First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist.
First, the capitol/Reichstagg will be set on fire, and radical left democrat enemies within will have to be exterminated from power. Then everything else will happen.
It should be pointed out that had the Holocaust and WWII not happened, Nazi Germany was still an unmitigated nightmare that no one but the Nazis themselves were enjoying very much. There were and are plenty of authoritarian and fascist states where genocides don't happen, but which are nevertheless hell on earth for everyone who's not a functionary of the state.
So even if you think it's hyperbole to worry about extermination camps in the US, there's absolutely nothing hyperbolic about a dystopian state coming into existence in which dissent and difference are crimes. Donald Trump and his band of dead-eyed sadists like Stephen Miller will do whatever they can in a second Trump term to bring such a state to you.
Nazi comparisons are completely justified.
Also notable is the fact that Hitler managed to gain power with only about 35 percent of the popular vote. Because regular conservatives formed a coalition with him, convinced they would be able to control and use him. Instead he used them.
Also, he then needed a false flag operation to be able to declare martial law - gaining the same kind of absolute power that the US president now has automatically thanks to the Supreme Court.
in this respect the American system is better, because everyone knows they are voting for trump, not the less evil trump supporters
“It happened, therefore it can happen again.” – Primo Levi
Saw this written on a plaque at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and it really gave me pause, reflecting on what is happening all around the world right now.
I would have put it as:
"It keeps happening, therefore it can happen again."
It covers so much bad shit we as (groups of) humans do.
Exterminating the next village over bcs they like to wear green instead of yellow hats is the easiest thing to spark amongst the common, easily manipulated folk.
And it keeps happening bcs it (mass manipulation for whatever irrelevant reason) can be monetised & power can be gained in the precess (beyond from just literal pillaging and enslavement).
This is not what America is.
Is it though? After all the Nazis were inspired by the US.
There are really 2 Americas. The one that tries to do better and the other one that only exists because Sherman didn't go far enough.
Fuck Andrew Johnson. I don't believe in hell, but I hope he's burning there anyway.
USA has always been an ambivalent place, both committed to equality and liberty in an idealized manner and also committed to perpetuating inequality, particularly across racial, ethnic and religious lines. A child of the 1970s I like the version of America I was taught about in-between Saturday morning cartoons via School House Rock. No more kings!
Edit: before anyone else points it out, the video depicts racism against native americans and the colonists were crazy religious zealots. But it's also about rejection of the English king. So all the ambivalence seems to be there.
Well, the nazis weren't really big on monarchism either
Came to make this comment, 'cuz America is the political prison and slavery capital of the world.
FYI: Nazis moved from Carbon-monoxide to Zyclon-B because they utilized motors to produce the CO gas before, which disturbed the neighbors due to noise.
Nazis are the guys who complain about everything.
True. The Nazi concentration camps were not constructed for Jews, but political dissidents. They were created to detain people that did not succumb to gleichschaltung, coordination or alignment with the Nazi agenda.
And iirc they reused them for Jews bcs of the gigantic cost of what ultimately led to the 'Final solution'.
But the primary goal was def people control & opposition subjugation - ie make people know what happens if you speak out against the regime.
Insightful interview https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-rhetoric-compares-to-historic-fascist-language
"I think Trump has been conditioning Americans since 2015 to see violence as something justified in certain cases and even patriotic.
He's been conditioning them to see other Americans as enemies, as diseased, as dirty. And what we have to remember is that authoritarians might initially target one group, and he's been talking mostly about immigrants. But he's also calling the enemy within the political opposition.
[...]
And this is part of an authoritarian projection mechanism. I call it the upside-down world of authoritarianism, where, ever since Mussolini, he was the first to call democrats the real tyrants and fascism was going to be freedom. Fascism was going to make Italy great again. That was a slogan, as was drain the swamp. Trump took that from Mussolini as well."
You're right. He came to speak to the police in my county, which has a bad reputation already, and
Trump said the administration is removing these gang members from the United States "but we'd like to get them out a lot faster and when you see ... these thugs being thrown into the back of the paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in rough, I said, 'Please don't be too nice.'"
To which the police and cadets all started to laugh. Of course later the department said of course they wouldn't be rough 🤔: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/suffolk-county-police-speak-up-after-trump-dont-be-too-nice-quip/227929/
Here's another story from my county 🙁 the "embarrassing items" in the SUV were sex toys btw:
https://abc7ny.com/james-burke-suffolk-county-police-chief-long-island/1585285/
No surprise that our county's PBA has enthusiastically endorsed Trump. As a brown family here it has us concerned.
I’ve been saying this since last year to my family members on the other side of the political spectrum (some MAGA, some moderate), and I feel like I’ve been saying it til I get blue in the face, but it definitely feels like the MAGA wing of the Republican Party wants to go back to this era of German history ASAP.
it definitely feels like the MAGA wing of the Republican Party wants to go back to this era of German history ASAP.
It feels that way because it is that way.
and less than a week away from a 4th reich if all the tightass tankies vote 3rd parties
I mean yeah.
The very first killed were the disabled. And not in prisons but instead in an improvised shed in the asylum they were in.
But the Sentiment is right.
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
