• madjo
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    Secret police kind of crap. This is scary!

    • RamenJunkie
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      The shitty part is, what does that even mean?

      “Hey, they hired a black dude, better report it to the DEI Snitch list.”

      Its just a weird open invitation for assholery.

      • @yarn@lemmy.ca
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        44 hours ago

        It reads like they’re looking for teams that have cleverly been restructured or renamed to circumvent the order.

        • @Cort@lemmy.world
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          This wasn’t regarding private companies, it was about government agencies. They’re asking government employees to rat out other government employees.

          • RamenJunkie
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            Except they may have policies that tell them they can’t contract with anyone who uses DEInpolicies now.

            Which is basically, everyone.

  • @collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    5110 hours ago

    Start reporting DEI hires like Amy Coney Barrett and Marco Rubio? Did they give Vivek a position or did they just lead him on? The letter my brother received asking him to rat out his coworkers was sent by a woman, probably a DEI hire.

  • Phoenixz
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    Yeah and?

    Of course they’re doing this. Expect a WHOLE lot more of this. 50 bucks say that next month everyone will be getting an email urging them to rat out Anne Frank’s immigrant hiding places, and failure to do so might earn you a ticket to the same death camp immigrant vacation camp

    Its like Trump’s government is watching all sorts of WWII documentaries and intensely writing down all the ideas they’re getting from it

    • @__nobodynowhere@lemm.ee
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      95 hours ago

      Cleanse the government of non-whites and political enemies

      Deport illegals

      Imprison illegals who cannot be deported

      Imprison transexuals, homosexuals and political enemies

      Imprison any non-whites

      Final solution

        • @__nobodynowhere@lemm.ee
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          12 hours ago

          Maybe just “uppity” non-whites and I somehow completely left out the Jews. They’ll surely be swept up in this.

          • @inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            22 hours ago

            Nah the Jews will come last unless they’re antizionist. The fascists love the zionists and have historically worked together. The christofascists need the zionists to achieve their stupid end of the world religious fantasies.

      • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        Start reporting households with Trump flags. Especially if they’re Trump supporting immigrants. Clog their systems with false reports and ‘Leopards ate my face’ types.

  • murmelade
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    6715 hours ago

    Cool Americans should report their obnoxious Republican coworkers.

  • Nougat
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    Whatever you do, don’t email anything at all to DEIAtruth@opm.gov. Especially do not make them aware of “parties with lemons” or “girl in a tub” or “Swedish (SE) goat”.

  • @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13918 hours ago

    So i know this guy who only got hired because of the color of his skin. His name is Donald Trump, he’s the token orange guy. No idea how to do his job.

  • @N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17619 hours ago

    Have you ever wondered how you would act if you were the neighbors of the family harboring Anne Frank and her family? A lot of people are about to find out for real.

    • @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      Comparing this situation to Anne Frank is a bit silly, nobody’s being dragged off to the gas chambers.

      • WideEyedStupid
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        Anne Frank didn’t die in a gas chamber. She was never in an extermination camp. She was at Auschwitz, not Auschwitz-Birkenau. She died in Bergen-Belsen, most likely from Typhus.

        Anyway, you do realize they didn’t start off with gas chambers, right? You need incremental steps, making it worse little by little, because otherwise people won’t accept it. First it was the rhetoric, and the rhetoric got worse and worse. Taking away people’s rights. Taking over the newspapers to print whatever you want them to. Changing laws, removing laws, writing new laws. Violence in the streets to intimidate and persecute people, using his brownshirts. Imprisoning political opponents (socialists and communists were first, of course, because they resisted the hardest). Imprisoning anyone who went against the propaganda; journalists, scientists, artists, teachers, any and all intellectuals basically. Banning political parties except your own. Executing religious leaders that refused to kiss the ring. Anything and anyone that could possibly ever turn into a weapon against him, even his own people weren’t safe. But each step came after the previous, a 100 little steps that resulted in industrialized genocide. You can’t start at 100.

        The extermination camps weren’t built until '41/'42 and mostly they did that because executing shitloads of people was very traumatizing for his own murder squads (Einsatzgruppen) and very time-consuming. It wasn’t efficient, it was bad for their mental health. They had already gassed people in smaller settings like hospitals, mentally and physically disabled people. They industrialized it, but it wasn’t what they advertised in the 30’ies. If Hitler had stood up during elections and said “hey guys, you know what would be cool? Let’s gas millions of people!” he never would have gotten to power. But once he had power… well, he could do whatever the fuck he wanted. His rabid supporters loved it, any and all actual resistance was already squashed, and anyone who didn’t love it had to pretend they did, because otherwise they’d be dragged off.

        Even then, remember that the most votes the Nazis ever got was 39%. 39% too many, obviously, but they never had a majority. The only reason Hitler got absolute power in the first place is because the conservatives worked with him, thought they could control the Nazis, use them against the socialists and communists. They made him chancellor, and then Hindenburg died and Hitler made himself president as well. Of course by then there was nothing or nobody who could even try to stop him anymore. But yeah, the conservatives handed him power on a silver platter. Underestimated him. Sounds familiar, no?

        Remember: Nazis in the 30’ies hadn’t done yet what Nazis in the 40’ies ended up doing. They were still fucking Nazis.

        Hitler wasn’t Hitler, until he was.

        Edit: Also remember that extermination wasn’t even the goal at first. What they wanted was to get rid of the Jewish people, not necessarily kill them all. Jewish people could voluntarily leave, some were being deported to Poland and other places. Entire ships filled with Jewish people were sent to Cuba (where they were denied entry) and the US (where they were denied entry) and other places (often being denied entry and being forced to go back where they came from, only to still end up in concentration camps). They even had an ultimate deportation plan (the first Final Solution, I guess): The Madagascar Plan. They were going to deport all Jewish people to Madagascar. But when they couldn’t defeat the British and any invasion of GB was deemed impossible, they gave up on the plan.

        We have already seen that camps with immigrants are apparently perfectly acceptable in the U.S. and now with the new shit being built in Texas… do you really think all these people are actually going to be deported? Or are they going to rot in camps while being used as slave labor? How many are going to die from horrific conditions? Americans actually voted for all this, Trump has never been shy about his intentions. And they still refuse to accept any Nazi-parallels. Just because people aren’t being gassed, doesn’t mean any comparison is false.

        Edit 2: correction: I don’t actually know if any building has already started. But Texas has offered land to Trump for his Mass Deportation Facilities. Sources: here and here

      • @gmtom@lemmy.world
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        Friendly reminder the SS didn’t start with gas chambers and didn’t openly advertise gas chambers.

        Saying “you can’t compare a person to a Nazi until they’ve murdered their six millionth jew” is just defending Nazis.

          • Lightor
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            Calling someone a Nazi used to be extreme and over the top. These people are literally Nazis, it’s not being hyperbolic anymore.

          • Cethin
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            4013 hours ago

            Sure, but what do you do when they’re actual Nazis? No one should have tried to stop the Nazis before they knew about the gas chambers I guess, right?

          • @LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            I don’t have to, there are Nazis already in the white house. If you don’t want to open your eyes for once, see musk doing a Hitler salute and read some of the stuff he’s been saying about the great replacement conspiracy theory, jews, trans people etc. and not have the guts to call a duck a duck and admit you can finally see what we all saw coming like ~2015 that’s on you.

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        No ordinary citizens knew the truth about the gasschambers, least of all the Frank family.

        The propaganda named them “work-camps” which also sounds better then “prison”

        Edit: cruelty is gradual, after they hid they heard “rumors” on the radio.

        The actual thing they feared was deportation, which could be assumed to mean death but no one knew for sure.

        • @PatrickYaa@lemmy.one
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          That is not correct and borders on historical denialism.
          The german people was at least implicitly, if not acutely aware of the cruelties and ethnic, political and ableistic “cleansings” perpetrated by the Nazi government. Just a quick glance at wikipedia gives you this information.

          • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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            Thats an exaggeration of what i said but i guess in context of historical denialism it is a fair nuance to also mention. In a way your own versions of events denies the gradual escalation of evil. They did not Start with gas chambers.

            This is my point more nuanced.

            The Anne Frank family had lived to trough systemic suppression.

            They witnessed and experienced the racism and hatred.

            Deportations happend out in the open

            But that is pretty close to where we are today!

            Jews did not hide out of fear of gas chambers but out of fear of deportation or arrest. Just like today.

            Overtime it became an open secret that deportation was very likely death. But you are still surrounded by propaganda. The exact details and extend of the real cruelty where hidden.

            Looking it up: the Frank family went into hiding in July 1942. In Oktober that year Anne describes in her diary a rumor on the radio about jews being gassed. They did not wait for that escalation to hide, they started before.

            • @PatrickYaa@lemmy.one
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              I appreciate you coming back and giving nuance to your comment, thank you for that.
              If you describe facts, would you kindly provide sources of where you encountered them? That makes it a lot easier to have a facts-based discussion :)

              • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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                My source is actually slightly complex and non English but the actual source my source has it from is the actually diary.

                The full extract can be found here:

                https://alphahistory.com/holocaust/anne-frank-diary-1942-44/

                October 9th 1942: “Today I have nothing but dismal and depressing news to report. Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews. Miep told us about someone who’d managed to escape from there. It must be terrible in Westerbork. The people get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink, as water is available only one hour a day, and there’s only one toilet and sink for several thousand people. Men and women sleep in the same room, and women and children often have their heads shaved. Escape is almost impossible; many people look Jewish, and they’re branded by their shorn heads. If it’s that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilised places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they’re being gassed. Perhaps that’s the quickest way to die. I feel terrible. Miep’s accounts of these horrors are so heartrending… Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I’m actually one of them! No, that’s not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and Jews.”

      • @GraniteM@lemmy.world
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        Oh God, I hope no one knows how to write an LLM script to write huge numbers of plausible-sounding reports sent from anonymous email accounts. It would be even worse if the reports were set up to send investigators into organizations that shouldn’t exist, like ICE.

      • @adarza@lemmy.ca
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        1617 hours ago

        in this case, the first filter rule would be to route mail from gov and contractor domain to an actual inbox.

      • Cethin
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        913 hours ago

        Yeah, unless you’re very sure about your OpSec, I wouldn’t do it if you’re in the US. Hopefully people from elsewhere do it with a VPN in the US though.