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“Donny! We got a Nazi who wants to die for his ideology! OH-BLIGE him!”

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If the right had their way with the healthcare, education and welfare systems that would be sooner than they think.

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Sometimes it’s good to commit war crimes.

Remember kids: Fascists aren’t people.

Only people get to have rights.

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Sometimes it’s good to commit war crimes.

Remember kids: Tankies aren’t people.

Only people get to have rights.

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Correct.

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why did you repeat the exact same comment

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Mmm I prefer referring to the social contract interpretation of human rights instead of dehumanizing them but turn about is fair play.

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War crimes cheat the hangman of his rightful due. Don’t commit war crimes. Just make sure they reach the tribunal.

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Justice is blind, meaning she misses a lot

I think the hangman might have enough on his plate to allow us a little war crime or 2, as a treat

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The artillery does not care if the city has non combatants it wants blood, and the god of the battlefield isnt one to argue with.

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It aint a warcrime the first time you do it.

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I don’t get it. If this is in reference to US Politics (it almost always is), the right is red.

If it’s in reference to 20th century communists, fair play.

If it’s in reference to British soldiers of the 18th and 19th centuries, again fair play.

Ambiguity is the nemesis of fun.

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Sounds like you found two ways to get it, and chose not to?

But anyway, there’s no need for speculation if you familiarize yourself with the phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_dead_than_red

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Count again. 3 ways to get it. Including the way you’ve linked. My first one was correct.

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Lol your first one was wrong, bud

Edit: and there were two ways to “get it,” meaning “understand it,” not three. That’s quite a few comprehension errors in your effort to be critical of this post!

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It is definitely a “1933-1945 Germany against Soviet Union” reference. There’s also a German version: lieber tot als rot. The US/NATO version during the Cold war came later

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Saying “the right is red” with that much emphasis on “is,” is super misleading.

The Republican party, over the last half century, or so, have adopted the color. But very rarely is anyone refereed to as “a red”. Someone might say “red vs. blue” as shorthand for Republican vs. Democrat, but that’s really as far as the color thing goes. And if you go back a little further, they were switched completely; Democrats used red.

Anyway, it is the boomers’ collective PTSD from the McCarthy era that cemented “red” to mean “communist”. Unfortunately, the red scare never really ended.

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Veiled threats are so last millennium

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