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An Anonymous DC National Guardsman Tells All - “This is not what I signed up to do.”
(washingtonian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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And yet, you're still doing it.
As they say: historians have a word for Germans who supported the Nazis because they liked their economic policies, or were afraid of Communists, or they wanted power, or they wanted the business, or any of a hundred other reasons. That word is Nazi. Historians don't care what their reasons are.
It works really great when you draw a circle around everyone not in your tiny camp of Tacolovers/white supremacists and declare them to be "Communists" as so many of the conservatives do.
I'm sure they did much the same in Hitler's Germany, too. Everyone that didn't adore him were probably called socialists, trade unionists, and Communists.
"I voted for Mr. Hitler because he'd be good for the economy. I didn't go in for all that Jew-killing stuff. You can't blame that on me." --German Citizen, 1946
Hitler wasn't elected, unlike Trump. People voted for the Nazi party, and Hitler was appointed.
Americunts literally elected a convicted felon, rapist, pedophile. So, yeah...
"it" in this case being standing around and picking up trash
Don’t bring logic to these people, it’s an absolute waste of time
Equating the national guard to "nazis" shows how little you know about either.
The National Guard are not Nazis... but they can be.
Our Gestapo are a different story
Ignoring what appears to be history repeating might be as ignorant.
Yeah for real what a dubass for calling people who help nazis nazis. Smh my head