You ain’t seen nothin yet! Go and study 1930s Germany. Before the war. Even before the invasions of other countries. Look how they used their government to cement nazi propaganda.
Now look at the USA today. Kinda feels like 1935 Germany I’d say. If that alone doesn’t scare the shit out of you, then I redirect your attention back to studying, because you clearly missed everything to be gained by studying history.
History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes.
The US is following the playbook by the letter. The biggest difference between nascent Nazi Germany and the US today? We’ve had 80+ years to build up military power which we’ll use to crush any who stand against us, while Germany was still fighting against crippling debt and hoping not to generate too much notice as they built up their military power. While the Nazi’s had to coax, cajole, and bully the media into speaking or reporting on them favorably, this administration has managed to get the media to eagerly accede to demands that haven’t been made. The government shuts down, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho Mayor McCheese will declare a state of emergency that includes the criminalization of the opposition party for causing the shutdown, then he’ll cite whatever war Secretary HePronoun Removed-Man has started as the reason for a full martial law implementation and the military annexation of Canada for “Secure the Borders!”. In this scenario US=Germany, Canada=Poland, and we just skip the Sudetenland and The Anschluss (though to the administration, they’ll expect that the annexation of Canada will equate to The Anschluss) and go right to the need for “Lebensraum”
Hey now, President Camacho may not have been a terribly smart man, but he definitely wanted to get the smartest person in the room working on real problems to find real solutions. Don’t drag his name by comparing him to Trump.
Hopefully that means fascism crashes and burns twice as fast.
Remember, the nazis died because Hitler shot himself. But he only shot himself because the whole world was ready to do it for him. We put enough pressure that it was the only outcome either way.
Lets take that fight to the GOP. Not trump, the GOP. Because if trump is gone, some other pedophile asshole would be happy to take his place. Remember, as much as it feels like he is, trump isn’t THE problem. He’s just the current face of the problem.
I don’t know why you have to be a dick in your response to me but I will return the favor in my response.
Well maybe you shouldn’t assume someone doesn’t know the history because you don’t understand what they mean.
Some quick steps to understand subtext:
As it is obvious that a website can be used for anything, the description of wild is not actually describing the act.
If it is not describing the act, what is it describing? Clearly it is describing an ability. The ability of whom? As the “what” is already excluded as an option. The government’s abilit to do that!
Obviously the government can do that though… so maybe the ability is not the ability to do it but the lack of consequences that one has to face when doing it.
consequences? From whom? The public.
So let’s read it again, “it is wild that the public let the government publish obviously partisan propaganda over public channels like that”.
But why would the author expect the public to show a reaction to this behaviour? Mhm maybe because he is aware of the history and he assumes that the general public has the vague understanding, due to history, that the government shouldn’t be used to push partisan propaganda.
But please, be proud of how smart you are and how you know history while failing to understand the subtext of a simple sentence.
You ain’t seen nothin yet! Go and study 1930s Germany. Before the war. Even before the invasions of other countries. Look how they used their government to cement nazi propaganda.
Now look at the USA today. Kinda feels like 1935 Germany I’d say. If that alone doesn’t scare the shit out of you, then I redirect your attention back to studying, because you clearly missed everything to be gained by studying history.
History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes.
Exactly this. Everyone jumps to Germany invading countries and the Holocaust, but it all started with propaganda and control.
The US is following the playbook by the letter. The biggest difference between nascent Nazi Germany and the US today? We’ve had 80+ years to build up military power which we’ll use to crush any who stand against us, while Germany was still fighting against crippling debt and hoping not to generate too much notice as they built up their military power. While the Nazi’s had to coax, cajole, and bully the media into speaking or reporting on them favorably, this administration has managed to get the media to eagerly accede to demands that haven’t been made. The government shuts down, President
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew CamachoMayor McCheese will declare a state of emergency that includes the criminalization of the opposition party for causing the shutdown, then he’ll cite whatever war SecretaryHePronoun Removed-Man has started as the reason for a full martial law implementation and the military annexation of Canada for “Secure the Borders!”. In this scenario US=Germany, Canada=Poland, and we just skip the Sudetenland and The Anschluss (though to the administration, they’ll expect that the annexation of Canada will equate to The Anschluss) and go right to the need for “Lebensraum”Hey now, President Camacho may not have been a terribly smart man, but he definitely wanted to get the smartest person in the room working on real problems to find real solutions. Don’t drag his name by comparing him to Trump.
Fair point. I apologize to President Camacho.
We’re farther along masked men are “disappearing” people and they can’t be found. I’d say we’re moving much faster
Hopefully that means fascism crashes and burns twice as fast.
Remember, the nazis died because Hitler shot himself. But he only shot himself because the whole world was ready to do it for him. We put enough pressure that it was the only outcome either way.
Lets take that fight to the GOP. Not trump, the GOP. Because if trump is gone, some other pedophile asshole would be happy to take his place. Remember, as much as it feels like he is, trump isn’t THE problem. He’s just the current face of the problem.
I don’t know why you have to be a dick in your response to me but I will return the favor in my response.
Well maybe you shouldn’t assume someone doesn’t know the history because you don’t understand what they mean.
Some quick steps to understand subtext:
So let’s read it again, “it is wild that the public let the government publish obviously partisan propaganda over public channels like that”.
But why would the author expect the public to show a reaction to this behaviour? Mhm maybe because he is aware of the history and he assumes that the general public has the vague understanding, due to history, that the government shouldn’t be used to push partisan propaganda.
But please, be proud of how smart you are and how you know history while failing to understand the subtext of a simple sentence.
I think you’ve misinterpreted the tone of the post, and assumed it was directed only at you and not all readers.
Totally not directed to me but the reader.
Even to a reader, it is incredibly arrogant in tone.
Man relax