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  • Pescetarier wiedermal wegignoriert.

  • "Look Gandalf, I went into Mirkwood and chopped down this tree!"

    "Splendid, Frodo. Are you going to put it up yourself?"

    "No, I was thinking the garden."

  • You should try my cheeseburger, brother.

    Patties are beef mixed with unholy amounts of shredded parmeggiano. Add extra mature cheddar. Glazed onions. Sour pickle. German extra strong mustard. And bacon marmalade.

  • "You can just create 1 Sentence to remember all Passwords for particular Services like Lemmy World!"

    Ycjc1StraPfpSlLW!

    There you go. Different passwords for everything, but you only need to remember one. And no need for a password manager which may not be available on every device.

  • Ich möchte bitte an dieser Stelle darauf hinweisen, dass "Marc Fahrschule" ein Anagramm von "Ralf Schumacher" ist.

  • His wife was shocked when she saw that picture because she had no idea he's a Coldplay fan.

  • Mein bescheuertes Gehirn macht jedesmal aus dem Wort "Faktencheck" "check den Fuck". Und ich kann nicht zulassen, dass ich damit alleine bleibe.

  • Americans think Big Bang Theory is the funniest sitcom ever, and whenever a foreign word sounds like a funny English one, they lose their shit. And then they tell Germans about their sense of humor....

  • There's a satirical movement in Germany called "Front deutscher Äpfel" (front of German apples). One of their slogans is "Was gibt der deutschen Jugend Kraft? Apfelsaft! Apfelsaft!" ("What gives German youth strength? Apple juice! Apple juice!")

    They would surely approve.

  • I live in Berlin. I can go shopping for groceries, head back home, cook a meal using those groceries and eat within one hour of home office lunch break.

  • If these people have their way, the USA will become a religious autocracy that respects human rights on a level comparable to that in Iran.

  • Der Vergleich von Frieza mit der AfD ist überaus treffend, finde ich. Aggressiv, von sich selbst berauscht, rücksichtslos, empathielos. Und auf der anderen Seite Frieza.

  • They're not resisting because they profit from the regime. Same happened in Germany back then - industrialists were in favor of Hitler all the time because it meant no trade unions and a shitload of business from the state.

  • 48 year old German here. My grandparents were born in the 1920s. Here's what they told me about Hitler's regime.

    In the 1920s, life in Germany was pleasant, so the Nazis didn't get all the support they needed because their fearmongering didn't work very well.

    Then, the Black Friday crisis hit Germany hard. Harder than any other European nation. Huge unemployment, a lot of discontent and desperate people. The Nazis used that to their full advantage - many people fell for them, but still not the majority of Germans.

    So my grandparents still didn't take them that seriously. Even those Germans who knew what the Nazis had planned couldn't believe they would really do it. Try imagining living in 1932. If someone told you about WWII and 6 million dead in concentration camps, would you really have been able to take that seriously?

    Then, suddenly, Hitler came to power. Still, not the majority of people supported him - but it took mere weeks to take away all their civic rights, their right to protest, their right not to be detained without due process, their right not to be surveilled, their right to live in a home the police can't raid without reason. It all happened too quickly.

    So they all became afraid - VERY afraid. And too many of them minded their own business, after all, if they were law abiding citizens, what did they have to fear, they thought.

    The famous quote by Martin Niemöller illustrates it:

     
            First they came for the Communists
        And I did not speak out
        Because I was not a Communist
    
        Then they came for the Socialists
        And I did not speak out
        Because I was not a Socialist
    
        Then they came for the trade unionists
        And I did not speak out
        Because I was not a trade unionist
    
        Then they came for the Jews
        And I did not speak out
        Because I was not a Jew
    
        Then they came for me
        And there was no one left
        To speak out for me
    
    
      

    The bottom line is this - at no time during the entire Nazi regime were there enough people in Germany who could and would put up the resistance necessary to stop the Nazis. But there were always lots of people opposed to them, but intimidated into being silent.

  • Lee Harvey Oswald was pretty much American's most hated man when they found out he shot Kennedy. I'm absolutely not saying anyone should try to shoot Trump, but I guess if someone were to do it, they would likely gain Mangione-type fame.

  • Atheist Memes @lemmy.world

    Dawkins liked this one.