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Gullsmed Hammers hest i Øvregaten (Marcus/UiB)

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like i feel we spent very little time on how hitler came up through a democratic system? very much on how extreme nazism was and why it can never be allowed to happen again, very little on how come MILLIONS of people voted in favour

i feel like one thing my schooling failed to do was teach about nazism in depth. ww2 took up much of 9th grade but i was today (well, last year) old when i learned that one of the main dividing lines within the norwegian movement was nationalism vs foreign (german) influence. it's only in the last couple of years i've been aware of accessible, non-academic books (in my language market) about the rise of pre-war antisemitism in media and the population. my schoolbook narrative left nazism looking like mass psychosis and i understand the unwillingness to humanize and normalize evil and that there's a balance we need to find there, but i think it's necessary, unfortunately

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i feel like one thing my schooling failed to do was teach about nazism in depth. ww2 took up much of 9th grade but i was today (well, last year) old when i learned that one of the main dividing lines within the norwegian movement was nationalism vs foreign (german) influence. it's only in the last couple of years i've been aware of accessible, non-academic books (in my language market) about the rise of pre-war antisemitism in media and the population. my schoolbook narrative left nazism looking like mass psychosis and i understand the unwillingness to humanize and normalize evil and that there's a balance we need to find there, but i think it's necessary, unfortunately

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The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

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Some moody forest shots from Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon (Oct. 2021).

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lavender loon & fog

[image description: a watercolor painting of a loon swimming through a lake, with a forest of silhouetted pine trees in the background, fading into the fog. the painting is done in shades of purple and blue. the loon is detailed with black pen, and its head is silhouetted black with no visible eyes. /end i.d.]

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Autumn vs. Spring by Damien Cyfka

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There's a kind of anti-capitalism which, failing to recognise capitalism as merely the latest form of human inequality and domination, seeks refuge in everything believed to be pre-modern (the patriarchal family, 'national culture', tradition). In the process, it becomes reactionary and loses sight of the larger struggles of history. More often than not, the past is a creative invention of the present. And it will not save you.

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Had a discussion with a close friend last night and I'm curious.

Feel free to rb and tell me about your childhood best buddies! ^_^ Mine was a unicorn that my grandmother made me when I was 3 named Kasma, and I still have her!

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the cybertruck failure is a beautiful thing and what makes it even better to me is that its the only cool design tesla's ever had

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Thank god they brought back An Amount Of Daylight That Makes You Want To Live. It was getting a bit scary for a minute there.

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i know im repeating myself but this has become my mantra to keep going it is NOT too late to die in search of the northwest passage it is VERY far away and i DON'T know how to find it

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Crochet lace vibes

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ppl in my family keep sending me those car roof tents while i keep trying to explain to people in my family i would rather sleep under the car if possible

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Behold a story of companionship

Of loss

Of discovery

Of hope

Of betrayal

Of disappointment

Of crime

Of forgiveness and the desire to make things right

The end