Based antifascist grandpa
So fucking dumb.
Votes Republican. Ironic.
Oh really? What in the post indicated that he was a Republican? You sound silly.
Plot twist: he is German.
Grandpa won’t need to go to Germany for round 3 with the NAZIs. They are right around the corner wearing MAGA hats.
Generous to presume that Grandpa isn’t one of them.
Yep, was thinking he checks the box next to the ® on the ballot. Older,boomer generation, into guns pushes the odds strongly in that direction.
E: typo
Respect, going to the range can be a family experience.
Not so sure about Germany round 3 though.
If he trains to shoot Nazis, he should just pin a MAGA cap to his range target.
The gun mount only turns 45°.
But that’s his best cap!
Funny thing, he’ll never expect to be part ofround three, coming from his maga buddies that are shooting right beside him.
ITT: weirdly a lot of people assuming that Grandpa votes Republican based on nothing besides his age and love of guns
Dude looks and acts exactly like my great grandfather who served in the navy kn WWII. He was a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and hated Republicans until he died in 2017.
… So was my great grandfather, but he was an old school Southern Democrat, he even voted straight ticket. I’d be willing to bet he wouldn’t be fond of modern Democrats.
People forget that the Democrats of the early 1900s aren’t the same as today. Remember that Republicans are the party of Lincoln, but I wouldn’t be surprised if modern Republicans wanted to bring back slavery.
Is that what the republicans you’ve asked have said?
Probably just their imagination.
Why does every comment on Lemmy always have to be some political bullshit? THE POST LITERALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS!
The post is overtly political, saying grandpa here is preparing for Nazis 2, the sequel. Secondly, choosing Lemmy over Reddit is a political choice itself. It’s much more mainstream to just use Reddit, so to go against it is political.
I chose to use Lemmy because it’s licensed under GPL and doesn’t have a proprietary algorithm to feed me ads. The post was merely political though, killing Nazis is okay.
When I was a little kid I asked my grandfather one time what it was like to “fight evil”. His response was something along the lines of “I didn’t fight evil. They were just a bunch of scared kids doing what they were told. Just like me.”
My grandfather fought in Europe, but Japan was still what kicked off WWII. So, I was super nervous about bringing home the woman that would become my first wife for the first time. Her family was from Okinawa.
When we got there he sat down at the kitchen table and talked to her for a long time. I was in and out doing stuff for the dinner, but they looked happy enough. Later that day he caught me outside and gave me a hug. He told me that she was a good woman and I’d be crazy if I didn’t marry her.
I really miss my grandfather. He was mostly a good dude.
“In case they want round three, so we can waltz in years late and claim victory, then spend decades destabilising the planet for profit oooooeeeeeee”
This kind of “America did nothing in WW2” rhetoric is almost as r-word’ed as “America soloed WW2.” You’re an idiot if you think America was “years late” and didn’t play a huge role in the European front. Not even to address the Pacific Theatre.
Just say retarded, man.
If grandpa’s still voting R, he’s voting for the fascists of the 21st century.
If you want to know what you would’ve done living in Germany in the 1930’s…
