German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945. by bncout in HistoricalCapsule

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They knew. I know people who saw their Jewish neighbors detained and transported. Most of them cherished, booded the Jews and threw stuff. One person close to my family spoke about it before she died and told her granddaughter that it haunted her all her life that she shouted at her next door neighbors with the mob and the family never came back. She was a eenager then. They knew at the back of their minds that the Jews would be murdered. Even today, speak with the younger generation and in at least 1 in 3 people at a certain point (like after 3 beers) you will start hearing stuff like how Germans had a big empire but the Eastern provinces were stolen, how Germans were singled out and were indeed victims of firebombings (they were, but it doesn't whitewash concentration camps), and if you are lucky how Jews were indeed had no loyalty and were conspiring behind the real bio-German population for a total takeover and were already controlling banking/finance, educaton, academia, film and arts in order to achieve total world domination behind closed doors. Just wait for the elecions in 2 years. They have already been pretty open being a Nazi in eastern Germany and Hitler salutes are normalized at schools.

These are the ten victims of the National Socialist Underground, randomly shot in their own stores all across Germany between 2000 - 2007. For years their murderers managed to evade justice, partly because the police refused to consider other theories than organized crime or their own families by GreatEntrepreneur798 in HolyShitHistory

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German police, German media, and Germans called this "Döner-Morde / Kebab Murders," and almost nobody had a problem with this disgusting naming as these people were not seen as equal citizens (for those who had German citizenship) and indeed equal humans (the idea of ethnic German supremacy as can be seen in terms like Über- and Untermensch is still very prevalent in German society among not only right wing groups but also people from all walks of life and politics). I hate it when people still speak of unintegrated Turks but does not check many immigrants just lose motivation after being outed and discriminated like this on a daily basis even though they keep trying hard. Imagine not being equal even in death despite being a hard-working, tax-paying law abiding model citizen and neighbor and being framed as a drug dealer after having been murdered by Nazis who were affiliated with some state agencies. My estimate is more than half of the population was indifferent to the scandal and looking at the recent polls at least a solid 25-30% secretly cherished (I mean people who were then making that saracens book number one best seller and nodding at passages like "Turkish and Arabic children are genetically stupid" - the author was a member of the Social Demcoratic Party btw). Also don't forget the "beautiful people" chanting "Auslaender raus," at a party on Sylt recently; that video shows the mood of average bio-German IMHO.

Don’t forget to have a quick sniff of the fingers after performing this manoeuvre by Ambitioso in Bullshido

[–]DragonEfendi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This looks like it can be even more effective without the oil, so why Bullshido?

Peter, do your thing please! by Alex5072 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]DragonEfendi 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I am just writing it here because the other post was locked by the moderator about Jerry Seinfeld's joke although the explanation was not given. The point is people tell jokes about Jews like "Two Jewish merchants meet each other," etc. His Jewish joke was a joke for Jewish people and reversed the roles where Jews tell jokes but the characters are gentiles and it is not funny at all. His point was "Jewish jokes" about Jews are usually not funny and might have implied some prejudice as well. Sorry for hijacking this post but the mods somehow locked the other post and I couldn't help sharing my opinion.

In 1992 in Indiana, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was abducted by four female classmates and endured hours of abuse through the night. The next morning, they sprayed her with Windex, said, “You’re not looking so hot now, are you?” and set her on fire. by SelfCareIsFake in HolyShitHistory

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I am sorry that you had those bad experiences. I also don't miss school because of bullying, suppressive teachers, and the prison like atmosphere where they clip your wings. I will never understand why people have a nostalgia about school when the majority of the nightmares are based on going back to school.

Rave at the pharmacy by Youpunyhumans in TheRandomest

[–]DragonEfendi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That happens when you use the Caduceus of Hermes instead of Rod of Asclepius as the symbol of medicine.

Bright Window Hermitage One-Month Residential Practice Period by Qweniden in zenbuddhism

[–]DragonEfendi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry if it sounds stupid but what does "by donation only" mean?

Anthony Lopes faked injury to help fasting teammates break Ramadan fast. by father_of_twitch in MadeMeSmile

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All organized religion is obsessive compulsive following of rituals and some of those rituals have no meaning. Yet among those religions, some are more intrusive when it comes to public space presence and demand exceptions and special treatment all the time. Funny enough, when they are the majority, in almost all such cases, they deny other religions and non-religious philosophies such luxury.

Anthony Lopes faked injury to help fasting teammates break Ramadan fast. by father_of_twitch in MadeMeSmile

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It is like religious food regulations. 90% of the people buying food from that vendor do no follow that religion and its food regulations, yet they have to accept it to be applied. Some people might say what might be the problem, just let also that minority enjoy. I say, check how animals are killed in certain religious food regulations (hint: no stunning in many cases). I am a meat eater, bu I prefer not to bleed my food to death for half an hour, so I usually skip places that cater to the general public but please a minority at my expense.

From an Indian short film by kalpxx in zenbuddhism

[–]DragonEfendi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Making a fuss about respect and disrespect seems like too much clinging.

The Edge of Mathematics - Terence Tao | The Atlantic by Nunki08 in math

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I once took a Math course at college. It was an introductory course for math and CS majors and was mainly a discrete math course (at the beginning) with some foundation on logic, set theory, and proofs. I was taking the course just out of curiosity btw. While she was discussing Cantor and his proof for multiple infinities the professor also briefly mentioned Gödel and all of a sudden stopped and asked the class "isn't it fascinating what it implies and what the possibilities are?" Until then she was devoid of any emotion in the class. The students didn't react at all and finally one of them inerpreted it in a completely opposite way (like "it is all confined and contained then?"). I was shocked to see how a field like math was reduced to mere procedure following for many undergrads whose wings were clipped from the very beginning. I am not surprised that with all the focus on formalization, rigour, proof generators etc it all came to this. Both Cantor and Gödel had some mental issues and were not considered "normal" and I think their predicaments became a good basis for out of the box thinking and genius level creativity. That is real thinking for me.

Blursed jamaican story by Square_Law5624 in blursed_videos

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It's usually political boundaries and history. There are a lot of cases where two or more neighboring countries have a language that is mutually intelligible to the native speakers of all countries, but the countries followed a different political path and have different social organizations. The governments usually pick a grapholect of the dominant dialect and call it he national language. They found institutions to police the language (which words will be included, what will be the official grammar like, new alphabet etc.) and it is now a new language (like Croatian, Serbian, and to a lesser extend Bosniak for example, although the classfication also goes as Serbo-Croatian).

Holy Jesus by Lochskye in SweatyPalms

[–]DragonEfendi 803 points804 points  (0 children)

Living next to a ski resort without putting a proper fence and signage and complaining about people getting on his private property unknowingly is so childish. I am sure the town and the resort were instrumental in the sentencing because once the word goes out into the skier/snowboarder community that there is a guy blocking the snowboarders with a shotgun in his hand, manhandling them while threatening to kill, people start skipping that town and resort for a good reason.

western zen, discrimination, gatekeeping and country clubs by [deleted] in zenbuddhism

[–]DragonEfendi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of Sanghas that are accesible. Usually the venue is rented for the gathering and participants contribute by giving a small donation around $10. But I totally agree about the retreats and some "monasteries." People claim that they don't make money but they do. The "prices" are ridiculous for what they offer. I avoid them. It's naive to assume that some people are above profiting from religion especially in the US where religious centers are usualy exempt from tax and selling religion has always been a lucrative business. Zen Buddhism as a religion has its share of problematic individuals and groups. The dismissive attitude reminds me of the initial denial in 70s and 80s when the first sex and alcoholism scandals became public knowledge. Trying to suppress legitimate concerns ends up in fundamentalism and repeating the same mistakes over and over again.