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I hate this law. Not because I think people should be saluting like Nazis, but because it was actually needed. We should be better than that. Have we learned nothing from 80-90 years ago?
My theory: there is basically no-one left who remembers WW2 first-hand, and a lot of people only know that the atrocities were commited by "evil monsters". And we're not evil monsters, right? We're sophisticated modern humans, not evil monsters, right? We are, therefore, incapable of atrocity or even mistake and it cannot happen here, right?
It’s super frustrating for people like me who are nerds for history and are extremely aware of exactly how fascism progressed last time it got popular.
There's a good reason "historian" is about the most left-leaning profession in existence.
The systematic dismantling of humanities education hasn't helped this either. That's why we needs arts / humanities just as much as science. The nazis had science but they didn't have any humanity.
Not that I support their ideology at all, but the Nazis gave the world some really cool shit. Jets, rockets and the ballistic missile, the modern highway system/overpasses, and advancement in nuclear fission. Just goes to show how much war seems to advance our technology tree.
Also..Fuck Nazis
I'd argue that the technological advancement was from spending a lot on that rather than societal goods, and the general removal of freedoms to trade for efficiency. This usually happens during war, but a society can't maintain that, people get sick of it. If they didn't run out of oil, they would have run out of the will to fight.
No it does not work like that. People have to be constantly reminded about stuff like this, only then can you even have the slighest hope that it won't happen again.
It's also dumb because it can easily be abused by the police. They could easily say you were doing it when hailing a cab or waving to your friend. There is a very fine line between Heil Hitler and Hail Cab, about 45° to be exact.
Do you actually think this is likely to be a problem?
Hell, if you're actually hailing a cab, they'd likely need to chase down that cab by the time they got to you.
As stupid as it sounds, I can only imagine some poor guy with swastika tattoos trying to explain how he was only waiving a cab driver down when he gets spear tackled by some crazy Islamic state supporter
How do you think this goes in court. If this is abused it means free millions from the state for your rights being trampled on.
This was rumoured to have come about because everyone was saying Dictator Dan, and throwing nazi salutes at him, though, right?
This was more about Dan not being upset, and being able to have protesters arrested if he got upset. This has been years in the making.
And now he's resigned.
That's how I understood it when it was first announced back in the day anyway.
I'd say it's got more to do with Tom Sewell and his merry band of genetic backwaters, but that'd make sense, and I don't read the Murdoch trash.
Fitting name.
(note: this post is now intended for the grandparent poster, after my initial assumption that the post above was agreeing with them)
Yes, a fitting name for an elected official who took the advice of both government and public service and used laws that had been available for a century to stop the spread of a virulent disease that actually, measurably, saved hundreds-to-thousands of lives. Laws that notably took power away from him and shunted it to the state's chief medical officer, a public service, non-elected position.
And then in a classic dictator move, a few years after releasing that extraordinary use of power and bringing things back to normal, he had the absolute gall to resign and not continue his despotic reign, talk about cheek.
"Dictator Dan", indeed.
The problem with names like that is that they use emotions to mask facts. "Dictator Dan" is as catchy as hell, don't get me wrong. But it focuses entirely on the man, not the methods. If you want to actually change the methods, then go right ahead and and use all the democratic processes we've got in place to do so, and we've got plenty compared to actual dictatorships.
Having the media rant against Dan Andrews in this manner only sows discontent and strife. That on its own does nothing to improve the situation, in fact, it makes it much worse.
Mate, I meant the guy I replied too, “Making(Up)StuffffForFun”.
Then I apologise for my confusion.
I've just heard that phrase bandied around far too often, and phrases like that are the thin end of the wedge of stupidity that blocks rational debate.
We're still blaming Dan for everything?
Thanks Obama
Love to, but the fucker up and resigned. HOW COULD DANDREWS DO THIS
^/s /s for chrissake^
I don't think it had anything to do with that. During lockdown people were drawing swastikas and such in my area, and for the past few years, there have been Nazis stickers going up (even before covid).
It has been increasingly escalating to worse nazi nonsense
I'd say if it were happening during lockdown, and given the percentage of the population that were outraged and felt like they were living in an Orwellian nightmare, it makes sense they're not actual Nazism supporters, but the opposite, and were sending a message to Dan.
Bullshit and fuck off.
Some people went fucking nuts - and I mean full on clinically time cube level batshit - during covid and a cohort went deep into the air fryer. We call them cookers because they're bloody cooked. They do not reflect the general opinion and if you side with nazis to piss off an elected official YOU CAN JUST VOTE OUT you're a goddamn idiot.
There were also stickers being stuck up before then at random spots (there was one at the footbridge here in Seaford)
The nazi's were simply opportunistic and took advantage of the situation. It's just inexcusable in any regard
No.
This happened after a bunch of nazis inserting themselves into everything imaginable (and yes, they did co-opt a lot of the dissatisfaction over lockdowns) pissing more and more people off until we literally ended with a situation where they got a protective cop ring around them and started flinging seig heils and there was no legal way to get them on the harm they were doing.
Fuck that noise.
Also fuckin' dan couldn't give a shit what nutballs chant in the street when the voters kept putting him back in the seat. Don't be such a five year old
I heard it was because everyone was throwing Nazi salutes in public spaces in support of the current liberal candidate but maybe whoever said that was making it the fuck up
edit for raptor squad this is entirely sarcastic but Christ you're dense mate