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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 176 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You know who also abducted people randomly?

THE FUCKING NAZIS IN GERMANY!

But something like that would never happen in the Land of The Free and The Home of The Brave, right?

[–] gnate@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

authoritarians of every aesthetic

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup! It was Pinochet's favorite thing.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Mao and Pol Pot too!

I wondered why you had two downvotes, but then I remembered that tankies actually exist.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you think the Nazis only targeted jews you’re in for a huge surprise. They also went for scientists, university professors, political adversaries, so called sexual deviants (their words not mine), … Same as Trump and his goons are doing right now.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

If you think the Nazis only targeted jews you’re in for a huge surprise.

Did you reply to the wrong comment? Where did I ever say or suggest that?