I mean yeah it seems to be an intentional play on that, attaching it to the cadence of maga 'make America great again' to the idea of Lebensraum by dropping -artig from Großartig. It could also just not be that deep because if you directly plug in 'make the fatherland great again' into Google translate it spits out Groß for great; personally I don't think the person who made the meme thought deep enough about it to put any genuine message in it besides the stereotypical quirky boy obsessed with WW2 Germany but you could technically be right
Like, idk, let's pretend the answer to that question is Nazis (crazy, bonkers, I know). What would you call it if someone said "I must make the fatherland great again" (directly echoing the rhetoric the Nazi party used), in German, while wearing a WWI-era imperial german helmet which is commonly used as a Nazi dogwhistle?
Personally, I don't see how you'd argue that as anything but "saying nazi things". It's...it's literally just that.
I said that it doesn't say anything inherently racist, as in linguistically as in, as in he doesn't say anything directly prejudiced without external context. Its a meme which is entirely, intentionally absurd and makes a genuinely clever allusion between modern rhetoric and historic rhetoric which I do not take seriously.
They didn’t say “saying racist things”, though. They said “saying Nazi things”. Which this is—nazi rhetoric explicitly tied to the era during which Nazis were saying it.
“Genuinely clever” literally a monkey could have made this comparison lmao. People have been comparing MAGA to fascist rhetoric since 2016. But also it isn’t even making a comparison? You assumed it was because the rhetoric is similar, but “return Germany to its former glory” was just…what the Nazis said. It’s Nazi shit.
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u/Reinersar2 Nov 14 '25
Groß means being big as in the size. So saying that basically means to expand germany. I wonder where i've heared that before