Sterile_Technique

Quick! Someone crosspost this to !memes@lemmy.world

Feature, not bug. Never forget that the cruelty is the point.

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Don't let your age hold you back - get yourself a sharpie and bring back the magic!

I mean, I was listing a few examples out in another conversation, and just off the top of my head... and I'm no historian or anything - I'm sure there are similar lists orders of magnitude more detailed floating around the internet somewhere. Anywho:

1921 - The Sturmabteilung – More commonly known as the ‘brown shirts’, militant branch of the Nazi party, loyalists who used violence and intimidation against opposing parties and targeted populations. Today we have MAGA or ‘red hats’ who use the same tactics but in a less organized fashion (arguably groups like the ‘Proud Boys’ are a closer match, but those are all just smaller subsets of MAGA). A few recent key highlights were the Jan 6 insurrection and the caravan that ran a bus of Biden supporters off the road; and of course countless individual instances of targeted bigotry.

1923 – Speaking of Jan 6, that was the modern equivalent to the Beer Hall Putsch, which was also an unsuccessful attempt at an insurrection.

1924 – Hitler was sentenced to a 5 year prison sentence for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch, for which he only served 10 months; during that time he wrote his manifesto “Mein Kampf”. Our current president was recently convicted of 34 felonies, for which he faced zero consequences. Around that time, Project 2025 surfaced, which echoes many of Mein Kampf’s key points, most notably a disdain for democratic institutions and a call to restructure the government into a more authoritarian model made up of loyalists. Trump has also directly quoted Mein Kampf multiple times, and borrowed other language from Hitler like "Lügenpresse" (Lying Press) as "Fake News".

1926 - League of German Worker Youth, or “Hitler Youth” – heavy exploitation of teen impressionability, especially teen boys, to woe support from a young audience. Today there are youth groups for just about everything, but leveraging insecurities of young boys played a role in the recent election, with exit poles showing Gen Z males leaning disproportionately to Trump.

1929 – The Great Depression left pretty much the entire planet dreaming of a more economically secure future, which gave opposition parties to the status quo a major point to criticize those currently in power; the Nazis were no exception, and gained a lot of their support promising an improved economy. The modern world economies were recently all hamstrung by covid, and remain weakened, once again giving opposition parties something to blame on their opponents – costs of groceries, housing, etc are a huge part of why people justified support for Trump (and more broadly, a global shift toward authoritarianism).

1933 – Enabling Act of 1933 – The gist of this one is that Hitler used their existing legal framework to completely undermine and rewrite their legal framework. He put out a rapid slurry of legal decrees and took a grand total of 53 days to basically destroy their constitution and grant himself absolute power. Today, we’re seeing a similar rapid-fire of concerning legislation from Trump via his executive orders.

1933 – Hitler appointed Chancellor by German president Hindenburg. Hindenburg was in his mid-80s at the time of that appointment. Trump may be more of a Hitler’s-enabler figure than an actual-Hitler, but it doesn’t take long to spot a younger vocal appointee that’s been handed power without the say of voters: today’s actual-Hitler could be Elon Musk. *as I understand it, voting for a party then appointment to chancellor was pretty standard for the German govt at the time, so this was very much Germany's equivalent to Trump taking the majority vote.

1933 – Book Burnings – Basically material that didn’t align with Nazi ideals was made contraband. Today, we’ve seen a push to remove things like LGBT or civil rights content from public schools and libraries.

1934 – The Night of Long Knives – Purging of non-loyalists from government positions by execution. Today’s equivalent is happening right now, starting with the email that was sent to all federal employees essentially bribing them to resign, and threatening firing of those remaining as part of a restructuring of the federal workforce, and continuing with the gutting of non-loyalists from the military.

There's also the seeming never-ending list of examples of minorities who support Trump.

Not lifting a finger means the literal bare minimum: voting. In the face of evil shitstains like Trump, a third of the country couldn't even be bothered to color in a quarter-inch rectangle in opposition, they just shrugged and let it happen.

...and that first half of this comment is more directed any onlookers who happen to wander into this conversation: As for you, your sea-lioning is glaring as all hell. Take that shit somewhere else.

Unprecedented? Not according to the playbook we're following to the fucking 't'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

Dude definitely looks good in green.

It's from the side bar to this sub - if you're on mobile or something it might not be showing, but the rule states:

Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.

Hoping for the fatal removal of a few literal supervillians is significantly less violent than allowing them to run rampant on the world, imo, but I've been temp banned a few times over "advocating for violence" by pushing for the less violent of the two options. I'm kinda tired of being told to just sit quiet and pretty in the face of a surge in neonazism though, so... fuck it.

I'm not asking people to go full Inglorious Basterds on MAGA or anything... but if you're one of very few people with the means and opportunity to take a shot at Hitler... please don't miss.

Voted against it directly, voted against it indirectly in every smaller election I've been eligible for since 2016, phone canvassed against it, volunteer for local orgs that are targeted by it, and am vocal on and offline against the Nazi rhetoric currently taking over our government.

Why, am I only allowed to criticize evil if I've aimed a gun at it or something?

What about you?

Trump is a temporary symptom. The problem is that a third of the US sees his evil bullshit and fucking loves it; another third sees his evil bullshit and remains completely apathetic to it and can't be bothered to so much as waddle over to their mailbox to submit a ballot in opposition to it; and the remaining third is only given a lesser-evil option that comes with some seriously demotivating baggage like fucking genocide.

And even if it's less genocide than the other guy, shit like that is always going to make a major dent in that third's turnout, paving the way for the situation we're in now.

Even if Trump is actively being assassinated as I post this (yo, god: pretty pretty please?) some other evil bigot will fill the vacuum. Now, if he gets assassinated too, we might be on to something: sending the message that being an evil oppressive sack of shit comes with a major mortal liability is the short term fix we absolutely need, but we've all seriously underestimated the degree of enthusiastic evil in the average voter.

My thinking is the reason the only tag available is NSFW is the first two words of that acronym: not safe. Open Lemmy in the break room and surprise! Your screen is covered in titties. The coworker sitting next to you complains to HR, and now your supervisor is explaining to you that exposing a coworker to sexual content without their consent is one of the forms of sexual harassment - which that facility has a zero tolerance policy for - so now they have to let you go.

Real consequences can come with NSFW content if it's not filtered out in certain situations.

That kind of situation will never play out if you sub the word 'titties' above with Trump or Biden or whatever.

So, the urgency to tag NSFW content is high; the urgency to tag political content is non-existent.

Same with any other interest-based tag: I don't care for sports or anime, which there's a lot of both on this site. It'd be convenient for me personally to be able to just check a box in the settings to wipe that content from my Lemmy experience, but asking for that to be a core feature opens the can of worms of which topics get a built in tag, and which ones don't. And even if we do that, whatever the result is won't adhere to personal preference anyway, so let's say they go ahead and add the politics and sports tags, but not anime: I'm still at back at square one needing a key word filter, and I'd still need to add key words for all three cuz without the need for a tag like with NSFW content, people won't be nearly as diligent about tagging political, sports, or anime posts.

So imo just skip the mess: NSFW tag as-is, and customizable key word filter for the individual user to fiddle with according to their personal preference.