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News: Mask Off: DeSantis Staffer Reportedly Shares Video of DeSantis and Giant Nazi Symbol

newrepublic.com Mask Off: DeSantis Staffer Reportedly Shares Video of DeSantis and Giant Nazi Symbol

“Calling DeSantis a fascist isn’t hyperbole, it’s defining what he is.”

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Holy fuck, it’s not even mildly subtle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)

Also, how dare those Nazi fucks bespoil Kate Bush’s wonderful music like that. I hope she sues the living fuck out of them.

-edit, notice also; ‘Make America Florida’. and ‘God’ superimposed over DeSantis.
- Wow, using Kate Bush's music is ironic as hell.
  
  Yeah my first thought as well
  
  Song about a man and a woman changing bodies, no less.
- It's subtle only in the sense that most regular people don't know what the black sun is. My wife got me this keychain that had some pagan symbols on it with a black sun snuck in as well, she had no idea until I told her.
  
  I admit I got all the way to the end waiting for the swastika, and figured, "eh, well it must be that thing."
  
  Thing is, while I find this entirely plausible, unless there's an archive.org of the tweet before deletion, I don't think we can credibly tie this back to anything DeSantis wanted or approved.
  
  He's in my top 5 list of people actively trying to destroy the US, but unless the provenance of the linked video can be proven I don't see this going anywhere. Folks who hate him aren't surprised, folks who don't will ask for more proof, DeSantis will deny if he acknowledges it at all.
I don't like the guy either but this is shitty source. "Some guy on twitter said a thing happened but you can't see it verified anywhere else now!"
- Except the actual video is widely available.
  
  The claim is that someone from his staff shared it on an official Twitter account, which is unverifiable. Unless you know some way to view deleted tweets that I'm not aware of.
  
  Link?
  
  I'm lazy and uninformed, I'd like to be neither, but 1 is better than none.
- I saw your report and did not act on it because this site ranks with an acceptable reliability score from the media bias chart we use.
  
  As moderators, we cannot ascertain the veracity of individual stories from white listed sources. You can use the link in the side bar to check the reliability rating of any source before reporting it; we only remove items ranking below a 32 reliability score.
  
  Perhaps that threshold is too low then if this is what a "34" is.
- How about the New York Times, and it turns out it wasn't just shared by the DeSantis campaign, but produced by it and then sent to an "outside supporter" to actually tweet, so they could maintain plausible deniability.
  
  One recent move that drew intense blowback, including from Republicans, was the campaign’s sharing of a bizarre video on Twitter that attacked Mr. Trump as too friendly to L.G.B.T.Q. people and showed Mr. DeSantis with lasers coming out of his eyes. The video drew a range of denunciations, with some calling it homophobic and others homoerotic before it was deleted.
  
  But it turns out to be more of a self-inflicted wound than was previously known: A DeSantis campaign aide had originally produced the video internally, passing it off to an outside supporter to post it first and making it appear as if it was generated independently, according to a person with knowledge of the incident.
That staffer wants a promotion
Interesting story but I'm a little unnerved that the website says "APOCALYPSE SOON" at the top.

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