No lemmy…

You want to argue that armchair psychology is more important in this situation than condemning doing a Nazi salute?

Autism =/= fascism or even being an insensitive moron. Autistic people are often highly sensitive to such topics.

You’re painting autistic people in a bad light. There is nothing about autism that excuses such behavior.

Minor clarifications aren’t the end of the world. The left is fine. Stop being sensitive

Not apologizing and then immediately giving a speech to AfD about not being ashamed of “cultural purity” beg to differ. Either way, him being an actual Nazi is irrelevant. There are 2 options:

1. He is an actual Nazi and believes in the ideology, which makes him a fucking Nazi. It should be noted that his grandfather was an extremely anti-semitic politician who moved to South Africa because he admired Apartheid…

2. He did it as a troll. In which case, at a POTUS inauguration he decided to behave like a teenage boy as the richest man in the world and make light of something that saw 6 million Jews slaughtered and remains as a threat to the security of Jews around the world to this day. Which makes him a colossal piece of shit.

First of all I wasn’t comparing. 2nd of all it is incredibly stupid to argue that American machismo doesn’t exist. Compared to fucking what?

This is not optimism. It’s more irreverence. Which is honestly something we need more of these days. Everyone’s so goddamn serious.

It’s rooted in the tradition of American machismo and braggadocio. Hyperbole is a huge part of the American oral tradition. You go to any small town in the Southern US and the old timers will have some tall tales that beggar belief and they will tell them too you as if it were the gospel with no winks or nods.

I think Devil Went Down to Georgia is supposed to be viewed as a boast by Johnny himself. “I’m a really good fiddle player.” “Oh yeah?” “Yeah, this one time I beat the Devil himself.” “I told you once you sonofabitch, I’m the best there’s ever been.”

Well if you’re religious. There’s a whole class of individuals in the South that get off on showing the religious just how little they care for the tenets of Christianity. In addition to playing a mean fiddle, Johnny probably swears like a sailor and has extramarital sex whenever he can.

The song came out in 1979. The Southern Rebel was a big concept in the culture.