• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    You missed including the funniest bit

    Less than 40 minutes after the interview on Thursday, the Instagram post — including audio from the song — disappeared from social media. Posts on X and Facebook, which did not include an audio component, are still visible.

    • Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      okay seriously people clearly a bunch of us have no clue what the context of this is or why any of this is funny. What the original text is, or what the song referenced is can yall PLEASE fill the rest of us less terminally online people in about this.

      • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        5 months ago

        Thankfully ByteFoolish did us a solid:

        To actually provide context: https://archive.is/cbwB8

        This month, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security jointly posted a recruitment ad for Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Instagram, Facebook and X, overlaid with the words “WE’LL HAVE OUR HOME AGAIN.”

        That’s also the name of a song, written by members of a self-described “pro-White fraternal order,” that has been embraced by the Proud Boys and other white-nationalist groups. Hundreds of explicitly neo-Nazi and white-supremacist accounts have shared the song on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, since 2020. The white supremacist who killed three Black people at a Jacksonville, Fla., dollar store in 2023 included lyrics from the song in his writing.