TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller (spoken by Niemoller, a German pastor, in 1946, while he traveled on a lecture tour in the western zones of Allied-occupied Germany after the war)

The lesson is the lesson of not speaking out or not standing up for injustice no matter how small. If we all just idly stand by while minor injustices occur to other people, eventually those injustices will grow and fester to affect us.

So, whenever and where ever you see or hear injustice ... speak up and speak out. Those powerful few who cause the injustices gamble on the fact that no one or not enough people will ever speak out against them.

Usually you may feel alone in speaking out but often, others around you feel the same but they are too afraid to be the first to speak up and often they are also willing to support the first one who speaks out.

No one ever knows how you feel until you speak up.

I think that's a still from Green Room, a very good and very disturbing film with none other than Sir Patrick Stewart as a Nazi/replacement theory Svengali-type character. The joke being the band in the movie is booked unaware into a straight up nazi punk club, and end up singing that song. Things develop from there. I hope I got that right, but that's my memory.

I didn't know he played in a real band. Cool beans!

Ahahahahahaha Today I Learned Anton Yelchin (RIP) was in a punk band. The screenshot is from Green Room, where his fictional band covers Nazi Punks Fuck Off in front of a crowd of white power skinheads. Movie also stars Patrick Stewart as the head Nazi. I didn't know Anton was in an actual punk band IRL LOL

It’s an alternate universe after all, can’t expect all the details to line up perfectly.

In our household we choose to believe that he didn't die. His cover as [mythical creature] was blown and he had to go into hiding. It is a comforting lie.

Charlie Bartlett!

Aw, I am humbled beyond words

Pretty sure "B", the Russian 'v' sound, is bilabial (lips touching each other) rather than labiodental (bottom lip touching teeth) like in English. Try making your lips almost touch, and pronouncing 'v' otherwise the same. It's similar, but more subtle, and easily misinterpreted as 'w'. I'm no linguist tho.

Check out the movie Green Room