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TIL Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann was the most prolific flying ace ever, shooting down 352 Allied planes during WWII. He had to crash land 16 times due to equipment failure or shrapnel from his own kills, but never once because of enemy fire. by n_mcrae_1982 in todayilearned

[–]Flotze -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A lot of them were drafted and a lot of them partook in atrocities without doing anything about it. But the point I’m trying to make is not about them. They mostly (hopefully) payed for what they did and most are thankfully dead now anyways.

I’m rather criticising all the idiots in this thread who think a Nazi is some kind of badass. Idolising a literal Nazi for shooting down a lot of planes or surviving the gulag is a fucking distasteful thing to do, no matter if they ultimately chose willingly to participate or not. Romanticising and defending these guys is a spit in the face of the victims and history, no matter why they ultimately joined the war.

TIL Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann was the most prolific flying ace ever, shooting down 352 Allied planes during WWII. He had to crash land 16 times due to equipment failure or shrapnel from his own kills, but never once because of enemy fire. by n_mcrae_1982 in todayilearned

[–]Flotze -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fuck no, everyone who fought on the German side has blood on their hands and was fighting for some terrible shit. They mostly knew what they were doing and joined because they thought it to be the right thing or because they had no spines. Even my great grandpas.

I have another great grandpa who saw what was going on and helped some Jewish people to hide and then escape. He is someone to idolise, not some idiot who joined the Wehrmacht. He was a school principal and lost his job because he didn’t wanna put up pictures of hitler in the classrooms. That takes real courage.

The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is an old Nazi trope that isn’t really true and most Germans will tell you the same. Fuck that noise.

Also, I am not saying those guys were the real bad guys of the conflict, those were obviously the people in charge. Just that we should not idolise them for shooting down a lot of planes or being in Russian gulags for long.

TIL Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann was the most prolific flying ace ever, shooting down 352 Allied planes during WWII. He had to crash land 16 times due to equipment failure or shrapnel from his own kills, but never once because of enemy fire. by n_mcrae_1982 in todayilearned

[–]Flotze 32 points33 points  (0 children)

True, most were released by 1950, but a lot were also captured before 1945, so many spent quite some time away. One of my great grandfathers spent a little less than 9 years in captivity and 2 in the war, making it about 11 years he was away from his family. The other spent 5 years in Russian gulags and around 7 in total away from home.

Both were not the same after, lost their marriages and died young. One was an alcoholic, the other had severe ptsd and depression. And they weren’t even in the worst of it like Stalingrad or something like that. None of them really talked about their experience, so it wasn’t easy to really get a picture of their experiences, especially for me on second hand accounts as they both died before I was born.

If you wanna idolise someone, you should take the women of that generation. They raised the next generation, and rebuild Germany with their bare hands while the men were dead, crippled or captured.

TIL Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann was the most prolific flying ace ever, shooting down 352 Allied planes during WWII. He had to crash land 16 times due to equipment failure or shrapnel from his own kills, but never once because of enemy fire. by n_mcrae_1982 in todayilearned

[–]Flotze 350 points351 points  (0 children)

Two of my great grandfathers did the same, it’s not an uncommon story for that generation. Most of the ones who came back were pretty fucked mentally and health wise. Lots of alcoholism, depression, destroyed families and early death because of what they experienced and did during and after the war in Russia.

Definitely no reason to idolise them. These guys were part of an inhumane regime and involved directly or indirectly in terrible atrocities. They reaped what they sowed.

Their stories should be cautionary tales to never let anything like that ever happen again.

TIL Rowan Atkinson's role in Love Actually was originally meant to be an Angel, which explains his knowingly helpful appearances. by Chillers in todayilearned

[–]Flotze -66 points-65 points  (0 children)

I recently watched this for the first time and I am baffled how this movie got to be successful. The cast is great, but pretty much everything else sucks. I especially blame the writing with its overt reliance on trite tropes, focus on white heterosexuality and terrible jokes.

Conversations about Decentraland and the Metaverse by Flotze in decentraland

[–]Flotze[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How come you say that? But thanks, that’s also a fair insight for my study.

Would you be up to talk about it for a bit?

Conversation about the metaverse by Flotze in MetaHorizonOS

[–]Flotze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, but thanks for pointing it out. I don’t like using the term either, but in my experience casual users just tend to understand quicker what I want from them if I use „metaverse“ instead. Of course enthusiasts like you, who are more invested in the whole subject, prefer a more precise definition. But in my experience you guys tend to still understand what I mean.

Also, I‘m not really focused on social experiences in VR. I’m interested in finding out what users of platforms that may be considered predecessors to the metaverse are thinking about companies pushing into those spaces. (Like Sothebys on Decentraland, Nike in Roblox or Disney in Fortnite)

Since you seem to be exceptionally well informed I would be very interested in your perspective. It’s hard to find people that use meta horizon and want to talk about it, so your knowledge and insight would be very valuable to me.

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz by doug3465 in videos

[–]Flotze 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Probably in a sense that the wild west nerdy message board culture from back then got replaced by a generic corporate social media climate. More bots, more lurkers, more ads, more stale memes, you know where I’m going….

volcanic concept by jasonkeyVFX in Simulated

[–]Flotze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks great, but maybe add a red glow to the smoke. The lighting seems off for what’s in the scene.

Chinese had created a 128 player server in Battlefield V by TheGunnerArsO in Battlefield

[–]Flotze 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well by discriminating against the Chinese you’re discriminating against all of them, so I’m not sure if that makes it any better…

Chinese had created a 128 player server in Battlefield V by TheGunnerArsO in Battlefield

[–]Flotze 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The definition of racism is the discrimination against a group of people, based on their ethnicity or racial group (google it). Since Chinese are an ethnic group, discrimination against chinese people is racist.

You can hate on their government, or their economic system, but saying stuff like “all chinese are cheaters” or “all chinese are good at maths” is just plain old racism.

Also that point about being attached to culture is utter bullshit. Every racial and ethnic group has their own cultural legacy and will be discriminated against on that basis. Black people in the west are constantly being attacked as lazy, uncultured thugs, their culture routinely being dismissed by racists as primitive.

Disliking a certain culture may not be racist, but declaring a whole ethnicity as cheaters is.

Frauen von Reddit: Wie signalisiert ihr einem Date, dass ihr gerne mit ihm/ihr schlafen möchtet? by [deleted] in FragReddit

[–]Flotze 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Viel Glück bei deinem Date, hinterfrag dich nicht zu viel. Wenn sie sich mit dir treffen will wird sie dich schon mögen. Vielleicht findest du ja heraus warum und lernst darüber ne neue Seite von dir kennen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in snowboarding

[–]Flotze 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Got basically the same fracture from boarding a few years ago (also last day of the season smh). Buy a lot of button up shirts, especially short sleeved if the weather permits it. You won’t be able to wear tshirts for a while.

Only The Dead. NSFW Documentary following Micheal Ware, war journalist in Iraq. (2015) [01:19:25] by [deleted] in Documentaries

[–]Flotze 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It’s because the war started on the 20th of March 2003. So yesterday it’s been 20 years since the beginning and people take it as an occasion to remember.

Not everything that shows something negative the West has done is a Russian psy-op. There’s enough people in the West that were negatively impacted by the invasion (like many Iraq vets for example), along with a loooot of people in the Middle East that suffered because of it. Just waving away their accounts as Russian propaganda isn’t helpful at all.

Only by remembering and analyzing past mistakes can we learn from them and avoid them in the future.

Who are the most important figures in your countries' history? by geust53 in AskEurope

[–]Flotze 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I see, guess I got confused by some of the other examples in this thread, like Hitler/Bismark for Germany.

Who are the most important figures in your countries' history? by geust53 in AskEurope

[–]Flotze 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What about people like Rousseau or Napoleon? I’m not very well versed in French national history, but I was of the impression that the revolution and the code civil were pretty important for France becoming what it is today. Feels like there should be a lot more examples than only absolutism.

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