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haha that one's rough! That said, you can put a lot in a junk car.

Yep, deportations and plans for deportations, including the Madagascar Plan.

Neo-Nazis often lie (yes, knowingly lie) and say they just want a group deported 'back to their own land'. It's a much easier pill to swallow for the group of racists and nationalists who think genocide is a step too far, and it acts to sanewash them, but at the end of the day it's cheaper and simpler to exterminate like the Nazi Regime did. Plus, there are groups who don't have an external indigenous land, like the trade unionists, gays, trans, communists, liberals, people with disabilities, [...] and so it's clear that they can't just deport and imprison all the ones they don't like. It always ends the same way with fascism.

Yes, please lock and add some links to the preferred comm for convenience. (sidebar and stickied posts)

I can do this if you're busy, just give me mod privs.

I instance-hopped a couple of times because I joined smaller instances (the recommendation everyone gives you) that then disappeared / were abandoned by the admin.

I already had this problem on PeerTube years earlier, so I played it safe with a bigger instance, at least for a main account (I also had one on gtio.io which was gone before the reddit API exodus). This is absolutely a real issue with people recommending small instances, but at the same time, it's necessary to avoid recommending just one which gets overwhelmed and disables new accounts.

I joined lemmy through a link my relative sent me and somehow I did not get to select an instance, it seemingly auto-assigned me to lemmy.cafe.

Like spujb said, my guess is the link was directly to lemmy.cafe.

If you want to quickly browse around different instances, there's https://join-lemmy.org/, which some people have said they avoided because they don't want people joining the politically-stricter instances as a first impression. So I'd recommend settling in for a week on .cafe to get an idea of how this works, before considering if you're having no problems with .cafe or if you'd like to explore other options. For example, if they have blocked any communities on other instances which you're interested in (I don't know if this is the case).

To be fair, you can’t say they’re wrong.

Most of them are. Some of them are even plain old factually wrong, not just condescending or exaggerating.

It's important to understand that many of these instances were raised by people who didn't like reddit's widespread US-defaultism (including people claiming reddit is left-of-center because it swings Democrat) and its tolerance of bigots and trolls. Now if someone wants to set up their own instances to clone reddit and keep all the bad parts, sure, all we can really do is ignore them or get ignored by them. But when those people complain that this is "a bunch of 14 year olds" with "vote bots" or a "political echo chamber", that's just plain old ignorant, or shocked that they're suddenly in a place with a different culture and struggling to believe it's mostly just normal nerdy people like reddit is.

Of course, but it's there now and they're happy to abuse it. Call them hypocrites all you want, they couldn't care less.

This is correct, and also, Nazis don't care about good faith argumentation. They're explicitly anti-liberal (as in, liberty, freedom) and will only pretend to have these values to try and point out an apparent contradiction ("You believe in rights to speech and democracy, so why are you censoring us?")

In this video of former white supremacists talking about how they left the ideology, one brings up that on their Nazi website, it was normal and common to argue for points they knew were garbage, like the Great Replacement theory. It's about power and results, not liberalist idealism.

Violent methods usually aren't the preferred way of dealing with Nazis (because it's harder to get a mass movement to join in and support it, and because it's riskier, legally, which makes it harder to sustain), but it works. It broke up the BUF in Britain, it's kept the local turds scared to show their faces or reveal their true thoughts (don't worry, they still usually get revealed by researchers anyway). Violence works. They know it and we know it. But when they're the government, their violence is now legal.

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It's neat that the ant joke's pun translates into English, good pick.

The Wikipedia page on East German jokes has a few Trabant jokes.

• What's the best feature of a Trabant? – There's a heater at the back to keep your hands warm when you're pushing it.

• A new Trabi has been launched with two exhaust pipes – so you can use it as a wheelbarrow.

• How do you double the value of a Trabant? – Fill it with gas.

• The back page of the Trabant manual contains the local bus schedule.

• Four men were seen carrying a Trabant. Somebody asks them why? Was it broken? They reply: "No, nothing wrong with it, we’re just in a hurry."

• How do you catch a Trabi? – Place a piece of chewing gum on the road.

Well, I tried looking up videos of this and found one more reason not to: someone brought a bucket of hot water to their car and slipped on the icy driveway, spilling it on their face.