My FiL intentionally takes advantage of this in people. His family try to give him the benefit of the doubt that he is just "unaware", but I have been in situations where 1) I point out his imposition on other people to him, 2) he continues to engage in said behavior, 3) I subsequently call him out on it publicly, and 4) he calls me disloyal.

Of course he's an evangelical MAGA voter with misogynist leanings.

Kinda like that quote about confusing peace with quiet.

Hot take:

This is why the French culture is the platonic ideal. The average French person is a feral chain smoking time bomb and any they have no time for bullshit. Cutting in line in England will earn you a lot of judgemental stares, same thing in France will get you yelled at or stabbed depending on how the weather is.

The French government would love to be a lot fashier than it is, but it fears its citizens with good reason.

It’s way more than half. Between just Amazon and Walmart they employ 3.5 million.

And there are plenty of other shitty jobs besides those two.

Oh, shit! Are they renaming the DoD “The Department of Peace” now?

There is no war in Ba Sing Se the Strait of Hormiz

It does but arbeit macht frei was a nazi slogan and tbh it goes well for the bootstraps folks: "you just need to work harder for a better life" essentially.

Keep in mind English might not be someone's first language. They might have learned the phrase in school in their language, or even the German original, but not whatever is the accepted English translation.

Or she didn't learn that specific phrase. I don't recall ever hearing it in school.

With the current media landscape I believe it's malicious intent rather than stupidity.

It's simliar to how an old artist's music being played on a pop station is a leading indicator that artist is going to put out a new album. The intended end users of the Nazi Germany phrases may not know/care what they're saying, but the people seeding it into the media are literally just following the playbook for what worked last time.

My bingo card has a spot on it for seeing unironic back-to-back commericials for gold sellers (who didn't get the memo) and reminders that the US has nationalized all its gold (again).

I accept that she wasn't referencing the historical meaning on purpose. She likely wasn't a classic Nazi trying to dog whistle. However, not recognizing the phrase is concerning. Especially given the current rise of Nazi-compatible ideology in power.

Was it The Cay?