Mightypsychobat

Mightypsychobat t1_jedju97 wrote

Reply to Eli5 Saw a post on TwoSentenceSadness “The little girl giggled as she hugged the stranger, particularly interested in that strange armband he wore: red, with a white circle and a strange black cross in the middle. He hugged her back, until he saw the yellow star on her chest” what’s it mean? by [deleted]

Its a rather boorish reference to the Holocaust. I am more upset that you don't understand what this simple story is trying to convey. Maybe your school skipped over the WORLD WARS?

"red, with a white circle and a strange black cross in the middle." is the German military symbol "The Iron Cross" that date back to Prussia. The Nazi would use this symbol and wear armband to signal they were party member of the Nazi political organization that seized control of Germany during the post war period.

"yellow star on her chest" is the Star of David which was a six sided yellow star sewn onto Jewish people cloths during this time to make it easier to find and identify Jewish people. Which was required by law when the Nazi came into power in Post-war Germany.

It made easier for the Nazis to find and kill the Jews later on. And kill them they did.

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Mightypsychobat t1_je7xk4c wrote

Reply to comment by mouse_8b in eli5 why ancient historical buildings haven’t been kept up? Why are buildings like the Parthenon and the Colosseum in such disrepair? Greece and Rome/Italy have existed the entire time? by PickledSpace56

> it likely would still be glorious if not for people fighting.

You forget the Greek were in a constant state of war and was in fact built to honor their victory over the Persians. So war givith and war taketh away.

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Mightypsychobat t1_j83ls5l wrote

Reply to TIL that the Roman Empire had twice the level of urbanization than Europe did at the start of the 19th century by celzin01

There is a explanation, maybe? The Urban density was rural farmers moving to cities after the agricultural owning elite kicked them off their land and was using slave labor to grow crops.

One of Romes greatest conundrums was figuring out who to fuck over with rural/agricultural reforms. Do they screw over the rich and give it back to the poor? Or do they let the rich land owner continue to work these fields. That is a VERY small summary of the situation regarding this but I think that may be a root cause, at least in the Italian peninsula.

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Mightypsychobat t1_j67b27o wrote

Reply to comment by RantoniFantoni in A US state asked for evidence to ban TikTok. The FBI offered none | Technology by scrtwpnx

Haha, Not that it matters. You can post your going to commit mass slaughter every day for weeks and everyone who jobs it was to respond to that will be like "If only we had warning signs that could have predicted this."

They don't do shit but put your name on a list that they don't look at until after there a bunch of dead kids or something. Hear the NSA guy reading my post! I don't think you do a good job.

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