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I hate this law. Not because I think people should be saluting like Nazis, but because it was actually needed. We should be better than that. Have we learned nothing from 80-90 years ago?
My theory: there is basically no-one left who remembers WW2 first-hand, and a lot of people only know that the atrocities were commited by "evil monsters". And we're not evil monsters, right? We're sophisticated modern humans, not evil monsters, right? We are, therefore, incapable of atrocity or even mistake and it cannot happen here, right?
It’s super frustrating for people like me who are nerds for history and are extremely aware of exactly how fascism progressed last time it got popular.
There's a good reason "historian" is about the most left-leaning profession in existence.
The systematic dismantling of humanities education hasn't helped this either. That's why we needs arts / humanities just as much as science. The nazis had science but they didn't have any humanity.
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Australia did at one point but then the US did a coup.
Australia is a settler colonial project built on the genocide of indigenous populations, its in the bones of your country like it is in the US, and like we inspired Nazi Germany to be
In the best of cases overcoming this history would be difficult, but we live in a world where this is not the best of cases, and where for most of history the ruling class has gone the other direction and misinformation and lies are more common than learning real history
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All I really have to say about this is fucking good
Edit: typo
Swede here, I completely agree!
Let's just hope the nazis never learn about the Olympic salute...
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Good. Fuck the Nazis
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As German, I approve of this 👍
As a person, this is agreeable.
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Good. There should be no room for hate, let Nazis rot in the bins of history where they belong.
Hmmm. Between 1am and 9am on a fuckin' sunday this somehow gains an extra 39 comments
That's not suspicious at all.
I was very confused. This had 40 upvotes within 40 minutes of posting it in the middle of the night
Edit: God damn typos
You know time zones exist right? 1am where you are is 6pm somewhere else?
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This is the way.
Also a quick reminder that swastikas drawn in permanent marker can be wiped off some surfaces with a solvent, such as by using alcohol based hand sanitizer on a tissue. Both come in travel sizes.
As for ones that cannot be cleaned off, well there’s absolutely nothing you can do about that. It cannot be helped. You wouldn’t want to get caught undoing a hate symbol by drawing over it in a hilarious but completely illegal way.
Such vandalism is reserved for your own belongings because graffiti of public property is a crime. ☝️
Report it in the Snap send solve app. It will alert the council and they'll remove it within a day usually.
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Except when it's other cops.
Well, at least they will easily recognize it.
Gonna make police federation meetings awkward.
Excellent law. This should be adopted worldwide.
Please hold the next republican convention here.
Our republicans are sane. Please keep your republicans away
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