it is super nuanced actually
1d 16h ago by lemmy.ml/u/sharkfucker420 in politicalmemes from lemmy.ml
If Trump came out tomorrow with a swastika tattooed on his forehead he'd lose like 2% of his voters maybe.
They know. It's by design. Your democracy has fallen.
Either fight back for your sake and everyone's sake, or be complicit in the free world's demise.
That’s a symbol of the sun commonly used in Euroasian religions. It’s clearly not the Nazi symbol. Also, the gesture he’s doing is obviously a Roman salute. Libs are so soft these days.
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roman salute? no no it's a classic south african sign language i love you
Nah he was just throwing his heart out to all the people he loves! Libs take screenshots so out of context!!
Either fight back for your sake and everyone's sake, or be complicit in the free world's demise.
It's so revealing when someone states things as a moral failing of everyone but themselves. You sincerely think you're not also complicit?
I'm not American, this one's not on me champ
You're not in the everyone group for that statement then? It comes across as you demanding others protect you and thinking that's all you need to contribute.
There's a US base 10km from where I am right now. If the US attacks Greenland and thus Europe and NATO there's gonna be some shit going on at my doorstep and I can't vote this fucker in or out, so yes.
I do feel like there's a very good reason why I should demand that whoever can do something, should do something.
But I'm sure this Nazi was prosecuted and ended up in jail.
We're all waiting for the Nuremberg trials pt 2
The Venezuela oil statements are particularly juicy evidence for the UN investigators
If this was a subtle troll, then well done.
Those are Vichy French soldiers.
I'm aware lol :P
I could tell by the uniforms but I didn't make the meme. Just thought it was funny. I am assuming its a jab at how all imperialist states embody fascism to a degree. The joke has layers
Quick historical background.
After the defeat of French and British forces by Nazi Germany, northern France, including Paris, is occupied. Southern France stays independent, with Vichy as its new capital. Vichy France, including colonies under its command, must stay neutral in the war. That means not aiding the allies in any way and resisting any landing. Otherwise, Nazi Germany would occupy the southern France, too, and probably murder a whole bunch of civilians in vengeance.
Casablanca - in north Africa, now in independent Morocco - is a french colony under Vichy rule. Other colonies vow to continue the fight. They are Free France under Charles de Gaulle.
In late 1942, the Americans land in north Africa (Operation Torch). They land in French colonies under Vichy rule. The Vichy troops put up a serious fight. Casablanca has already been captured when the movie comes out. The landings are successful and the allies go on to beat back the fascist Italian forces that are aided by Nazi Germany (Rommel's Africa Corps).
It's not just nuanced, it's complicated.
What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, that France and north Africa have their own history completely unconnected to Nazis Germany or the US.
What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, that France and north Africa have their own history completely unconnected to Nazis Germany or the US.
Absurd claims you are making here really. Almost unbelievable really.
I was going to ramble on about Mediterranean history, but then realized, it was already not short.
Have you ever heard of the 1961 Paris Massacre? It was a peaceful demonstration in a European capital. It ended with the police murdering dozens, maybe 100s.
That puts the civil rights struggles in the USA at the time into quite a favorable context. But one shouldn't view these events in France solely through the lens of colonialism or American racism, as the countries of southern Europe and northern Africa have Millennia of shared history. It is not like EG the European conquest of the Americas or the slave trade.
Shipping is a very cheap means of transporting massive amounts of cargo (or troops). Currently, the Mediterranean divides Europe from Africa, but that is an anomaly. Historically, it has tied together the countries around the coast, for better or worse. The Roman Empire was based around that sea.
Modern day Algeria was a regular part of France since 1848, like French Guyana today. Or like Hawaii is part of the US. But the inhabitants were very much second class citizens, which was justified through religion. Much of today's (French) Islamophobia feeds from that history. But do not forget that other countries around the Mediterranean, as well as Russia, also have a history of war and oppression involving Islamic people.
I actually just recently read Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. I hadn't heard of the Paris massacre but it does not surprise me at all. Fascism truly is colonialism brought home.
Mediterranean history is relatively familiar to me but only if you go back to pre roman times or early Islamic expansion tbh. I only have the most basic of knowledge post medieval period.
Right for us!