• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 days ago

    Without having to click links it’s basically this; Hitler had a Hardon for American Exceptionalism and shit, Nazis are based on American ideas just taken to the extreme.

    So hence proto as in precursor to the Nazis.

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      13 days ago

      Thanks for the description! When I think ‘founding fathers’ I’m thinking of the literal dudes who wrote and signed the US constitution and the Bill of Rights.

      I didn’t see any connections for the term to that time period in American history.

      • novibe@lemmy.ml
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        13 days ago

        You mean the guys that literally genocided native peoples? That wrote into the constitution that black people were worth less? That only rich land-owning people should be allowed representation?..