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    Tbf it was a popular style at the invention of the gas mask (because any more could fuck up the seal and leak through), with WWIII possibly around the corner, the Charlie might make a comeback.

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    Alex Jones is more like Julius Streicher who also sported a pathetic moustache to ingratiate himself with Hitler. Streicher was virulently antisemitic and spouted all kinds of bug eye conspiracies but even other Nazis thought he was little more than an annoying clown.

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    the only person i’ve ever seen actually look good with that 'stache is charlie chaplin. the only acceptable use of the toothbrush mustache is in a silent comedy film with a wacky guy sporting a tophat and cane.

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      The only other person is Hardy from the Laurel and Hardy duo. If he didn’t have his stash, he would look like a giant baby.

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      It didn’t look terrible on Michael Jordan with the matching soul patch. It didn’t look good but it wasn’t terrible.

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      Hitler hated being compared to chaplain too. It was verboetan after they took power.

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        Hitler was confirmed to have watched Chaplin’s film The Great Dictator. , but he did not comment on it. Chaplin said that he would give anything to know what he thought of it.

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    I imagine it has the same effect as when animals use wild colours to deter predators. Except it’s the reverse and instead an easy sign he’s a predator.

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    Alex Jones: “Nazis? That’s just wrong terminology that the left uses to accuse everyone they don’t like of being a nazi! Because they’re the haters!”

    Grows Hitler mustache.

    Alex Hitler: “It’s a (nationalist) social experiment! If you call me a nazi, then you’re the real nazi!”

    For fuck’s sake. Why do I still meet people that think they could possibly not be nazis? You’re not sure? Really?

    They’re not time travelers from 1940. They’re modern nazis, and this is what they do. He’s just another nazi propagandist like limbaugh and kirk, except he’s got a fucking HITLER mustache!!!

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    He’s just trolling, he needs to sustain attention which translates to income, now that it’s waning and he looks like a loser. What else is he supposed to do – get an HVAC license? Work at an Apple store? His options are limited.

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      well he could have worn a clown nose, put a shoe on his head or embrace nudism, but he chose the nazi option. i think that says enough about him

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        and… all the hvac techs I know work. they fuckin work their asses off. often in sweltering attics or cramped industrial spaces. jones wouldn’t last a damned moment.

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      Gotta point out nazis when you see them, and that’s all this is. Alex Jones is a nazi, in a nazi party, as a nazi propagandist, with a hitler mustache to show his nazi allegiance.

      All these guys went to Epstein island, right? Or were they too poor? Bottom tier suckups?

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        I guarantee you Alex Jones did not go to Epstein island. That was for presidents and billionaires. They would have laughed at him and told him to get back to his trailer park and get some craigslist hookers or something.

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      100% this.

      It’s such a well established business model now.

      Stimulate outrage amongst sane normal people. Free publicity. Engage with assholes who will buy your snake oil.

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      I’d like to see him draining septic tanks. With a teaspoon. While wearing that stupid little mustache.

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    ‘It had a wild effect on women’

    They used to be disgusted by me when I talked to them, but now they are disgusted by me the moment they see me.

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      Tbh there are some absolutely derangenged people out there so I don’t doubt this making some women go nuts.

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    I’ve never supported Hitler

    Guy wearing a Hitler 'stache as a “social experiment.”

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            I have always read that the style was in vogue among men who had to fight in WWI where the use of gas masks discouraged keeping a full beard or moustache as it hindered adherence.

            You can see the shift in the American presidents too.

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            It was called the Chaplin before Hitler grew one. Hitler grew it to help soften his public image. He was known to be a big fan of American movies. And had them imported during WWII for private screenings, even though it was illegal in the rest of Nazi Germany.

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      A National Socialist Experiment. He wants to find out how long he can survive in public with a hitler mustache.

      Me? Oh, ahah. no. These people need serious mental help, education, and time away from nazi propagandists.

      It’s the right-wingers that are the assassins, apparently. They really know evil, you know? Beats me, they’re cultist lunatics. It’s not going to be hard for them to detect the “Totally normal guy doing a social experiment” from their scope.

      School full of children > Hitlerized Alex Jones. Where would you rather have the christian terrorist shooting people up?

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    We’re tired of Democrats calling white men Hitler

    says white man intentionally making himself look like Hitler.