AntiTrumpAlliance

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

SA like mob with only voluntary members.

too many acronyms all up and down the thread. not your fault my brain is numb. South Africa? Sturm...Arb...needentolernenmasdeustchen?

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Sturmabteilung. Hey, its shorter than many English words, and given that it translates to "storm department", "ice" sounds rather fitting.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

I knew it wasn't Sturmwaffe, although that would have been a cool name, the stormwaffles, i just remember they had a seeming obsession with the word storm. i get it, some words and phrases are cool. they roll off the tongue nicely. like cellar door. velvet elvis. nazi pulp.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

It is a cool sounding propaganda term, they certainly did know their propaganda stuff. I honestly don't know how that "storm" naming came to be but in German you you have the word "stürmen", which does translate quite directly if I am not mistaken, as in "storming Congress". I heard Maga knows a thing or two about it.

Now that I think of it I am not sure they were named after a storm. "stürmen" means moving rapidly into something and "erstürmen" means conquering/taking hold of something. "Sturm" is merely the noun for that. The weather phenomenon is rather named after that, than the other way round.

There is also the cultural epoque of "Sturm und Drang" btw (which had nothing to do with Nazis and predates them, emphasizing emotion over rationality in art in the late 18th century), which is also not about storms but about pressing forward. Maybe taking hold of something.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

predates them, emphasizing emotion over rationality

it's about beating your spouse to the fridge and getting the last of the bacon fried rice for breakfast dammit.

i wanted that rice. i'll win that race one of these days.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago

I am not sure fried rice was a big thing in the 18th century Holy Roman Empire. ;) Sturm und Drang was also something that rather intellectually inclined young writers from the upper class were into. Goethe for example. They probably did not even race for a Bratwurst.