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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Naw, that sounds too communist.

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[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It does but arbeit macht frei was a nazi slogan and tbh it goes well for the bootstraps folks: "you just need to work harder for a better life" essentially.

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Annoyingly, Nazis stole each one of their slogans. “Arbeit macht frei” is from the 1873 novel by Lorenz Diefenbach, in which gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour, alluding to John 8:31–32.

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[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 days ago

Yeah they don't exactly have a lot of creativity of their own. But much like the swastika and certain tunes, it's now associated with nazis rather than its original source

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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

"Freedom takes work"

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