wessel

The Wikipedia page for goddamn Horst Wessel almost hit the front page last night, because according to people with George W.

To build with it is to thrust a middle finger at passers by while belting out the Horst Wessel song (the Nazi anthem).

Horst Wessel was killed at time when Germany was nominally a democracy.

Its a Reichstag fire/Horst Wessel moment all rolled into one.

Or the exhaust plume of a cloaked Klingon wessel.

I would take a brand new phone, with crowned King Trump as a background, browser history full of Tucker Carlson, and Horst Wessel for a ringtone.

Anyone else read that as "wessel" with a fake Russian accent?

I only just learned about the "Horst Wessel effect" in relation to this[1] and it's chilling how much history is seeming to repeat itself here.

He officially declared Wessel's march, renamed as the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), to be the Nazi Party anthem [...] The "Horst Wessel Song" was sung by the SA at the funeral, and was thereafter extensively used at party functions, as well as sung by the SA during street parades.

»You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge« There is a reason why Elisabeth Selbert, Helene Weber, Frieda Nadig, and Helene Wessel had to fight in the Parliamentary Council of 1948–49 to add the phrase “Men and women have equal rights” to the constitution despite initial resistance.

If the allies lost WW2 the right side of history would involve singing the Horst-Wessel-Lied with your morning coffee.

Granted, they've not gone after neighbouring countries (yet?) but they've had their vom Raths, Horst Wessel's,...

Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?