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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I've been working through a few biographies of the top brass of Nazidom, and even with the rather perfunctory understanding I've gained from these books of Hitler's seizure of power and all that followed in Nazi Germany, my ears are pricking up in horror every day as I listen to the latest news from around the world. And I'm not even going so far as the Holocaust. If the Holocaust and WWII never happened, the Nazi regime would still have been an unmitigated nightmare.

The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels' and Himmler's rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit? We know how this story ends. We have examples of it from recent memory, we don't even need to cast our minds back to the 1930s 🤷‍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Some of them see it, and approve.

Others are old and mentally ill, and care only for what power they can gain in their remaining few years, regardless of what that will bring later.

Others are merely useful, and go along with whoever is currently in power.

Others are afraid, so they do not oppose the changes, for fear of losing what they have, and desperately cling to hope that something else will stop the worst from happening.

Others...

and on and on it goes, just as it did before, just as it ever was, and quite frankly, now I see that so will it ever be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am not familiar with this, would you share what country you are talking about?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Germany for example. The AfD is gaining more and more support by using phrases like "This development that is happening right now, creation of mixed populations to destroy the national identity and thus give our autonomy to the EU - that is simply not bearable!", "Such humans we should of course dispose of", "When a [n-word] in my neighborhood coughs at me, I have to know if he is sick or is he not sick." or "The reason why we are being flooded with culturally foreign people like Arabs, Sinti and Roma is the systematic destruction of civil society." https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/10-rechtsextreme-zitate-der-afd/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

To be fair, they curently decide to see the AFD as an extremist organization.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels’ and Himmler’s rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit?

What's even more infuriating is that when you try to point this out to others, they act like you're insane/exaggerating.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

...because most don't study the rise and causes of what happened. They only study the result. "Never again" refers to the holocaust, but nobody puts that sign on the the road that led to it.

  • Wealth disparity and inflation
  • Fear of "others" taking what little people have
  • Traumatized populations from decades of war

With populations scared and desperate, they'll latch on to any demigogue that appears.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But it's not literally the Holocaust again, so it's fine /s

I'm trans, god help me...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Not literally the Holocaust again yet.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

poland better not be the epicentre again - signed a Polish trans person