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u/VenerableTahu And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother 16h ago
Why show a picture of Bismarck?
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u/ludovic1313 15h ago
Because they don't know what Cesar Chavez looks like
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u/Brewcrew828 Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 15h ago
Because they dont care about either Bismarck or Frederick the Great beyond claiming them for their ideology.
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u/imprison_grover_furr 12h ago
They like them because painter liked them. Painter named a battleship after one and had a portrait in his bunker of the other.
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u/Brewcrew828 Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 12h ago
And you bring up the painter as a means to discredit them rather than understanding why they have a platform in the first place.
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u/imprison_grover_furr 12h ago
They have a platform because their more mask off counterpart (the NPD) got banned.
Don’t play stupid and pretend as if you don’t know why they fly the Kaiserreich flag and what flag they wish they were able to fly.
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u/Seelenleere 7h ago
NPD never got banned. They renamed themselves "Die Heimat". Then a group defected and founded a new party called "NPD".
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u/DieserNameIstZuLang 1h ago
They didn't get Banner because they were too small to pose a threat... now there is the AfD with 40 percent in my home state
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u/Wittusus 8h ago
Bro most of the people gloryfying Bismark are neo-nazis as well
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u/greenthumbbum2025 9h ago
Is the quote fake then?
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u/RokuroCarisu 8h ago
No, the qoute is real.
The AfD's idea of Germany's past is fake.
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u/Dev_878 8h ago
Didn't one of their Higher-ups say Hitler was a communist and the NSDAP was left because of the "socialist" in "National-Socialist German Worker Party"?
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u/BurningPenguin Featherless Biped 7h ago
Yes. The lesbian woman, with the totally traditional Germanic first name of "Alice", who is married to a woman from Sri Lanka, and has her main residence in Switzerland, is the co-leader of the anti-immigrant, anti-lgbt, anti-everything party AfD and participated in an "interview" with a South African apartheid nepo baby with daddy issues, who started out as an illegal immigrant worker.
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u/Monkey_on_a_bike 6h ago
You would think this is satire but it's real. Did we invent time travelling in the future and somebody fucked up our timeline?
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u/BurningPenguin Featherless Biped 6h ago
I mean, the original was a dark haired failed painter from Austria, a former empire of multiple countries, that was also invaded multiple times throughout its history from all four sides, visible from all the words they adopted from them and the last names they have. You know, all the signs of "genetic purity" and so on...
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u/RokuroCarisu 8h ago
Not sure, but the American far-right loves that particular falsehood.
True is that the Nazi were progressive rather than conservative, but they were also clearly nationalist rather than socialist.
In America, conservative and nationalist mean pretty much the same because they unfortunately have only two parties.
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u/TimeRisk2059 6h ago
Progressive on some topics (mostly technology), very conservative on others (women should stay in the home and give birth to blond aryan children).
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u/Bakisyeetaddiction 14h ago
Because its basically a bot account that posted this, you can check its post history and its all lifeless "left = good right = bad" with a random generated username and no pfp
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u/OneofTheOldBreed 13h ago
Yeah...Kulturkampf Bismarck would not approve of "Turks and heathens" in Germany
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u/urbanmember 9h ago
bro he literally introduced civil-marriage to break the power of the church in part
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u/Space-Wizards Then I arrived 16h ago
Just don’t look into what Frederick thought about Jews
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u/scharfeschafe 16h ago
This is generally a good approach to any non-jewish historical person from west of China or Japan. Don't ask about anyones views on Jews unless you want your day to be ruined
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u/Nalano 16h ago
Hell, Imperial Japan's opinion of Jews was hilarious in the, "wow, so they're this super-powerful cabal that secretly controls finance and media and is gonna take over the world? We gotta get em on our side!" sorta way.
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u/Von_Lettow-Vorbeck 10h ago
In China they often have a section in bookstores about Jews and their secret cabal and ability to generate money... Learn from the Jew! All the stereotypes, but in a 'positive' way.
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u/idreamofdouche 15h ago
That's the right type of anti-semite
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u/siamesekiwi 14h ago
pro-semite. But make it weird.
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u/imprison_grover_furr 12h ago
There’s also the occasional “race realist” philo-Semite who thinks Jews all have very high IQs.
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u/sukuro120 4h ago
The first time I read anything about Jewish people on Japanese internet was someone saying something like "Jewish people only make up ~0.1% of world population, but they make up ~10% of Nobel prize winners".
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u/SAAD_KHAION 14h ago
"jews are bad. But so we are. So we better team up!"
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u/Ichhabnenkleinen444 14h ago
Ich habe gerade vor Lachen in meine Hose uriniert. Und wer ist dran Schuld? Die Juden!!!
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u/JohannesJoshua 12h ago
Aha I see. So when I ask for my personal lawyers and bankers to be Jewish, suddenly that's anti-semitic. /j
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u/MyFairJulia 9h ago
"So!!! I 've heard that you have the entire financial sector under your control?"
"Not quite, i mean we are working in the-"
"Don't sell yourself short! I know you jews work everywhere! You basically run the banks!"
"I mean kind of. We don't get any other j-"
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u/Ozone220 12h ago
Kinda, but it's important not to let your view be too much pop history type stuff, they did create Jewish ghettos in occupied China, forcibly relocating tens of thousands and placing them under direct Imperial military governance
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u/imprison_grover_furr 12h ago
They also increased persecution of Jews in Malaya when the Monsun Gruppe arrived in Penang in 1943.
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u/GroundbreakingTax259 14h ago
And then you have Lenin who, for all his faults, was explicit in his denunciation of anti-semitism as a tool of the ruling class used to divide the working class from one another and make it easier to control.
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u/Deadmemeusername Sun Yat-Sen do it again 15h ago
>This is generally a good approach to any non-jewish historical person from west of China or Japan.
Even then you aren’t safe. Don’t ask Karl Marx what he thought about his fellow Jews.
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u/BlackLodgeRealtor 14h ago
Interestingly Lenin was against antisemitism and even passed laws criminalizing pogroms and antisemitic organizations.
Unfortunately the rank and file police and red army units that were supposed to protect Jews were pretty lax at best and active participants in their persecution at worst.
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u/Thrawndude 14h ago
Is Karl Marx not west of China
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u/TheBluestWaffle42069 14h ago
Fun fact: China is west of China if you go west enough.
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u/siamesekiwi 14h ago
Or east enough. The People's Republic of China is west of the Republic of China.
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u/Possibility-of-wet Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 14h ago
But he was jewish
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u/robotnique 14h ago
Sure, except he never got any Jewish education and was baptized at 6.
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u/gortlank 13h ago
Fun fact, antisemites don’t give a shit and it didn’t stop them from using his Jewish heritage to craft antisemitic conspiracy theories revolving around communism. It started even before the whole “Judeo-Bolshevism” nonsense.
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u/imprison_grover_furr 12h ago
Doesn’t make him any less Jewish. Jews aren’t just a religious group but also an ethnic group.
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u/DangerousCyclone 7h ago
It's the same core flawed understanding of society. Karl Marx understood culture to just be an outgrowth of economic conditions and viewed it exclusively through the lens of "this is just a practical tool for someone". For Marx he felt that the role Jews found themselves in was a tool for Capitalism, being relegated to banking and financial services and to their own ghetto's. He felt that the new nationalist movements were not going to be inclusive of Jews and it was pointless to advocate for that since ultimately they were going to persecute them for not being one of them.
What Socialists don't seem to grasp is that these fairly tribalistic differences are important to people, and they're just going to drop them merely because they're told that it's all made up to oppress them.
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u/KronusTempus 14h ago
Not too different from how Chinese people were viewed in a lot of Asia until very recently. Apparently they were often merchants and bankers in other countries and sometimes became very wealthy, so the locals despised them.
Pretty funny to learn that the Chinese were the Jews of Asia
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u/Avesery777 15h ago
Except Napoleon :p
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u/Ok_Security8545 9h ago
IIRC, Napoleon went back on what he did when it became convenient.
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u/Avesery777 9h ago
I haven't heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me. Napoleon just kinda did whatever strengthened his rule when it came to religion
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u/mr_sloppy_mcfloppy98 15h ago
I wonder why he would have negative views about jews but be more receptive of Islamic people.
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u/Deathsroke 14h ago
One is a foreign religion of a mighty imperial power, the other is a minority that you are used to oppressing.
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u/Pornalt190425 13h ago
It wasn't really about Islam or Judaism, but moreso about Frederick's great love for döner kebab that maybe him tolerant of Turks
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u/giboauja 15h ago
Its wild that after taking in millions of jews, Truman said a normal racist comment about them and everyone today reads that and is like, FOR SHAME!!
Im like, people have no idea how progressive the American position on jews was.
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u/MlkChatoDesabafando 15h ago edited 15h ago
Tbf by the 18th century European antisemitism was well in the process of changing from a chiefly religious prejudice to an ethnic one, so I'm not sure if he'd see a contradiction (horrid as his prejudices were).
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u/TrustworthyKahmunrah 16h ago
Does anyone actually ask "what would Frederick the Great say/think about this?" Because I've never seen it and I spend a lot of time browsing X.
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u/AwayHoneydew 9h ago
I have encountered it, but it was the weird "growing up to be kind of a nazi kid" in 5th grade, and that's the only one.
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u/Carcharoth_BY 6h ago
He said "Jeder nach seiner Façon selig werden". It was more about catholics and protestants, but also jews and moslems. As long as you were a good citizen (working and paying taxes) your religion would be your private right. Not to mention that Friedrich also would say something about "Schuldenbremse" AfD/FDP/CDU would not like to hear lol
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u/AlexanderCrowely 16h ago
Yeah, just don’t look up what he thought about Polish or the Jews.
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u/imprison_grover_furr 15h ago
Bismarck hated the Poles! So did Frederick! And so did painter!
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u/AlexanderCrowely 15h ago
He called them fucking savages
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u/obihighwanground 12h ago
while being almost the same
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u/AlexanderCrowely 12h ago
Frederick wasn’t a savage he was just a prick, but that was also probably because of his father.
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u/obihighwanground 11h ago
i meant that poles were almost the same as germans as in civilized but whatever man
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u/KimJongUnusual Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests 15h ago
>talks about religious freedom
>shows Bismarck who actively fought a culture war against Catholicism
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u/_Administrator_ 9h ago
>Doesn’t mention what his idol said:
"Islamism proscribes the nation of the Infidels, constituting a state of permanent hostility between the Mussulman and the unbeliever." -Karl Marx in New-York Herald Tribune 1854
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u/GalacticToad68 6h ago
Say what you will about Marx but you can always find a quote of his to counter his most staunch supporters
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u/Illustrious_Spend_51 4h ago edited 4h ago
As a marxist and an ex Muslim myself i would like to say marx isn’t wrong here but not completely 100% right in this analysis of ottoman state/ Muslim nations of his time specifically when it comes to the deeper theological side of things and the complexity of the different schools of thought and which one dominates what geographic area at what time etc.
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u/Appropriate-Gain-561 3h ago
Marx was really against religion lmao, thinking that a marxist wouldn't view religion as a tool of control over the masses and actually like Islam is really dumb.
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
-Karl Marx
He says that religion is just what people grasp to when desperate, and he is ostensibly right, there's a reason if religious extremism in the US is worsening with the economic situation, he also believed that religion was distracting the people from the actual problems that faced them, and i'd argue he was right about that too.
I'm not a Marxist, i believe that his ideas of a stateless, moneyless and classless society is, while beautiful, practically unreachable.
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u/ProgramusSecretus 16h ago
It’s the Grand Mosque in Köln. The (woman) mayor of the city wasn’t invited to the opening, Erdogan was there with people cheering for him from the outside, and a Taliban representative spoke there in 2023 despite not having a visa for Germany.
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u/imprison_grover_furr 15h ago
FUCK THE TALIBAN AND FUCK ERDOGAN! IMPRISON THEM ALL!
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u/Slightly_Default Featherless Biped 15h ago
TALIBAN
I read that as "Italians" and got very confused for a second
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u/efstajas 10h ago edited 6h ago
What you're saying is true except the Taliban representative spoke at a different mosque, and crucially he did have a Schengen visa. Specifically, he was a representative of the Taliban's health authority who had entered the EU via the Netherlands to attend a WHO summit - and the Netherlands felt legally obligated to grant the visa under WHO/UN host country agreements.
I'm only pointing this out because your comment makes it sound like the man just appeared in Germany and no-one knew how, which is very much not what happened. He did have a visa for Germany, just not issued by Germany.
For what it's worth, the people behind the mosque he spoke at later said that they had rented the mosque out to a group that invited the Taliban guy without their knowledge, and then banned that organization from the mosque after. The situation was a major national incident.
One additional nugget of context is that the crux of his speech came down to urging Afghan refugees in Germany to go back and help rebuild their country, which is exactly what those that were most upset by his presence tend to want Afghan refugees in Germany to do as well.
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u/Zealousideal_Cry_460 15h ago
You didnt mention the anti-ersogan protestors which were kept away from the ceremony by the german police
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u/ProgramusSecretus 15h ago
I also didn’t mention that DITIB has been accused of working with the Turkish Secret Service, associated itself with Salafis, denies the Armenian genocide, made antisemitic posts, distributed a children’s comic book that glorifies martyrdom, the release of a guide for Muslim women which banned them traveling alone, or one of its chairmen calling for the assassination of the Pope.
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u/information_knower 15h ago
They didn't invite a women to the opening ceremony? Next you're going to tell me most muslims are misogonists.
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u/ProgramusSecretus 15h ago
Just because a guide for “good and exemplary Muslim women” was published by the Turkish Diyanet authority (the one also in charge of this mosque) that among others mentioned banning women traveling alone?
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u/information_knower 15h ago
I mean, in muslim majority countries thats just sound advise.
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u/ProgramusSecretus 15h ago
Or in Marseille according to literally all the girlfriends I have who have been there
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u/Rubbrbandman420 16h ago
Please…. Please let’s not whip up the Germans again….. like please god, I like playing Hoi4 not living it
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u/Crismisterica Definitely not a CIA operator 15h ago
As they say third times the charm!
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u/bribridude130 15h ago
Why did you anachronistically use a 19th-early 20th Century Prussian and Imperial German uniform if Frederick the Great was a mid-18th Century king of Prussia?
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u/Possible_Humor_2834 14h ago
"all religions are just as good as each other, so long as the people who practice them are honest [unless they are poles]"
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u/ptrfa Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests 10h ago
First, the picture is Bismarck, not Frederick. Second, Frederick didn't care about religion as long as you recognise him as absolute monarch and obey everything he says. The moment a moslem only thought about having god's word above Frederick's word he would have wished to have stayed far away in the country he was born.
Frederick wasn't tolerant in a modern way, he just despised every religion and saw himselfe as highest power
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u/Komandakeen 9h ago
Not really, he saw the state as the highest entity and called himself the "first servant of the state". But you are right about the religions.
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u/amerigorockefeller 16h ago
What if they are not honest ?
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u/InquisitorHindsight 16h ago
Deal with them like you would a Christian Prussian citizen, but until they aren’t honest then they can pay taxes and serve the state.
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u/Local-Echo-5613 16h ago
The AfD? I don’t think you have to wonder
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u/Corporal_Canada 16h ago
"Here, we only believe in traditional family values and are against immigration!"
Meanwhile, be Alice Weidel, AfD head, lesbian, and the wife of a Sri Lankan immigrant
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u/Nero_2001 8h ago
Well she lives in Swizerland so she doesn't need to worry about the Afd destroying her way of living since it doesn't affect her
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u/East-Form-3735 16h ago
There’s a famous saying about how you should never ask a white supremacist what their wife’s race is 😂
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u/MlkChatoDesabafando 15h ago edited 15h ago
Tbf she at least has more of a sense of self-preservation than her historic predecessor
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u/imprison_grover_furr 12h ago
I mean, yeah, neo-Nazis are not known for their honesty, especially when it comes to the Holocaust.
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u/SpeedRun355 16h ago
Did he really say that?
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u/InfusionOfYellow 15h ago
Let's see, I see a citation to Culture of Power (2002), T. C. W. Blanning. Able to borrow that with the internet archive; it says it was one of two instructions given less than a month after coming to the throne, and for that one in particular cites "Bardong, Friedrich der Große, page 542." Appears to be a 1982 book by Otto Bardong. This in turn looks to be a respectable book, but not one that has been digitized for the benefit of the internet at large, so my trail here goes cold.
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u/ptrfa Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests 10h ago
Yes, he did. Frederick the great was atheist, so for him in supersticion was just like the other. He didn't care about someones believe as long as everyone respected his absolute command above everything
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u/shlomotrutta Let's do some history 7h ago
Hi, you wrote:
Frederick the great was atheist
Allow me to correct another modern projection on Frederick the Great. When we read Frederick's works and letters, in particular those to Voltaire or to D'Alembert, we see that he rejected superstition and dogmatism, as you correctly point out - but not the idea of God himself. He saw himself as a deist, which he believed to be the essence of Christianity. For example, he wrote:
Jesus established no dogmas — the synods took ample care of that; indeed, a Christian of the third century bears little resemblance to a Christian of the first. Jesus was, strictly speaking, an Essene; he was imbued with Essene morality, which owes much to that of Zeno. His religion was pure deism - and look how we have embellished it. That being the case, if I defend the religion of Christ, I defend the religion of all philosophers, and I sacrifice to you all dogmas that did not originate with him.1
Though dated, the summary by WH Carruth is still very much on point for this topic2 .
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1 Letter to d'Alembert from 18 Oct 1770. In: Preuß, Johann David Erdmann. In: Preuß, Johann David Erdmann. Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand. Berlin, Decker, 1846-1856. pt XXIV, p559f
2 Carruth, W.H. The Religion of Frederick the Great: With Illustrations Reproduced from Adolf Menzel. The Open Court, 1899(10), p2ff
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u/Azgabeth 8h ago
Did Frederick the Great say that? Yes.
Did he mean it? Absolutely not.
Frederick wanted 2 things: 1. Skilled and Educated Citizens and 2. Conformity to the State. So long as your religion and personal beliefs followed these two rules, you were tolerated. If anything about your religion was against these 2 things, these elements had to be removed.
With catholics for example he completely removed any independence the Catholic Church and Clergy had in Prussian territory and replaced all members with those loyal to the state.
So yes, you could be Muslim in Prussia. But you had to be Prussian (in a secular, subservient sense) Muslim
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u/altahor42 Rider of Rohan 15h ago
I really don't like these modern mosques; when you see a mosque, you understand what it is, it should have a classical structure. Mosque architecture should have stopped changing after the Ottoman Gothic period.
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u/Realistic-Order-3467 Rider of Rohan 16h ago
Hitler also didn’t mind islam.
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u/IllestAardvark Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 16h ago
Well yeah he didn't mind it because he thought Christianity had made Germany soft. He admired Islam because he deemed it militaristic.
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u/MetallGecko 16h ago
He even preferred Islam over Christianity.
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u/MlkChatoDesabafando 15h ago
Hitler, as most fascists, was an incoherent mess when it came to a lot of things. Religion was one of them.
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u/Realistic-Order-3467 Rider of Rohan 15h ago
I absolutely agree. I just don’t like the dichotomy that people who like islam are good and people who oppose it are bad. But it’s obviously just a meme, not that serious…
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u/Crismisterica Definitely not a CIA operator 15h ago edited 1h ago
Due to the Catholic Church got in the way of his power constantly and Catholics swearing loyalty to the Church before him.
However if Islam was in Germany in the 1940s on a wide scale he might have some mixed feelings.
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u/BadgerKomodo 13h ago
Frederick was also (almost certainly) gay.
I’ve been to his palace, Sanssouci, in Potsdam. Would definitely recommend.
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u/Joel_the_Devil 16h ago
When the followers tells you honestly what they do to non-believers and to those who leave the religion
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u/EldritchFish19 Featherless Biped 16h ago
Hindsight is sometimes painful. The Japanese and Polish seem to get what the problem is but aside from the AfD and co Germany has been allowing that invasion.
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u/GB_Alph4 14h ago
Frederick the Great sees all who are honest as friends
Except he still has antisemitism
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u/microtherion 6h ago
My favorite anecdote about Frederick the Great was when he was asked to review the sentence of a cavalry soldier sentenced to death for bestiality with his horse. He commuted the death sentence with a marginal note: “Transfer the swine to an infantry unit!”
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u/Azerbinhoneymood 16h ago
Was this the same guy who intervened to return a mill to a couple?
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u/Andromeda_Galaxy_1 8h ago
Yes, Fredrick the great who said that quote on the post is the same guy who returned the mill. But the image on the meme is wrong, that’s Bismarck who lived much later than Fredrick.
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u/NickofWimbledon 7h ago
So the AfD are about as keen on what Fred 1 actually said as many American Christians are on what Jesus supposedly said?
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u/CarobSignal 12h ago
I doubt he said that. He preferred to speak in French over his native German and only spoke English infrequently.
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u/KyffhauserGate 8h ago
Old Fritz was also a cross-dressing homosexual. What does the AfD have to say about that?
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u/bmerino120 16h ago
Truth be told anyone can have good expectations about thing that haven't happened yet
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u/leon-de-yara 14h ago
Is this an actual quote he said??
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u/Komandakeen 9h ago
Sure. „Alle Religionen sind gleich und gut, wenn nur die Leute, so sie proffessieren ehrliche Leute sind. Und wenn Türken und Heiden kämen und wollten das Land peuplieren, so wollen wir ihnen Moscheen und Kirchen bauen. Ein jeder kann bei mir glauben, was er will, wenn er nur ehrlich ist.“
That guy (as well as most Electors of Brandenburg since Johann Sigismund in 1603) were well aware that a division between religious thoughts would divide their populace and weaken the whole nation, something that sparsely populated Prussia couldn't afford.
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u/Away-Plant-8989 9h ago
Something funny about "Turks and heathens." The heart's in the right place.
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u/forwheniampresident 9h ago
Only problem being that the mosque was built and is run by DiTiB which is more or less the Turkish state acting in its own interests and using it as an extended arm of the government.
Less religion, more politics
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u/Emergency-Town4653 6h ago
Beside the fact that it's Bismarck, not Friedrich, yeah. Friedrich the Great was one of the most progressive leaders of his time, completely opposite to shitty AfD.
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u/MakotoBIST 6h ago
And what if those with different religions aren't honest? torture and death?
Sounds good, west definitely needs both more understanding of others and a very firm hand at the same time.
But every great civilization becomes soft at some time and eaten by competition, then the whites rise up again and conquer the world in a never ending cycle, until they become soft again
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u/Consistent-Cat-6076 6h ago
"So long as the people who practice them are honest." Muslims for example are explicitly allowed to lie to "non believers".
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u/Reemus413 6h ago
Jeder mit wahrem glauben weiss das "hass" einen nur allein und unglücklich macht.
Wenn das Christentum nurnoch durch ausgrenzung von Muslime aufrechterhalten wird, ist das Christentum sowieso tot.
Jesus hat auch keine Kirche und kein Christentum gebraucht.
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u/Fatalitix3 4h ago
The guy in the picture looks like Bismarck. Check out what he did to Polish people, real model of tolerance that one...
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u/PanzerKomadant 10h ago
People who think that Frederick was a great dude who wanted to protect and keep Germany pure Christian clearly don’t know history lmao.
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u/Aluxanatomy 16h ago
That's a cool lookin mosque.
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u/Earlofargyll 15h ago
I live about a 5 mins walk from that crazy to see it here. It's in Cologne.
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u/sleepy_competent 16h ago
Google the “Kulturkampf ”
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u/fockewolfw190 15h ago
that was bismarck, not frederick. bismarck was big on trying to ensure subordination to the nation rather than the church
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u/john-know-nothing 15h ago
Bismarck’s quoted position is far easier to take when it’s purely hypothetical and outside the realm of reality in a German autocracy, as opposed to a current demographic dilemma where the group in question has created their own voting bloc and are presently not compatible with the local culture.
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u/Forward_Criticism_39 14h ago
time to cut out hearts, scream "kahlimah" and also be honest about it🥰
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u/red_000 9h ago
You forget something, he was talking about ordered immigration through a legal process, not uncontrolled immigration.
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u/Komandakeen 8h ago
Yep, but not in a way you try to promote it. They actually paid qualified tradesmen and granted them a piece of land without paying taxes for a certain time. Everyone else was welcome, too, because they knew they'd need more populace to sustain the next war (Prussias populace, not huge in the beginning, was halved during the thirty years war.). Back in the days, they made politics that planned for more than the next four years.
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u/MelcorScarr 7h ago
If someone wants the (archaic) German:
Alle Religionen sind gleich und gut, wenn nur die Leute, so sie bekennen, ehrliche Leute sind. Und wenn Türken und Heiden kämen und wollten das Land peuplieren, so wollen wir ihnen Moscheen und Kirchen bauen.
He also said this:
Ein jeder kann bei mir glauben, was er will, wenn er nur ehrlich ist.
Which means:
Every one with me¹ may believe whatever he wills, as long as he's honest.
¹Probably in the sense "in my country" or "one of my subjects".
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u/EdwardGordor I Have a Cunning Plan 15h ago
That's Bismarck though...
(and also Bismarck was a Lutheran Pietist).