Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker

• baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  read about nazi germany it will be too late

  they are playing boiling the frog and soon they’ll escalate all the way, it will happen fast and violent

  i’m not advocating violence, I’m saying we’re going to regret not having done so

  paradox of tolerance should be required study

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    read about nazi germany it will be too late

    Dude, my entire family was in the resistance. My great grandfather hid jews on his farm, was captured, tortured and died in a concentration camp. My family smuggled crashed British pilots back to England and liquidated traitors (family in my mother’s side) and blew up train tracks and communication lines (family on my father’s side). When my grandfather died, we found a huge walk-in closet filled with gas masks, emergency food, machine guns and ammo, in The Netherlands. I’ve had a lot of history lessons in school. Plain history, political history, economic history. I know a lot about nazis, how they come to power, how they work.

    I see what’s happening right now. The lack of democratic and media resistance right now leads to them gaining power, which will lead us having to escalate to more violent and unlawful measures. I don’t want it to come like that, that’s why I’m politically fighting the far right in my country (and fighting fake news) and even though they have taken too much power in my eyes, they can’t just do whatever the fuck they want.

    The US, however, is a failed state and the democrats were way to passive (and also too right wing themselves). So there’s no hope. Violence may be the only option. But just don’t dehumanize your enemy, don’t treat others how you don’t want to be treated yourself.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They dehumanize themselves. Like, aspirationally. On purpose.

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        … Said Hitler about the jews. Said Netanyahu about Palestinians. Said Trump about trans people.

        If you think you are superior and consider them untermenschen, how are you any different from a fascist exactly?

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    • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      then don’t act fucking surprised

      not reading the rest of that wall, you should know better

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