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  • Why do their uniforms look like the Canadian camo pattern?

    Edit: MARPAT (US marine pattern) is straight up copied from CADPAT.

    I think digital/pixelised patterns look unbelievably generic on any countries military. However the colours here look even worse than Canada’s (they get a pass as the inventor of pixelised patterns). It just doesn’t fit with America, does it?




  • wieson@feddit.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldspeak out now
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    5 days ago

    Good call, I didn’t know that. This is the original

    Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
    habe ich geschwiegen,
    ich war ja kein Kommunist.
    
    Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
    habe ich geschwiegen,
    ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
    
    Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
    habe ich geschwiegen,
    ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
    
    Als sie mich holten,
    gab es keinen mehr,
    der protestieren konnte.
    

    It’s not straight forward to translate, because there is no active verb in English for “to remain silent”.

    When the Nazis came and took the communists 
    I remained silent
    Since I wasn't a communist.
    
    When they imprisoned the social democrats 
    I remained silent
    Since I wasn't a social democrat.
    
    When they took the trade unionists 
    I remained silent
    Since I wasn't a trade unionist.
    
    When they took me
    There was no one left
    Who could protest.