3. TIL Nazi Germany destroyed the city of Warsaw virtually completely following an ...

TIL Nazi Germany destroyed the city of Warsaw virtually completely following an uprising that resulted in the 500k citizens being taken captive. Germany had plans to turn the city into a manmade lake to erase it completely from history.

“Nazis are cancer”, which is an almost universally accepted truth

Except in Russia, Trump Tower, Republican Party HQ, Fox News HQ, half the states in the country...

as taking “a stand against Nazism”?

I'd rather take a stand in words before it gets to something like the Warsaw catastrophe described in the post. Presumably you would find the latter more entertaining. From a distance, of course.

Get over yourself.

All I did was say "Nazis are cancer." You're the one driven batshit by someone else saying it.

Maybe the next time there is a shooting you should tell people that murder is bad too

Of course I should say that. Everybody should. Decency has to be affirmed when it's attacked.

And Nazis are cancer.

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