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One of my favourite memories from the last Iceland trip is from the night we drove back from the puffin rock to our accommodation. As we reached the height of the mountain, suddenly we found ourselves driving above the clouds. It was magical. Iceland is magical.
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7 July 1923 | Belgian Jewish woman, Rachel Romacki, was born in Etterbeek.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 31 July 1943. She did not survive.
First monarch of the summer
I've been raising the caterpillars we find in our yard, using only milkweed grown in a tiny spot, for several years now. Last year I released 18, this year I'm already ahead of that number. We also have swallowtails after the gardener added golden alexander
🇩🇪 Hey queer folx in Germany! 🇩🇪
I have a queer friend who's fleeing the US to your lovely country. She's hella cool, but she doesn't know anyone there yet 👉👈
I told her I'd pass on the Discord info (sadly, she's not on Mastodon) of any of my community here if they wanted an introduction 💞
Did I mention she's awesome? 
Edit: she's moving to Munich, öbersendling.
Lasagna for dinner, and wife decided she didn't want carbs, so she's eaten everything except the pasta.
It lies there, bereft of life, like it's been drained by some bolognese vampire.
Nosferagu.
Despite measles being declared eliminated in the US in 2000, annual measles cases have reached a 33-year high — and it's only July.
This is the tragic result of the spread of anti-vax disinformation, and will only get worse in the coming years because anti-vaxxers now lead our health agencies.
This is like if Nazi's sold Auschwitz merchandise to their base in 1941.
It's beyond sick. The clinical term is sadistic psychopathy.
'Dachau Merchandise' would be more accurate.
Dachau was put into service weeks after Hitler seized power and was not an extermination camp like Auschwitz.
And yes, Hitler bragged about Dachau and used it for propaganda.
And yes, it was one of the predecessors of the extermination camps like Auschwitz.
The Auschwitz comparison still has value.
From the point Hitler had seized power and opened up concentration camps, there was no democratic alternative anymore to the way that led to Auschwitz and to the second world war.
@publixpace @ratel @MeanwhileinCanada
"Alligator Dachau" doesn't have the same ring to it.
@ratel @publixpace @MeanwhileinCanada
Historical comparisons are not automatically incorrect wtf
@publixpace
This is the first I've heard of Dachau and just skimming the Wikipedia page is absolutely frightening at how similar it is to this facility the GOP has set up... Combine that with Congress not being allowed access and it's not hard to see how close we are to repeating history in a frightening way.
Yes, the MAGAtts probably read wikipedia, too.
@publixpace @bobkmertz @MeanwhileinCanada
Despite the fact they loathe Wikipedia and want it shut down.
@wvs @publixpace @MeanwhileinCanada
> workers came from the concentration camp
Just pointing out, that rented out forced labor is still very much a thing in the US. Ironically outside of the deportation camps.
Has been for all of the last decades. Google "prison industry".
@wvs @publixpace @MeanwhileinCanada there were many things manufactured in concentration camps, and there are still people who collect them.
It is truly disturbing.
@publixpace @MeanwhileinCanada
Genocide Gear?
@SamanthaJaneSmith @MeanwhileinCanada
Yes, literally weeks after he seized power.
Just wait until criticism of the king is officially labeled a mental illness - and you just can't let mentally ill people roam the country freely...
@publixpace @SamanthaJaneSmith @MeanwhileinCanada
This is what I'm afraid of.
Next protest, or the next, or the one after that...
We all get rounded up and "detained."
@publixpace @MeanwhileinCanada
While the exact comparison of precisely which Nazi German concentration camp the US concentration camp is most like may be of academic interest, the most important point is that the US is building a concentration camp directly comparable with Nazi German concentration camps.
Also bear in mind Auschwitz was providing slave labour at least a year before it started industrialised murder by gas chambers. Such slave labour is already being proposed for the US camp.
@HighlandLawyer Thank you for pointing out this very important step in the historical progression.
I'm looking at this thinking "this has to be a sick joke, someone faked the ad"...but then I stopped and thought about the US news and it het me...it has to be true.
No, it's real:
Oh, and, guess what, you can buy this sadistic garbage on #Amazon as well. Why am I not surprised?
I am not shocked, but this makes me feel ill to think people in this world are this cruel.
IT turns my stomach to think someone is profiting from misery. @MeanwhileinCanada
@SnowyCA @hadon @MeanwhileinCanada
It is beyond disgusting
I am sure no one would do this. ;)
@hadon @MeanwhileinCanada
No thanks, I believe you.
I have no desire to increase my sorrow about the state of the human race.
@MeanwhileinCanada Nazi merch - a board game.
@MatthewChat @MeanwhileinCanada I was gonna say, like, aside from the books and lamps made from Nazi victims? Nazis have always been grifters.
Where did they learn it in the first place? "Gator bait" was a huge *extremely racist* meme in the US (especially the South)... It's probably more than just an interesting coincidence that this specific racist institution also happens to reference that meme.
Atrocities and merch go hand-in-hand when cruelty is the point.
@Hex @MatthewChat @MeanwhileinCanada
US racists and eugenecists taught the Nazis how to Nazi in the first place. Read up on Henry Ford's connection to Hitler sometime. It's just one vicious cycle of hatred that goes round and round.
@MatthewChat @MeanwhileinCanada
Wow, if you updated that to latinos out, you could sell millions of copies to maga.
@MeanwhileinCanada Could I make "Alligator Auschwitz" merch to drive home the point? Is that going too far?
Edit: more a question for Jewish people about usurping a painful part of their history.
@dan613 Auschwitz was located in Germany proper at the time, today’s border between Germany and Poland was drawn after WW2 by the USSR.
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