I always find it funny when Americans make profanity a huge deal. Like "omg they're dropping the F-bomb in this episode! first F-bomb in the whole franchise!" or whatever.

As a European, I don't even _notice_ these.

It's usually only when I'm reading reviews or discussions or watching reaction videos that I even realize that someone said "fucking" in a particular scene.

@cstross

me: “Oh god, the American government is locking children up in concentration camps again.”

Americans, horrified: “We’d appreciate it if you didn’t use the Lord’s name in vain!”

@Cacotopos @scy @cstross as American Jesus taught: blessèd are the children, for it’s cheaper to build smaller cages.

@josh0 @scy @cstross “So efficient, praise be!”

@cstross

me: “Oh god, the American government is locking children up in concentration camps again.”

Americans, horrified: “We’d appreciate it if you didn’t use the Lord’s name in vain!”

@Cacotopos @scy @cstross I got told off for calling ICE “Gestapo going door to door arresting people by race“ at a closed-door meeting in Germany, because you can’t say “Gestapo” — edit: which I’ve learnt from replies is because that might diminish the holocaust, and while the us is breaking up families, deporting and maybe even torturing, so far they aren’t exterminating (which is what we’re all fighting to head off.)

@j2bryson @cstross hahahaha ye gods the world is mad. This is peak “Acshully, you can’t call them Nazis because they’re not paid members of the 1930s National Socialism party of Germany I am very smirt.”

@Cacotopos @j2bryson @scy "They can't be Nazis, the arms on the crosses on their armbands point in the wrong direction!"

@cstross @Cacotopos @j2bryson Actually it's because Germany has strict laws about that. The idea is that some of these comparisons, however well intended, may actually downplay the holocaust as a result.

Legality of Holocaust denial - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Also, I'd very much appreciate if you could stop messaging me about this.

scy (@scy@chaos.social)

The number of people who think it's necessary to respond to this post with all kind of atrocities committed by USians … I only made a lighthearted post about profanity. Do I really deserve my notifications to be filled with descriptions of violence?

chaos.social (chaos.social)

@Cacotopos @scy @cstross I got told off for calling ICE “Gestapo going door to door arresting people by race“ at a closed-door meeting in Germany, because you can’t say “Gestapo” — edit: which I’ve learnt from replies is because that might diminish the holocaust, and while the us is breaking up families, deporting and maybe even torturing, so far they aren’t exterminating (which is what we’re all fighting to head off.)

@j2bryson @Cacotopos

You might understand this, when you read tge mouse comics or vidit Auschwitz and you understand, the the Gestapo did not only send tgem to camps, but at those camps the children were seperated from the parents and were killed in the gas chambers (because they were not considered strong enough to be killed by working to death)

@Cacotopos @scy @cstross I got told off for calling ICE “Gestapo going door to door arresting people by race“ at a closed-door meeting in Germany, because you can’t say “Gestapo” — edit: which I’ve learnt from replies is because that might diminish the holocaust, and while the us is breaking up families, deporting and maybe even torturing, so far they aren’t exterminating (which is what we’re all fighting to head off.)

@j2bryson
And how does ICE differ from a secret state police? (Since that is what the abbreviation means)
@Cacotopos @scy @cstross

@rhialto @Cacotopos @scy @cstross we can’t forget that the name came to refer to the specific state police that genocided over 90% of several populations, including but by no means limited to 6m jewish people. But I entirely agree that ICE is the same as gestapo were towards the beginning of the holocaust, though the German people with disabilities were exterminated pretty early, so I may even be wrong there.