You should absolutely give it a watch.

Those people don't need to believe in it though, there's plenty of people who will do violence for the sake of violence

He received the second and first class Iron Crosses, the first class famously on the recommendation of his Jewish officer.

People compare them pretty frequently to the Bronze Star. I don't think that's quite right because the award systems are simply different but by all accounts the first class award was a rarity for his rank.

Ah, yeah, the iron cross would count, at least for the sake of argument.

Notably it worked really well

A few dozen people were executed for German war crimes. These people were not "just following orders", regardless of what they said. They were creating orders.

Thousands and thousands of people directly responsible for nazi slaughter were safely smuggled out of Germany by the CIA, given new names, and resettled in America, Canada, South America, South Africa, and more.

These people were also creating orders, and yet they were freed from any consequences, including even the economic ones that followed in postwar Germany. They went on to fertilize many of the fascist, racist movements we see taking over today.

Millions more lower level people who only directly murdered others by pulling a trigger, were let off the hook completely. Many got to keep their positions of violent state enforcement. These were the only people "just following orders" and they all escaped prosecution.

Indeed and the MAGA fucknuts would do the same for Mango Mussolini.

This isn't even a cop thing, though I have no doubt the rate would be higher if empirically tested; cops tend to be very Conventional Morality in the sense that If Legal -> Moral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

TL;DR: 65% of people would kill someone if given an order to do so (and some plausible deniability).

My money's on it being 70-80% for US cops, maybe higher. My only real metric on this is the one guy I knew who made an arrest he was ordered to that he (should have) known wasn't legal and shrugged his shoulders about retelling the incident, saying "I'm a soldier (he was an Army veteran); I follow orders."

Thanks Eva! I'm glad your doing well

That's 100 million billion!

And Whistler's mother

Sir. This post is about Hitler

I'm sure you're balls would be all over the place

There was recently news about Hitler probably murdering his niece in 1931. She supposedly killed herself in his apartment but historians found old archives that apparently suggest that's not what actually happened.

Yeah I knew he was in WW1, and may have taken a life there. But I'm wondering about when he was actually in power. Like, did history's greatest anti-Semite really resist the temptation to do a little dirty work himself? Did he never take an afternoon to go throw the lever on a gas chamber himself? It's not like he couldn't have easily arranged such a thing.

Pulling a gun and shooting a person running away from you is hardly plausible deniability.

We should give Hitler a posthumous peace prize for killing the leader of the Nazis. Maybe that could inspire a certain fat orange pedophile to follow suit.

Now do the number of people killed by British capitalism in India

Capitalism kills as many as the most inflated numbers attributed to communism every 10 years. The Black Book of Communism, widely cited for its accounting of deaths allegedly caused by communist states, estimates that communism has killed 100 million people. This includes Nazi soldiers killed in WW2 and, bizarrely, the unborn children that hypothetically would have been born if there hadn't been a famine or a war.

To this day, 10 million people who live under capitalism die from starvation and preventable disease simply because it isn't profitable to save them. If we take the Black Book seriously, and agree that every death that happened under a communist state (preventable or not) is attributable to the communist ideology, then we must also agree that every death under a capitalist regime is attributable to capitalism. If we do that, then capitalism is the most murderous ideology there has ever been.

Even if you don't want to agree with the above logic, we can look at how US sanctions have directly led to the deaths of 38 million people in 50 years. These sanctions are murder done solely to coerce countries into falling in line with US interests.

uhm, this is an anarchist sub

There is no such thing as a great war. ffs.

In fairness it's hard to stand your ground when surrounded by murderous fascists.

Where I live, fash put people in cages for decades just for having zines.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines

This comment would be more convincing if you just called them fascists instead of using the meaningless euphemism of "conservative".

It was 6 million Jews, 13 million total in the camps.

There weren’t even 13 million Jews in Europe before wwii lol.

And total deaths, military and civilian, during wwii were 75-85 million. You don’t need to make up numbers. It was already the most human death in history. Making shit up gives the conspiracy nuts ammo.

...the unborn children that hypothetically would have been born if there hadn’t been a famine or a war.

One of those kids could've gone on to have a kid that has a kid that helps populate the whole universe. So the real number is closer to 500 kajillion million trillion.

I dunno, it had some cool stuff. Like, um... Those grenades on sticks? Pretty great.

I will have to be the peace prize though

Conservatives are fascists. They are the same people. Always have been.

Did you just not read the Wikipedia article or what?

Maybe you're implying shooting people running away is common in US law enforcement?

Don't be glib; state your point with some conviction.

I believe most estimates converge around 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Honestly, I’m happily surprised this guy is being ratioed like this. We are subverting the leftist infighting trope.

source?

6 million jew, okay. But I didn't quantify all the other victims of the camps.

I am aware of the milgram experiment.

The experiment is null if the "experimenter" or proposed authority figure isnt in the room with the person. The subjects, famously, hesitate before being pressured. Most cops just pull triggers and laugh to the bank to cash their 6 months paid leave.

Naw, the vast majority of cops never pull their trigger anywhere other than the shooting range.

As for paid leave after a shooting, are you implying you'd rather a cop who just shot someone be back out on the street immediately with zero investigation first?

Id rather our "protectors" not kill us

1. They're not your protectors; you fell for an LAPD slogan.

2. I kinda doubt you want the cops to kill 0 people ever; are you saying you're good with them waiting around for the killer to get bored at Uvalde?

3. Once again as soon as you are hit with a point that contradicts your stance, you leap to the Red Herring. Presumably, this is because you don't actually care that much about the topic and are just toying with it.

1. I put it in quotes for a reason.
2. I do want cops to kill 0 people ever. Obviously situations are complicated and armed dangerous people harming innocents with no intent to stop should be taken out, but ideally they are put through a good system and rot in jail forever. Note: the current american judicial system is deeply flawed.
3. Lol

1. I got that you were being sarcastic, but I figure(d) it's much more likely that you're angry because you think they're not fulfilling a promise, when in reality it's more of a catchy slogan that tricked you.

2. Your first two sentences contradict each other so I don't even have to address this point.

3. As long as we're all aware you're just concern trolling.