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Axe

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I’m Alexander / Xander / Axe (he/him) 我叫蒯亚历山大(他) a mi jan Lesate (ona) o’ai mi’e la rexs

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  1. Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

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  2. Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

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  3. Jewish people constituted 0.75% of the German population in 1933.

    First they came for the socialists etc. What if they came for some really small marginalized group of people (0.05% of population), and because we tied ourselves in knots trying to keep everyone happy, we never got into power, and never achieved anything.

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  4. The President of the US is so bad at budgets he’s shutting down PBS??

    This genius could probably lose money running a casino. Oh wait

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