As the control of the Senate hangs in the balance, GOP candidates across the country are facing a similar problem: Troubling and bizarre past statements, both in-person and on social media, are coming back to haunt them. But in Minnesota, Royce White is an even more extreme case.
  • Myxomatosis@lemmy.world
    232·
    3 months ago

    “The bad guys won in WWII. There were no ‘good guys’ in that war. The controlling interests had a jump ball. If you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the Allied forces.”

    Just another demented MAGA turd trying to sound intelligent. All the buzzwords are there to keep the base frothing at the mouth: liberal, controlling interest/deep state, bad, communism.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      811·
      3 months ago

      “both sides” too

      E.g.:

      Being genocidal racist fascists

      Or…

      Wanting affordable healthcare for all Americans and therefore being “communist”

      How does one choose between such evils?

      • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
        35·
        3 months ago

        It’s a fucking Nazi coward afraid to speak their true feelings. They say both sides, pretending they feel both were bad, but you can see their real opinion.

    • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
      191·
      3 months ago

      If you look closely

      Holy fuck that is funny. As though an analysis of factual information were even in the realm of speculative potential for the republican brain.

      He’s clever. It’s a great joke.

      • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        perhaps it takes them great mental investiture to see the link between the soviet union and communism

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          I know I struggle to see the link between the Soviet Union and communism, but I suppose that’s what I get for getting my definitions of words from the dictionary.

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
        837·
        3 months ago

        he thought the nazi’s were the good guys

        Quote him: “There were no ‘good guys’ in that war.”

        It isn’t enough to criticize him for not considering the Allies the good guys, but you just have to go that one step further and claim that he believes something that is directly contradicted by what he wrote?

        It’s like people are afraid of encountering someone who is less than 100% wrong/bad/evil, and refuse to believe there is anyone between ‘saint’ and ‘demon’. Must be exhausting living with such a starkly binary outlook.

        • ABCDE@lemmy.world
          181·
          3 months ago

          not considering the Allies the good guys

          He thinks they were the bad guys.

        • mhague@lemmy.world
          41·
          3 months ago

          Sounds like you are describing a video game. The whole “if they say X it means X because those are the rules of the language.” I mean.

          • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
            12·
            2 months ago

            Or… he said “there were no good guys”, so claiming that he’s saying Nazis were the good guys is really, really stupid.

            “I think all vegetables are disgusting.”
            “He’s saying celery is delicious, guys.”

            Dopes.

            • mhague@lemmy.world
              21·
              2 months ago

              On paper it sounds funny, doesn’t it? How can a guy randomly saying everyone was bad in WW2 mean he secretly thinks Nazis were alright?

              Easiest way to get at the logic is to dissect people who say “both sides are the same.” How can that mean they’re actually pro MAGA or whatever? Didn’t they just say that both sides are the same? That’s against the rules of English! But it makes sense if you dig deeper.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    98·
    3 months ago

    Good old GOP, still sending their best.

    In one specific interaction from Monday, White told a potential voter to “pull their skirt down” and that “nobody cares about your preferences,” to which the voter replied “f— you then! You just lost my families support.”

  • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
    381·
    3 months ago

    Oh yeah, Hitler loved mixed race citizens 😆🤣👍

    This dude’s relatives would have been gassed and cremated or introduced into a life of indentured servitude had his revisionist fantasy come to fruition.

    Dude thinks because his last name is “White” that he is white.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    37·
    3 months ago

    Is this the same guy who flipped out about the word “weird” with tons of posts about trans people like a demented moron? Looks similar.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    14·
    3 months ago

    Is there some sort of training which teaches you how to be a grifter?

    Because this 2024 class is full of people imitating Uncle Ruckuses.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    we need a time machine if for no other reason than to send dumbasses like that back to experience reality for themselves

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    Not even worth putting the time into writing why his opinion is based on imagined idiocy and not historic fact thinking the liberals and communists were aligned after WW2 at the start of the cold war and the Warsaw pact and NATO squaring off or Patton was assassinated, just a grand display of the best and brightest moron Minnesota conservatives have to offer.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      But we have a pretty decent education system in MN. Maybe not the best, but far from the worst.