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Guess who just learned about the Barbara Pit

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 38 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I once had a history professor tell us about the Barbara pit as an example of Soviet "Atrocities"

I remember laughing out loud and being like "Good, they should have done it more! Every mineshaft should be filled with Nazis!"

Got a B

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 28 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That wasnt even soviet, the yugoslavs did that one lol

Either way catgirl-salute

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 19 hours ago

And when we retake Puerto Rico, I will do the same

Trap all the gringos under the remains of the Arrecibo telescope

[–] bunnossin@hexbear.net 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm no hero

I'm just a autistic smartass with a poor social filter

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 5 points 15 hours ago

Heroism is often just the intersection of opportunity and poor impulse control.

like that guy who couldn't swim and saved the drowning baby. fool. hero.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

How did other people react to your reaction?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 12 points 19 hours ago

Standard college student reactions

A couple chuckles, a snort

Everyone just wanted to make it to dismissal, so there was that

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Hey it's me, cousin Barbara. Barbara Pitt. You know that hot new socioeconomic program you've been looking for? Well listen to this:

series of grenade detonations

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Tito dressed as a salesman slapping the top of the Barbara pit and saying: This bad boy can fit so many reactionaries in it.

Titi war macker

[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 20 points 20 hours ago

barbara-pit We have an emoji and everything!

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 7 points 18 hours ago
[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Uhhhh they all deserved it, right

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The wild thing about learning about the pit is at first you're horrified and disgusted. You think about all the hexbears posting for the pit and think is that what we would become too?

Then you see some disingenuous libshit asshole callously handwave endless unlimited exploitation so the treats keep flowing, or they speculate on how fuckable some desperate future war refugees will be and you find yourself pit posting too.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 10 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I mean i find it kind of horrific when the wiki mentions civilians in addition to POWs but I kind of just figure they deserved it if people are so vehemently pro Pit here, but I was hoping for more of an explanation of the context in how it was decided to execute those civilians. Iirc the Yugoslav home guard was basically worse than the SS? So i guess for them it's fine? but i feel like especially civilians should have at least had a trial or something? I didn't see that mentioned in the wiki but maybe i missed it

I don't wanna cry over dead fascist murderers but it's kinda fucked to think of that sort of death for anyone who didn't deserve it, yknow

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

A pro tip for deciphering NATOpedia articles: check how many citations are required to validate "communist atrocities". For example:

  • The communist partisans ganked some fascists, maybe, who's to say they were really fascists?^[Citation Needed]
  • AND SOME INNOCENT SMOL BEAN CIVILIANS!!!!!^[It is known.]^[It is known.]^[It is known.]^[It is known.]^[It is known.]
[–] bunnossin@hexbear.net 5 points 14 hours ago

In the extremely uneducated opinion of someone who just learned about it and hasn't done much deeper digging, I would assume the civilians were all collaborators of varying scales, given they fled the country alongside the military Nazis. I don't think it's possible to verify that everyone deserved it, but they were the ones leaving with the Nazi army. As for why they were all killed, again my uneducated assumption is that there simply was not the prison space nor logistic capacity to hold them all.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I was hoping for more of an explanation of the context in how it was decided to execute those civilians

Yeah I get the desire. My instinct is that crimes against humanity happened there along with the justice. It happens.

What scares me is how easily I can see five or ten people in a day via hexbear posts who can still go in the damn pit even after I realise it was probably a complete excess of nightmarish cruelty.

It makes me aware that I have lost some humanity I think. kitty-birthday-sad

[–] bunnossin@hexbear.net 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah... I'm not the type of person to fantasize about killing people, but sometimes it's cathartic to joke about all the capitalist robbers and their cronies getting The Pit.

Edit:

speculate on how fuckable some desperate future war refugees will

Just read this. Correction. I'm not the type of person to fantasize about killing people unless it's these motherfuckers. Anyone who posts about a new OnlyFans market for Iranian women gets the wall. Without exception. I'm afraid to say these people make my blood boil more than actual professed Nazis.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

these people make my blood boil more than actual professed Nazis.

Nazis at least admit what they are, these guys convince themselves and each other that they're normal.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 1 points 13 hours ago

yeah its just feels a bit different once you know how bad the pit was.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've certainly seen capitalist imperial monstrosities that get me thinking about a wind tunnel full of crushed glass, but it helps to take a step back and remind myself that a regular-style bullet is good enough

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, excesses of violence are to be avoided as much as possible. I think if you do monster shit during the revolution you psychically scar the society you build from it.

I do like that wind tunnel idea though. After seeing airburst munitions going off over civilian populations that just seems like a fair penalty for the perpetrators.

[–] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago