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DFW

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4. If they want to shake the label GESTAPO, they should learn what the word means and stop being that.

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:06 PM

23 hrs ago

Gestapo is an abbreviation of the German words for Secret State Police, or Geheime Staatspolizei.

All they have to do is stop hiding their identities, and stop being secretive about their activities, and they deliver themselves from under the yoke of the label all by themselves.

Otherwise, if they keep acting like secret police of the state, then no one has any reason to stop calling them that. They may as well invest in some black trench coats.

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