There were around 75 million killed in WWII, on all sides.
But I seriously doubt that that had anything to do with the message that the shirt meant to send.
No. It’s to point out that the Nazis killed a hell of a lot people than just the Jewish victims of the Holocaust so the message in that shirt rather misses the forest for the trees, if you think the Nazis were not all that bad since they killed only 6 million.
Just to short-circuit this: it’s an antisemitic reference. Six million Jews killed in WWII wasn’t enough. Okay.
Geez, y’all are getting nasty this morning… yeah, tensions are high but after getting through that harrowing day/night, let’s not turn on each other.
And that’s true, too. ENOUGH!! 
Bracing myself for “junior modding” handslap.
A part of me hopes they come back for more games, only this time with the National Guard present so they can see what real soldiers are like.
I don’t think that the shirt indicated that Nazis were not all that bad since the only killed 6 million. I think that the point of the shirt was that they should have killed more.
I’m pretty sure this board has enough space for a thread debating the # killed in WW2. Not too sure this is the right thread for that debate.
Just sayin’ as I’m wandering through…
No part of me wishes for that. I just hope that everyone who can be identified as being a part of the insurrection is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
n/m missed an earlier post
Totally! They went in, armed to their ears, and suffered zero consequences. I asked at the time why they weren’t rounded up and thrown in jail, and the responses were that open-carry was allowed in MI, so they weren’t breaking any laws. That empowered them to try to kidnap the governor. And then, yesterday.
I have been following this thread, although I have not read every post. Now that it has deteriorated into a discussion on the meaning of an anti-Semitic slogan on a T-shirt I will leave.
Godwin’s law should apply.
I actually hope it becomes a hobby on social media to ID all of the people filmed/photographed storming the Capitol and reporting them to the authorities.
These people have a dominant-authoritarian psychological orientation. This is why they did what they did yesterday: they sincerely believe that they can use aggression as an advantage over people who are more “agreeable.” They have to be shown, somehow and some way, that their aggression will only result in pain. Their aggression has to have a tangible, realizable cost to them, or they will continue to use their aggression, and worse, they will escalate.
This is not over, which is why, quite some time ago, I posted that there will come a point in time when people who are reading this, who presumably expect and desire to live in a society with certain values they’ve grown accustomed to, will be forced to decide what price they are willing to pay to continue living in such a society. It’s a serious matter/question.
The Epiphany. Same as always.
Godwin’s law is about the inevitability of comparing something to Nazis or to Hitler.
Godwin’s law does not apply when the subject of discussion is identifying themself as a Nazi supporter.
That’s why I think that they should be prosecuted as insurrectionists.
I just am hoping that it does not involve further attacks on our Capitol or other government institutions to do so.
Yes, and the window to do something is small.
There was a thread, I can’t seem to find it now, that asked what the Trumpistas will do after Trump is out of office. Most felt that it was a cult of personality and they would just follow Trump to Parler and whatever shitty media channel he cooks up.
But since QAnon, and especially now, I feel that the lunatic CT faction brought together, turns out to be more virulent than anyone anticipated, and I think it will just mutate and follow whoever or whatever energizes the group most. If there’s not significant pushback now, it will be worse next time.
Sorry if this is too much of a tangent.
The job of the legislature is to talk. We see the alternative. Let them talk.
They can talk all they want. I am suggesting that once the vote is called just be done with it.
We see studio audiences on TV vote for this or that all the time in less than a minute. Surely congress could do the same.
I’ve decided on “Orange Wednesday” because it’s a dark day that’s worthy of some sort of name like that (like Black Monday) but it’s also slightly absurd.