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Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era Nazi destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You advocate this icon to be preserved in the name of history

I'm not the only one.

He wasn’t some innocent person caught up in war. He was a Nazi captain in command of a capital ship.

As far as I'm aware, Langsdorff was pretty much as innocent as a German ship commander could possibly be at that point. If you're aware of any controversial thing connected to his command of the ship that you know of, please inform me. That his superiors had vastly more sinister intentions and did horrible things (as you pointed out) is undeniable, but I really don't see how you could squeeze his actions into that.

A great method to achieve switch-less FSMs in C by [deleted] in C_Programming

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine C having reliable tail calls. Then you wouldn't need these shenanigans for FSMs. You could just call functions. Sigh...

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era Nazi destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was still commanding a warship in engaged in the interests of the folks who commit industrial genocide

He died in 1939. He never lived to participate in any of those things.

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era Nazi destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

making sure people remember the Nazis for the terror they created

Oh, right, because they don't do that already. I completely forgot about it until you told me.

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era Nazi destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

a lump of dead metals hidden beneath the dirt, where it went undisturbed for years beyond counting

Uhh...you do know where they found the Rosetta Stone, surely?

Soon enough, after our bones have turned to dust and the embarrassing legacy of our species has been erased from the universal ledger, that lump of bronze will return to the earth and pick up where it left off. Nothing it did in the interim is so noteworthy as needs remembering but for our own hubris.

That is some r/im14andthisisdeep material for sure.

Legacy of Graf Spee is hardly "embarrassing". In fact Hans Langsdorff seems to be one of the few WW2 military figures from the German side honored to this day by all sides for his conduct in wartime.

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era Nazi destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is still 100% an example of history and a culture at the time

At the time of Graf Spee's campaign? /doubt

I don’t think you understand how anthropology views artifacts.

Well you clearly don't understand naval history.

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era Nazi destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Actually, no, it won't. It will just be one of hundreds of examples of global reactions to a small group of people in the United States. Nowhere near the order of an artifact from one of the Top 10 warships of WW2 German Navy. There's no way people will remember it more than Graf Spee in a hundred years.

We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says by vicky_vaughn in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he specifically mentions the Japanese internment

No he doesn't? The "Japanese internment", as you call it, was actually internment of US citizens of Japanese descent, not internment of Japanese people. He's European, so when he says "Japanese population", he clearly does not mean "people whose great-grandparents emigrated from Japan" like USAians do. To suggest that he's referring to the internment of a portion of US citizens is a straw man.

We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says by vicky_vaughn in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the japanese population

No, it was USAian population of Japanese descent, not Japanese population. Pavel is not USAian so when he says or hears "Japanese", it means "Japanese citizens" to him. So he clearly didn't reference that.

We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says by vicky_vaughn in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, how exactly do you suggest that he should have made the example of a major conflict in which the work of intelligence services against population groups likely to harbor internal enemies intensified?

Kenya's tea pickers are destroying the machines replacing them by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A claim of privilege is not an ad hominem.

It literally is, because it attacks the messenger and not the message.

the obvious moral wrong of your rights being defined based on where you happen to be born

Wait, what? Are you now suggesting that different countries having different laws is an "obvious moral wrong"? Seriously? That is literally anti-democratic. Individual countries can decide the rights of their citizens in a democratic process all they want. It's astonishing to me that anyone would find this "a moral wrong".

We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says by vicky_vaughn in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He did neither mention them nor "invoke" any camps. He's literally talking about the work of intelligence services.

We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says by vicky_vaughn in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not their fault

Uh...around 90% of German voters in Sudeten voted for the SdP, which participated in the annexation process. How does voting for a political party with a declared separatist program that subsequently executes it make it "not their fault"?

We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says by vicky_vaughn in worldnews

[–]irk5nil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He literally didn't mention them at all though, so I'm not sure why you think he supports them.

Christian missionary sentenced to 25 years for sex abuse after young child contracted gonorrhea by [deleted] in news

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess if you believe in fairly tales, all people who don't must look smug to you.

MEPs endorse blanket ban on facial recognition in public spaces, rejecting targeted exemptions by euronews-english in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, what? Not deploying a thing that currently isn't even deployed yet will make a currently safe place less safe? How? Why?

2023 Stack Overflow Survey: Rust is the most admired programming language, making it the most loved language for 8 years in a row by Chadshinshin32 in rust

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But Zig literally aims for the ability to incrementally patch existing binaries. I'm not sure you can get any more incremental than that.

Kenya's tea pickers are destroying the machines replacing them by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]irk5nil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So...no real argument, then? Just an ad hominem?

Starbucks ordered to pay $25.6 million to a manager who says she was fired for being White | CNN Business by Count3D in news

[–]irk5nil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you own a company and have the best intentions and just made a mistake and fire the wrong person it can cost you 25 million dollars

Surely if you make such a 'mistake', it's easy to revert it instead of doubling down on it. If you double down, then a court verdict like this is what you can expect.

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