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I really donāt like these jokes because I think they make light of how bad the Nazis were. Obviously fascism in the US is very very bad right now. But by 1939, antisemitic policies and action in Germany had become so bad that most Jews who were able to had already fled the country. The KZs for example already held around 60.000 people, and the Nazis murdered hundreds of Jews during the November pogroms of 1938.
I am fine with jokes linking the US right now to Germany in like 1935 or something.
Iām not arguing your point. But I am curious what 3rd party future historians will find the actual numbers of rounded up āillegalsā put in camps and the actual death tolls to be for 2026.
I keep hearing that we donāt currently know. Maybe weāll never know, unless someone is keeping a meticulous record in their private diary.
The official target is 3k arrests of illegals per day in a country of over 300 million people.
Source from horseās mouth March 2025:
I mean people are fleeing the country and ICE is literally murdering innocent people and getting away with it. People are dying in detention centers and we donāt even know the exact number because ICE no longer reports deaths. ICE has also stopped reporting on detention and deportation data as well so we donāt even know how fucked it all is.
Considering those points I think 1939 comparisons are still very apt. I donāt think itās lessening what happened in 1939, I think itās emphasizing how fucked the US is. Itās just not that obvious because itās happening right now and you donāt know the full extent of everything ICE is doing. You might even be downplaying the current situation by thinking itās not as bad as something that is historically picked apart and fully documented.
1935 Germany was still pretty badā¦
As a Jew and a trans woman I think we can all acknowledge that they are both bad while being very different and very similar
I dunno, but I already know of queer people who have fled the US.
I know a lot of queer people who want to flee the US, but canāt afford it
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Screenshot of a post that says āTime zones are so funny, how come itās 1 pm for me and 1939 in the USā
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Oof.
Better call an ambulance for that burn America.
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Better not, you know how much they have to pay for an ambulance? screams in Italian
We feel like our brain is too tism to get the joke. Is it basically saying America is way outdated and economically horrible? Just wanting to clarify because if so yeah thatās true
I thinl itās specifically about 1939 germany, which was Nazi germany
Aahhh oki, yeah thatās even more accurate lol
hey in the uk the new prime minister just made an unabashed fascist who wants to genocide immigrants chancellor so thereās that
