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We beat 'em before (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Gonna need more than a stick and a sheet of poster board

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 13 hours ago

Death by bayonet is too fast and painless though.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Every third generation after the event apparently.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Beat them with what? Mascots and placards?

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Now THAT'S what you call a revolutionary organisation

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

65 million people died in Europe alone. Facism has a profound price paid in blood by the working class while the ruling class benefits.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the non-violent protests has been largely ineffective , it just shows that there is no resistance when they use violence. the last thing the people at top want, rich people is rioting.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

turns out Minneapolis shouldnt gave given up their guns, huh....

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago

right now there is no chaos, just proper predictable protests. rioting isnt neccesarily violence

[–] Darkness343@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You didn't beat them before. Your grandparents did.

Can grandpa fight again?

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Grandpa had a gun and the strength of the US army behind him.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Grandparent age people are who voted ice in lmfao great grandparents were world war 2 folks nowday

[–] Darkness343@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well, can your grand father fight again?

[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You don't have the commies to do most of the job this time.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago

The British weren't commies

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How does one's ideology make them better equipped at fighting fascism?

If I decided to become a commie, would some divine god knowledge on fighting nazis be magically implanted into my brain?

Yeah commies did a great job occupying countries they "freed" from the Nazis.

If you want to replace one tyrant with another, the commies are good for that.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The equipment made them better equipped, not the ideology, though it does help because of it's accurate materialist understanding of history. The USSR had a massive industry that produced millions of bullets, artillery shells, and hundreds of tanks to fight the nazis. We don't have a nation like that now to fight the nazis, the nazis today are the dominant superpower and it will be a tough fight. I agree though idk what the point of that comment was.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

they were also willing to command enormous loss of life to accomplish military objectives

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works -5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Antifa, the shitty street militia funded by Stalin, got their asses kicked in Weimar and the people calling themselves "antifa" today are also losers funded by people who hate their country outright.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 3 points 15 hours ago

Bootlicker hot take

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Those same commies were very happy to cosy up to and ally with the Nazis until they got back stabbed.

[–] Grace_Schlick@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 21 hours ago

NATO was perfectly happy to hire all the "clean" naxos after WW2 as well, that's why the Wehrmacht got sanitized.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

They sure were! ~please don't actually study history, because you'll discover how many countries got away with nazism and chill~

Oh man those damn nazi loving commies, besides the nazis the commies were the only bad guys in ww2. /s

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 52 points 2 days ago (27 children)

I applaud the sentiment, but uhm… I don't think the comparison is helpful. Fighting external enemies is very different from fighting fascism from within. The "the state champions freedom" vs "the state is tyranny" kind of different.

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 56 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Like… our main problem today is not guns and ships.

The main problem is media, i.e. the propaganda system that keeps MAGAts happy to shoot themselves in the foot.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Conservative Propaganda Machine.

Before this is over, it will have to dealt with as the National Security Threat it is.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

There is the third type of fighting as well. I don't know what that is but trump once said "Fight! Fight! Fight!" during a political theatre event a while back. So that's three. /s

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

One of these would be fun, but ICE would probably fire back with real bullets.
Georgian protester brings a fireworks gatling gun

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Take a shield too ig? I love this video sm lmao

[–] modus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Holy shit that thing just kept going!

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Rocket launchers?

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But only after they have already killed millions.

[–] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mandatory reminder that plenty of people fought the nazis before the extermination camps.

Plenty of people fought the nazis before they started their world war.

Plenty of people fought the nazis without the support of ANY state and in opposition to the nazi state.

Plenty of people fought the nazis before Hitler was even elected.

Everyone that fought the nazis had in common that they didn't get to choose to win. Many of them died on what seemed to be the losing side of that conflict. Their choice was to fight.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Never discount contingency. If people resist more effectively this time, things need not happen the same way.

Evil will still be done, many will still die. But we can prevent the worst.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

its likely to repeat again.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

With a mortar launcher

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