Feature, not bug. Never forget that the cruelty is the point.

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I mean, I was listing a few examples out in another conversation, and just off the top of my head… and I’m no historian or anything - I’m sure there are similar lists orders of magnitude more detailed floating around the internet somewhere. Anywho:

1921 - The Sturmabteilung – More commonly known as the ‘brown shirts’, militant branch of the Nazi party, loyalists who used violence and intimidation against opposing parties and targeted populations. Today we have MAGA or ‘red hats’ who use the same tactics but in a less organized fashion (arguably groups like the ‘Proud Boys’ are a closer match, but those are all just smaller subsets of MAGA). A few recent key highlights were the Jan 6 insurrection and the caravan that ran a bus of Biden supporters off the road; and of course countless individual instances of targeted bigotry.

1923 – Speaking of Jan 6, that was the modern equivalent to the Beer Hall Putsch, which was also an unsuccessful attempt at an insurrection.

1924 – Hitler was sentenced to a 5 year prison sentence for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch, for which he only served 10 months; during that time he wrote his manifesto “Mein Kampf”. Our current president was recently convicted of 34 felonies, for which he faced zero consequences. Around that time, Project 2025 surfaced, which echoes many of Mein Kampf’s key points, most notably a disdain for democratic institutions and a call to restructure the government into a more authoritarian model made up of loyalists. Trump has also directly quoted Mein Kampf multiple times, and borrowed other language from Hitler like “Lügenpresse” (Lying Press) as “Fake News”.

1926 - League of German Worker Youth, or “Hitler Youth” – heavy exploitation of teen impressionability, especially teen boys, to woe support from a young audience. Today there are youth groups for just about everything, but leveraging insecurities of young boys played a role in the recent election, with exit poles showing Gen Z males leaning disproportionately to Trump.

1929 – The Great Depression left pretty much the entire planet dreaming of a more economically secure future, which gave opposition parties to the status quo a major point to criticize those currently in power; the Nazis were no exception, and gained a lot of their support promising an improved economy. The modern world economies were recently all hamstrung by covid, and remain weakened, once again giving opposition parties something to blame on their opponents – costs of groceries, housing, etc are a huge part of why people justified support for Trump (and more broadly, a global shift toward authoritarianism).

1933 – Enabling Act of 1933 – The gist of this one is that Hitler used their existing legal framework to completely undermine and rewrite their legal framework. He put out a rapid slurry of legal decrees and took a grand total of 53 days to basically destroy their constitution and grant himself absolute power. Today, we’re seeing a similar rapid-fire of concerning legislation from Trump via his executive orders.

1933 – Hitler appointed Chancellor by German president Hindenburg. Hindenburg was in his mid-80s at the time of that appointment. Trump may be more of a Hitler’s-enabler figure than an actual-Hitler, but it doesn’t take long to spot a younger vocal appointee that’s been handed power without the say of voters: today’s actual-Hitler could be Elon Musk. *as I understand it, voting for a party then appointment to chancellor was pretty standard for the German govt at the time, so this was very much Germany’s equivalent to Trump taking the majority vote.

1933 – Book Burnings – Basically material that didn’t align with Nazi ideals was made contraband. Today, we’ve seen a push to remove things like LGBT or civil rights content from public schools and libraries.

1934 – The Night of Long Knives – Purging of non-loyalists from government positions by execution. Today’s equivalent is happening right now, starting with the email that was sent to all federal employees essentially bribing them to resign, and threatening firing of those remaining as part of a restructuring of the federal workforce, and continuing with the gutting of non-loyalists from the military.

There’s also the seeming never-ending list of examples of minorities who support Trump.

Unprecedented? Not according to the playbook we’re following to the fucking ‘t’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

Dude definitely looks good in green.

My thinking is the reason the only tag available is NSFW is the first two words of that acronym: not safe. Open Lemmy in the break room and surprise! Your screen is covered in titties. The coworker sitting next to you complains to HR, and now your supervisor is explaining to you that exposing a coworker to sexual content without their consent is one of the forms of sexual harassment - which that facility has a zero tolerance policy for - so now they have to let you go.

Real consequences can come with NSFW content if it’s not filtered out in certain situations.

That kind of situation will never play out if you sub the word ‘titties’ above with Trump or Biden or whatever.

So, the urgency to tag NSFW content is high; the urgency to tag political content is non-existent.

Same with any other interest-based tag: I don’t care for sports or anime, which there’s a lot of both on this site. It’d be convenient for me personally to be able to just check a box in the settings to wipe that content from my Lemmy experience, but asking for that to be a core feature opens the can of worms of which topics get a built in tag, and which ones don’t. And even if we do that, whatever the result is won’t adhere to personal preference anyway, so let’s say they go ahead and add the politics and sports tags, but not anime: I’m still at back at square one needing a key word filter, and I’d still need to add key words for all three cuz without the need for a tag like with NSFW content, people won’t be nearly as diligent about tagging political, sports, or anime posts.

So imo just skip the mess: NSFW tag as-is, and customizable key word filter for the individual user to fiddle with according to their personal preference.

In this case I think the point is to be on the nose about how fucking ridiculous it is - just from this article:

Steve Bannon made a gesture that is identical to a Nazi salute

Bannon made the gesture — extending his arm, palm down, fingers straight, at an upward angle away from his chest, which is also what Nazi salutes look like

the gesture was also identical to one made by billionaire Elon Musk

extended his arm straight out, palm down, fingers straight, at an upward angle away from his chest. Which, whatever the billionaire’s intention, just happens to be precisely how a Nazi salute is performed.

Musk repeated the gesture. Here’s how that looked. <pic of Musk doing a Nazi salute>

If nothing else, there have been countless Secret Service agents and military personnel around figures like Trump and Musk - every single one of them who had the opportunity to take the shot but chose not to, has violated their oath, and are complicit in this country’s downfall.

Many of the Lemmy apps support key word filters. I don’t think we need a political tag so much as filter support as a core Lemmy feature.

Might be potential for a web extension too - RES made Reddit significantly less shit; a Lemmy version of that would be outstanding.

Ooh, that would for sure handle viscosity better than IV tubing. Good call!

Some toilets have a perfectly round bowl so they don’t stick out as far and take up less bathroom floor space - and they work fine, but only in bathrooms that anticipate the vast majority of its occupants to be equipped with a vagina. For those of us rocking a penis, those fucking toilets are horrible - sitting on that damn thing requires you to contort your junk around like some sausage-Houdini as you’re sitting, so that you can guide it through the remaining 2 square inches of open space not occupied by your legs or ass. Then when you’re actually seated, you still have to sit there and awkwardly hold the thing so it stays pointed straight down.

Fuck up any part of that, and the tip of your dick hits the seat or the inside of the bowl.

…and they must be like $3 cheaper than an oval toilet or something, cuz 99% of US apartments seem to be equipped with the round, vagina-only toilets.

Oval bowls are the way. No matter what’s in your pants, it gets the job done without the significantly increased biohazard risk.

I guess in fairness, the problem isn’t with their design, it’s with the people who purchase the toilets treating them as sex-neutral when no the fuck they aren’t!

I’m incredibly confused about how you’re supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap.

You just gave me a stupid idea. First measure out the exact volume of detergent you need for one load - eyeballing it I’d guess 20mL (I’m notoriously terrible at eyeballing volume, so, grain of salt) - then get a 20mL syringe and some IV tubing (it’s got one-way valves, so when you connect a syringe to it and draw up, it pulls from on side of the line; then when you depress the syringe back down, it goes out the other side). Tie something heavy to the intake side of the line and throw it in the bucket of detergent. Run the other side of the line to just above the detergent receptacle if your machine has one; or near the door for you to just aim it.

Load clothes; pull syringe, push syringe, close the door, run the machine. No detergent dripping all over the place!

…detergent is probably too viscous as-is to go through IV tubing at an acceptable rate, so you’d probably have to dilute it with water first to thin it out, then adjust the amount you pull accordingly.

Water has both adhesive and cohesive properties, and this bullshit is one of the results. I hate it so much. Basically the bit of wwater in contact with the surface of the spout likes to stick to that spot; and the above that likes to stick to the water stuck to the surface and so on, making it kinda roll along angled surfaces even when it seems like gravity should be yanking it right off.

And they absolutely could shape the spout in a way that stops this - they just choose not to.

Never heard of the oil coating trick @DontRedditMyLemmy mentioned, but it makes sense - oil is hydrophobic, so that could eliminate the adhesion part of the equation; and without that moving the stream initially, its cohesion won’t be an issue either.

It’d certainly be a good start.

Love ya, Bennie, but whatever road we were on, we’ve crashed through the guard rails and are on the way to the bottom of the lake.

It’s time to break some windows, not check the map.

We’d save a lot more than that if that fucker would just stop breathing.

Not wrong, but also not helpful in the goal of boosting public health. Even if we’re not able to reach literal herd immunity, boosting your own defenses still mitigates the spread and still plays a large role in reducing vulnerable people’s exposure.

Combine that with other reduction practices like hygiene and masking and we’ve got a solid defense.

And don’t get me wrong - I’m well aware that’s a pipedream, cuz good fucking luck convincing Cletus and Billybob that an itchy nose and a scary poke in the arm are worth not killing some grandma they’ll never meet… And until we can reach dipshits like that, there’s not much hope in controlling something like covid.

I’d also expand my initial post to vaccination habits in general, and the less mutatey pathogens than covid do give us a bit more wiggle room in dealing with morons.

Herd immunity is a thing, which is why it’s so important to vaccinate if you’re able to - the few people that truly can’t are relying on you.

He needs to be deposed, not denounced.

Apparently LoTR - which gets major bonus points for depicting its male protagonists as consistently not toxic - fails the Bechdel Test, HARD.

Enjoy this compilation of every scene from the trilogy that holds up to the test:

https://youtu.be/7fshOP7x0GM