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Brown rule (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by Aquila@sh.itjust.works to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 months ago

Brown shirts?

What are those?

[-] PeachyMcPeachface@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 4 months ago

Fascists. An alt definition is more specifically nazi and/or racist.

[-] rumschlumpel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So you were born in time to punch Nazis in the face?

[-] PeachyMcPeachface@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

The US is still full of them, yes. I included the alt definition because I'm a little confused by the premise of the meme. It reads "born too late to punch nazis, born too early to punch terminators, born just in time to punch nazis".

[-] rumschlumpel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, I seem to have confused the moderator tag with an "OP" tag, for some reason.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Basically party thugs. Go around harassing people

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ah ok? Is that specific to a region? I never heard of this.

Edit: I meant region, not reason. Autocorrect.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Kinda. It’s a reference to the SA. It’s become a shorthand for fascist paramilitaries that haven’t seized power, so like one could call the proud boys brownshirts.

But it’s regional because they only wore brown in Germany. Italy had the blackshirts and Americans wore silver.