We were never Nazi Sympathizers rule
We were never Nazi Sympathizers rule
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city officials: we were never nazi sympathizers
director: ok i'll use newsreel footage
city officials: from today on you didn't let me finish we were never nazi sympathizers from right now. -
"Hey this guy says he's not a Nazi. All of Germany and I haven't met one Nazi yet."
-Frank Perconte, Band of Brothers
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Interesting fact about Austria in the context of WW2, Austrian fascists (Austrofascists) and Austrian Nazis were political enemies. The Austrofascists were opposed to the Anschluss and the Nazis were in favour of it.
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Makes sense, Nazis were pan-Germanists (revisionist idiots) and proper Austrian fascists would want the empire back.
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Also, the actual Baron Von Trapp was an Austrofascist. Disney white washed the fuck out of that story.
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This is such a much better movie watching it today than when I watched it as a kid.
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Right?! I had forgotten like half of the movie was not as musical but a very serious historical drama, lol
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Inglorious Basterds tattooed a Nazi, so they can never hide.
We should do that.
What if they eventually change tho. Then they just have to explain their shitty past to everyone. A Nazi without a brand can just become a normal person. Once you brand them, you give them a reason to never change. Why would they if they've been told that's all they'll ever be?
Punishments like this assume people can't change or that bad people never become good.
We're not better than them because we can match their cruelty, we're better because we recognize the humanity of everyone, even "monsters."
Edit: a word
A lot of people are not mature enough to hear this. The ideal outcome of meeting someone you dont like is that person changes over time to be better, hurting them just drives them further away from you.
You dont "fix" an abused dog that barks at everything by hitting it.
I once believed like you, but I've slowly come to realize a lot of people refuse to change. It's not that they're incapable, but they just don't want to.
So they pretend to change instead because it's easy. Then a couple of decades down the line they start to drop the act and go back to being terrible.
A serial murder killed a hundred people. But maybe he'll change. Surely he learned that killing is bad... just let him go free.
If someone becomes a Nazi then there already was a shitton wrong with them for them to even turn that path.
I believe in redemption; but I believe also that once you go that far right, it is hard to redeem at all.
If they want to redeem themselves, they should try:
a) opposing all forms of authoritarianism
b) neither spouting nor consuming hatred against anyone who's not a billionnaire
c) and they should oppose all billionnaires, especially the ones that don't do either of the above.
Basic decency requires very little effort. I'm going out on a limb and say that the only good fascist is a dead one.
being a nazi is an immutable decision and is not taken lightly. THIS IS WHY IT IS SO SERIOUS.
"I'm worried that
the babyByteOnBikes thinks people can't change" People can changePeople who just had godawful opinions should be spared. People who spread the propaganda, all while pretending to be "moderate, christian-democratic conservatives" should be not.
if they've truly changed, they'll accept the brand as a sobering reminder of their past.
kinda like how Germany keeps Auschwitz as a museum.
I prefer the cutting the swastica on their forehead