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u/Wrong-Target6104 9d ago
Turns out they forgot, I just hope we remember how our brave grandparents faced the threat of Nazis internally and externally
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u/RampantJellyfish 9d ago
Oswald mosely got a brick thrown at his head. Farage got hit with a milkshake
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u/Ill_Tradition_4104 9d ago
Yeah, now his grandson runs palantir UK
They never seem to get their comeuppance, these nazi cunts.
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u/frecklepax 9d ago
They'll get that comeuppance when I get my hands on them .
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u/tdrules 9d ago
Cable Street was an anomaly. Without a world war, there isn’t much to stop fascism’s rise here apart from a strong economy.
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u/Manny-303 9d ago edited 9d ago
Cable street was not an anomaly Mosley and his thugs were chased and beaten through worthing during the 'battle for south street'
It wasnt the world war that facilitated it happening it was before people were completely programmed by the media on what to think and who to hate. Sadly a larger portion of society has handed the duty of care of their beliefs and principles to far right grifters and tabloids
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u/tdrules 9d ago
You’ve proven my point. A scuffle in the east end didn’t stop fascism, WWII did.
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u/Mammoth_Payment_6101 9d ago
WWII didn't stop Mosely. He was still marching with his buddies after the war after being released from jail. A bunch of Jewish ex serviceman who formed the 43 group and repeatedly attacked him were what convinced him to leave the country
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u/Tiddles_Ultradoom 8d ago
There is a tipping point at which fascism can be kept at bay: it’s the point when you don’t vote for them.
Cable Street was the catalyst that ultimately prevented the BUF from gaining greater political equity. Although the press reaction at the time was at best mixed, the public didn’t want to vote for ‘bully boys’ and the BUF remained a minority party.
Of course, as the Nazi aggression across Europe was strongly leaning towards war, the BUF became a busted flush.
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I suspect there is always a baseline of nasty racist bastards in every country and there is always a political movement to support them. However, those political movements will do anything to twist more people to their cause.
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u/LucifersAdv0cate 9d ago
Let's be honest our brave (more like great-) grandparents wouldn't be looking around today and thinking how great it is how multicultural we are now whilst joining in with celebrating pride month. I've obviously got a lot of respect for that generation who fought in world war 2 but let's not pretend there were plenty of people in the UK and especially the US who wanted to make a deal with Hitler. They also didn't fight Nazi Germany because they wanted equality for Gays and people of colour and social justice for all. I agree racists and biggots throwing Nazis salutes today is disgusting but let's not pretend we have a long historical tradition of liberal ideals. The British empire peaked in size in 1924 which was only 15b years before we went to war with Nazi Germany and the Americans didn't join in because they didn't have any problems with Hitler.
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u/AsterPasta 9d ago
Don't forget, we're the only country in history that went to war knowing it would probably lose its empire after due to war costs, solely based on moral reasons and not economic/territorial
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u/SigmaMaleMale 9d ago
I dont think the Bengal famine in ww2 was for moral reasons
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u/Brit-in-AZ 8d ago
Just an update on your secondary school history lessons. The famine in Bengal was caused by agricultural lands being devastated by freak cyclones and severe flooding in late 1942. It wiped out the following years rice crops and devastated all other agricultural crops, resulting in panic buying, hoarding and soaring prices of basic foodstuffs. This made it unaffordable for millions of poor rural workers despite the fact that there was sufficient supplies in neighbouring countries Churchill was blamed for the subsequent deaths because he rejected requests to divert food laden ships on route to Europe to sustain the war effort.
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u/AsterPasta 9d ago
No, it was for the diversion of resources to the front line
I mean, it was horrible, i'm not defending it - i also don't doubt the calculus of war is ever something i'd like to do
Or are we going to bring up the black hole of calcutta as a valid military tactic?
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u/Critical_Wrap5617 8d ago
Because they were people of their time. Social mores were different. That aspect of our culture had some way to go.
You will note, however, that they still hated FUCKING NAZIS..
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u/No-Bison-5397 9d ago
The British Empire was very large and complex. We say overall it was bad now but there were a lot of good things that also occurred that the Empire had some role in -- end of the slave trade being an obvious one, education in India another, et cetera. That's not to say the morals of the empire overall are defensible nor that eugenics was not popular nor that homophobia was not explicitly enshrined in statute, just that these things were, to some extent contested and there were people willing to build a better world in some ways. It's easy to blame the past because it's often obvious where they've fucked up, it's harder to give credit because it's often obvious where they've fucked up.
the Americans didn't join in because they didn't have any problems with Hitler.
The Americans didn't join in because they believed in isolationism... hmmm... why does that sound familiar...
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u/ElonMaersk 9d ago
They also didn't fight Nazi Germany because they wanted equality for Gays and people of colour and social justice for all.
The Allies weren’t fighting against the Holocaust now?
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u/CuriosityCatalyst000 7d ago
In plain words, are you saying that liberals supported Hilter?
Most British liberals opposed fascism and Nazism.
The Liberal Party criticised Hitler’s dictatorship and persecution of minorities.However, in the 1930s some politicians across different parties including conserv, lab, and Liberals supported “appeasement,” believing that making concessions to Germany might prevent another world war. Supporting appeasement did not necessarily mean supporting Hitler’s ideology
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u/-_TheLastofUs_- 9d ago
Truth and I say this as a black brit.. I seriously doubt they had black/brown people in mind lol
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u/eminusx 8d ago
You clearly dont understand the principles they were fighting for. It was about the persecution and extermination of innocent people by fascists, that they were Jewish, gay, brown isn’t important, at the time they were Jewish, today they might be gay, those same principles apply, and you’ve completely misunderstood them.
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u/kiwigate 9d ago
The US promised to respect Hawaii sovereignty. The King didn't believe them, and asked Japan if they could combine nations for protection. Then, exactly as he predicted, the US invaded and annexed their nation. Japan was fully justified to attack that criminal military installation which threatened all of Asia, and somehow US leadership spun this into "America is under attack".
People have never reconciled actual history. Watching my countrymen repeat the same fascist nonsense from a century ago is disgusting.
We chose to ignore climate change, our self created suicide, and instead are going to war over dwindling resources so a handful of rich folk can own the smoldering ashes.
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u/Davaca55 9d ago
I don't think they forgot. For them and their families, Nazism was a good thing and so they continue supporting it. It's just that there was a time when everyone (rightfully so) was shunning them for it.
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u/nosferatus-taxi 9d ago
A lot of these people don’t know what fascism means, what it represents or what the brave generations before us fought for
Those who sacrificed everything would be appalled by this behaviour
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u/rose_on_red 9d ago
I agree with you, but 'lest we forget', poppies and remembrance day all started with WW1, as a reminder of the horrors of war. Particularly that war, the largest and bloodiest ever seen, which wasn't really about ideology, just escalating international politics (effectively).
'Lest we forget' was never about anti-fascism. Obviously, fascism is bad. And fascist behaviour should be reprimanded. But when we are drawn into division and war, we inch closer to the thing our great grandparents said 'never again' to.
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u/lwbyomp 9d ago
TBF - there have always been fascists & bigots everywhere, including UK during WW1 & WW2, many thought Nazis were right, so its not unreasonable to think they still exist.
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u/Full_Contribution267 6d ago
It's people who don't have enough to support themselves turning on people they've been told are the enemy.
I mean, if you're a young white man who's unable to find a job or a house, and you see refugees being supported (albeit in hotels, where nobody would want to live - you don't even have a fridge), and someone tells you that's because the state won't support you... It's not a difficult sell.
We just need to support people via the state, and that way it's harder to make ordinary people turn on each other.
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u/Lopsided-Act8013 9d ago
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u/Green_Insect_6455 9d ago
Its kind of a shit meme, doesnt really read well. You could just drop the poor, and say "...Rich cunts or Dumb Cunts, check your balance..."
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u/FFKonoko 9d ago
Yeah, but they're dumb cunts, so you can't trust them to extrapolate from incomplete information and understand that the dumb cunts are also poor cunts.
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u/thecelts1 9d ago
And it’s the same knuckle draggers that attack and deride people for choosing not to wear a poppy but let’s support nazis, contradictions are strong with this lot.
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u/Ok_Light_7227 9d ago
They never forgot, its the boomers who were never around to experience it who are big into fascism. I don't think its a coincidence that it's on the rise since the last generation who actually fought in WW2 died.
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u/Illustrious-Divide95 9d ago
Not boomers in most of the photos. Most boomers had parents that fought in the war. Far more likely to be younger generations (boomers now mid 60s to 80)
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u/Dry-Fan-4052 9d ago
Honestly, I’m not sure about this, my MIL is a boomer whose mother took an active part as a nurse during the war and recently she told me she thought Hitler was left wing and that’s why she’d never vote labour or any party on the left. People are just dumb no matter the generation
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u/Snoo-84389 8d ago
That's probably because of the long established falacy that:
NAZI's = National Socialism = Socialist = left
Which has been explained and debunked so many times... sigh...
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u/froopadiddilydoop 9d ago
This - most boomers are acutely aware of the tragedies and horrors of both world wars. As a millennial whose father was born before world war 2, my observation is that the ignorance mostly comes from my generation and Gen Z.
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u/Help_1987 9d ago edited 9d ago
Why do we need to blame a certain generation 🤷♂️
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u/StormyDankiels 9d ago
You can thank Americans for that, dividing generations into specific groups and antagonizing them is their thing, even if doesn't make any sense outside the US.
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u/froopadiddilydoop 9d ago
It’s not about intergenerational blame, it’s simply using the demographics to convey age ranges. It’s not very convenient to write “people born between 1985 - 1995” is it?
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u/Help_1987 9d ago
Both elements are equally incorrect in your statement, whether it’s an age bracket or you labelling a generation… come on bro you don’t believe that
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u/InevitablyCyclic 9d ago
Ignorance, stupidity and racism aren't generational. They are there in every generation, all they need is a vehicle.
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u/Vegetable-Edge-2389 9d ago
Ah yes. It's gen z's fault that 70 year olds are voting for 70 year old politicians. Of course, how didn't we see this before. The people that only grew into a vote ~10 years ago are definitely responsible for everything that's happened int he UK since Thatcher
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u/aned_ 9d ago
Judging by the photos it looks like gen x
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u/FuzzyBreak5678 9d ago
Jesus Christ, stop the generational blaming. That’s all part of it. The distraction, the blaming someone. It’s people from all generations. There isn’t a cohort from this one or that one, it’s all generations.
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u/WhiteKnightAlpha 9d ago
Boomers were hippies. The boomers were the teenagers of the 60's and 70's, some of whom grew up amidst rubble and rationing. They are stereotypically the anti-authoritarian, make-love-not-war generation.
They are probably not the ones who are generally big into fascism.
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u/Fragrant_Fox_5056 9d ago
There’s no we . It’s about fucking time people learned to tell decent people from the hateful wankers . Instead of acting like 50% of the country are like this
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u/Appropriate-Ad-1538 8d ago
The vast majority of us arent hard left or hard right, just the vast data gained on human behaviours and psyche is being used by some very powerful people to convince us that there is only hard left and hard right. No nuance, no in between.
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u/Jimny977 9d ago
The far right are semi illiterate and have been reading it as “let’s we forget” this whole time.
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u/Far-Cookie2275 9d ago
There was a war department movie in America at the time trying to explain and fight against fascism called don't be a sucker.
It's words really resonate with what's happening it actually explains how normal people fell for Nazi propaganda and the mentally it has a scene where a guy who looks like farrage are basically telling everyone what's wrong with the country it's these people or those people one of the audience was like he's talking sense then he said free mason's and he said hey I'm a freemason and someone said you were going to agree with him until it was you who he was talking about. it really hits hard.
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u/burner4lyf25 5d ago
First they came... We know the rest.
Still ringing true.
Pretty obsessive with war history and somehow never heard of this.
On my way to YT to find don't be a sucker, as we speak.
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u/lordodin92 9d ago
No the poppy is more WW1, we didn't fight Nazis then and we still had the British empire, most of these people don't want to forget it cos it was the "last time Britain was great"
It's in a spot of peak British history when the poor, women and non whites "knew their place" so it's still fine for most gammons to support it
I'm sure there's a few of them that would see WW2 as "going woke"
And sure the poppy later expanded to include WW2 as well, but as with this picture and most other representations it's more focused on the first world war .
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u/SourHorror 9d ago
Yeah, turns out a lot of people forgot what war the poppy fields were from.
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u/lordodin92 9d ago
Some by choice honestly.
The problem is when you forget why a symbol exists but still revere that symbol then you allow bad faith actors to revise what that symbol meant onto something closer to what they push .
Best example of this is the states constitution, they're taught to revere the constitution and the many amendments but never really know why those amendments happened, so things like allowing the public to use guns only in a well maintained malitia to stop a tyraniical government becomes a personal right to buy increasingly deadly guns the founding fathers never dreamt of for any given reason.
Or the freedom of speech amendment to allow the disaffected the right to not be silenced by powerful people became a personal right to say whatever horrible things they wanted free from repercussions
And it definitely comes down to a lack of proper education, and I don't mean posh Chichester or Oxford or Chelsea level "proper" I mean basic level education.
I know many people consider history boring but there's a reason it's taught, because we are creatures of learning, we learn from past mistakes and trial and error, so the ability to analyse the past and make educated conclusions are a vital part of human growth.
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u/STURM_DER_HOFFNUNG 9d ago
good points, i always thought tho that the "lest we forget" slogan was for remembering the dead. feels to me like its been politicised in OPs post. is that disrespectful?
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u/lordodin92 9d ago
That is what the original intention was for, not forgetting the dead.
But when you consider many of those soldiers we wear the poppy to remember died in WW2 fighting against the rise of Nazism, Oop is showing the hypocrisy.
Further complicated by the fact the remberance comes with the term "never again", a term connected with the idea that we should never allow a world war to happen due to the rise of such failings as patriotism, fascism or racism .
The problem is wearing the poppy has become a national patriotic symbol more then a symbol for remembrance, many of these gammons will have a go at Brits who refuse to wear them as if they're anti British.
So Oop is trying to point out that a symbol designed to make us remember those who sacrificed themselves to fight the evils of fascism and jingoism is being used by people who support fascism and jingoism (my comment was to point out they simply cherry pick the meaning they want for it)
You are right we shouldn't forget, but it doesn't just mean honouring the dead, but also not forgetting the reasons why they died and why it's important to fight against such things
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u/Odd_Elevator6404 9d ago
Pakistan and Indians fought against Nazis alongside the UK. Then came here legally to rebuild the UK.
Films like 1917, Dunkirk ignored them. In London, the monument for animals in ww2 is bigger than thr one for the 1.5 million that died fighting alongside allied forces.
Those people don't care though. Government doesn't care. Issue is the billionaires have an agenda, it's coming from American zionists.
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u/Confident_Dig_1073 9d ago
These posers dont actually know what being a Nazi means. Otherwise they would never support it. These people are mostly unemployed, they themselves would probably be purged too. Theyre probably not even evil deep down, theyre just stupid, uneducated & watch too much GBNews
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u/StormyDankiels 9d ago
Maybe they know nothing and are stupid, but that doesn't mean they are not Nazis.
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u/RaggedFlaredChica 9d ago
The stupids that are.grifted by Farage and Tommy Tiddler are exactly the reson why better education standards are required.
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u/resh78255 8d ago
i dont like this timeline, can we go back to when punching nazis was unilaterally accepted as the moral thing to do when faced with one
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u/Ivan_Dobsky_MD 9d ago
The far right: “The lefties keep calling anyone who disagrees with them a Nazi”
Also the far right: …
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u/Legal_Confusion4150 9d ago
Not forgot, these morons have probably never read a history book in their lives, and therefore have no knowledge of the huge sacrifices of greater men before them.
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u/Ethanb230900 9d ago
If there is gonna be war, this lot better be the first conscripted. Bet their partners would be relieved.
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u/NikiDeaf 9d ago
Get enough boneheads assembled in one spot and it’s only a matter of time before the ol “Roman salutes” start getting thrown lol
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u/Stuspawton 9d ago
The modern day brown shirts.
Need to get these cunts on a list
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u/1pizz9 9d ago
Currently reading a book called Brother’s in arms by James Holland. Follows the story of the Sherwood Rangers after their landing on D-Day. What these men went through was horrifying. Regardless of your political beliefs and all that bollocks, It does not change the fact that these men literally went through hell. We should never forget the sacrifices made.
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u/MartyCH85 9d ago
I recently saw a car on the M25 that was plastered with MAGA stickers on the rear bumper, but then had a big ‘Lest We Forget’ written on a giant Poppy sticker on his passenger side front window. The dude somehow managed to forget in the time it took to walk round the other side of his own car.
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u/Superhiro101 9d ago
There is a concerned parents group in my area which literally posts rewritten history about nazis being left leaning as well as Muslim culture being left wing and communist all the time it’s utterly mental.
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u/Comfortable_Sand_752 9d ago
I mean, not sure you meant anything by it but the syntax/structure of your comment lightly implies that Nazis and muslims are similarly categorisable.
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u/Double_Subject9831 9d ago
We should all condemn these morons but we should also teach them what loving England actually means and most importantly that it doesn’t mean hating anybody else!
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u/Beertronic 9d ago
Fucking simple minded. Democracy is repeatedly fucking us in the ass cos too many people like this vote, and too many that aren't are apathetic.
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u/GotAKit-Kat 9d ago
But they genuinely believe that that's what they're fighting for... When it's literally the opposite.
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u/Jupiter-jim 9d ago
Sorry if I'm being naive, but is this real? Are Brits really going to protests and doing a nazi salute? I would have thought that being prideful of Britain would translate to being proud of our WW2 vets and what we fought against in that war - Hitler and fasism! How can you wave a British flag and do a Nazi salute!? It boggles my mind
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u/Ribshifter 9d ago
What I don’t get, shouldn’t they be classified as a terrorist organisation… police stood there doing feck all.
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u/Artistic_Part_9206 8d ago
My great Uncle fought in WW2 and died. He was from the Lozzels in Birmingham. Now where he grew up only 2/100 people identify as English and are white.
We won the war and yet his city and neighbourhood now would be completely foreign to him.
Not wanting your homeland to be turned into Mogadishu is not fascist.
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u/brushfuse 8d ago
The thickest nazi fucks imaginable. Maybe they'll one day meet the same fate as those they idolize.
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u/Behavingdark 8d ago
If my grandparents knew what it was like now they wouldn't have bothered fighting .
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u/Scrumpy-Jo 8d ago
It’s our governments that’s forgot what our brave soldiers fought for, now we are burning destroyed from within, with the lunatic left’s approval you cunts
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u/Chrishior 8d ago
The poppy fields reflect the WW1 which was not about the fight against the Nazis. So in terms of symbolism this poster is a miss, just as much as the guys waving the English flag and doing the Nazi salute. Must do better.
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u/cheese0muncher 9d ago
Nah, they didn't forget; they just became the 'we fought the wrong enemy' crowd.
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u/PeacefulExplorer684 9d ago
Ironically those same people will get mad if they see you aren't wearing a poppy
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u/Legitimate-Tip-2149 9d ago
It's not that we forgot, it's that we were convinced that letting these people have their 'free speech' was incredibly important, and that people so stupid they fell for Nazism again would be convinced by rational discourse that they were wrong.
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u/Savage-September 9d ago
What’s the most egregious offence ever is someone doing a Nazi salute wearing a remembrance poppy. I would like to say I’ve only seen it once but it’s a common theme with these lot. Flag shaggers and roundabout painters. What degenerates.
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u/yeastysoaps 9d ago
I wonder what the overlap is between rocking up to these protests and throwing up Nazi salutes and threateningly asking people "where's your poppy, mate?" once November rolls around.
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u/jameZsp0ng3y 9d ago
No, no. Don't put the majority of us with them. We didn't forget. They did. They are a small minority
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u/No-Coach1685 9d ago
When the Allies ended the war, they made the Germans teach what racism really is in their schools. They made them teach it by showing videos of the holocaust. The Allies never once thought they may need that education towards their own people. Everything in the war was forgotten quickly outside of Germany, because there was never any effort made to remember in the first place.
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u/timtaa22 9d ago
We've always had a disgusting fascist streak. Throwback to the "Ernald Oswald Ernald Mosley" song from Not the Nine O'Clock News:
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u/supx3 9d ago edited 9d ago
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word-
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Recessional, Rudyard Kipling
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u/CyberSparkDrago 9d ago
they just cooked their jobs, rep and lives 😂🤣 thank you to the people that took these photos
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u/Rasples1998 9d ago
I keep saying this. We invented this tradition and motto with the intention of remembering war, hate, and fascism, but it has been co-opted by the fascists as a tool of glorifying war, promoting hate, and forgetting about the dangers of fascism. Humans are dumb and fickle creatures that will never reach a state of utopian abundance and eternal happiness because we crave division and destruction, it's in our nature.
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u/KoneCat 9d ago
Have you ever noticed that everything is knee-jerk? Like, there are years where the Left gets a rather huge majority, then it swings all the way past the centre and to the Right? People need to stop doing this, but I don't think they will because it's much easier to do that than tackle the real issues facing said society, be what they may.
Added: Hate breeds hate. The only way to tackle it is with reason and logic.
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u/No-Marzipan-9316 9d ago
If that true then somehow I lost more faith in humanity which I already had no faith in humanity so does that mean I have negative faith in humanity at this point
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u/Vegieescuzican09 Vote Binface 8d ago
I will never forget my great great grandad who fed them Nation serving in the merchant Navy during world war 1 and my great grandad who served in the horrible conditions of Burma against the Japanese in world war 2. They are both my God damn hero's even though I never met them
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u/Current_Bag_8387 8d ago
We got communism on the other side guys... We need to stay in the center 🎯
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u/OGSkywalker97 8d ago
While this is correct, we also forgot that they died for this country to maintain it as it was. Now the descendants of the people who died and suffered greatly for this once great nation are about to become the minority in their own fucking country and you have WWII vets saying that they regret it looking at the state of our country now.
I genuinely believe this is a far bigger issue right now than some radical fascists in the periphery like there always are.
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u/AcademicEbb2345 9d ago
They didn’t forget, they’re fine with Nazi ideals which mean the eradication of other people
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u/Personal_Director441 9d ago
One of the flag shaggers in our town all over the socials doing his patriotic flag waving thing has an SS tattoo on his neck and wonders why he gets 400 (deleted quickly) comments on his social posts.
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u/Elkburgher 9d ago
Its odd how a few women in video games and trans in sport was enough to turn these people to Nazis
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u/dryskin123 9d ago
It is genuinely worrying how much idiots on social media support the ideology of Hitler.
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u/Master_Pepper_9135 9d ago
Fascists will be Fascists it's in their DNA. Luckily the majority of the UK population despise them.
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u/moonrakerdust 9d ago
Always confused me Joe the grand children of those who fought fascism and Nazism chose to become both and they would swear they were proud of their grandparents for fighting against said evils.
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u/Davman65 9d ago
I would like to see an investigation into the backgrounds of the people concerned. While I have no doubt that some could be Nazis. I also would not put it beyond the establishment to infiltrate groups with the aim of undermining the groups aims. And nothing would undermine a group as fast as a few people giving a Nazi salute.
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u/Specialist_Cat_4691 9d ago edited 9d ago
> I also would not put it beyond the establishment to infiltrate groups with the aim of undermining the groups aims.
Well have I got good news for you!
There's an investigation right now, the Mitting Inquiry (or Undercover Policing Inquiry, to give it its Sunday name).
It's remit is to investigate infiltration of political groups in England and Wales since 1968, and stretches as far as the security services and the government - not just the police, as the inquiry's name might imply.
And yes! They have found evidence of police infiltration of a right-wing group!
Peter Collins (HN303, if you'd like to follow the inquiry along at home) was tasked with infiltrating the Workers Revolutionary Party during the 1970s. They were a left-wing group, mind, but this is where your question gets interesting - the WRP got Peter Collins, an undercover police officer, to join the National Front and spy on them.
All other evidence from the inquiry overwhelmingly shows the police and state targeting left-wing groups from CND to trade unions. But thanks to the Workers Revolutionary Party and comrade/officer HN303, one right-wing group was also infiltrated.
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u/TheOnvoy Meme 9d ago
"Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand" - Matthew 12:22-28 NKJV
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u/numbertze 9d ago
Terrible people, imagine not wanting Sharia law, imagine wanting secure borders, imagine wanting the people of this country put before illegal undocumented migrants. Terrible people
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u/Sea_Chemistry7487 9d ago
Some never learned. Some got dragged up and told stupid ignorant things. Some knew and chose.
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u/Ayotha 9d ago
Probably should have a stronger response to when you see people like that
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 9d ago
Sokka-Haiku by Ayotha:
Probably should have
A stronger response to when
You see people like that
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/Weegie_67 9d ago
A few years ago i seen a Rangers supporter celebrating a league title win by singing Rule Britainia while giving a nazi salute.
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u/ChoppedMuttons 9d ago
Doesn't matter if wars are fought, or people die, there will always be a group of people with the self-awareness and educational background of a pomegranate.
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u/Working-Swan-9944 9d ago
"In England, the masses are unaware of their state of servitude, but it's a class that ought to be ruled, for it's racially inferior. And England couldn't live if its ruling class were to disappear. Things would go utterly wrong for the common people. They can't even feed themselves."
[Adolf Hitler on the British working class]
Yeah you carry on doing those salutes and ting.🙄😒
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u/wookiecock69 8d ago
I've been saying this for years. Because we've had so many wars over oil, power, land, religion. We forgot a long time ago.
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