• Nath@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I hate this law. Not because I think people should be saluting like Nazis, but because it was actually needed. We should be better than that. Have we learned nothing from 80-90 years ago?

    • Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      The systematic dismantling of humanities education hasn't helped this either. That's why we needs arts / humanities just as much as science. The nazis had science but they didn't have any humanity.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Their science was in many respects also questionable. Sure, they engineered alright but they also based sweeping policy on ridiculous race science and their astrophysics never would have panned out with their rejection of Relativity as "Jewish Physics"

        • Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago

          Am autistic and can confirm that many aspects of their science are bullshit. Still deal with the impacts of this every day as many in my community are willfully ignorant about Hans Asperger and how concepts like 'high' and 'low' functioning are based in nazi ideology not science.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Australia is a settler colonial project built on the genocide of indigenous populations, its in the bones of your country like it is in the US, and like we inspired Nazi Germany to be

      In the best of cases overcoming this history would be difficult, but we live in a world where this is not the best of cases, and where for most of history the ruling class has gone the other direction and misinformation and lies are more common than learning real history

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Nazis literally came back solely for, as the kids say, "having rizz".

      Normies just suck.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Why be like this? No, it wasn't the fucking uniforms, it was the assemblage of white supremacist states that recruited Nazis and promoted aspects of their ideology all over the anglosphere.

    • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      This was rumoured to have come about because everyone was saying Dictator Dan, and throwing nazi salutes at him, though, right?

      This was more about Dan not being upset, and being able to have protesters arrested if he got upset. This has been years in the making.

      And now he's resigned.

      That's how I understood it when it was first announced back in the day anyway.

      • samson@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        I heard it was because everyone was throwing Nazi salutes in public spaces in support of the current liberal candidate but maybe whoever said that was making it the fuck up

        edit for raptor squad this is entirely sarcastic but Christ you're dense mate

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        No.

        This happened after a bunch of nazis inserting themselves into everything imaginable (and yes, they did co-opt a lot of the dissatisfaction over lockdowns) pissing more and more people off until we literally ended with a situation where they got a protective cop ring around them and started flinging seig heils and there was no legal way to get them on the harm they were doing.

        Fuck that noise.

        Also fuckin' dan couldn't give a shit what nutballs chant in the street when the voters kept putting him back in the seat. Don't be such a five year old