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I don't know about that. The GOP fascists consider any opposition of Trump to be "violent", and that was probably the Nazis' rationale for executing Bonhoeffer as well.

I guess you said as much. bsky.app/profile/norm.... I had forgotten Operation Valkyrie was the name.

And either way, I think the reference is to the fact that Bonhoeffer was arrested for being part of a plot to kill Hitler, which seems to fit the context.

Might be getting from Bonhoeffer to Andreas Baader through Diedrich Bader as the intermediary - I do not make Diedrich Bader for a subversive, in anything but comedy.

Gill has one of the more disturbing Tik Tok pages out there. You should look at it. Frightening stuff.

Oh, I assume he's thinking that someone who is anti-Nazi is his enemy. Which is true.

He said what he said.

I don't think there's any reason, at this point, to give them the benefit of the doubt on things like this.

No slip! Bonhoeffer was part of the plot to kill Hitler. MAGA Republicans love Hitler

I would not make that assumption.

the unspoken part of this is wild: the current political moment is so warped that 'who opposed the Nazis' is now considered an *insult*. Bonhoeffer's just a guy who stood up to fascism and they're using his name like a slur. history is a flat circle and it's spinning the wrong way

I think it is a slip, but not that he mentioned the wrong guy/group, he just forgot that "guy who opposed the Nazis and was involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler" isn't someone most people would consider to be a bad guy.

I dunno. You are being too generous, I think. This clown Gill is Nazi-curious, at minimum. I bet he thinks Bonhoeffer was one of the baddies. Or if not quite that far, he thinks of him as a loudmouthed, unpatriotic leftist who got what he deserved. (For others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietric...)

I think he means someone’s going to get a messiah complex and attempt to assassinate Trump, thinking (incorrectly) they are a Bonhoeffer, not a John Wilkes Booth—and that Trump is a Hitler not a Lincoln.

"Or I guess" he really doesn't know what he's talking about.

Ah, OK, I get it. Apparently Christian nationalist grifter Eric Metaxas wrote a popular but dodgy biography of Bonhoeffer that tries to conscript him as a kind of icon to justify political violence against Democrats. So this is pure projection.

Yes he was certainly not linked to Operation Valkyrie as such but was a member of the wider resistance circle which did eventually implement it and his execution was due to that connection and not his earlier actions against the Nazi Gleichschaltung of German Protestantism.

Wait till these smooth failsons hear about Yelena Mazanik or what happened to Herberts Cukurs

Pete Hegseth just gave a speech at Normandy warning that hostile and alien ideologies were once again storming European beaches; it is long past time we stopped giving these people the benefit of the doubt.

(If this is where he's going, though, it's surprising that he would pick a metaphor in which Trump is analogous to Hitler.)

He’s pro-Hitler like most Republicans?

Smart money is on this option.

I didn't know that. Now it makes perfect sense. Like FIL, like SIL.

He’s terribly intimidated by @diedrichbader.bsky.social

i bet he confused bonhoeffer with stauffenberg

Did Yarvin or one of those types reference Bonhoeffer in some recent word blob?

They study the Nazi’s who are their heroes-thats how he knows this. Sick MFers!

Gill considers VE Day a day of mourning so I’m assuming it’s intentional.

I don’t think he knows what the Baader-Meinhof Gang is.

I think to believe Gill knows about the Red Army Faction is giving to much credit to his level of intelligence and historical knowledge. He really just thinks being anti-Nazi is bad.

He could also just be stupid. I tend to go there first.

Nazis are gonna say Nazi things.

The left needs to tone down the rhetoric or we're going to have a revival of anti-Nazi theology, pacifism, and the rejection of cheap grace.