• boonhet
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    1 day ago

    Not every country celebrates the hangover day after drinking for Walpurgis night, I’d assume?

    Edit because it’s a very specific reference to my country:

    Here in Estonia we get May 1st off, but we can’t really call it International Workers’ Day because then we’d also be celebrating oppression and forced labor, as the soviet union was nominally socialist, but in reality quite oppressive. IWD was very important to the soviet union, they held huge military parades (to show you what would happen if some part of the union would cease to be good obedient workers of course).

    So instead we get May 1st off for what we call “Spring Day” AKA May Day in other countries. Incidentally it’s the day after Walpurgis night, the ancient celebration of witches and shit.

    Also the loser country that doesn’t celebrate may 1st has had a labor day for longer than IWD has existed, at least in some states (been a federal holiday for like a century too now). It’s just in September.

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        No, it’s because may day military parades were forced upon us by the same entity that sent our people to labour camps.

        Great for you if your people have never been occupied by a dictatorship. Must be nice being on the side of imperialism that benefits from it and looking down on those who suffered.

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            23 hours ago

            And what country is that?

            Btw, the nazis and rednazis were originally allies, you do realize that, right?

            And no, nazis are no friends of ours. They did wage war on our enemies, but they were also opressors, they never freed us when they conquered our land.

            If you’re saying that the hard working people of my country should’ve all been shot by the rednazis, perhaps your ancestors should’ve been shot as well because they’ve given birth to a nazi themselves.

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                20 hours ago

                Bro straight up calling someone’s ancestors Nazis because of the country they live in without even knowing them or what their family went through - that makes you a Nazi. STFU

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                  I don’t get why the Nazis are still so relevant. They have been gone for about a century. There was nothing special about Nazi Germany; all humans kill or support killers when their base needs aren’t met and it’s in their financial self-interest.

                  This doesn’t just apply to humans. It’s an immutable law of being an animal.

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                LMAO a Belgian lecturing me about nazis or oppression. Go ask the Congolese what Belgian oppression was like. Y’all surrendered your country to the nazis willingly. You can claim that Leo wasn’t representative of the people, but y’all kept him in power after WWII so clearly nobody actually disagreed with him. Your voluntary membership of Nazi germany was less than a decade. Most of Eastern Europe was under rednazi rule for half a century. And I’m sure the Walloon legion didn’t do any war crimes either.

                You’re one of those people who are for genocide as long as it’s Russia or China doing it, aren’t you? Everyone else is a nazi for doing anything wrong, but if it’s the rednazis commiting genocide, that’s justified lmao.

                Get your ass back to hexbear where your kind are so the rest of us can defederate from you and your rednazi opinions.

                I will be blocking you because I don’t need such bigotry in my life. Good bye.