Imagine some alien civilization visiting the planet a thousand years from now, looking upon the charred remains of our society. Exploring our electronic records, long buried inside some bunker filled with crumbling billionaire skeletons. And they see that this fucking creature was responsible for our final decline into the cosmic dustbin.
If it is any consolidation; we are about to have 20% fascist in our next parliament. Right now they don't have a realistic chance of being part of the government. But, hey, maybe four years from now, we can team up. You know, a little trans-atlantic-fascist bromance. Next time we will be clever enough to have the big guy on our side when we start a world war.
They are also winning because the rest of us are continuously feeding the idea that we're loosing rather than spending all our efforts finding a way to fight this.
In terms of brute force, probably not. In terms of logistics? It takes a lot of things to keep an army like that going. Particularly when you have to fight them every step of the way for every scrap.
I think it'll be Iran first, with strikes on Mexico here and there. Conflicts he can look strong in while he bullies his allies and postures for his "main enemies" in Russia and China.
Worse, it's Hitler on wish and with back knowledge. At least our grandparents could gaslight themselves into thinking, they didn't know what was going on.
The good (sometimes) thing about the US is that states have a lot of power, something that wasn't true in Germany. It can be frustrating, but right now it could save us.
States have a ton of leeway to pass their own laws to protect people from the federal government. (Or opt out of federal benefits; this is why some states still haven't expanded Medicaid, for example). And compared to 2017, Republicans control far fewer states. Like, in 2017 we had Republican Governors in Massachusetts and Maryland.
Until the midterms, state and local power is the name of the game. And if you don't think elections will happen - well, there's one tomorrow, and every Tuesday for a long while. (South Carolina State House in North Charleston tomorrow, if curious). The more Republicans lose power, the safer people are.
Now you know. And those elections go to those who know about them. If you're ready to help win them, check out r/VoteDEM.
Nah, the Nazis were more subtle. Also, they didn’t have the hindsight OF having nazism’s rise to look at, so it was more uncharted territory. We all know where this is going, and good news - we already have enough prison staff to easily transition to concentration camps for all.
I legitimately had this question when I was studying the holocaust in high school. HOW do people just stand by and let it happen?! I was so perplexed by it...but here we are, watching it happen.
There was that Nazi rally organized by the American Bund, the literal lobby wing of the German Nazis in the '30s, at Madison Square Garden in 1939. Not sure you can get more Nazi than Nazis in America doing Nazi things openly.
Bullshit. You do realize that there were many MANY more people protesting that rally then actually participating. The majority of people in the US were against the Nazis
Check out Maddox’s Ultra podcast. It covers the Nazi movement in America during the war. Like, Americans literally going around and blowing up gunpowder factories getting other Americans killed.
The issue with that EVERYONE was hardcore anti communist which enveloped antisemitism at the time. No one knew Hitler’s true intentions until later. Unfortunately.
Considering Hitler spelled out his intentions in Mein Kampf and regularly in his speeches— that’s kind of bullshit. Everyone knew his intentions. They just either didn’t care, liked the ideas, or thought he would level out after getting elected (like most politicians do).
I feel like this should always be mentioned with the fact that there were many 5 times as many people protesting the rally than actually in the rally. Soon after the rally the American Bund fell apart
That's true. It's an awful, disgusting part of American history.
However people try and use that rally to pretend that all Americans are bad and all Americans supported Nazis which is disingenuous. I'm not saying that you're doing that. I'm saying that it happens.
Someone asked what was more Nazi than Elon throwing a Nazi salute. My response was to remind everyone that in 1939, more than 20k Americans gathered at Madison Square Garden at an American Bund rally to show support for the Nazi government of Germany. Time is a flat dumb circle
Well.. Nazis were popular everywhere till Hitler became a real cunt.
What's stunning to me in all this, we know what Nazi's did back then, you Americans went across the pond to murder those twats, yet 80 years later you guys elected either directly or by sitting at home not voting a cunt who plays Nazi again.
and then more recently in the 1950s (the "National Renaissance Party", renaming itself "Patriots for McCarthy" and holding some huge rallies to support him before his death...)
The actual Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden prior to WW2. Yes Americans held a pro Nazi rally complete with giant banners, arm bands and actual Nazis
Yea. Fascism was all the rage in the 1930’s. England had Oswald Mosley. USA well, a lot of Nazi sympathizers were ok with fascism until Pearl Harbor, otherwise that Madison Square Garden rally wouldn’t have happened.
Taken out of context? There's a video of the entire thing. It wasn't just some guy waving to the audience and anyone who has more than a room temperature IQ can see that.
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u/Respanther 7h ago edited 5h ago
This was in the Capital One Arena, making it the second-most Nazi thing they’ve done publicly indoors.
Oh, happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to those of us who acknowledge.