HammerandSickTatBro

HammerandSickTatBro t1_j1rg2e7 wrote

Reply to comment by ScaryCryptographer7 in TIL Sigmund Freud made the decision to flee Austria after his daughter Anna was interrogated by the Gestapo for nearly 12 hours. He was able to buy safe passage out of Austria just in time with 31,000 Reich marks in 1938 by Ok_Copy5217

No. It is the responsibility of the individual to not lie to and exploit others. Being lied to and exploited isn't a moral failing on the parts of those having harm done to them

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HammerandSickTatBro t1_j1rfman wrote

Reply to comment by the_blessed_unrest in TIL Sigmund Freud made the decision to flee Austria after his daughter Anna was interrogated by the Gestapo for nearly 12 hours. He was able to buy safe passage out of Austria just in time with 31,000 Reich marks in 1938 by Ok_Copy5217

They have way less state-invested authority for sure. Not no authority (their buddies in police forces frequently let them get away with or condone shit like the intimidation and violence which the proud boys frequently engage in). The could develop into full blown deputized brown shirts pretty easily and quickly. But most branches of law enforcement in the u.s. and Canada already have secret police, and given the key part that police have played and are playing in the current fascist upsurge, I doubt they would require or allow the Proud Boys to encroach on their turf by becoming like the Gestapo.

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HammerandSickTatBro t1_j1rerin wrote

Reply to comment by gilly_90 in TIL Sigmund Freud made the decision to flee Austria after his daughter Anna was interrogated by the Gestapo for nearly 12 hours. He was able to buy safe passage out of Austria just in time with 31,000 Reich marks in 1938 by Ok_Copy5217

You joke, but holocaust deniers have been a staple of discussion in a bunch of places, and still wine and dine with former (or sometimes current!) heads of state now

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HammerandSickTatBro t1_ixmkat7 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL about Willem Arondeus, a gay painter and artist. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands he joined the dutch resistance. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. He was caught and executed soon after his arrest. by Random_German_Name

Imagine being so intensely homophobic that a reddit post that happens to be about a heroic gay dude pisses you off like this

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