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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

No spoilers and punchlines in the title pls!

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You should unironically read Mein Kampf though, at least once

The funny thing about that book is if you tell a neo-Nazi you've read it and have a criticism, they'll immediately ask which translation and claim most of them are a "Jewish trick".

Olivier Mannoni, who translated the 2021 French critical edition, said about the original German text that it was "An incoherent soup, one could become half-mad translating it", and said that previous translations had corrected the language, giving the false impression that Hitler was a "cultured man" with "coherent and grammatically correct reasoning". He added "To me, making this text elegant is a crime." [snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Criticism_by_translators

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

(historically, the equation generally doesn't change when there are more guns or bullets)