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[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 3 points 46 minutes ago

For Hitler and Nazi Germany it certainly was a way to prepare for expansionist wars: https://www.richardjevans.com/lectures/autarky-fantasy-reality/

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

According to DeepSeek, the average price of eggs has increased 258% since 2018.

So far.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Is like poetry, it rhymes…

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

„Es gibt immer wiederkehrende Zyklen, Höhen und Tiefen, aber der Verlauf der Ereignisse ist im Wesentlichen der gleiche, mit kleinen Abweichungen. Man hat gesagt, dass sich die Geschichte wiederholt. Das ist vielleicht nicht ganz richtig; sie reimt sich lediglich.“

Theodor Reik

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

You see, the — the thing about Star Wars is — is that it’s — it's like poetry, you know — it rhymes. Every stanza kind of — kind of rhymes with the last one.

There's — there's no underwear in space. That's — that's the rule. We didn't — we didn't have bras in space. So — so she had to tape them down. It's just — you know — it’s a space thing.

Well — you know — the music, uh — it's not like rock music, or — or electronic stuff. It's — it's very classical. Very old-fashioned. Because — because it's set in space, but — but it’s not futuristic. It’s — it’s more like a — like a space opera. That’s what it is — a space opera It’s — it’s why the music is what we — well I call it jizz.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Hypothetically, if this comic book copy of the Nazis would be just an act, what could be the benefit?

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Isn't owning the libs benefit enough?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Letting the market be easily bought up by corpos?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And straight driving anyone who can't weather the storm out of business. Especially once the "exceptions" start rolling in.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I would say this is the WORST (not really) attempt to try to connect the current American state to Nazi Germany. There are much much better comparisons when considering class conflict. I guess I'm the "idiot" and this is likely good propaganda for the "normies" in our current state. So maybe I'm out of touch in that regard. But the connections are far more important than the price of eggs.

I don't really wanna give more here because I'm tired but for anyone that cares: Just read and you'll get some perspective

I guess I like the simple levels of comparison but I think anyone that actually would be convinced by it needs more perspective.

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 2 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

Obvious/surface level/aesthetic comparisons change hearts & minds. Nobody's reading 160 pages of book unless they agree (broadly) with you already. Headlines & theory serve different functions.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 63 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It is almost like the Orange Turd is a Nazi.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

he has mentioned the nazis many time, and wished he had people like them on his administration.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 minutes ago

You mean the people that started the second world war with some of the most advanced military hardware and brilliant tactical commanders of their day and still managed to blow it?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 32 points 16 hours ago

He has only been sighted reading one book:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?" I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. "Who told you that?"

"I don't remember," I said.

"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew." ("I did give him a book about Hitler," Marty Davis said. "But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.")

Later, Trump returned to this subject. "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."

Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitler's speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler's genius at propaganda

[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 73 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

The playbook is there, is being followed, you people have the 2nd amendment and I have no idea why these people walk freely while you struggle to pay rent and pay your meals

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 41 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (43 children)

When the 2nd Amendment was written, a bunch of (trained) dudes with muskets represented the pinnacle of military power (at least if there wasn't any artillery around, even back then). So the 2nd Amendment gave the people the right to possess sufficient military power to counter the federal government. Today, having a closet full of peashooters means absolutely fucking nothing to a government with armored vehicles, tanks, helicopters, airplanes, cruise missiles, drones, intercontinental missiles and nukes at their disposal. The idea that the 2nd Amendment represents an antidote to a tyrannical federal government is just as much of a fantasy for the Left as it always has been for the Right.

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 3 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Legalize 6th-gen fighter jets. Give me my Pepsi harrier!

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Sure. The US military can just start murdering everyone in the country with their superior firepower. Then the economy is gone and so are the relatives and friends of the soldiers.

Look at Israel failing to militarily defeat Hamas. And that is not only with the firepower difference but also with decades of supremacist indoctrination and a near total disregard for the human life of the people they designate as enemies.

Look at how the Ukrainians took over their country in 2014, throwing stones and pushing garbage cans as shields against the army and police shooting at them.

If the people in the US were dedicated to oppose a fascist takeover, they would win. Yes people will die in the process, but the idea that the army would just massacre everyone without hesitation from a human perspective is far fetched, just as the idea of the government and their cronies happily affording to loose large parts of the population is far fetched.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

I wouldn't say it's nothing. It's a lot less meaningful that it used to be but it can still be effective. Whoever killed that CEO last year only needed a basic gun and they managed to make America slightly better with it.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

civilian resistance has been notoriously hard for modern militaries to deal with.

hardened targets like tanks have become increasingly vulnerable.

drones are still scary, but anybody can use drones.

if you believe you're already defeated, then you probably are. i have no respect for cowards and pacifists.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

Unfortunately, there are many (right wing) USAians that would disagree with you. I’ve argued with them.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say "no chance". Last summer Trump was a few inches from being a chunkful of splattered History.

Of course the idea that the population could take the US military full-on is ridiculous. But resistance doesn't have to take the shape of traditional warfare, and anything would be better than the current overwhelming apathy that is the response to being governed by literal Nazis.

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[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

No one’s talking about fighting the military. You just form an armed mob like the black panthers did and scare politicians into submission lol. 330 million guns and people in this country no one needs to fire a shot at anyone.

Like Reagan made gun control laws real quick. We should learn from our own recent history

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