An angular eagle behind the defense secretary departed from the Pentagon’s established branding. Critics saw echoes of the Third Reich.

A reimagined “Department of War” logo displayed behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a recent speech drew immediate comparisons to Third Reich iconography.

Speaking to Air Force Academy cadets on Saturday, Hegseth stood in front of a monochrome logo for his agency that differs from the designs in the Defense Department’s official branding guide. The backdrop features a stylized eagle that critics compared to the straight-edged Reichsadler used by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

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    Nazi bullshit aside, what a horrible website. It started autoplaying a video, had consent popups, click for more, I had no idea what the article itself was vs ads vs other articles.

    (Fuck Nazis)

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    On the bright side I do not think that AI models generate Nazi speeches, so at least he wrote the Nazi speech himself.

    Wait that is not bright at all

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    Does anyone remember Die Hard 2? There is a scene in it that movie that those kind of things happening in the USA remind me. In a military truck a soldier (Corporal Telford) has his throat slit by his superior (Major Grant) while the rest of the soldiers just sit there idly. He was killed because he was not one of “them”.

    spoiler: a drastic photo from the mentioned movie scene

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    The US Government has a history of letting fascists in America get away with attempting to take over the country. They wait a few decades and then give it another shot, learning how to do it better each time.

    If we don’t put these people in prison for serious time, we will have them at it again soon and they’ll be even stronger.

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      The problem with prison is we have over 100 million of these roaches infesting our nation. We simply don’t have the room or the manpower. Plus, allowing conservatives to continue to live and breed will only result in more of them to deal with in the future.

      Conservatives have been telling us “The south will rise again!” over and over since 1865. It sounds like they are begging us to finish the civil war. Let’s do them that favor. Let’s finish Sherman’s work and bring us all some closure.

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    I’m Irish and I’ve hated the American war machine my whole life.

    I was comparing Bush to Hitler twenty years ago and calling your soldiers Nazis ever since.

    Sad to see it come this far, and with such popularity.

    The world is truly broken and there are dark, dark times on the horizon.

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      I was comparing Bush to Hitler twenty years ago and calling your soldiers Nazis ever since.

      The original German Nazis were (partially) inspired by fascist (and racist and anti-semetic) movements in the USA.

      They even visited America in the mid 1930s to gather some ideas.

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    You mean aside from the blatantly obvious Nazi uniforms for Space Force?

    And the recent Iowa repubs convention literally show hitler speeches?

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    Guys, please don’t get distracted. Don’t spend your energy on the is-it-nazi-or-not game. Focus on affordability, inflation, corruption and security. You have five weeks and you’re up against a gang of professional trolls. Don’t let them decide what gets discussed.

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      Same in the UK. “Driving through Nazi Germany today- I mean middle England…. Outside Birmingham Airport. And this is what greets people arriving in Britain. Flags everywhere, not as welcome or pride, but as intimidation. Weaponised symbolism. A message that says exclusion before it says hello. Is this how we want to present ourselves to the world? The first thing visitors see is not culture, innovation, or hospitality, but nationalism turned aggressive and hostile. Tourism, trade, investment, students, business confidence. All of it relies on Britain looking open, stable, and serious. Turning national symbols into threats does the opposite. You do not strengthen an economy by making the country look angry and closed. You do not attract growth by signalling fear of outsiders. You do not build pride by turning identity into a warning sign. This is not patriotism. It is posturing. And it makes Britain look smaller, not stronger. So do the news reports of Brits falling off ladders while the country argues about flags instead of fixing what is broken. If you want a weaker economy and a poorer future, keep choosing distraction over reality. That is the path you are on. And when the consequences arrive, I hope those flags come in handy. You may need them for tents sooner than you think. Some councils have paid £75,000 for these flags instead of helping people out on the lead up to Christmas. We should replace them all with rainbow flags in June. I do also think we should start writing refugees welcome on them with permanent markers. A national campaign. Vote Reform to be poorer! Just look at the new reform councils. If you cannot grasp what is being said here, then pause. This is not about flags. It was never about flags. It is about the people holding them. The intent behind them. The way symbols are picked up sharpened and used to hit other people with. The way patriotism gets turned into a weapon and then pointed downward. If you are still arguing about bunting while missing the cruelty, the contempt then that is the point being made. If all you see is cloth and colour and not who is being targeted underneath it then you might be the problem. This shabby, yobbish, and offensive behaviour makes be ashamed of being British.”

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      “professional trolls”.

      Yes yes yes. Keep voting for the party that is so unlikable and ineffective that they COULDNT beat Nazis, twice.

      You know what else is weird? They NEVER mention this and showcase the threat these Nazis actually are. They work WITH them AGAINST the working class.

      WAKEUP

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    The dude with a swastika tattoo who’s in charge of a fascist regime’s military and just launched the new Reichsministerium für die Kirchliche Angelegenheiten had a logo redesigned to look like the Nazi eagle

    …and someone thinks this is a coincidence?