Nina spitting truths as always. She’s on fire recently, so follow her if you’re not doing so already.

To be clear; everyone working in my government, particularly after today, is a Nazi, or someone who works for Nazis. Do you know what we call people who worked for the Nazis, in the Nazi government? Yes, that is correct, Nazis.

So Machado is certainly not gonna feel lonely on the list of people on my TV who are definitely Nazis.

Oh, was that too harsh? Are you feeling bad for the good career civil servants, working for the literal fucking Nazis, who I have just impuned? Cool, let’s refer back to that part where I said I was surrounded by people who openly recognize that this is fascism, and ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY refuse to accept what that actually means.

We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis. Nobody says “the Nazi government and the career civil servants who hated them but stayed.”

“They’ll just find someone else.”

Then let them. “I took the job at the concentration camp because I was sure Hitler would find someone else” was not a good defense in court last time, and it won’t be this time either.

  • BigAssFan@lemmy.world
    66·
    8 days ago

    Schindler was not working for the government. Not directly, anyway.

    Edit: my bad, he did work in the intelligence office before WW2 though.

      • BigAssFan@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 days ago

        You’re right, I missed that part. Even though he was mainly an entrepeneur during the war, he did shortly work for government before it.

    • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Wasn’t he manufacturing arms for them? Of course, in a way to help go against the grain the most while doing it.

      • saimen@feddit.org
        8·
        9 days ago

        Few if any useful artillery shells were produced at the plant. When officials from the Armaments Ministry questioned the factory’s low output, Schindler bought finished goods on the black market and resold them as his own.[71]

        Also interesting to note:

        Several thousand not deemed fit for work were sent to extermination camps and murdered; hundreds more were murdered on the streets by the Nazis as they cleared out the ghetto. Aware of the plans because of his Wehrmacht contacts, Schindler had his workers stay at the factory overnight to protect them from harm.[49] He witnessed the ghetto’s liquidation and was appalled. From that point, says Schindlerjude Sol Urbach, Schindler “changed his mind about the Nazis. He decided to get out and to save as many Jews as he could.”[50]

        He was member of the NSDAP and a spy for the Wehrmacht. So he literally was a Nazi. Only when he directly witnessed their mass murder he changed his opinion.

        • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          Glad he ended up working on the right side, either way. It goes to show that there are people on the inside that eventually choose to do right for the right reason, and not just to try and save themselves at the last minute.

          • saimen@feddit.org
            1·
            5 days ago

            And shows that there are (probably a lot of) opportunistic people that just follow the majority or what benefits them, but doesn’t mean there is no red line for them.

    • TBi@lemmy.world
      23·
      9 days ago

      So someone who helps nazis, but isn’t working for government is fine in your eyes?

      It seems like a strange nitpick otherwise.

      • BigAssFan@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        Funny kind of reasoning you got going there. Your leading question implies some black or white world view. Let me give you a nuanced answer: it really depends on what a person does as a whole to determine if that person is fine when helping nazis. Regardless if working for government or not.