122 points

German law declares people unpeople, big novelty clock ticks over to 1939

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111 points

Thank goodness the US was able to return the Nazis to power in West Germany or the godless communists might have prevented Germany from continuing to exterminate Semitic children all these years later.

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104 points

Nothing bad has ever happened from Germans getting really into classifying people, right?

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Seems to be a hobby of theirs

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38 points

Uhh at least IBM isn’t involved this time? I womder if they upgraded to Micr*s**t becauae the US uses their stuff for ICE

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29 points

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Well, at least IBM has degraded to the point where they’ll just fuck it up

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No, the genocide machine runs… Red Hat, probably

In an Amazon or Microsoft datacenter

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101 points

Germany never really stopped being a nazi country, did it?

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I had written a thing, but then I went looking for an article and this quote basically sums up what i was saying better:

West Germany reinstated former Nazis in government and kept the same strict Nazi-era sodomy laws, which criminalized any act perceived to be homosexual, including kissing and touching. As a result, the West German government prosecuted more than 100,000 gay men between 1949 and 1969, of whom over 50,000 were convicted. About the same number of gay people were prosecuted and convicted during the Nazi dictatorship, according to Huneke.

Bonus cope in the very next sentence, emphasis mine:

East Germany, on the other hand, repealed Nazi-era laws in an effort to be perceived as anti-fascist,

unfalsifiable orthodoxy, when the reds do good things it’s only to hide their inherently bad nature, ect ect. The whole article is studded with little gems like this, including:

Huneke found that during the Cold War era, communist East Germany had more lenient sodomy laws and accepted gay activists’ demands more quickly than its democratic twin.

If it’s more lenient and more responsive to the people, then how is it not the more democratic? This article is a really good example of idealism, where a clearly better material outcome must be implied to be duplicitious or tainted somehow because the “bad” guys did it. Still, it does get the facts right.

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/12/29/east-germanys-lenient-laws-helped-unified-germany-become-gay-friendly/

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Damn, it sure sucks when people do good things. It’s so disingenuous and they’re just trying to look good. We shouldn’t do that - we should just do bad things.

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75 points

Half of it did for awhile there

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2 points

Oh right I admittedly tend to forget there was a wall between two things before it was so famously knocked down.

And I don’t even know why, it’s like if I somehow always forgot there was a whole pizza when I eat the last slice.

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Germany never stopped being fascist it just got new targets.

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80 points

never ask a german what they think about a Roma person, or what they think about a Turkish person, or what they think about a Palestinian person, or what they think about a…

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26 points

Pretty sure that first one is an old target :yea:

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