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Why was this life worth more than a school shooting victim or a starving Palestinian child?

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 68 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

The fucking Reichstag fire.

Of all the things you could invoke.

Edit: seriously, this is doing my head in. I've been staring at this for several minutes.

Edit2: Just to be sure because this is fucking important: if all you know about the fire is that it's related to the Nazis, I implore you to read even just the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago

"we're the Nazis, and we're so glad that we can use this as an excuse to continue doing Nazi shit"

[–] don@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

Shit Nazis doing Nazi shit. It’s as republican as republicans get.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

It used to be called Godwin's Law, but what if the probability is one right from the start?

It's the same rhetoric even the president was using before this.