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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Even in the worst circumstances, there is something you can do"

"Yeah, but, like, why are there bad circumstances? Have you ever thought of that?"

My dude, when the fuck do you think people need hope? When they're jerking off?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

because this post is basically trying to make Nazis throwing bombs at the allies seem like an aspirational situation, and I don't want to value the things nazis did, because the current authoritarian world is disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you are reading this entirely wrong. Throwing the bombs isn't the inspirational part. It's the bad part. The inspirational part is that the Czech forced laborers are rebelling the best they can against the Nazi regime by sabotaging the bombs they are forced to make.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sure. that part is left ambigious, since "the best we can do" can refer to sabotage or "the highest quality bombs we could make"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, but did you read the post? Do you think that the highest quality explosive ordnance they could make would involve zero explosives being loaded in them, with zero of them exploding? The post leaves it completely unambiguous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Do you think that the highest quality explosive ordnance they could make would involve zero explosives being loaded in them, with zero of them exploding

The highest quality bombs we could make.... with no explosives

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who is going to throw things at American things in 1943 in germany? Nazis.

Spoilers : Nazis are bad. The Nazis are bad because they are authoritarian. There are many authoritarian led countries in the world today. So many, that it is exhausting.

In the past, maybe it would have been edgy fun to think of heroes from the "enemy side". There are too many today, so trying to find hope and heros in Nazis is not fun anymore.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does a nazi putting a gun to your head and telling you to work making ammunition makes you a nazi? Because that's what happened. Forced conscription happened. The world isn't black and white. Allies committed war crimes too. There were good people forced into bad situations too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Does a nazi putting a gun to your head and telling you to work making ammunition makes you a nazi?

The only way this makes them the good guys is if the note means they sabotaged the bomb making. Everything else surrounding it is horrid.

EDIT : The text can be interpreted as either : "We sabotaged the bombs for you" or "we don't have explosives to put in the bombs". From my understanding, it could go either way.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's very obviously "we sabotaged the bombs."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

in this awful world full of propaganda on all sides, I can't tell anymore.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Honestly, you need to take a step back and help yourself here. Either recognize that your interpretation of reality is skewed and/or you’re just not intelligent. Either way, adjust accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Basic knowledge of history / how the war went would show you that it is "we sabotaged the bombs because we have a gun to our heads and cannot do more".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

You may want to invest in some basic literacy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe there's more nuance to the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In the past, maybe it would have been edgy fun to think of heroes from the “enemy side”. There are too many today, so trying to find hope and heros in Nazis is not fun anymore.