You are not going to tell me this is cool or an actual guide.
This post was a final straw in a long line of straws. I have been on Cool Guides for a long time, and for awhile it has been educational.
The past couple of months, however, every single post is either politically inciting, a repost, or outright wrong. And nothing is done about them. This one’s been there for 7 hours.
I’m sorry, lads. Cool guides time time hasn’t passed but the time for it to have quality control has passed. I’m out.
It's been years since coolguides has had actual cool guides
Yeah. That sub has been going downhill for a while. They recently had a cool guide "Recognizing Fascists" or Nazis. I can't remember which but it was just your usual politically inaccurate slop.
I liked them back when it was well moderated, cool, actually factually based content. It just isn't the same anymore.
The mods won't take down AI posts neither that are blatantly AI and non factual.
Why is everyone in this sub triggered by anti nazi stuff
If it were factual, backed up with research, sources provided, I can accept it. But the majority of it is "You don't agree with my view points so you're a Nazi(Fascist)." I have been called one and I am not even a Trump supporter.
Nazi is used as a cover for "my political opponents"
it's completely divorced from what an actual Nazi is.
Keep telling yourself that.
No thanks
Hey man, I would look around.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
there are unironic hitler lovers in Republican circles these days. Nick Fuentes is an unabashed nazi that wants to deport all Jewish people from the United States. They’re real, and they’re here.
Yes, and you can easily find real nazis on sites like 4chan. But they're not the ones being called nazis most of the time, on this site it's anyone who questions the mainstream reddit narrative, whatever that may be at the moment.
sure bud. I’m sure it’s not because the modern GOP is a vehicle for white nationalism.
I'm a social democrat and I've been called a nazi for those reasons. You haven't because you tow the line and submit to the reddit overlords.
What exactly is the “line” that the reddit overlords are making you follow, else you get called a nazi?
I’m talking about basic deviations from the mainstream narrative, like on immigration, crime, identity politics, foreign policy, etc. None of that makes someone a Nazi, yet the label gets thrown around constantly.
And calling tens of millions of voters white nationalists is exactly the problem, that framing is unserious and hysterical.
That's a massive overgeneralization. There are definitely white nationalists trying to hitch a ride on the GOP. But there are also corporate neoliberals, religious conservatives, libertarians, foreign policy hawks, and normie voters who just hate the Democrats.
I've even encountered neo-nazis who actually hate Trump because he supports Israel. They called him a jewish puppet.
So your viewing is very narrow and not really an accurate representation of 300 million people.
Trump did not actually call Nazis and Klansmen ''very fine people''
In fact, he was just referring to other (Trumpist) people at that rally
Bullshit. He said there are very fine people "on both sides." Those are his words. You don't get to revise them to add nuance.
Yep.
It's unfortunate, but I guess it's just human nature. There is always -- always -- about 1,000 True Believers who think the reason Reddit exists is to give them a chance to "explain" the correct views to all the sheeplez.
The old r-videos had the right idea: If they allowed political videos, pretty soon, all they'd have is political videos. And when they changed the rules ... that's literally exactly what happened.
I am now curious about what that Treaty of Tripoli even is. Can’t find any.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
This is a peace treaty signed with the Ottoman Empire in 1796 by John Adams. Its art. 11 indeed says what's written above but I wouldn't call it a definitive proof that the US was founded as a secular nation.
However, any text from this period by the founding fathers would tell you as much... Anyone who thinks the US were founded in the 18th century under a christian god would be a moron and completely missed the point of the independance.
Susan Jacoby has written some solid history about it in The Age of American Unreason (2008) and Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004).
The United States was not founded as, and never was, “a Christian country.” It was a country with Christians, most of whom would have seen it as heresy to try to use scripture to run a country.
This is how it seems to work:
When you can blame Christianity (for example, while defending islamic terrorism) for the actions of the USA, then everything USA does is based on christianity and chtistian values.
But when someone wants to protect christian values in the USA, then the USA has never been a christian nation and was never based on any christian values.
Lol. " Islamic terrorism "
The real terrorist is your government and your soldiers who killed millions of people in the middle east using 9/11 as an excuse for a " war on terror"
Thiefs
I'm not american, and never been on the whole continent. Islamic terrorism is much older than the USA, and it happens everywhere in the world where there is enough muslims.
Yeah, 9/11 totally wasn't terrorism because other stuff happened too. Idiot.
I saw that and immediately closed the app. It's frustrating.
These guys clearly haven’t read what it says on the dollar bill
Maybe they looked at one from before the Red Scare. Or maybe they can just tell the difference between money and history.
Then they can look at the Declaration of Independence instead
I don't even care about this as much as the possibly dangerous misinformation on there.
I agree with the message, but that isn’t a guide.
Then why is the state motto ''In God We Trust''?
It's not. Our motto is "E Pluribus Unum," which is hilariously ironic at the moment.
As for "In God We Trust," in the 50s, politicians fell all over themselves to seem anti-communist, so they revised the Pledge of Allegiance to include "under God" and added "In God We Trust" to our money. It's literally branding and it hasn't even been around for a third of our history. It's exactly as real as "To Protect and Serve."
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