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Norrrm

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1. It's soooooooooo confusing. Socialists?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2026, 08:49 PM

5 hrs ago

Republicans say they hate socialism, but they love Nazis.

The Nazi Party was officially named the National Socialist German Workers' Party (in German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or NSDAP).

"Workers" sounds so union and so communist.

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For the Epsteinth time: [View all] applegrove 9 hrs ago OP

It's soooooooooo confusing. Socialists? Norrrm 5 hrs ago #1

Nazis were never socialist. Blue Full Moon 3 hrs ago #2

Yep! Meanings are meaningless. It's the word itself that can be used in propaganda. LOUDLY! Norrrm 2 hrs ago #4

It doesn't matter. Morbius 3 hrs ago #3

Like the fact republicans brought over literal nazis Blue Full Moon 2 hrs ago #5