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NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.


I'd love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

wow.. this is unbelievable to everyone who has never seen or heard a republican before.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And instead of disavowing these scumbags, JD Vance is saying it's not a big deal.

Just more "locker room" talk from the fascists.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does that mean we can make Charlie Kirk jokes?

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There was never any reason to stop. The GOP shot him too.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 2 days ago

Just like how it’s “locker room” talk about committing sexual assault.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No one has been subjected to more vicious rhetoric and violence than President Trump and his supporters

Whiny fascists gonna whine

as always, facists and nazis are little bitch boys.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

NYS Assembly benefits administrator here. I can't wait to process the termination paperwork for Peter Giunta. It will be the highlight of my work week. Edit: I got to process the paperwork today!

Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

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[–] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 days ago (17 children)

It’s amazing to me that there are genuinely this many white nationalists/nazis irl. I honestly had no clue people were this awful and prevalent.

I’ve never seen people more openly willing to hate other humans based on race, gender or sex.

Why do we get to exist as a species if we are this toxic to ourselves?

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

Remember: at the national level at least, democrats (at least the liberals) are foaming at the mouth to work across the aisle with these people and pass legislation that "every" american, including these shitstains of humanity, will agree on.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

“Character assassination” 🙄🙄🙄Please - Nazis gonna nazi.

[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Anyone surprised? Yah me either.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Both sides, right?

These are Charlie Kirk's people.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I’d love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.

100%. These assholes have been trained to gaslight and trot out nonsense about Robert Byrd being in the Klan like 100 years ago, or that Democrats were the real racists because of shit that happened before the 1960s, and completely ignoring (or lying about) things like the Southern Strategy and how the parties completely re-aligned since the Civil Rights era.

Thing is, I'm a white guy and I know how these motherfuckers talk when they think they are in a safe space. I grew up in an area that was overwhelmingly Republican, deeply racist and nearly 100% white.

They ain't fooling me, I can tell you that much. This ain't my first rodeo, I've heard all this shit before, and I've seen these mofos in action online since the BBS days, and shortly after that, the USENET days. I don't care what kind of rhetoric they try to dress their "movement" up with and it doesn't matter what protocol or platform they are on....their methods and tactics like employing the Gish Gallop should not fool anyone, either.

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thing is, I’m a white guy and I know how these motherfuckers talk when they think they are in a safe space.

Same! I have the added pleasure of being a big, bearded, "straight-passing" gay man. I get to have really fun moments were the Republicans around me say despicable things about gays, I tell them I'm actually gay, then they trip all over themselves to explain how they're actually totally cool with the gays. I call them out for being racist when that happens too. Making them uncomfortable by calmly shining light on their own words is one of my favorite group activities.

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[–] sbbq@lemmy.zip 189 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes, pretty much the type you'd expect to be a young Republican.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Bet you they all have amazing parents too

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago

And some idiot in one discussion still tries to convince me there is a difference between Republicans and Nazis..

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 150 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (19 children)

I used to be an internet edgelord, until I recognized that it doesn't matter if you aren't actually a bigot when you act like one online. The impact is the same, it makes the real ones feel more comfortable in their views.

I also came to this realization around age 16, and it sounds like these guys are in college...

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 76 points 3 days ago

Up to age 40, not just college-age

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 160 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty much defines Republicanism today. Way too many people in denial about how extreme they've gotten.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (3 children)

🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Organize the workers and prepare

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

People need to go play Mike Tyson knockout with these people. Even the women. Nazi’s should be walking scared. Give them no peace.

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.social 76 points 3 days ago (35 children)

There will probably be no consequences anyways.

Absolutely fucking wild.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

No. They did not worry. You think they weren't ready for this?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (7 children)

As if to put an even finer point on it. I just watched blackkklansman today and they really hammered home that that bullshit is not in the past, it is the present reality we live in. Opening lemmy to see the exact shit the white supremacists in the movie spewed is almost poetic in a fucked up way.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you really love him you should go out just like he did.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Indeed. If you're a fan of Hitler, follow his example and take yourself out. Save the rest of us the bullet.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr,” he wrote.

Get cooked, fuckface. nihilist racist pieces of shit

Great job on Politico's part, though.

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[–] GenuineGeniusGenie 17 points 2 days ago

I am shocked I tell you.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

…to the surprise of absolutely no one.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 days ago

Future leaders of the party, screeching xbox kids that fucked your mom and discord racists. Wonderful. Love that for the US.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wow, read this whole article.

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The Hitler Youth is back, although they never really left.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What is so goddamned infuriating is how the RW assholes like Tucker pull that Murc's Law shit - that if he finds that he "has" to vote for fascists, it is the liberals that made him do it, because they have been (rightly) pointing out what fascists the Republicans and conservatives really and truly are.

That's some serious mental gymnastics there - the fascists that keep showing their hand are going to end up fascists because the meanie smarty-pants liberals called them fascists, and that's the only reason they are fascists. Well, that, and most entertainment and universities and science and culture really are not overly friendly to the far right, and even might have - gasp - not attacked the already-marginalized. Those monsters. Yep, it's entirely the fault of the "woke" mind virus that the fascists became fascists who voted for other fascists. No other reason. Some blue-haired trans with too many face piercings stole their masculinity or something.

Even worse, the fucking Tone Police among the "centrists", the corporate/conservative mainstream media that is called the "liberal media", and not a few Democrats help them in this bullshit narrative.

[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago

Stole this description from the other post about this.

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.

They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

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