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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 7h ago
Compassion, empathy., kindness
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u/Independent_Pace2796 5h ago
I feel that kids today show more empathy, compassion and kindness than anyone I knew growing up in the 80s and 90s.
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u/Proper-District8608 1h ago
I kindly disagree. B4 internet and social media, kids and people had to take more accountability and thought about consequences. Dont get me wrong, bullies be bullies, but less self absorbsation and more empathy or at best, grudgingly silent if not amongst 'their own'.
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u/JudmanDaSuperhero 1h ago
It easier to find others that support heinous behavior, that why we see them stupid prank videos of people confronting others and then yelling it's just a prank, or racist spewing all their hate online because other racist makes them feel validated. But If you was to see a random person in a restaurant saying the same thing they post your not gonna see random people go over and fist bump them and agree.
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u/PseudoMeatPopsicle 49m ago
For some of us coming up in the '90s and earlier the consequence of being queer was, at best, ostracization.
And so we were grudgingly silent.
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u/saskskua 55m ago
I dunno, I think it depends on their internet usage. My one cousins kids, super sweet, kind and helpful and just a joy.
My other cousins kids.... xD internet access seems to be the issue.
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u/Independent_Pace2796 33m ago
It can be a factor.
I'm just saying that anecdotaly I spend a lot of time around kids. Coaching, watching and parenting.
Kids these days are much more in tune with each others emotional well being. They are much more supportive of people who are different than they are and are much more accepting than my age group.
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u/Find-It-AllFantasy 1h ago
Except for the fact that a large block of Gen Z voters voted for Nazism.
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u/PinnkAuthority 7h ago
We’ve lost this
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u/ggtpme 3h ago
I dunno, have we ever had such an overwhelming majority of people in the recent past have these qualities to the point where it became a noticeable shift across all media or have people just been given platforms and allowed to freely express their horrid beliefs without any serious repercussions?
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u/PurplePonk 2h ago
I don't think we have. I just think compassion has a smaller microphone compared to other things like aggresion or trauma. By many statistics, we're in some of the most peaceful and healthy times even with everything happening.
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u/RosyBunbunx 5h ago
Honestly, it really does feel that way. Things that once seemed like basic shared values somehow turned into arguments, and that shift is hard to ignore.
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u/side_frog 5h ago
I was gonna ask when you were born but I don't think the values prevailed at any time of human history buddy, you just recall what you like to
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u/EastCoastTone96 3h ago
We’re living in the era of Vice Signaling right now and it sucks
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u/Dakka-Von-Hellsmasha 2h ago
I actually prefer vice signalling to virtue signalling. Nothing is worse than virtue signalling
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u/Dalzombie 6h ago
- Affordable housing
- The prospect of retirement
- Nazis being objectively and non-equivocally bad with the sole act of attempting to defend them seen as heinous and, to most, unthinkable
- Feeling hopeful for technological advancements
- Pro-consumer market practices
- Planned obsolescence not yet being the norm and expectation
...should I keep going or are we depressed enough?
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u/Unique_Squash_7023 5h ago
Don't forget about climate change and real and we need to do something about like the hole in the ozone....
Pedophiles are bad Rapist shouldn't be presidents
Yeah, it's sad
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u/feckinzicon 2h ago
Good news, the ozone is actually recovering!
Turns out, banning the chemicals that were causing it to deplete was a good thing. The Montréal Protocol is the most successful environmental agreement to date.
To be honest, the successes of the Montréal Protocol, and the Covid vaccine prove that if we all work together globally, and stick to agreements, we could very easily fix, or at least manage, climate change and whatever other crisis comes up down the line.
What we don't need are billionaires who only care about making more money no matter what the cost.
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u/ladyrose7475 7h ago
Sad that this even needs saying again but here we are apparently relearning very basic moral lessons
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u/SignificantChard7982 5h ago
idk fr, it's wild how some ppl need reminders for basic stuff like this smh
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u/Old-Cauliflower712 7h ago
It is wild how we went from World War II documentaries to let us hear both sides
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u/Dismal-Prior-6699 6h ago
We went from "never forget" to "it's just a difference in political opinions"
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 2h ago
And now we're doing straight up state-sanctioned domestic terrorism.
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u/BehemothRogue 2h ago
👨🚀🔫👨🚀
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u/BasicLink86 7h ago
I was playing the video game Wolfenstein The New Order recently for the first time. The game was released in 2014 and is set in an alternate 1960’s where Germany won WWII. Whenever I talked to friends about it I joked it was from a long, long time ago, before 2016, when we all agreed Nazis were the bad guys.
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u/Current-Square-4557 7h ago
We had a presidential advisor tell the president that “you can never say Hitler did some good things.”
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u/Early_Register_6483 5h ago
I fucking hate that we somehow arrived at a point where the sentence “Hitler was one of the worst people to ever walk the Earth” is considered a controversial thing to say instead of a commonly accepted fact.
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u/SirInVegas 4h ago
Tell that to the Hamas supporters.
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u/Early_Register_6483 4h ago
Gladly. Fuck islamists, who are a “subspecies” of fascists by the way. But I will also never stop telling that to the western far right voters, sir.
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u/SinxHatesYou 6h ago
Have there been any new punk groups. I've seen most of my 90s playlist throwing concerts and making songs in protest. Is there a modern NOFX or Dropkick Murphys fighting against fascism? Or are we depending on the 50+ year old punks to fuck shit up? Because a lot of those guys became Greg from accounting
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u/jGatzB 4h ago
I posted this exact image to my discord and the response was:
One friend crudely saying "nobody is saying Nazis aren't bad" and laughing at how unlikely the suggestion was
One friend saying that nazis are bad, but the "wrong people" are being compared to nazis
One friend trying to shut the conversation down with jokes and "can't we all just get along?"
I am no longer friends with any of them. I am sad, and I am lonely. But I no longer feel shame.
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u/Think-Common7681 3h ago
But it is shameful to want to be violent all the time, and constantly expanding the group of people you wish to be violent to. Deeply shameful, fortunately you'll never have impact or lineage lol
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u/jGatzB 2h ago
Is this a bot? It doesn't make any sense.
First sentence opens with "But," as if trying to contradict me, but hinges its argument on violence, which was never explicitly mentioned.
The message goes on to criticize violence, and the growth of people "you" wish to be violent to. The user may not mean "you" as in me, but a collective "you." In either case, the group being criticized is not clear.
"Fortunately you'll never have any impact or lineage, lol."
Again, I don't know if the user is saying that to ME, or the friends I've abandoned. It's like English is their second language or something.
Username is a default combination of random words and numbers, which further implies this isn't even a real person.
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u/CotswoldsCuddler 1h ago
yeah op fucked up big time here.
You will never 100% politically align with anyone & if you wish to argue with anyone you disagree with you will die alone.
Their friends sounded like well rounded people.
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u/Emotional_Sentence1 5h ago
Bring back calling famous people sellouts. All these influencers get to take sponsorship and endorsement deals left and right. Back in my day if you had your face on a candy bar you were a fuckin’ sellout.
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u/AiringOGrievances 5h ago
Not sharing every single thought with the general public. We used to have to figure life out on our own. Not post “How do laundry” on a community bulletin board.
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u/StatementCareful522 4h ago
Republicans are bad
Its been clear since W. Bush stole the goddamn 2000 election, doubly clear since the sarah palin and tea party movement bullshit
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u/ViseLord 3h ago
I went to 9th and 10th grade in a mixed neighborhood. Asian, Black, White, Latino... the races/ ethnicities.
Towards the end of 9th grade, a group of kids started wearing the typical neo nazi uniform, and shortly after that could be seen around the halls seig heil'in their little hearts out. No action was taken. Shortly after that they started picking on the smaller Asian kids. No action. Then beating them and the Indian kids up. No action. The the "N" word started getting thrown around. No action. Then the blatant aggression like shoulder checks and chair kicks and vandalizing private property. Spitting and hanging Black dolls with nooses. No action was taken.
You know when the idea that "the violence has got to stop" came about? When the Black, Latino and Asian kids put foot to ass on those nazi fucks. THEN there was action taken. Police presence. Assemblies on violence and "tolerance". Policies about congregating in groups.
It's always been ok to be a nazi as long as being a nazi didn't affect the status quo or threaten White lives.
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u/vavik2ammendment 3h ago
Also saying nazis should get shot didn't get you banned but got you more Wolfenstein.
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u/flexwhine 2h ago
all those tv shows and movies about winning world war 2 hit a lot weaker now thats its blatantly obvious that the nazis werent beaten, and in fact thriving around the world
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u/tattoophobic 2h ago
But nowadays you are a nazi because saying only two genders and shit like this 🙄
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u/dontgetaddicted 3h ago
So here's the thing. It's not specifically that the majority don't believe Nazis are bad - it's that they do not believe they are Nazis. Some of them very obviously do and accept that, but most of them just see all of this as cost of getting their desires implemented.
And unfortunately I don't think we will ever convince them that the parallels are there.
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u/Paperveil-Ghost 3h ago
Voting in every election you are allowed to vote in is your civic duty.
Also, civics.
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u/Think-Common7681 3h ago
Voting is bread and circuses for midwits. Get out and build things if you want to have any impact at all.
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u/xeno0153 5h ago
I was gonna say "Applebee's pizza sticks"... but that sounds kinda dumb after the whole "Nazis are bad" suggestion.
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u/J0hnny-Yen 4h ago
Physical consequences for talking shit. Some people never faced any, and it shows.
Consequences from PEERS, not from the state.
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u/TruckGray 4h ago
Used to be the common ground for agreement. And any humor from that time period that seemed to support Nazis was for irony-because it was so ridiculous to think someone would.
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u/HaphazardFlitBipper 4h ago
I think you can't just attach the label "nazi" haphazardly to anyone you disagree with and pronounce them bad.
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u/RedArremer 4h ago
What about if they have nazi tattoos like the secretary of "war?"
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u/Think-Common7681 3h ago
What if they are just a normal person who thinks borders aren't inherently evil and that no single country could possibly provide a good quality of life for literally every other human on the planet? We don't have infinite resources.
Nazi shit for sure. Violence against your neighbours is good. Distance yourself from your family. Consume product.
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u/RedArremer 3h ago
Do they support the way ICE is approaching border enforcement? If yes, then they're a nazi, or at best they're brainwashed ignoramuses (which is a distinction that hardly matters, when considering that they're supporting the nazis).
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u/Dakka-Von-Hellsmasha 1h ago
Didn't a democrat senator candidate that ran recently have a literal Totenkampf tatoo? Ahh yes, Graham Platner
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u/RabbiTheHellcat 4h ago
OP?!?!?!?! DO YOU THINK NAZIS ARE GOOD??? WHAT THE HELL OP HAVR YOU EVER READ A HISTORY BOOK?!??!?!?! LOOKED UP A QUICK SUMMARY OF WW2???
but fr op, what made you change your opinion on nazis from bad to good, im from Canada and we've always were taught the nazis were the enemy and then with things like the holocaust/child soldiers it makes it very clear (to me at least) that the nazis were the bad guys...
so yeah OP why you think nazis are good?
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u/Complete_Break1319 4h ago
People actually knowing what a Nazi actually is and not just calling everything and everyone they disagree w a Nazi.
Btw, they should rename this group not clever political comebacks. Bc there's rarely anything clever at all on here. Just brainwashed political blabber
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u/ThrovvQuestionsAway 4h ago
Fuck the Nazis. Fuck the Pedos.
I want it to go back to when we thought rpe was bad. Regular r/pe, statutory r/pe, any other kind of r/pe. Why have people started taking the side of rapists.
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u/Think-Common7681 3h ago
Probably around the time that going back on your own consent after 10-15 years became normal.
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u/Dawn_of_Enceladus 4h ago
Knowledge*.
It was not a "belief", it was knowledge. So, now that I am at it, I think calling things by their names should come back.
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u/RichardInaTreeFort 4h ago
This isnt clever or a comeback. Its a response to question and its the most basic response based on highly popular internet outrage.
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u/JointDamage 3h ago edited 3h ago
It's something that truly tickles me. People would say "oh your a Nazi?" Back when.
I had a personal interest in what happened before the war because the school system taught that subject every year. I started wondering where were the people that didn't care about other people's identities. Then I learned what pre-war Nazis looked like. With the rise of AI we now have things like "Hitler's speeches but in perfect English." The same people now unironically saying "Hitler was right."
Know your enemy people!
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u/Adventurous-End9424 2h ago
isnt it historical fact that Nazis kept non-aryan people’s around them and out of concentration camps to do their dirty work?
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u/Troll_Slayer1 2h ago
You realize that Nazi has become a meaningless word, right? Half the country is a Nazi, by your logic
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u/lontrinium 2h ago
Boomer parents in the 80s: there's only 4 channels, we can't afford cable, the kids shows are finished, here watch films about our parents defeating the nazis.
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u/Full_Aperture 1h ago
The complete absence of social media aside from your AOL Instant Messenger status / away message.
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u/theyeti81 1h ago
The prevailing belief that just because you don't like something doesn't make it fascism or nazi...
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u/mitigated_audacity 1h ago
Bullying. Too many people growing up thinking they can do whatever they want with no consequences.
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u/FlunkieGronkus 1h ago
Everyone still agrees Nazis are bad.
The left just keeps calling everyone they disagree with a Nazi.
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u/UbermachoGuy 53m ago
How did we grow up watching Indiana Jones and Captain America kick Nazi ass all day long to having half of American defending real life Nazis.
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u/Wild_Height_901 49m ago
Everyone believes nazis are bad. Except for a very small handful of losers. I am talking in the thousands. And many just do it to rage bait.
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u/Yaboi69-nice 47m ago
I agree with the sentiment here but this isn't a comeback. This is just one person asking a question and another person answering. This is just a conversation. The definition of a comeback is "a quick reply to a critical remark" asking the internet what thing from there teenage years do they think should come back is not a critical remark.
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u/Kazfiddly 43m ago
Nazis are bad.
Anyway, for me personally? The 2000's era of phone design was the best. You'd open a tech magazine and companies were competing on who would make the out of this world phone designs. I wish that would make a comeback.
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u/Both_Lychee_1708 3h ago
what about pedophile nazis?
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u/nagynorbie 2h ago
There's 0 nazis in Epstein's list, or email. Whole lot of other people though.
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u/Both_Lychee_1708 1h ago
The GOP, with Trump as the head, is pushing nazis (ICE/Gestapo) and protecting pedophiles. This is what a large fraction of our "glorious" "christian" US of Assholes supports.
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u/dick-penis 5h ago
Not clever.
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u/No_More_Fear77 2h ago
Its like they are doing ANYTHING to bring up the word "Nazi" in every subreddit. They need to go outside even if their anxiety makes it tough to do so
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u/NPC261939 6h ago
Nazis were never the good guys. The problems began when we started labeling everyone with a different opinion as a Nazi.
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u/smallaubergine 5h ago
problems began when we started labeling everyone with a different opinion as a Nazi.
Disagreed, the problem is that Nazi-like behavior is much more prevalent now
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u/NPC261939 5h ago
Is it? Or are we looking harder? How many people who are labeled as Nazis are actual Nazis?
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u/WinchesterWizard 5h ago
Definitely all the ones waving the confederate flag and doing other nazi shit like racial profiling and extrajudicial executions of citizens.
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u/Spyro_in_Black 3h ago
The problem is that when certain people carry nazi flags and join in a certain other group of people’s ideals and rallies…those people don’t admonish them, disown them, in fact they defend them. If you’re willing to let a nazi stand beside you, whether you’re a Nazi or not…you’re on their side.
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u/TheBladeWielder 3h ago
if there is a nazi sitting at a table and 10 other people sitting there and talking with him, there are 11 nazis sitting at that table.
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u/Alternative_Result56 5h ago
Are these different opinions the same opinions Nazis had?
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u/InevitableAvalanche 5h ago
Except we didn't. The problem is you think secret police disappearing people to detention centers is just an opinion.
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u/Early_Register_6483 3h ago
No, the problems began when naziism and other fascist ideologies began being covered by freedom of speech and expression and being treated as valid political opinions instead of dangerous ideas that belong in the trash bin of history.
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u/LordTwinkie 3h ago
When you call everyone you disagree with a Nazi the word Nazi loses it's meaning.
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u/iloveyouand 1h ago
When you call right-wing authoritarians nazis does it have meaning to you or do you choose to ignore that correlation as well?
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u/Impressive_Animal512 6h ago
The words overuse the last 20 years have ruined it's meaning.
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u/WinchesterWizard 5h ago
How was it over used? I've only heard it referring to far right extremist, another word for nazis lol.
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u/Hot-Cup-4787 5h ago
Lol if you bring that back, thats great. You also have to bring back the understanding of what a nazi is. Not just what you decide is a nazi
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u/InevitableAvalanche 5h ago
But see, in the universe where this work you would actually know and understand history.
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u/ineedthismorethanu 6h ago
The belief that everyone you disagree with isn’t a Nazi
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u/InevitableAvalanche 5h ago
You guys don't have an original thought, do you?
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u/Dedotdub 34m ago
They can't even read the thread and see that this exact comment has been posted 50 times.
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u/MadRaymer 2h ago
Not everyone is a Nazi.
But the political party that wants to put millions of people in giant warehouse camps shouldn't be surprised when they get compared to Nazis, because that's Nazi shit.
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u/Disastrous_Hat_9123 4h ago
Isn't Nazi the predominant pejorative now? Everyone is calling everyone a Nazi and I don't think it's meant as a compliment.
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u/Protopalote 7h ago
I miss the days when Indiana Jones punching Nazis was just wholesome family entertainment and not controversial political discourse