davidagain

Thank you for being polite and not calling me a bot or whatever else

You're very welcome, but when I read this comment, I had a rueful chuckle because I worry that I'd been rather too argumentative to count as in any way polite, so sorry about that, and I'll try harder to live up to your charitable interpretation rather than destroy it.

I'm not convinced that it's better in any significant way to have invented your own horrific policy slogan (that mirrors real nazi actions) than to have used a literal translation of a prewritten nazi one, but I decided before logging on that I was going to stop arguing with you on that point, so I should already have shut up and dropped it. Here's the parting compromise: you're right, it's not a literal nazi slogan, it's a newer maga slogan that just looks a lot like past nazi actions.

So far the administration behaves in ways that are like the Nazis, but they do not openly fly swastika flags, etc.

Many of their followers now do. I don't really understand why explicitly and openly nazi is such an important distinction for you.

Children have to learn to get along. I'm glad they have you being a good example while you teach them that alongside all the subjects and learning skills and who knows what else. Thank you.

I'm sure there are many children whose lives have gone down a much better path than they would have done, all because of what you do and how you do it.

May your career be happy, fun and long. Sincerely, bless you.

Like my local pub, then. That's how I like it.

Spoiler: they're not ranking it in and aren't millionaires, though.

but not actually yet acting on it.

I hope you're right and I'm wrong, but deporting people for not being white is already happening, extrajudicial execution is already happening, disregulated millitias with no accountability is already happening, retaliation on the scale of cities and States for not supporting the leader is already happening, armed removal of foreign leaders for nakedly political reasons is already happening, threatening to invade neighbouring countries is already happening, and here you are telling me it's all fine because at least they haven't copied the Nazis by killing off a whole village yet, they've just written their message of annihilation on a podium?

You are absolutely splitting hairs while citizens are openly abducted and killed in the streets. Again, have some sense of perspective! For you it hinges on the wording?!?!?

You are a hero of the teaching profession and I wish all teachers were like you.

But I'm afraid you give me too much credit in this case. We were teenagers and knew perfectly well that it was an analogy, but also thought that throwing mud at a wall sounded like a lot of fun, which it very much was. Fair's fair. I knew the risks and have no regrets!

Do not eat the furry cheese.

One of our teachers said you have to learn some things by rote because "if you throw enough mud at a wall, eventually some of it sticks". We were investigating this for science on the (windowless) back wall of the gym and we all got detention. We had got quite a lot of brown smudging but very partial and blotchy coverage.

It doesn't really matter what I say, you don't read it for meaning, you just shout some more of the same; attempting to communicate with you is like raking water uphill.

What does Poe's law say? How would you put it into your own words?

hmmm

Pretending other people are dumb when your "joke" landed badly because it matches Republican taking points circa 2024 isn't convincing me that you have a sense of humour. You sound like you genuinely believe you're the only one in the world who ever noticed that the nazis misdescribed themselves as socialist.

If you didn't spend part of 2024 explaining to maga followers that nazis weren't socialist, you can be forgiven for not realising in advance that those of us who did found your "joke" neither original nor funny. You claim to understand Poe's law but are falling miserably to recognise its relevance to you.

Hello? Republican policy matches Nazi mass retaliation policy and you're splitting hairs over whether they used this exact form of words? On what planet is that the important part?

I think that literally everyone who you ranted at are aware what nazi stood for, and that it is youth who lack awareness for not knowing that "nazi=socialist" was a right wing talking point, with exactly the reasoning you so angrily and repeatedly gave.

If you knew what poe's law was, why did you get so cross and defensive when I said you sounded like a right winger. If you knew that nazis aren't socialist, why did you get so cross and defensive mansplaining that socialist is in the title? If you were making a lighthearted joke, why are you so cross and defensive when people didn't see the humour? At every stage you're cross and defensive.

You claim to be joking, and claiming had people are dumb and poorly read for explaining that nazis aren't socialist, but the more you rant about not having read a history book, the more you seem to have missed the point that nazis really aren't socialist, when you repeatedly and angrily say "It's IN the nAme, StUpiD"