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[-] Nath@aussie.zone 89 points 1 year ago

I hate this law. Not because I think people should be saluting like Nazis, but because it was actually needed. We should be better than that. Have we learned nothing from 80-90 years ago?

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 42 points 1 year ago

My theory: there is basically no-one left who remembers WW2 first-hand, and a lot of people only know that the atrocities were commited by "evil monsters". And we're not evil monsters, right? We're sophisticated modern humans, not evil monsters, right? We are, therefore, incapable of atrocity or even mistake and it cannot happen here, right?

It’s super frustrating for people like me who are nerds for history and are extremely aware of exactly how fascism progressed last time it got popular.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

There's a good reason "historian" is about the most left-leaning profession in existence.

[-] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 28 points 1 year ago

The systematic dismantling of humanities education hasn't helped this either. That's why we needs arts / humanities just as much as science. The nazis had science but they didn't have any humanity.

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[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Australia did at one point but then the US did a coup.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Australia is a settler colonial project built on the genocide of indigenous populations, its in the bones of your country like it is in the US, and like we inspired Nazi Germany to be

In the best of cases overcoming this history would be difficult, but we live in a world where this is not the best of cases, and where for most of history the ruling class has gone the other direction and misinformation and lies are more common than learning real history

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[-] Baku@aussie.zone 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All I really have to say about this is fucking good

Edit: typo

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago

Swede here, I completely agree!

Let's just hope the nazis never learn about the Olympic salute...

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[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago
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[-] Craftkorb@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago

As German, I approve of this 👍

[-] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

As a person, this is agreeable.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

Good. There should be no room for hate, let Nazis rot in the bins of history where they belong.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmmm. Between 1am and 9am on a fuckin' sunday this somehow gains an extra 39 comments

That's not suspicious at all.

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was very confused. This had 40 upvotes within 40 minutes of posting it in the middle of the night

Edit: God damn typos

[-] ElHexo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago
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[-] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

You know time zones exist right? 1am where you are is 6pm somewhere else?

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[-] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also a quick reminder that swastikas drawn in permanent marker can be wiped off some surfaces with a solvent, such as by using alcohol based hand sanitizer on a tissue. Both come in travel sizes.

As for ones that cannot be cleaned off, well there’s absolutely nothing you can do about that. It cannot be helped. You wouldn’t want to get caught undoing a hate symbol by drawing over it in a hilarious but completely illegal way.

Such vandalism is reserved for your own belongings because graffiti of public property is a crime. ☝️

[-] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Report it in the Snap send solve app. It will alert the council and they'll remove it within a day usually.

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[-] Isakk86@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Well, at least they will easily recognize it.

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Gonna make police federation meetings awkward.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Except when it's other cops.

[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Excellent law. This should be adopted worldwide.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Please hold the next republican convention here.

[-] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago

Our republicans are sane. Please keep your republicans away

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