This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. The posts look like memes, utilizing dramatic AI-generated art, general patriotic slogans, and cinematic language about “defending the homeland” and shaping America’s future.

But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.

Many of these phrases, images, and attached media aren’t just regular social media content. They repurpose language, symbolism, and cultural references with direct connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements. It’s content that experts say is instantly recognizable to those who are in the white supremacist know, but can be largely invisible to everyone else.

There has been not one, but two posts from our government institutions that reuse a phrase ripped straight from William Gayley Simpson’s book Which Way Western Man?. It was published and promoted by the National Alliance—considered one of the “best organized” neo-Nazi groups in the United States. The book is antisemitic, racist, and explicitly states that Adolf Hitler was right.

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    9 days ago

    Achieves goals is apparently also equated with military objectives…? So countries like mine that has had a century of peace is dysfunctional?

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      I would say you must be a bot. But a bot has better logic processing then you are displaying. Google p -> q != q -> p, or ven diagrams. Because goals include one thing, does not mean it can’t include another that is the opposite morally.

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        Yes but I am not the one making the claim? Why do you say then that a nazi government is cool and good and war is hard so nazis are so cool that can war a lot? It’s an idiotic standpoint, they sucked at both war and occupation and plain old regular being human even.

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          It would be idiotic to say “that a nazi government is cool and good”. Which is why I never said that. You are projecting what you want me to say so that you can argue about it. The only word I used was functional. It has no moral good or bad. It’s just a fact. Like something is the color green. My claim was that there is significant overlap in the tactics used by all functioning governments good or bad including the nazi government. So simply saying that the current US gov is using similar tactics isn’t much of a suprise, nor insult. We should focus on what they are trying to achieve with those tactics. That is where the true evil is. Same as the nazis. They used those tactics to kill people that didn’t look like them, among other evils. If you are done trying to put words in my mouth, you might see we are on the same side. I just dig deeper.

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            20 hours ago

            You don’t hear us

            They were not functional

            They were malfunctional

            They failed at their function

            They were not overlapping with function

            They were poor at the ability to function

            The “tactics” were unsuccessful at what it tried to achieve

            They were not good morally, and by all metrics, even “looking past” the Evil systematic slaughter, they were not functional or successful. They used cocaine and war chest materials, propaganda and drained the soul of the people to try to seems functional, absolutely, but in reality they failed at that

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              You really need to look up the word functional. And you probably need to learn what thier goals were. They didn’t have just one. They had a lot. And they achieved a very high percentage. As they did so, they kept adding goals. Some they achieved some they didn’t.
              They also managed to kill between 11 and 17 million non-combatants. That is a huge and evil undertaking. Surely not everyone in their country agreed. So they had to overcome that. And there was significant resistance efforts in just about every place they invaded. They held many of those places for years… years. But somehow they weren’t functional? Do you have any actual logical arguments? Or just false sweeping statements with no evidence or even justification.