Obvious as it may sound, people with authoritarian beliefs hiding behind free speech actually consider it as a weakness akin empathy. It allows losers like them to amplify their reach despite not being in power. They abandon their “free speech absolutist” postures the moment they think they are in power.

  • @rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20•24 days ago

    Goebbels must have felt really clever when he killed his children and wife. Right Goebbels?

    Goebbels? (Gore)

    Oh.

      • comfy
        5•23 days ago

        Search: goebbels death -> Goebbels Wikipedia article:

        In the mid-afternoon of 30 April, Hitler shot himself. […] On the evening of 1 May, Goebbels arranged for an SS dentist, Helmut Kunz, to inject his six children with morphine so that when they were unconscious, an ampule of a cyanide compound could be then crushed in each of their mouths. […] At around 20:30, Goebbels and [wife] Magda left the bunker and walked up to the garden of the Chancellery, where they killed themselves. There are several different accounts of this event. [I’ve omitted contradictory claims of how they died and were treated after by SS soldiers] The corpses were then doused with petrol, but they were only partially burned and not buried.

    • Higgs bosonEnglish
      -24•24 days ago

      Reported for untagged gore. Blocked for being a shitbag troll.

      • FartsWithAnAccentM
        36•24 days ago

        Mod here: Nah, that stays up.

        You just sear that image into your brain and think about it every time you hear the word Nazi, remember what they did to human beings (even their own).

        If you haven’t seen them, look up pictures of the holocaust because those horrors should never be forgotten.

        • @rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12•24 days ago

          To be fair, the gore part I kinda understand. How do I tag a comment with gore? I mean he could have told me himself but he was so scared of what I might reply, he blocked me.

          • snooggumsEnglish
            10•24 days ago

            Hide it as a spoiler that is titled what it is and that it has gore.

            deep fried goebbels (gore)

            Pretend there was gore here

                • @rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3•24 days ago

                  I completely agree with you. And I want to make one thing clear: I hope Goebbels, or any other Nazis, last hours on earth have been agonisingly painful in every form possible. Seeing them crispy makes me happy.

                  But, and this is a pretty big but, there are people out there who lost loved ones in fires and stuff like this might trigger them and cause unnecessary pain. While “humans well done” don’t bother me much, there are topics that drive me up the wall especially when it comes out of nowhere.

                  So while I can at least understand where (whatever his name was, I honest to god already forgot about him) their reaction came from, I also think it is important to show people the horrors of the last century. Because like you already said, politely talking about it in a SFW fashion clearly didn’t work.

        • Higgs bosonEnglish
          -14•24 days ago

          Fuck you. This shit is traumatic for me. had family members murdered by the actual Nazis. Blocked you and this shithole community.

          • FartsWithAnAccentM
            13•24 days ago

            Yes, the holocaust was an extremely traumatic event, that’s the whole point.

            I’m not whitewashing history for you, sorry.

            • @notsoshaihulud@lemmy.worldOP
              5•24 days ago

              I would have reported the pic for gore, but I think hiding it under spoiler is fair game. What humanity should have learned from this story is that just because ideologies that consider fairness or empathy a weakness might appear viable and effective to grab power quickly, we have plenty of gory evidence that they do lead to the annihilation of millions, including those initially benefiting from them.

              • FartsWithAnAccentM
                4•24 days ago

                A spoiler would be OK by me, but I would still encourage everyone to look at what they did if they have not seen it. Visit a holocaust museum even. Frankly, I don’t know that everyone understands, there are an increasing number of people who downplay or outright deny the horrors of World War II and everything that led to it.

          • @DogEarBookmark@reddthat.comEnglish
            5•24 days ago

            Sorry to hear about your family.

            If the world is going to blatantly ignore history, then the atrocities should become more abundantly available as a reminder. Censoring history is re-writing it.

          • @ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
            4•24 days ago

            I had great uncles and an aunt I never got to meet because of Nazis. This picture is soothing, being a reminder of what happens to all Nazis. They all die. Every single one of them is removed before their time. It’s comforting to know that this too shall pass.