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For so long we have always referred back to Nazi Germany as the last massive fascist and authoritarian takeover, but with America at the gates ready to go full fascist, the Germans must atleast be relieved that in a few years we will be talking about MAGA America instead of Nazi Germany.

W for the Germans I suppose.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They are, Germans today don't fuck around with that, they punish it heavily like the US should have.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless it's Israel. Then, they confuse antisemitism with valid criticism of genocide, due to guilt over the Holocaust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Isreal is special because they got germany at the balls with the past

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The Americans DID punish fascism severely. My grandfather stormed the beaches on D-Day. He lost his best friend from grade school. They were barely out of high school.

As for the Americans of today? I don't consider maga to be American. Just like I don't consider confederates to be Americans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They really don't amd honestly never did. Less people were punished at nuremburg than there were guards at Auschwitz. Many nazis got domestic government positions within years of the Paris Peace treaties and some got greater european positions of power like Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Not to mention the many Nazis who were taken in by the US including the Butcher of Lyon who got a position with the US intelligence services where he hunted communists and taught torture. These days the AFD with direct nazi ties and explicit fascist ideology is doing great. Germany was never actually de-nazified