The US didn't go to war to fight Nazism, it went to war to defeat the axis powers. The public didn't know how evil they were until the end
Vampireteabags
i mean there are alot of Americans that are still on that bandwagon 100 years later
ILikeQuiteHeavyMetal
Definitely the first and last time in history huh
gunshowzero
-Marjorie Taylor Greene has entered the chat-
ILikeQuiteHeavyMetal
I read what's she's up to now.. all I can say is fuuuuuucccckkkkkk
PropainAndPropainAccesories
Almost like he was the American embodiment of hated and racism and we would’ve probably supported him if Japan didn’t Sucker Japan us.
activeracer28
Funny how history is repeating itself huh?
Insomnia297
The hatred of Nazis didn't really start until the US joined the war and starting putting out tons of anti-Nazi propaganda. Before that, (1)
Insomnia297
Nazis were very popular in some groups. There were even rallies. It's disgusting how little has been learned since then. (2)
Wookieoo7
Until the Japanese attacked the Americans and forced their hand they were fence sitters and supplying both sides
PedestrianElectrobastard
I mean, speaking practically, the reason you hate nazis so much is also propaganda. Plenty of other despotic regimes you feel nothing about.
ICantThinkOfAU
Even then, we always say “America joined the war”. And while yeah it did... Was Hitler that declared war on the US, not the other way 1/2
ICantThinkOfAU
around. While the US may have eventually declared war on Nazis by itself anyway? That’s not what happened. Nazi’s declared it first 2/2
DukeDarkwood
Made lots of promises that Germany would again be one of the great European powers. Told the masses things they wanted to hear. Classic
DukeDarkwood
example of a demagogue. And once he got in power, his ways of elevating Germany involved a lot of de-elevating anyone else. I feel there's
DukeDarkwood
a lesson to be taken from this. We shouldn't listen to demagogues.
TheGriffin
Nazis in America were allowed to quietly fade into the background while Japanese were thrown in camps
TheManInABlackSuit
The Japanese American internment was popular with white farmers who saw it as a way of eliminating competition.
AnonKneeMoose
Nazis were a subset of European culture they didn’t “complicate” the narrow worldview the USA still has 1/2
AnonKneeMoose
Meanwhile gays, blacks, asians and anyone superficially different puts terror in even the least xenophobic politician in the US Senate 2/2
sithrakhatesyouequally
The US needed a lot of war propaganda because most folks we're like: no, that white german guy is pretty aaaight!
namAehT
I mean ignoring the Holocaust and World War II, he did great for the German economy. Wait....
JacquesThree
The progressive, right thinking opinion of the day was that Germany had been badly treated at Versailles and people who wanted to rearm
JacquesThree
were warmongers.
Printerman
The US allied with the largest colonial empire in human history, and the deadliest regime in human history to fight the Nazis 1/2
Printerman
... war is only business, never moral
AreYouABadPerson
Christ, shut up pizza cutter.
jjsjosCreator
don't forget all the nazi war criminals brought back with operation paperclip for nasa and the cia
stinkbeaner
You're being downvoted by the CIA
kantaloupe
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/984/ Relevant song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
VinchVolt
Well the USSR also had their share of Nazi scientists, though granted the US were the ones always harping about “freedom” while doing it.
VinchVolt
Really the Cold War showed just how fucked people in power are and what they’ll do to both retain power and stroke their own egos.
realargonwolf
Nazi, yes. But I sincerely doubt they were grabbing up executioners and concentration camp guards to work on rockets.
jjsjosCreator
no but scientists who worked in diseases , genetics , weapons and missiles as well as enhanced interrogation. the files are public now
Agwyn
And he learned eugenics from us. Go america?
IraqiWalker
Thing is, even the Nazis thought the U.S. treatment of African Americans was too harsh, when they wanted to create their own for Jews.
NakedGalaxy
I remember at university it seemed like every other time a U.S. scientist from that era was mentioned for something a prof would tell us
NakedGalaxy
that particular scientist was a believer in eugenics. It was very popular here at the time.
notme222
Indeed. And it was often coupled with other issues that people here will get very mad at me if I name. Suffice to say, societal planning.
CommanderShitFace
The us has a deeply rooted and storied pas of racism that unfortunately gets much longer every day.
DeathPlacebo
It's an appealing goal achieved only by reprehensible means and regarded highly only by those who believe they would be deemed desirable.
FantabulousMan
When in reality 99.99% repeating of the people who believe in eugenics would be banned from reproducing and culled of it was implemented.
ThePastmaster
Pretty sure Sweden did that.
DeathPlacebo
Please elaborate. This is something I am unaware of.
PedestrianElectrobastard
We had a bunch of forced sterilization of undesirables going on in the early 1900s. They never mention that in school.
ThePastmaster
Early 1900's? It was between 1950 and 1970. Mandatory sterilizations for some stuff like gender reassignment didn't end until 2012-ish.
ThePastmaster
Sweden founded the worlds first institute dedicated to eugenics in the 20's IIRC and Hitler loved it. It was the model for more world over.
CliffWestern
I'm a little skeptical on the claim it was the first. Kellogg had his institute way before the 20's and he was hardly the first eugenicist.
ithadtobesaidapparently
The idea of eugenics has been around since before the word race was invented in the 18th century.
ithadtobesaidapparently
Ps: I recommend “kill all the brutes” that was just released on Netflix!
VinchVolt
Nazi Germany was also considered a valuable market pre-WWII, to the extent where mocking fascism in media was looked down upon in the US.
VinchVolt
It’s a fact that’s as chilling as it is sobering.
STGxDante
Someone had a great post on here showing how big the nazi movement was in The u.s.. it looked indistinguishable from Germany. Scary shit.
FelixG
Yet the media still does it today, look how many go after china for their genocide. Instead they pander and try to keep in good graces.
RampantWolf
Like China today.