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[–] 171 points 1 year ago (55 children)

The best part about the entirety of this comic is that Nazis are the exception to Batman's "No Killing" rule. He straight up murders a dozen Nazis before a priest stops him.

It's about time Nazis see that the world feels the same about them that they feel about others.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

    Just watched Inglorious Basterds again yesterday, it put a smile on my face seeing those Nazi clowns turned into Swiss cheese

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    It's on the list with my 11 year old this weekend.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Why? He's responsible enough and I trust him. He knows right from wrong and really enjoys history. You raise yours however you want.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Even more absurd take... if he enjoys history you can watch a documentary or read book.

    I really enjoy Tarantinos movies and part of it is due to its clever and well written dialogs and over the top violence. They are not movie meant for children. No matter how mature they appear, that's just it, its appearance. Maturity comes from life experience and an eleven year old child has very little of that.

    Do better.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Raise your own kids and fuck off about other people's kids. You do better you shriveled nutsack.

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    I think you aren't responsible and have poor judgment, but of course you are free to do whatever.

    Also, inglorious basterds is not a historical film, there is nothing to learn.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nothing to learn about historical facts of 1939-45, yes. But there's a ton of other stuff you can get out of it.

    Not if you're eleven years old though, I concur. Better to wait until you can process such films - and not run the risk of getting harmed by the experience (which also a good parent would keep in mind IMHO).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    While I agree with the last part of what you said, isn't this from Absolute Batman? I thought it was sort of a reimagining of Batman for the single issue? I'm picking up my copy tomorrow, but that's just what I've heard.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (32 children)
  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    All people are people. Dehumanizing someone is a great technique for authoritarian regimes, but should be resisted by everyone else.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Absolutely this. This is crucial to resisting fascism in its various forms: dehumanising is an extremely dangerous slope and used to prepare people to accept unacceptable things.

    TERFs are people. Nazis are people. Murderers and rapists are people. Fans of Asmongold are people.

    It may be hard to accept, and tempting to dehumanise, but please don't.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Exactly. This will sounds flippant, but it's the same thing when people debate over "what is art" as if something has to be good in order to be considered art.

    Likewise, you don't need to be good to be considered a person. In fact there is nothing you could do that could rob you of your personhood in my eyes. It's inalienable. That doesn't mean every person is good or should be treated the same way.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I treat people the way they treat other people.

    If Nazis say a group of people aren't people, then Nazis aren't people.

    Nazis are vermin that should be exterminated. A cancer on humanity that should be cut out with a big knife.

    And if they don't like that, then they should change their mentality.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yea nah, if somebody considers that I should be killed because race, or whatever else, they are not human to me.

    I will not be held to a high standard of humanity by somebody that has no standard in respect to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Nazis are people who need to be forcibly reeducated, and the only way to get there historically is through violence.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    All fundamentalists should be reeducated.

    Reeducation through violence is the methodology of totalitarian regimes, like the Third Reich, the USSR/russia, or China.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Good luck debating Nazis. The USSR famously defeated them, BTW, you can thank them for being alive today if you're European.

    I suppose you decry the violence that the USA exerted on Nazi Germany?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Good luck debating Nazis

    Who said anything about debating?

    The USSR famously defeated them

    LOL, good one! :D

    BTW, you can thank them for being alive today if you’re European.

    I'm from one of the countries that suffered massive atrocities under the bastards.

    I suppose you decry the violence that the USA exerted on Nazi Germany?

    I suppose you don't understand the difference between war and peace? Actually makes sense considering the bullshit you're saying about russians...

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    The fact that you're even questioning that the USSR defeated Nazism proves that you have no idea what you're talking about. 80% of dead Nazi soldiers were thanks to the eastern front. 25 million Soviet lives were eliminated in the struggle against fascism.

    I'm from one of the countries that suffered massive atrocities under the bastards

    Oh no, the atrocities of universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, industrialization, guaranteed employment and the abolishment of homelessness. What a horrifying regime. Eastern Europe is so much better now that capitalism returned and you have wars again. I bet my ass your childhood was after 1990 and you're just repeating capitalist anticommunist propaganda.

    I suppose you don't understand the difference between war and peace?

    There is no peace with Nazis, they only understand genocide and invasion.

    the bullshit you're saying about russians

    I didn't say the word "Russians" in my previous comment. I mentioned the USSR being the reason why Nazis didn't exterminate your ethnicity, but the USSR was a plurinational state composed of many ethnicities. Many Ukrainians, Belarusians, Uzbeki, Kazakh, and many of the nationalities of Russia such as Bashkir, Slavic Russians or Mari gave their lives defending your family from Nazism. Have some respect for all the brave soldiers who fought so that you can spew bullshit online today.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Did USSR help defeat Nazi Germany? Yes. Were USSR just as bad? Oh, most definitely yes.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Saving Eastern Europe from Nazi extermination is as bad as universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, the elimination of unemployment, universal right to housing and abolition of homelessness, and the doubling of life expectancy from the Tsarist Empire to 1960.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Listen, I get that you're just trolling, so this is more directed to anyone that can be convinced by your comment.

    USSR saved no one. They took over other nations and killed a lot of people in the process. They ripped families apart and took them to their own concentration camps in Siberia. Most of these people were worked to death and died starving.

    Before WWII Soviet regime decided that Ukrainians don't deserve to exist and killed millions in Holodomor (Ukrainian famine).

    In history they we're never saviors, they were just another occupant and an unfortunate ally in WWII. What they brought to my country was repressions and deficits. I guess planned economy doesn't really work.

    The life my parents lived under Soviets was shit and it only improved after we regained independence.

    Hero washing USSR only serves as propaganda. They were not heroes, they were winners. It doesn't make them any better than the other side.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    Not trolling at all. The USSR saved TENS OF MILLIONS of lives from Nazi genocide in Eastern Europe alone. Nazis wanted to carry out Generalplan Ost and eliminate or enslave all population between Germany and the Urals. The only reason why they were stopped was thanks to the massive efforts of the Soviet Industrial Revolution which was kickstarted in 1929, when the country's economy recovered from the devastation of the Russian Civil War, in which the "allies" (UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, USA, France, Poland...) Invaded the country unprovoked and unilaterally for the sin of being communist.

    Life expectancy in Soviet Russia was 27 years of age by the 1929 economic recovery. Thirty years later, life expectancy had risen to 67 years of age. For comparison, Brazil, which didn't go through an all-destroying civil war and an even more all-destroying world war 2 (25 million Soviet deaths by Nazism), had a life expectancy of 36 in 1930, and by 1960 it was merely 53. The revolution in agriculture, industry and medicine in the USSR saved, by any reasonable metric, tens of millions lives more than any comparable capitalist country at the time, and that's not counting that they would have become a Nazi colony and either slaves or exterminated.

    Before WWII Soviet regime decided that Ukrainians don’t deserve to exist and killed millions in Holodomor

    "Holodomor" is a new term, propagandized recently to create the false narrative that Ukrainians were targeted in a famine in the Soviet Union during the land collectivization. There was a big famine in the entire USSR, affecting especially hard in Ukraine, Southern Russia and Kazakhstan, I'm not denying the famine, I'm denying the idea that it was enforced in Ukrainians for some racist reasons. There is no precedent and no followup of mistreatment of Ukrainians in the USSR, there are no documents proving any intent to hurt Ukraine specifically, and there was no motive to do so, it's used as a propaganda element to radicalize people against Communism now that sentiments towards Ukraine are reasonably high.

    If you care about Ukrainian lives, which you seem to do, you'd be better off doing anti-capitalist propaganda. Capitalism brought hunger, drugs, unemployment, violence, crime, suicide and alcoholism to unprecedented levels in Ukraine. Massive emigrations, low birthrates, high mortality and finally war, have brought on Ukraine a horrifying [demographic crisis]. Between the dissolution of the USSR in 1990 and the war in Ukraine, Ukraine had already lost 7 million people to the causes cited above. As it stands now, there are an estimated 28 million citizens in Ukraine, from the peak of 52 million in 1990. I agree that Ukraine is a land that has been fucked over in the ass repeatedly in history, first during Tsarism and the Russian Empire, then during Nazi invasion, and finally during capitalist restoration. I hope we can both condemn the three processes above in their scope of murdering millions of innocent Ukrainians.

    All of the achievements of the USSR, including the saving of tens of millions of people from genocide, starvation and disease, were carried out in a unique way in history: without participating in colonialism. The USSR had no colonies in Africa, in South America or in Asia, in the same way that UK, France or USA did during their industrial development. The modern western countries enjoy a high (albeit constantly worsening) standard of living because they stand on the backs of billions in the global south. For every French with free healthcare and education, there are 10 Indians, Ethiopians and Pakistanis starving. I'm glad your life is materially better in some ways now than it was 50 years ago, but this is entirely on the backs of the global south.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The fact that you’re even questioning that the USSR defeated Nazism proves that you have no idea what you’re talking about. 80% of dead Nazi soldiers were thanks to the eastern front. 25 million Soviet lives were eliminated in the struggle against fascism.

    Buddy, who supplied the half the rifles and 90% of ammo that the ruskies used on the Eastern Front? Who supplied the fuel, trucks and tires? Who supplied the food, and even the fucking uniforms?

    And who opened the second front, forcing Nazis to divide and defend on two sides, allowing USSR to actually start pushing back?

    Oh no, the atrocities of universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, industrialization, guaranteed employment and the abolishment of homelessness

    You mean the atrocities of political purges, the elimination of intelligentsia and military officers, the russification, the brainwashing, the poverty, the mismanagement, the hunger and millions dead?

    There is no peace with Nazis, they only understand genocide and invasion.

    You know what? Looking at russia right now, I retract my previous statement and have to agree with you here.

    I didn’t say the word “Russians” in my previous comment. I mentioned the USSR

    USSR == russia, but slightly larger, but relatively the same on the "shit-stain of the world" scale.

    Have some respect for all the brave soldiers who fought so that you can spew bullshit online today

    I have respect to the soldiers who fought. I don't have respect to those that raped and pillaged the entire way to Berlin. Unfortunately, the first group was considerably smaller than the second.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Buddy, who supplied the half the rifles and 90% of ammo that the ruskies used on the Eastern Front?

    Why are you so obsessed with Russians and invisibilizing the heroic contribution of the rest of ethnicities? Are you an anti-Ukrainian nazi? Also, you're literally making up the numbers, the most manufactured and used tank in WW2 was the Soviet T-34. The contributions by the USA were measurable and necessary and they deserve the appropriate praise, but you're denying history by saying the soviets didnt win the war.

    allowing USSR to actually start pushing back?

    Wrong. The victory in Stalingrad and the pushing of Nazis to the west happened well before the opening of the western front by the USA. You're literally lying here.

    You mean the atrocities of political purges, the elimination of intelligentsia and military officers

    Oh no, the poor military officers of (presumably Poland), they were just good guys when they happily invaded Ukraine and Belarus in 1918 and when they annexed Czechoslovakia with the Nazis.

    the russification

    Bullshit. Everyone in Uzbekistan speaks Uzbek, people in Mari El studied in Mari, people in Poland studied in Polish, people in Lithuania studied in Lithuanian, as proven by the fact that those are still the primary languages and cultures in their respective regions (except possibly Mari because the capitalist Russian Federation doesn't respect multi ethnicity). Stop making up shit. If you're so concerned with the assimilation of peoples, go open a campaign for the rights of Occitanian people, they had 1+mn speakers in 1920 and they're barely 100k nowadays. THAT'S what cultural assimilation looks like.

    the hunger and millions dead

    Life expectancy skyrocketed under Soviet policy. Life expectancy was of 27 fucking years when the Soviets got into power, and by 1960, it was above 60 years old. The policy of rapid industrialization and land collectivization literally saved millions of lives. Again, if you care so much about the "millions of deaths" in Eastern Europe, why don't you complain about the millions of deaths from capitalist restoration? Millions died in the Eastern Block when capitalism arrived: defunding of healthcare, hunger, drug abuse, unemployment, alcoholism, suicide and violent crime were the norm all over Eastern Europe since 1990. Blame fucking capitalism for what it did.

    USSR == russia

    You're literally a Ukrainian-hating nationalist. Gorbachev was Ukrainian and so was Brezhnev, the presidents for the longest time in the Soviet Union were Ukrainian.

    I don't have respect to those that raped and pillaged the entire way to Berlin

    Literal Nazi propaganda. Seeing how you hate Ukrainians and how you're spewing Nazi bullshit, I have no choice but to conclude you're a polish Nazi. I'm surprised you're not siding with Putin, he's killing hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians in the name of capitalism.

    I'm not going to respond to you anymore because I dont debate Nazis. Have fun responding to me and malding

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    but you’re denying history by saying the soviets didnt win the war

    I'm stating facts. Soviets didn't win the war on their own. They'd be rolled over if not for UK/US help. Berlin would've been taken by the Allies even if the Soviets were sitting on their asses.

    The victory in Stalingrad and the pushing of Nazis to the west happened well before the opening of the western front by the USA. You’re literally lying here.

    When did Lend-Lease start?

    When did the Battle for Britain start?

    Who supplied the resistance movements in occupied countries?

    [everything else] Literal Nazi propaganda

    I guess my grandmother was a Nazi propagandist.

    EOT, I don't have time to talk to russian-brainwashed people.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    id rather see them rehabilitated in jail, what you want is no different than what nazis do.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What exactly did you think I meant by "forcibly reeducated" if not rehabilitated in prison?

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    What do you mean by jail? Are you imagining like some voluntary jail where you check in and out as you please?

    Sorry, I'm not trying to be glib, but maybe we just have different understandings on the word "force". You can't send someone to jail without force.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Well I mean the arrest and put into jail and see if there is possible rehabilitation, if not let them rot in the jail cell with their nazi beliefs if they want to stay true to them. Time is the best punishment for severe crimes when rehabilitation is not taken.

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    [–] 79 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "It doesn't bend that way!"

    "It does now".

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There’sa pretty great modern comic I got from the library: Superman Smashes the Klan. Tells a story about a Chinese family moving into Metropolis and getting marginalized, has some good hero moments as well as identity moments for Superman - who, of course, is not from America.

    I’d really love it if we had more modern media that sets aside the “complex, humanized villains” trend and just has Nazis as villains to get decimated.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    What's really great about that comic is it's a loose adaptation of a 1946 episode of the Adventures of Superman radio show called "Clan of the Fiery Cross," wherein Superman also takes on the Klan.

    Klan membership went down after the broadcast aired, partially because fathers couldn't really explain to their kids why Superman wanted to fight the Klan.

    It's credited pretty heavily with weakening Klan membership at the time of release, and it's on YouTube.

    This is kinda unrelated, but you were mentioning some of the identity moments in the comic. I really appreciated how they did some similar commentary in the new movie as well and, since I had never seen those themes focused on in Superman, I did some research into the history of immigration commentary in Superman.

    Anyway, that's how I found out there's an adaptation from the 1980s where the life pod carrying Superman actually just contains DNA which it then assembles into Superman, all so Superman can be an American-born citizen. The 80s were one of the decades of all time.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It’s credited pretty heavily with weakening the Klan

    That’s interesting, because the Klan was fairly weak by the 40’s. It peaked in the 1920s (something like 1 in 3 white Indianans were members in its heyday, to the point where Klan chapters would have baseball teams), but there were some huge political scandals and infighting over embezzlement that absolutely demolished the Second Klan.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I suppose weakening Klan membership at the time of release would be more accurate, I'll add it to the post

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The second Klan was formally disbanded for tax reasons in 1944, a couple of years before The Clan of the Fiery Cross. I think the argument might be more that the Superman episode kept the Klan from rising again. It was already profoundly unpopular in the war era due to some connections with the American Bund.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Bro just wanted to share the stoke for the upcoming snowboarding season. What a shame.

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    [–] 51 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I can't get over the fact that there was a White Power Ranger.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wasn't it just an American carbon copy of a Japanese show?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    The footage of them in full face obscuring costumes, along with the mecha, is mostly straight from various Japanese shows, overdubbed into English. The US production company got Japan to shoot a little bit of extra content when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers became a smash hit, before they started rotating to other Japanese series to take footage from. You can make more money off of the toys, anyway, if you have new action figures and mechs every year.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    There was also a Black Power Ranger.

    What's your point?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And the blue one was gay, got a lot of hate from the other actors. Yellow one was Asian. 90s was weird man.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The official story that the Red Ranger being a Native American, the Yellow Ranger being Asian, etc... being an accident is plausible enough. Sure. Maybe someone who was involved with casting thought it would be funny and didn't tell anyone?

    Harassing the gay actor out of the production should be the thing more people talk about.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are you being purposely stupid?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Batman should beating up zionist too.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Fans of Asmongold are NOT people

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't know who this is but I will blindly follow your dehumanizing fellow brother!!

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    TLDR A streamer that lives in filth and says he used the sun beams from his window causing a dead rat to smell as an alarm clock.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I barely know who he is, and what I do know is horrible, but that seems like an incredibly obvious joke

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yes because the answer to fascism is blue fascist rhetoric

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