This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. The posts look like memes, utilizing dramatic AI-generated art, general patriotic slogans, and cinematic language about “defending the homeland” and shaping America’s future.
But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.
Many of these phrases, images, and attached media aren’t just regular social media content. They repurpose language, symbolism, and cultural references with direct connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements. It’s content that experts say is instantly recognizable to those who are in the white supremacist know, but can be largely invisible to everyone else.
There has been not one, but two posts from our government institutions that reuse a phrase ripped straight from William Gayley Simpson’s book Which Way Western Man?. It was published and promoted by the National Alliance—considered one of the “best organized” neo-Nazi groups in the United States. The book is antisemitic, racist, and explicitly states that Adolf Hitler was right.
You think “functioning” means war time expenditure of society
I think “functioning” is able to achieve it’s goals. The word functioning has no moral implications. Money doesn’t magically make an army that wins. That army has a massive logistical need. So it takes a well functioning government to ensure the supplies exist for the army, and that those supplies can get to the army. Just think of countries like hatti. That was not a functioning government. Now there is no government. Lots of countries are constantly having coups and such because they don’t have a functioning government.
Achieves goals is apparently also equated with military objectives…? So countries like mine that has had a century of peace is dysfunctional?
I would say you must be a bot. But a bot has better logic processing then you are displaying. Google p -> q != q -> p, or ven diagrams. Because goals include one thing, does not mean it can’t include another that is the opposite morally.