Robert

Gotta love people who confuse delusion with safe comfort

If you mean one of the guys with decades of history on this and telling you the current situation has disturbing parallels, then yes I am that guy.

Me, who researched this and sat with victims personally, telling you that the current situation, is, in fact, very god damned dangerous and not unlike the Weimar Republic’s fall makes you sad.

I get it. Instead of pretending it doesn’t exist, let’s do something constructive about that to avoid it.

I’ve personally interviewed half a dozen camp survivors and my 1992 thesis of the conditions of Raoul Wallenberg’s ultimate death were proven correct in the first Russian language publication of a former KGB deathbed confession of the person who cleaned it up.

I am also not the person in your head

If after your five posts to me about “raising the alarm is for poseurs” you think that’s not you jerking off? Then you’ve missed everything Sex Ed could have taught you.

What the fucking BlueMaga QAnon cosplay shit is this hellscape of an app?

How TF is it stuffed to the gills with all the bottom basement wine tasting Martha’s Vineyard assholes laughing off mass murder?

Fuck.

Also #FreePalestine or GFY

JFC man what is the point of you? Is your pollyanna fantasy fanfic admiration for “it’s all ok go back to sleep, let the little marginal people get killed” more important to you than the material outcome? Because if so I’ll leave you with your box of kleenex in peace for as long as that lasts.

Son I am saying the building’s on fire so grab some fucking buckets.
Find your local organizing opportunity and get involved in mutual aid. Film ICE for a day. Do fucking something other than jerk off here about how it’s surely going to fix itself without us doing anything aaaaaany minute now.

Dave my man you said “oh if you’re not settling in and getting comfy for this complacency gospel sermon, are you planning on leaving or becoming a victim to the thing-we-are-literally-fucking-saying-will-fail-under-it’s-own-weight-without-any-opposition?”

I am saying this fire is still burning

Hahahahha you silly, stupid fuck.

I point out the alligator in the room has teeth and you ask me if I’m planning to leave the party or else let it eat me while you sit down for tea?

Fucking hell

No one really needs to be competent to be a fascist (in fact there was probably arguably only ever one and it was Getúlio Vargas).

They don’t even really need to be popular. They just have to want violence, preach race mythology, and give your neighbors permission to do the same.

The Nazis flew a surprise bombing run that destroyed most of Stalin’s air force.

At no point did Nazis exhibit political erudition or inspire competency beyond their brutalism, good poster art, and tailoring. It was entirely born by a cult of personality and willingness to do harm.

Anti race-mixing laws followed the US models, and indigenous death marches (Trail of Tears, etc) inspired Nazi night marches of prisoners.

Stalin famously killed all the fighters that helped him overthrow the previous regime, thinking the Nazis too incompetent to be a challenge for several years

The forced brothels within them using camp inmates were inspired by the US carve out for Chinese women emigrating as sex workers under the Chinese Exclusion Act, because the US did not want “white Christian women sullying their purity” for morale concerns.

This originated the western Asian fetish.

Which was exactly what a few self-censoring Jewish publishers argued during the Nazi rise to power until they found out no… they were not safe via model minority exceptionalism or wealth.

Concentration camps were modeled on Britain’s invention of them during the Boer War & the US reservation system

“Final Solution” was final because they tried so damned many in between and they were inherently incompetent at it.
But hey they’re all just a few marginalized people, right? I mean as you say that’s “different” than the important front and center public people who would be protected, surely.

Next option was to load people in the back of a truck with a hose feeding the exhaust into the cargo area and drive it around for hours. This didn’t work as well as they hoped (and also it got the drivers sick due to leaks), besides they needed the fuel for the war effort.

Next option was lining people up and shooting multiples of them in the heads with single bullets because reasons (there was a war on) but this turned out to be too damaging to troop morale and field efficacy.

First order of business was what to do about all this seizure and deportation? Send undesirables to Madagascar? SS thought, “Yes!” except they were incompetent and hadn’t thought out steel costs for ships and crew, much less enemy controlled water.

Famously, they didn’t.

When the SS began planning, they had absolutely no idea what they were doing (beyond wanting to burn all the books at the world’s foremost LGBTQIA research library and murdering the SS member responsible for their rise at his weekend castle orgy gay retreat).

Then when the SS took power, the last US diplomat to the Weimar Republic William Dodd wrote back that while the situation wasn’t ideal, he really thought this Hitler fella could be worked with. Their incompetence was just less reason to take them seriously and surely they would become more moderate

Hindenburg was convinced by the capitalist class reps that Hitler was a safe bet to seat as chancellor because he would block all of the Socialist platform agendas from passing, while also being so politically inept that he wouldn’t pose a threat.

Famously his ineptitude didn’t slow things down.

Hitler only hit his 37.3% high as a protest candidate _against_ Hindenburg who still won his second 7 year term in the run-off (at a higher percentage than the primary - Hitler lost votes).

The reason we talk about Hitler is because his opposition, the Socialist party, had a controlling seat

The Weimar Communist party was underwritten by Stalin as a foreign influence campaign and was going after the Socialists as well to narrow competition.
Nazis became the NSDAP because no one took them seriously. They knew they’d need some farm worker support to move past their Jill Stein numbers.

SS originally found the US “too barbaric” in our applications of it.
They started with brown shirts in the street causing murders and violence. Everyone said “they’re incompetent so what’s the real worry? It’s just some marginalized dead Socialist & Communist party members and a few Jews.”

Look man, it’s actually really simple. The US originated the form of the thing you are trying to say it cannot become.
Nazi leadership based their legal framework on the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, on the US anti-miscegenation laws, and on Indigenous genocide and encampment.
Except…

Ooooooh… ok.

You actually don’t understand how any of this works.

Got it. Ok.

Guess it’s a disagreement here on where that Constitutional divide lands or recognizing what moving it looks like.

Military engaging in domestic policing… SCOTUS throwing out any given precedent. Thousands of citizens disappeared regardless of status.

“They’re bad at it” hasn’t halted them yet.

Hey I love wishful thinking hopecore as much as anyone, but the police being shit at covering their crimes really fails to matter very quickly in criminal governments… and qualified immunity has not stopped the ol’ slave patrol gang from regularly lynching everyone from Fred Hampton to (…check TL)