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  • You actually believe that? The people who claim that people like Werner von Braun didn't commit any crimes are the CIA and Braun himself. All of the records from Germany were destroyed. It's essentially just taking his word on it to believe he was only involved because "he had to be."

    He was literally a member of the SS, the wing of the nazi government that was directly responsible for the Holocaust. He was photographed repeatedly with himmler himself, in uniform. He claimed that those were just ceremonial photos that he had to participate in the keep his career. He also claimed not to agree with the Nazis politically.

    Why would you believe anything that a member of the SS said? Especially one as important to the Nazis as von Braun was.

    Of fucking course he was never found guilty of any war crimes, the US was actively trying to recruit him. They didn't want to prosecute their newest asset, a man who directly led to the US becoming the globally dominant force it became during the space race. He was useful so the US government deliberately didn't investigate him seriously, took him at his word that he totally wasn't a real nazi, and then used him to invent more rockets for them.




  • It's so funny to me that so many people in this thread are like "well technically it also applies to christians wearing crosses! So it isn't discriminatory." I guarantee you that a kid wearing a cross won't get in any trouble for it, they certainly won't be sent home. They'd probably be asked to hide it better and let off by the teacher, if anything at all was said.

    These kinds of laws are classic examples of laws that are deliberately targeted at specific groups, but worded in a way which technically makes them apply to everyone, with the intent that enforcement will not target the group it wasn't supposed to.







  • I'm still new to lemmy. I'm a reddit migrant.

    I joined in the first wave, and I was pleased to see a large leftist presence here. It was a bit refreshing, compared to the constant lib shit (or outright conservative takes) that was the norm on reddit.

    Then the second wave of migrants hit and with it came ALL of the reactionaries. Suddenly Ukraine war news was hitting the front of my all page every day, with all of the usual, very liberal arguments in support of continuing the war indefinitely. Anyone to the left of bernie Sanders was being heavily downvoted, and all of the new libs were complaining about "Freedom of speech" not being enough here because of the early, big defederations that happened, while simultaneously demanding mods of their instances deliberately silence anyone to the left of their neolib brains.

    It's kind of infuriating. The word "tankie" has been eroded just like the word "woke" was by the right. It used to mean authoritarian leftist, now it's being used to mean "anyone who doesn't support US imperialist dogma uncritically."

    I liked lemmy more when it wasn't full of libs.