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Brown rule (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Brown shirts?

What are those?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Basically party thugs. Go around harassing people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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

Edit: I meant region, not reason. Autocorrect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

i read twice and still though "region" was "religion"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes and no. Read some WWII history

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Other users were kind enough to point out that they are a Nazi group. That's all I needed to know.