Searched Reddit for the "First they came..." poem and this was one of the first results
Searched Reddit for the "First they came..." poem and this was one of the first results
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what psycho uses the same :reddit-logo: for 7 years???
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And by the way the quotation goes…
proceeds to quote deliberately incorrect translation
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I would simply not use :reddit-logo: because it is always terrible like that
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Some of our brave posters have to mine for content somewhere. I'm with you, but respect those who are still brave enough to set foot there.
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Your kind is engaging in heavy Soviet apologism in your own way. You think that if you are different from the tankies then everything is OK. For reasonable people it isn't. You might call it "reformed" or whatever the fuck you call it, but your actions speak for itself. Soviet apologist scum you are and I am not impressed by your excuse of being less into it that those few Stalinists.
Damn, this mf said "tankie" 7 years ago
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Man, I just can't take open hostility. It bothers me that there is no universe where this person sees the world the way I do.
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I'm no Soviet apologist, because I don't fucking apologize :shrug-outta-hecks:
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:lenin-shining:
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:lenin-laugh:
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Tankie has been used on Reddit for longer than that, but I remember it being mostly used by anarchists and leftcoms. Liberals started using it more during the 2015 primaries to separate Bernie "leftists" from the communists.
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I just want "tankie" to start being a regularly used term on both Fox News and CNN.
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we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
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BTW, what this piece of shit brings up here, the claim that the nazis only copied the gulags, is a core concept in postwar nazi apologia. As if Germans would have needed a Soviet institution to copy. Germany already had built death camps when Hitler hadn't even applied to Vienna art school, camps that were not built for reeducation of reactionaries, but for the racist extermination of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. The blueprint for the nazi crimes came from colonizers like von Trotha or Lettow-Vorbeeck, who joined the Freikorps during the Weimar years to apply his murder expertise in the fight against German leftist insurrections. There is a direct line leading from Germany's colonial crimes to the KZ system. German conservatives, even moderate ones, deny this to this day and have recently, in there usual fondness for disgusting lies, tried to paint all postcolonialism as "structurally antisemitc" and as "downplaying the holocaust" while they themselves routinely indulge in the grossest holocaust apologia such as equating the nazi regime with the DDR.
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The British invented concentration camps during the Boer war
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I recently read that the Spanish had concentration camps in the Amerikas before that, and even coined the term, but the British camps were the first in Africa and directly inspired the German camps in Namibia.
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When that poem comes up and liberals are around and they are using it try to try to generate a sort of lib version of solidarity - I like to point something out.
Niemoller was a Hitler supporter. He called Hitler an "instrument sent by god". But then they came for his church...
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yes that is the entire point of the poem him regretting his actions
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