Flippanarchy

We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis.

I mean, do we? I'm don't think I'm convinced that every public school teacher in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a Nazi.

"everyone working in my government"

Jesus Fucking Christ... I swear, some people read "kill the liberal inside your head" and heard "turn into a rambling, insufferable edgelord that has completely lost touch with reality."

Do you even have the remotest idea how thoroughly fucked you (yes you, specifically - and specifically everybody around you) would be if every public worker in your country suddenly decided to up and leave their government job to fulfill your edgelord fantasy moral purity test?

We're talking everybody - from the street sweepers, to sanitation workers, to nurses and health inspectors. Just how far do you think you're going to get?

Even Joseph Fucking Stalin didn't buy into this bullshit narrative of yours - neither did the hundreds of thousands of troops and resistance fighters who marched into Germany (including anarchist ones) and saw every kind of Nazi depravity with their own damn eyes.

But you, edgelord supremo, know better than them, right?

A good friend of mine is quitting their (once) dream fed job, counting down the remainder until their last day. They work for the government to enforce engineering safety standards, but can no longer stomach the gutting of safety regulations that their department manages. Upon raising ethical concerns, they got dragged into a room with lawyers who relayed a parable about ethics. The lesson was: Be "a good soldier" and ignore safety regulations if you're told to do so.

I go to work everyday and feel like a mail clerk in the Death Star

- My friend to me

Some people on this site are so divorced from reality it's scary. Nuance? Never heard of her.

And I'm sure that anyone potentially replying to my comment will spew some bs like "if you work for a 'nazi' in any way, you're a nazi" and to those people I say that it is clear you have lived your entire life without having had to deal with real life dilemmas and compromises. Must be nice to feel entitled to dictate who gets to provide for their family and who have to quit or they are deemed a nazi by you. What a humble, sane and intelligent mindset to have.

Demanding people in an unstable country to quit their job is the extremist leftie version of "just stop being poor".

Some people don't have the luxury to quit, especially if they have a home and a family to feed and bills to pay, which is the case for most people.

To be clear, nazis weren't entirely purged, there was the whole Baader Meinhoff movement kicked off by the youth discovering their government and teachers had also been nazis.

also big reminder we are the ones who have to take them to court, they won't kill or arrest themselves.

By your definition Schindler was a nazi, but by working for them he was able to save many lives… so I’m happy with anyone who continues to work with the goal of slowing down their progress.

This is a bad take, capitalist and the Nazis running the government don't give two shits if a couple people quit to clear their conscience. If your in a productive part of the government, healthcare, sanitation, infrastructure etc. that isn't directly contributing to the camps then don't quit, organize. Start agitating to create a union, if there already is one, agitate within it, maybe you'll get fired anyway but if you've integrated yourself into the workplace more by fighting for a union then your fellow workers will have more sympathy, be more angry at the boss who is trying to suppress speech and be more likely to follow you and withhold their labor then if you just yelled "Fuck ICE" as you quit.

Change won't come from individual uncoordinated silent acts of conscience, it comes through building solidarity with your fellow workers and fighting together.

This is all if you work in a part of the government that actually helps people, if you are working in ICE, defense contractors, etc. then yeah quit your job.

My philosophy allows for distinction between death squads and meter maids.

The guy who scrubbed Hitler's toilet was not culpable in the same manner as the asshole who sat on it.

What if i stayed, acting like i worked but not really doing anything? Blocking a Nazis spot, taking my salary out of their budget. Maybe even sabotaging. Lets all do that, collectively. Covering eachother by telling how good a job we are doing and so on...

OK but can we start with billionaires first?

Tbh I don't think Americans can escape being Nazis just by disassociating with the government. This shit runs way deeper than that. Okay, studying infectious diseases at the CDC or fighting fires with the Forestry Service makes you a Nazi now but quitting and getting a job at Nestle bottling water or a job in computer science at Meta somehow makes a difference? What about private prison guards or Christian missionaries?

Virtually all Americans are Nazis and it's been this way since before the Nazis first copied American styles. Speaking as an American the corporate stooges here are far more full throated and blood thirsty fascists than many of their government counterparts. Afterall the American government perpetrates it's crimes on behalf of American capital and American capital sponsors it's government's crimes.

You're letting the whole country of fascists off way too easy when you reduce it to, "government=Nazi, quit now"

Americans cannot escape being Nazis just by changing jobs. Americans cannot escape being Nazis just by changing their source of income. I don't even know if overthrowing the government would be enough to cleanse Americans of the Nazi label without serious reparations to the global south and land back to American indigenous people. It will be a generational struggle to wash the stench of Nazism from this land. Turning in your two weeks working at the USPS delivering mail changes absolutely nothing.

I wonder what I'd do if the Americans took over Canada. Likely all my savings would vanish overnight along with the Canadian dollar, so all I'd own is what's in our apartment at the time. I would probably have to work for the occupiers just to eat.

The funny thing is it seems most commentors in this post are civilians.

I am a state employee, and I am keenly aware of my role in reinforcing the state mechanisms.

My work directly supports and maintains a small subsection of gears of this overall system.

I get paid in taxpayer money, I have the capability of living a "middle class" life.

I donate some of my earnings to charities and fundraisers for various undisclosed civil rights and activists.

I love doing the contents of my work, And I enjoy the knowledge that my work contributes to a better experience for civilians in my state.

But I am keenly aware that I am reinforcing the gears even if the work I do has little association to any detrimental effects to the people.

I am at the bottom of the ladder, following orders, providing services to improve the experience for civilians, reinforcing the gears.

I do it for the paycheck.

I am complicit in that regards.

All statements and opinions in this post are not reflective of my employer.

Well to be fair...

The vast majority of Nazi's were pardoned as you can't jail the majority of an entire country. The West of the worst were tried and sentenced, most simply weren't even charge with anything. Most Nazi soldiers simply returned home.

Also, back then just about everything was linked to the Nazi's and there war effort, so unless you worked for the resistance, technically, you were working for the Nazi's too

Having said that, most of ICE, for example, will not be charged with much, I expect. Trump's top level goons, on the other hand...