| ▲ | direwolf20 9 hours ago |
| If you are German, then you are probably blind to the similarities between current German politics and the Nazis, so this is not a good point of comparison. |
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| ▲ | Steltek 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yeeeaaaah, I dunno if you wanna go there while the US is investing $100B in state sponsored ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and concentration camps. Glass houses, stones, etc. |
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| ▲ | direwolf20 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Germany invests less than that, but Germany is a smaller country. I'm not sure how much it is per capita. |
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| ▲ | j-pb 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Which politics are you referring to? The AfD ("Alternative for Germany") who has been classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution?
And which has heavy ties to trump, musk, and the current U.S. government? Just because we currently have our own right wing populist faschists rearing their heads again, doesn't mean that the parallels of the current events in the US and the rise of the Nazis aren't real and glaring to someone who has had this as part of their basic education curriculum. https://web.archive.org/web/20250503162240/https://www.verfa... |
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| ▲ | direwolf20 an hour ago | parent [-] | | All parties of the government support and pay for ethnic cleansing in the middle east. |
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| ▲ | account42 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| But it's only Nazis if you disagree with them. After all, the whole point of drawing the comparison is to shut down any possibility for discussion and nuance - "people I don't like are just like the nazis so I don't need to treat those who who doesn't fully oppose them with any respect". |
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| ▲ | direwolf20 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The ones who are exterminating a race are the nazis | | | |
| ▲ | j-pb 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Again, I have little stakes in your shitshow besides the international meddling they do with our own faschist party. This dualist thinking seems to be a particular US thing, based on your two party system. I see the erosion of the rule of law and decency in the US, the persecution of minorities, the populism, the defamation of journalism as "lügenpresse" and alignment of media to the party line, the personal police force (what the fuck is ICE doing in Italy), the person cult around a single madman, the violence without consequence, the fancy SS/SA style cosplay uniform by the head of ICE, and I think "that looks a lot like the stuff we learned about in school". | |
| ▲ | mindslight 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > After all, the whole point of drawing the comparison [to Nazis] is to shut down any possibility for discussion and nuance Another way of phrasing this is that it's a call to stop assuming good faith discussion on the part of the boosters, stop being derailed by pondering nuance, and focus on putting the brakes on the new Nazi movement. History doesn't repeat but we're teetering on the edge of a large-scale horrific rhyme. Regardless of one's preferred policies regarding immigration, there is zero justification for where we're at. |
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