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Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Some of the most prominent "Young Republicans" are fascists and overt racists, with violent plans for people they despise.

And they're really unhappy that their group chat just leaked.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

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Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:
@Steve@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@dangillmor If you're embarrassed to have people learn what your political beliefs are, shouldn't that tell you something about your political beliefs?
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Rythur
@rythur@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@dangillmor

These are just the low-quality tendrils of a monsters that has been created almost entirely "for entertainment purposes only."

And it's not very entertaining.

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Andy Wootton
@woo@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@dangillmor Also some old ones.
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HTPC NZ
@htpcnz@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@dangillmor won't be long before some actually competent NAZIs come through the ranks who have brains and charisma. Ones who are downplaying now two terms of the felon just as an anomaly are sleep walking to a rude awakening when this happens. If the opposition to this is tinkering around the edges pandering to NAZIs than making real changes it will be an inevitability. Then again if you're already privileged, it won't matter, even NAZI Germany was a fine place for majority of Germans.
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shadows
@shadows@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@dangillmor it’s absurd that he can say something like “While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored.” and you just know the right is going to push the idea that it was doctored. He’s just throwing this statement out with zero evidence (he obviously knows whether or not his own messages were doctored and makes no comment suggesting they were) to try to make people disregard what’s in the chat.
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Ilka 🌐
@Ilka4You@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@dangillmor dispicable - you cannot even call them human.
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Corb_The_Lesser
@Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@dangillmor There have been similar localized reports about Young Republicans for years. I hope this report attracts the attention it should.
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mastodonphan
@mast0d0nphan@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

“Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” he continued.

Peter Giunta, local gas-chamber enthusiast and modern-day Hitler youth, sitting and looking like he was proud to show his mommy he successfully pooped in the training potty.
Peter Giunta, local gas-chamber enthusiast and modern-day Hitler youth, sitting and looking like he was proud to show his mommy he successfully pooped in the training potty.
Peter Giunta, local gas-chamber enthusiast and modern-day Hitler youth, sitting and looking like he was proud to show his mommy he successfully pooped in the training potty.
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SnowyCA :vivaldi_red:
@SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor
It's a fascist party. Not "some" , ALL .
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Stephen Elliott~Buckley
@Maxfieldripken@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor

Ok, this is gross and everything, but seriously, why did it take until late 2025 for people to leak these chats?

#genocide #gaza #palestine #freepalestine #ethniccleansing

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver#burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp

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Ω 🌍 Gus Posey
@Gustodon@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor All Republicans are fascists and overt racists, with violent plans for people they despise.
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Darcy
@Mor696@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor

Trump has unleashed the worst in people!!!

These kids are learning it from someone, no one is born thinking like this!!!

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Hey Gus
@elebertus@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor this has been wide spread for decades. Private chats, or chats not immediately available to the public have all sort of fully awful shit being discussed.

Sooner or later this will all just be out in the open and completely normalized. It’s what the the popular majority wants and believes is normal and good.

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rouxdoo √
@rouxdoo@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor
This not a surprising revelation. It has been known for quite some time that "young republicans" are what the article describes. The thing that should really drive the horror home is how they learned it from their parental "old republicans".

I have a long-time friendship with a work mate - staunch "conservative" who gave lip-service to abhorring J6 in DC but he hasn't changed his stripes because he is aligned...hard to converse when realities are in conflict with messaging.

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Phil Wolff
@evanwolf@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor Where is the "Hitler = Bad" education?
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Flaming Cheeto
@PizzaDemon@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor those words aren't strong enough and won't land anymore.
I'm going with "wannabe slave owners"
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Darren du Nord
@darren@c.im replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor
A screen shot of Politco article showing excerpts of racist Republican group chat comments.
A screen shot of Politco article showing excerpts of racist Republican group chat comments.
A screen shot of Politco article showing excerpts of racist Republican group chat comments.
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Jo - pièce de résistance
@JoBlakely@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@dangillmor

Wow. Horrifying.

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