I used to live up near Lake Tahoe. I lost count of how many city folk would think all wheel drive would be enough and skipped chains/cables.

One of our favorite things was watching people pour hot coffee or water on their frozen windshield. Man that never stopped being hilarious to watch. They would often just stand there in disbelief after their windshield shattered lol.

My father is a historian. Has a degree in world history. Plus that article has been posted to several history forums over the last ~10+ish years as best I can tell and not once has it included sources or been taken seriously by any of the historians that read it.

You’ve then linked a German website and a German Wikipedia page. I am not fluent in German so I can’t read them, but they are both German hosted so I suspect some modern German biases probably apply. It would behoove any and all Germans to forever distance themselves from Hitler whenever possible but I also see that extending past reality with people trying rewrite history such as yourself.

Pre-Nazi Germany had something like ~15-20km of Autobahn built. Post-Nazi Germany had almost ~4000km of Autobahn. Stop trying to come at me with some “Nazi propaganda” bullshit. Those are both facts that you can independently verify if you want.

It’s perfectly fine to despise the Nazis. I highly recommend it at all times. I DONT agree with trying to rewrite history because we don’t agree with the optics of it today.

Have a good day teletubbyzurückwinker.

Pay attention to when people tell you what to think and be extra suspicious of that kind of behavior. Question everything. Trust but verify.

Now don’t fall into the trap of just being a contrarian. Just because everyone is telling you the same thing doesn’t mean it’s ALWAYS some big conspiracy. It could actually just be the right thing.

Basically just be curious and don’t form opinions purely based off people you look up to or admire.

…do you think that in order for humanity to function we constantly need to be changing? You never think that maybe we level off at some point and settle into a groove where we leave shit alone for awhile?

Have to considered that maybe we as a species require both to function? We need progress and then periods of stability before we get bored/restless and decided to take over the spice trade in our neighborhood?

Light and dark. Yin and Yang.

We need progressives to push for change and we need conservatives to pull the reigns back when we try and change too much too quickly and things start falling apart.

My point this entire time was that good people do bad things. Bad people do good things. Humans are complicated. Our history is even more complicated. At no point has any side or group been “right” forever.

You’ve missed the point of all my previous comments entirely. Good job.

The irony of you telling me to stop posting Nazi propaganda and then linking an article with zero sources that many historians have already called out as just being a Nazi smear article not based in historical fact whatsoever.

Not really the “gotcha” you were going for but you believe whatever you wanna believe I guess.

This would line up with their produced content being so ass I don’t even bother watching it anymore.

I have ADHD. I was able to watch movies and scroll before they came in and made everything suck.

Please use my preferred title: “moderate retard”.

Do you people have any amount of self awareness?

Do you legitimately believe that anything and everything the right has ever said or done has been wrong?

Most people would say that Hitler was a terrible person (and they would be right), but even the evil as shit Hitler did some Good things in his life even if some people refuse to admit it.

Hitler is credited with pulling Germany out of the post WW1 economic slump. One of the major contributors was his insistence on building the highway/Autobahn. It enabled Germany to expand faster and years before other European countries could catch up

Him and the Nazis were among the first to recognize the health benefits with not smoking and he is credited with pushing Germans to quit smoking but especially pregnant women and kids.

If you want a more recent example:

During Trump’s first Term he made it easier to prosecute financial crimes. The main way he did this was by requiring businesses to report their true owners. No longer would they spend as much time and money digging through shell corporations to figure out who is truly responsible.

If you want a less recent example:

Nixon created the EPA.

Not everything the left does is rainbows and perfection. Not everything the right does is evil and ruins the planet. You need to stop thinking in absolutes and recognize that things are more complicated.

You shouldn’t view things like they have “sides”. People are complicated. Situations involving one or many people are even more complex. People who have done arguably great things for humanity have also done terrible things in their personal lives. It’s not an all or nothing type of thing. Some people will tell you it is, but those people are either stupid or pushing an agenda.

Picking “sides” removes any nuance from the conversation and is often short sighted.

You can generally agree with a “side” but find individual statements that you disagree with. There are basically no “sides” or people that I universally agree with across every single little thing.

I’ll give one of my favorite examples of this: The Wright brothers. Without them we wouldn’t have modern flight which has not only saved countless lives but it also enabled great expansion with their new technology. Most people would argue that the Wright brothers were very important and a good thing that happened… however the Wright brothers were incredibly litigious and because of that they probably held back the technological growth of aviation for several years because of that behavior. At that time technology was moving incredibly quick so who knows how much it delayed things in the grand scheme of things.

It doesn’t mean that them figuring out how to fly and making the first air plane is now bad, but it does change their perception that they were these giving “father’s of flight”. They were greedy little shits who wanted all the money who happened to figure out how to fly.

A more common example would Winston Churchill. Arguably one of the most important players during WW2. Many argue that without his leadership the war would have gone quite different. He also happened to be super racist.

Don’t discredit everything good someone has done because of one bad thing they did. But also don’t ignore the bad things people have done because they have done some good. Take them as the whole. Flawed but human.

Can’t have the population working together to take out the elites. They need us good and pissed off at each other so we are too busy to see them taking everything and giving us scraps constantly.

I don’t consider myself a centrist, but I do consider myself between the two parties currently.

I don’t like the “both sides are wrong” mentality often associated with centrists. I don’t think I am inherently better than either side. I think I am disillusioned by both sides.

I was a Leftist/Democrat for the majority of my life. Then at some point ~8-9 years ago saw the pipeline that leads to radicalized righty thinking and said “fuck that” but when I turned around and looked back on my old party critically I also didn’t want to walk back through that door either.

Basically I think both “sides” need to shut up and stop slinging poop at each other. Occasionally you need to listen to the other side. Neither one is always right or always wrong. Some of the moderates from either side can admit this and they hang out in the middle ish with me. But most people just sprint farther to either side when their ideas are challenged.

But since everyone has this “us vs them” mentality over every little thing I don’t see communication or collaboration getting any better going forward.

I think pretty much everyone is living in various states of denial.

Some don’t care and never will care about facts or logical thinking. They are driven by emotion exclusively and go wherever it takes them. Usually anger and depression.

Some are too stupid to recognize facts or logical thinking.

Many people who think they are above others because they have all the facts and they think they are being logical at all times, but in reality they have at best misunderstood facts or selective facts.

This is isn’t unique to one party or group either. Every single group of people has idiots who think they know everything. Poorly educated who think they understand everything. I believe that generally speaking most people think they are doing the right thing and they want the best for themselves and others around them.

Never attribute to malice what can accurately be explained by incompetence.

People need to stop forgetting about Hanlons Razor

“Strong” as in a very brief period in the 1930s the Nazis worked with Zionists to get Jews into Palestine.

I think you would have a very difficult time making the case that they have had a strong link ever since or consistently for any period in history including right now.

I used to be a zoom admin for a very large college before and during the start of COVID. At that time I never recall seeing anything about participation metrics and whatnot. Other than someone recording the meeting and watching it back I don’t think there is anything they can see besides who joined and what/if they typed.

I will say the admins can see “private” dms to each other if they really want to. So while nobody else in the call can see what you’re typing to your buddy in the moment the admins can if they want to. So don’t type anything in those private chats unless you would hypothetically be ok with your boss seeing it.

It’s been a few years since I left that job though so it possible they have added more data logging for things like camera and mic “on” time.

Personally even now for my work as long as I connect to the meetings when I’m supposed to they never care if I turn on my webcam or unmute. I’ll answer the random question thrown my way, but otherwise I’m on my phone or doing actual work work while sorta half listening to whatever meeting.

Unfortunately he’s in his 60s and he thinks sports are “stupid”.

Still love him though.

He’s got his moments. I’m kinda fond of him.

Objectively speaking as a white guy who has no affiliation with either gang… The crip walk is just better.

First time I saw the blood walk I thought it was a joke.

They can’t.

I tried to make a comment about this in a different thread. Only you can control how you wanna spend your energy every day. Stop giving it to being angry at them all day. Unless there is something you can do to take actual action its just ruining your day with no real change taking place.

My father has requested that the family only talk to him about politics if there is something he can do. A petition to sign. A protest to mount. Something. Otherwise he doesn’t want to hear what Trump and his lackey’s are up to because he knows he can’t do anything about it and letting it ruin his daily mental health does him no good.

Unfortunately this is the Democrats fault at this point. A real boy who cried wolf situation. Y’all hated this man so much that you tried anything and everything to shut him down.

All you did was make it so everyone stopped listening to what you had to say. People even tried to warn you about this approach after the 2016 election but you guys were the “is it me that’s out of touch? No it’s clearly them who is wrong” meme.

I guess we all get to look forward to Republican rule forever since the Democrats are literally incapable of seeing how they contributed to this situation.