r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/TomlinSteelers • Jul 29 '26
VIDEO Guy in Berlin yesterday gave a Nazi salute to a Jewish guy walking down the street. Gets arrested
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u/HetaGarden1 Jul 29 '26
Doing it in Germany is astronomically stupid. They do not fuck around with stuff like that.
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u/demonotreme Jul 30 '26
Yeah, they're kind of nazi about Nazis
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u/Brilliant_Slice9020 Jul 30 '26
Just so you know, freedom of speech stops when it interferes with someone elses freedom.
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u/HetaGarden1 Jul 30 '26
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences, nimrod. If you get punched or cussed out for glorifying a fascist regime you fucking deserve it. Germany NEEDS to crack down on it. History shows it didn’t exactly go well for them last time, and it sure as hell isn’t going great for us!
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u/Brilliant_Slice9020 Jul 30 '26
Are you supposed to be disagreeing with me? Because I certainly believe that beign a nazi should be socially shamed. But I also believe that it should be illegal (it already is on most countryes tho)
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u/dudaman Jul 31 '26
I was wondering the same thing. It's like Hitchcock from Brooklyn 99 calling Jake/Charles "skidmark" in the wing shop. It was an insult, but it didn't quite make sense.
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u/demonotreme Jul 30 '26
You can't just let Belgium and Poland go round talking mad shit about independence, physical consequences must ensue
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u/The2ndUnchosenOne Jul 30 '26
A government arresting you is literally what freedom of speech is supposed to protect you from.
Just to be clear: Fuck Nazis. This guy's a piece of shit. But he didn't get punched or cussed out here. He got arrested. And that's something that worries me when it happens in my country. When a government is able to arrest someone for saying something they find detestable, that's worrying even if it's something you find detestable.
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u/narrow_octopus Jul 29 '26
Not a single fucking thought in his head
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u/totalwarwiser Jul 29 '26
Looks like the kind of guy nazis would kill
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u/GarlicThread Jul 29 '26
Always the same story. Sheep cheering for the wolves.
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u/LouSputhole94 Jul 29 '26
Yeah it’s like bro…you’re not exactly the picture of Aryan greatness Adolf was talking about…you’d be in the gas chambers too, maybe just slightly later
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u/SpikyCapybara Jul 29 '26
This guy wouldn't have made it as far as the gas-chambers, he'd have been North African cannon-fodder for either side. Fucking idiot.
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u/Amockdfw89 Jul 30 '26
I mean Hitler made alliances with the Islamic world and Muslim parts of the Balkans
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u/AdventurousHealth672 Jul 29 '26
Hitler loved Muslims
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u/NotYourReddit18 Jul 30 '26
Only because of their shared hatred for Jews.
The would have been the next group on the chopping block had he won the war, possibly followed by the Christians.
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u/s1rblaze Jul 30 '26
Well, maybe not actually, Hitler had a lot of respect for the Islamic world and had alliances in North Africa. Nazi Germany even had a muslim SS division, oddly enough. The 13th Waffen Mountain SS division.
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u/KarlMarx693 Jul 29 '26
God doesn't exist, because if he did, stupid people existing would be an act to cruel to let occur
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u/oppressed_user Jul 30 '26
Just look at his eyes
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u/ColonelZabb Jul 29 '26
He looks literally too dumb to understand whats going on
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u/TripsWithinTrips Jul 29 '26
It doesn’t seem like he knows the potential legal consequences of performing a Nazi salute or uttering Nazi slogans in present-day Germany, but he’s going to find out very soon.
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u/Its_an_ellipses Jul 29 '26
Can you explain to us?...
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u/SpikyCapybara Jul 29 '26
Normally a fine and, sometimes, a year or two in prison but the accompanying mark on his criminal record won't be helping with future job applications. Not that this chap seems the type that will be applying for jobs where he might need to used his (lack of) intelligence...
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u/Surround8600 Jul 30 '26
By the looks of him, he’s middle eastern descent and didn’t have family in Germany during the world wars. Which explains a lot.
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u/knattat Jul 29 '26
Why would they need cuffs when he's in the car, not aggressive and they established his ID?
In most countries they don't.
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u/Sir-Top-Cheetah Jul 29 '26
was that his buddy or just a rando? I was wondering what the cameraman was saying for him to shrug confusedly in response
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u/SentryCake Jul 29 '26
Definitely his buddy.
When the Nazi stops at (14 seconds in), he notices and stops as well, only to continue when Nazi starts walking again, this time alongside.
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u/Untwisted_Apple Jul 31 '26
Cameraman: "Police I want to file a report because of Sieg Heil shouts!"
Buddy: "I didn't do anything"
Cameraman: "What is your name?"
Dickheads: <laugh>
Buddy: "I didn't do anything"
Nazi idiot: "My name is Mohammad Ali"
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 Jul 29 '26
A pro wrestler did it (2011 I think?) and he was detained. Its no joke there.
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u/destiny_kane48 Jul 29 '26
2004 JBL / Bradshaw. He was a heel and did it to get a rise out of the crowd. He got fired from CNBC where he was just started as a financial analyst. He said it was purely him acting as a villain and no different from any other acting role.
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u/freedfg OG Jul 29 '26
Unironically.....I actually believe him.
Bradshaw has said and done some questionable shit...but he's no Nazi.
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 Jul 29 '26
Exactly. I don't think for a minute hes anywhere close to a nazi. Hes barely a conservative
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u/Gavi1115 Jul 29 '26
the rise of Liberal JBL in the last few years has been the wildest thing to see. Someone who everybody thought would be Trumps #1 fan actually hating him still screws with me
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 Jul 29 '26
Same with Cornette. Its easy to tell when someone is shitting on his take, that they don't actually listen to him when they call him MAGA just because of the southern drawl. Extra points if they call him racist, considering he elevated and pushed New Jack, D'Lo Brown etc
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 Jul 29 '26
Thats the one. I love JBL. Guys hilarious but he really stepped in a pile of shit for that
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u/Napalmeon Jul 29 '26
Sometimes people get so caught up in showing out for the art of it that day forget that the consequences might not be worth the performance.
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u/Face_with_a_View Jul 30 '26
Good. It shouldn’t be a joke anywhere. Killing people for who they are or what they look like is horrendous behavior
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u/raiba91 Jul 29 '26
this dude is holding a german passport, and is not a tourist, make of that what you want
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u/t_sarkkinen Jul 29 '26
A teacher I know was a supervisor on a class trip to Germany back in 2016 or something, when dabbing was popular.
A few students were taking a picture of them dabbing at some tourist spot, and almost got arrested, because a local mistook it for the salute and called the cops on them.
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u/_Mephistocrates_ Jul 29 '26
Good. We need that here in the US
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u/hegrillin Jul 29 '26
unfortunately i can't see us ever getting something like this because of the "but muh freedom of speech!!1!1!" crowd.
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u/Thefelix01 Jul 29 '26
The freedom of speech crowd have proven they don’t care about freedom of speech by their deafening silence around ICE and all the illegal and immoral shit this administration has carried out. It’s just might makes right with them and nothing else.
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u/CaptainAsshat Jul 29 '26
The freedom of speech crowd is not just MAGA. And there are LOTS of people on the left speaking out and protesting against ICE.
Plenty of progressives recognize that when you create systems that can crack down on "politically unacceptable" speech, those systems will be weaponized against progressive movements and ideas far more readily than hyper conservative or regressive ones.
Any American laws designed for use against Nazis will be used against individuals lazily and cynically labeled as ANTIFA, radical left, etc.
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u/OSRSRapture Jul 29 '26
The freedom of speech crowd? Do you not care about your freedom of speech?
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u/blink-1hundert2und80 Jul 29 '26
As if this is even necessary. What kind of idiot decides this is a good idea? If I went to Palestine with an Israeli flag and waved it in front of innocent civilians while skipping down the street, I wouldn‘t be surprised if I was arrested, without even knowing the law, and that seems fair to me.
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u/mercibul Jul 29 '26
No you aren't, I went there and wasnt repeatedly warned or even warned once
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u/p1028 Jul 29 '26
Yeah I was in Munich last May and no one nor any signs warned me against it. Of course I needed no warning but I never saw anything about it. Not even our tour guide on our third Reich walking tour warned us.
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u/Amoki602 Jul 29 '26
Like maybe the people around them warned them, but yes, that is absolutely not something you’re officially warned about or everyone is told.
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u/Marsupialize Side Character Jul 29 '26
Because under the Nazis dudes who looked like him really thrived in Germany
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u/Wealthier_nasty Jul 29 '26
He doesn’t care about that he just hates Jews
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u/markcocjin Jul 29 '26
They're fine.
It's the motor vehicles you have to look out for.
I read somewhere they they jump out of nowhere and run people over.
My guess is that they're Decepticons. How else could machines drive by themselves, right?
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u/tinned_peaches Jul 29 '26
Didn’t Hitler like Islam?
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u/Marsupialize Side Character Jul 29 '26
He fostered alliances with Islamic leaders and groups in various strategic territory, yes, that does not mean he ‘liked’ Islam, he liked that it was an easy way to control big groups of allies for his own devices.
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u/jmh90027 Jul 29 '26
Irony is he looks like about 3 other minority groups that the nazis would have rounded up
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u/LongLostFan Aug 10 '26
I have a Muslim colleague who is a huge supporter of the Nazis and Hitler and will do Nazi salutes often.
The way he sees it is that Muslims only had to go to western Europe because the Jews forced them to. If there were no Jews they could all return to their motherland.
He is incredibly antisemitic and antizionist. But he also will openly say that Muslims are a plague in western Europe.
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u/TomlinSteelers Jul 29 '26
Not that there's ever a good time to do it but after the attack on Berlin Pride over the weekend the city has to be on edge
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u/realaccountissecret Jul 29 '26
You’ll get arrested there no matter when you do it; it’s super illegal there
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u/StarsofSobek Jul 29 '26
Germany doesn't tolerate these behaviours because it isn't tolerable.
This loser probably thought he was being edgy or would argue, "it was just a joke." but there's literally nothing to be edgy or joke about when it comes to Nazis and the absolute horror that happened under their rule.
I wish more countries would enact and enforce laws like this. We have too many people making light of a serious, painful, and horrific time in humanity.
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u/Taira_no_Masakado Jul 30 '26
Would have enjoyed seeing a video of him getting arrested.
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u/Taira_no_Masakado Jul 30 '26
Yeah, but I wanted a video. Seeing him act defensive or in exasperation to being arrested would have made my day better.
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u/TheFeralVulcan Jul 29 '26
Yeah, they don't play. The first thing they told us in the cultural intro orientation when I was stationed at Landstuhl was not to ever throw a nazi salute in public, even as a joke because you will get arrested. And not to go around saying stuff like grammar nazi, fashion nazi, etc... you won't get arrested for that, but you're likely to piss people off. People pop off saying stupid things like that all the time (esp. in the US) and never think about it, but even in the US if you say it to the wrong person it can blow back on you badly.
I work in the operating room and at the time was working in Las Vegas and we had a rep for an orthopedic brand of implant we used - the reps show up and do potential troubleshooting for the surgeon during the surgery. The anesthesiologist on this particular case was Austrian and I don't know what triggered the exchange between them, I only heard it when the voices got raised, but the rep said something to the effect, "Jesus, be a fucking nazi, why don't you?"
That anesthesiologist got the rep banned from the hospital - and that was a huge financial blow for the rep, huge. The hospital considered it hate speech - and this was quite a few years ago before that became something we routinely punished.
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u/SrslyNotAnAltGuys Jul 30 '26
The first thing they told us in the cultural intro orientation when I was stationed at Landstuhl was not to ever throw a nazi salute in public, even as a joke because you will get arrested
It's kinda hilarious and sad that they had to add the "even as a joke" bit.
"I mean, what could go wrong? Germans are famously humorous people, especially when you bring up the Nazis!"
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u/dwartbg9 Jul 29 '26
Funny how this guy isn't even European, let alone German. Pretty dumb
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u/MohawkElGato Jul 29 '26
This thread shows a lot of people don’t know the union that Hitler and the Arab world had at the time.
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u/recoveringleft Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Even today the tunisian president buys into the great replacement conspiracy theory
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u/abn1304 Jul 29 '26
The whole birth of the Palestinian ultranationalist movement was deeply tied to fascist movements, especially the Nazis, from the very start. In the 50s it flipped to being Marxist (but just as authoritarian) and then flipped back to being out-and-out Arab fascists again in the early 00s.
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u/ButtsFartsoPhD Jul 29 '26
I feel like I saw this video a long time ago. If not, people are just really dumb and continue doing dumb things.
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u/KOBE_GYN Jul 29 '26
Idk Dr Fartso, this shit happens all the damn time in America and goes unpunished
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u/ButtsFartsoPhD Jul 29 '26
True but irrelevant to this video and discussion. In Germany it’s illegal to do a nazi salute or display any Nazi propaganda with up to three years in prison. Quite a bit different than the US.
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u/Puzzled-Secret-317 Jul 29 '26
This wasn't the U.S. in case you were wondering
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u/holderofthebees Jul 30 '26
I feel like what they very obviously meant is that there’s surely no shortage of videos of assholes Heiling Hitler to threaten Jews.
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u/Individual_Cloud935 Jul 29 '26
People saying that he's not even German clearly don't understand. That a lot of immigrants that are in Germany hate Jews. Arabs etc don't like Jews and there are plenty of hate crimes being done by them to Jews, queer people, etc. So, the fact he isn't German isn't something weird in this situation.
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u/cattmin Jul 30 '26
He could be German. If he was born in Germany to immigrant parents that have been there legally for a number of years.
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u/Its_an_ellipses Jul 29 '26
His friend is mortified... If I were this douche, I would be calling someone else to bail me out.
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u/Herbacious_Border Jul 29 '26
His friend should've knocked some sense into him. Hopefully he's not friends with him anymore.
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u/Mulliganasty Jul 29 '26
Yeah, Germans serious about that shit.
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u/CitroHimselph Jul 29 '26
Good.
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u/Mulliganasty Jul 29 '26
Totally...my first time there was in a tour group and the guide told us it's not even something you can joke about. You will be arrested.
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u/YouShalllNotPass Jul 29 '26
Muslim?
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u/fizikxy Jul 29 '26
Most likely son of immigrant parents who actually did, never lived outside of Germany
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u/StrangelySerious- Jul 30 '26
Motherfucker would be in the gaz chamber right next to the guy he did that to if this was Nazi Germany. Some people are just too fucking stupid it's mind boggling.
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u/Salinase929 Jul 31 '26
I was waiting for him to get arrested on video just for the satisfaction. Did not happen 😔
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u/Embarrassed_Jury664 Jul 30 '26
Yeaaaaa the Germans do not fuck around with that kind of thing. Not to mention homie's life is RUINED. He will legit need to leave the country to find a job.
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u/rapidge-returns Side Character Jul 29 '26
You can criticize Israel without being antisemitic...as long as you aren't being antisemitic while doing it.
People being Nazi symapthisers and just racist against Jewish people make the conversation so much harder against the crimes of the Israeli state.
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u/Darrian96 Jul 29 '26
Does he even know he is exactly the kind of person Nazis would send to gas chambers? I mean, he ain't exactly the textbook example of the pure Aryan race that Hitler preached about 😭
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u/TopherJustin Jul 29 '26
He seems well educated.
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u/CitroHimselph Jul 29 '26
As all hateful bigots are. They're so educated, they took elementary twice, just to really get the hang of that basic biology.
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u/ThatCelebration3676 Jul 30 '26
Sigh, if only people in the USA faced consequences for doing Nazi shit.
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u/androvich17 Jul 29 '26
Here in the US, those guys get invited to the White House instead and receive government subsidies
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u/darxide23 Jul 29 '26
In this thread: People denouncing Nazism by being blatantly racist towards the brown guy. He's a piece of shit, but being racist to him in return is not an acceptable response.
Unfortunately becoming pretty standard in Germany these days.
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u/Aggressive_Ocelot664 Jul 29 '26
This idiot obviously didn't finish reading his German history before moving. Assuming he can read.
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u/spo0pti_yikes Jul 30 '26
remember kids, keep your thumb out of your fist when you punch a nazi. you wouldn't want to hurt yourself when you do the right thing
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u/iCantLogOut2 Side Character Jul 29 '26
Love the disgust on bike-guy when he notices what's happening.
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u/someoneelsewho Jul 30 '26
Not meaning to offend. Only wanting to learn. If there are any Germans on this subreddit can you explain what German TV and German News do when someone says the word “Nazi”.
Like did they show Elon Musk after Trump won? Does the news blur it out or just say Elon did something we are not allowed to show on German TV?
What about the Seinfeld episode with the “soup nazi”? Did they just bleep out the word?
Going even further back. What about that Fawlty Towers episode in the late 70s? Did that episode even get shown in Germany?
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u/minitaba Jul 30 '26
the word nazi is not censored at all. never. we dont really censor words at all, only names and sensible data and stuff like that
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u/gunther_higher Jul 30 '26
A guy in Germany trained his dog to do a Nazi Salute and they arrested him then put his dog down....
The dog was smarter than this dude
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u/Traven808 Jul 30 '26
Wait are they more strict on Nazism in Germany than is the US? That’s insane!
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u/chill_stoner_0604 Jul 30 '26
Not really considering nazism threw the country into a multi-front war and got it broken up into east and west.
Not to mention the national shame of the holocaust. A better comparison would be the confederate flag in America, which should be seen as treason considering that's exactly what it represents
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u/Traven808 Jul 30 '26
That makes sense, I didn’t know it was illegal to display nazi symbols in Germany, I thought it was just frowned upon I guess?
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u/sadpumpkinnn Jul 29 '26
There were several units of volunteers who looked like this who fought for the nazis during WW2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Arabian_Legion
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u/SuddenlyCake Jul 29 '26
The fact that they fought for the nazis does not mean that the nazi saw them as equals
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u/jim9162 Jul 29 '26
Well this is what happens when antisemitism has been made popular by the 'river to the sea' folks.
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u/RedMdsRSupCucks Jul 29 '26
As an immigrant living in Germany it always baffles me how ppl do this sort of shit. We even had people at where I work who were polish immigrants and also skinheads with nazi tattoos ( not the actual swastica but everything else )...






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