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Joshua Holland
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Burned out political writer and podcast/radio talker. I was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and The Nation and a staff writer for Bill Moyers, among others. Scuba diver and dog guy. weve-got-issues.simplecast.com/
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I don't know who to credit for this but it's perfect

Satirical Politifact twoot giving a "mostly false" rating:

"FDR claims that Hitler intends to invade Poland, but the Fuhrer has said repeatedly that Germany will march no further than the Rhineland. Hitler's position is that Germans need breathing room, and that he will not engage in wars of conquest while rebuilding Germany."
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JMjeremymathews.bsky.social

I believe @torriangray.bsky.social posted it unless he was re-sharing.

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Rriwoche.bsky.social

Would love for Politifact to fact check the allegations in this song by Reagan Youth :

Jesus Was a Communist
Jesus Was a Communist

YouTube video by Reagan Youth - Topic

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AVadamvann.bsky.social

If we're honest with ourselves we'll realize that this fact check nonsense is exactly the new material the internet needed. Couch jokes are forever but we needed to mix it up

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MSmstrohb.bsky.social

These folks see a republican with a bazooka and a democrat with a slingshot, and then talk about both being equally dangerous...

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Bhoopbears.bsky.social

😂😂 Those poor German just need some breathing room!

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MLmlamb.bsky.social

Chef’s kiss.

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Iindorfin.bsky.social

This is much less ridiculous than how the New York Times actually covered Hitler. Here they are basically mocking jews who saw what was happening for taking it seriously.

He is credibly credited with being actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism. He probably does not know himself just what he wants to accomplish. The keynote of his propaganda in speaking and writing is violent anti-Semitism. His followers are nicknamed the “Hakenkreuzler.” So violent are Hitler’s fulminations against the Jews that a number of prominent Jewish citizens are reported to have sought safe asylums in the Bavarian highlands, easily reached by fast motor cars, whence they could hurry their women and children when forewarned of an anti-Semitic St. Bartholomew’s night.
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.
A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: “You can’t expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them.”
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LMlostmike.bsky.social

I first saw it from @torriangray.bsky.social :

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MPzanzibarspices.bsky.social

Really good point here, fact-checking isn’t as objective as you might think, but also I worry too many jokes like these just bolster the “fuck it, there is no truth” attitude which ultimately helps the right

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Joshua Holland
@joshuaholland.bsky.social
Burned out political writer and podcast/radio talker. I was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and The Nation and a staff writer for Bill Moyers, among others. Scuba diver and dog guy. weve-got-issues.simplecast.com/
4.7k followers537 following3.2k posts