The Darkest Files, a serious game about bringing Nazis to justice.

"A game about responsibility, justice and the struggle to come to terms with the past."

"The Second World War is over, but the perpetrators continue to live undisturbed. Under the leadership of Hesse’s Attorney General Fritz Bauer, you set out to solve forgotten crimes: you inspect files, interview witnesses, reconstruct the course of events and bring charges. Yet the judiciary and administration are still filled with former Nazis who will do anything to sabotage the investigations."

"The game is based on real, historically documented cases. The letters, files and statements are fictional, but based on actual events and people." >>
https://paintbucket.de/en/projekte/the-darkest-files
#SeriousGames #nazis #WarCriminals #NeoNazism #antisemitism #racism #war #justice #WarCrimes #judiciary

Pete "K*ll-All-Muslims" Hegseth is military trained & he's no fool:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

"No-stupid-rules" Hegseth says it's ok for the US to commit war crimes, bcz international law gets in the way of the Crusades.

He highly likely has malignant narcissism (psychopathy).

Psychopathic brain structure is bereft of empathy, &, hence, of remorse or conscience.

Power is all that matters to psychopaths.

While not all do harm, Pete's a doozy.

#Psychopathy #Hegseth #USPol #EUPol #neoNazism .

"Again, according to V-Dem, many European countries, including the UK, France and Germany, protect freedom of speech and what it calls “alternative sources of information” better than the US. That was in 2024. Does anybody imagine this will have improved in 2025, not least given the administration’s assaults on universities and the media?

This is not to say that all is well in Europe. There exists a host of potent concerns, including the state of free speech even in the UK, though Nigel Farage’s comparisons with North Korea are grotesque. Yet anxieties about those “patriotic” parties are also reasonable. Europe, after all, has a history. This tells us with brutal clarity that “patriotic” parties, and indeed nationalism more broadly, can all too easily be roads to ruin. The two world wars taught us that. Thus, by failing to throttle Adolf Hitler’s “right” to free speech, Germany ended up losing 5.5mn soldiers and between 1.1mn and 3mn civilians in the second world war. Worldwide, the losses were 75mn in the two world wars.

Hitler was also one of those “patriots” terrified by what the NSS calls “civilisational erasure”. In May 2025, Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) was designated “rightwing extremist” by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution. No doubt, it is not a Nazi party. But it does have neo-Nazis within it. Should Germans who know their history just smile and say, “Why not? Freedom of speech is after all sacred.” It takes cocksure Americans to spout such idiocy. Alas, similar backgrounds and ideas can be seen in other rising European rightwing parties.

Equally foolish is the assault on the EU. Here, too, there are many confusions. Nation states are not natural political features of Europe. They were created, many of them quite recently (just as the US itself was created)."

https://www.ft.com/content/f1230ddd-0e24-4f0f-8b6e-3fde907fc651

#USA #NationalSecurity #Europe #EU #WhiteNationalism #Neonazism #Democracy #HateSpeech

"Algorithmic social media promotes group polarization on an unprecedented scale. Anti-immigration conservatives are perpetually in conversation with each other, digesting an endless profusion of arguments and evidence that reinforces their nativist worldview.

At the same time, social media rewards the expression of more extreme points of view — both because these attract greater attention and because they help to establish one’s superlative commitment to the cause: If everyone in your online community supports mass deportation, then merely advocating for that policy will do little to draw notice or demonstrate your ideological purity.

Violating taboos that constrain others’ advocacy — such as norms against open racism, antisemitism, or apologetics for ICE brutality — however, are liable to gain one both attention and distinction.

For these reasons, among others, the online right has grown increasingly militant in its nativism.

It is impossible to know Trump or Vance’s motivations with certainty. But it’s hard to believe that their decision to hastily rally to Ross’s cause was in no way informed by the sentiments of their social media feeds.

Likewise, it’s difficult to see why Vance would stick his neck out for a racist Republican group chat if not to cultivate the esteem of his online community.

The Homeland Security and Labor Department social media accounts, meanwhile, are transparently catering to the tastes of the far-right fringe rather than those of the median voter."

https://www.vox.com/politics/475199/ice-shooting-renee-good-trump-white-nationalist-memes-dhs-dol

#USA #Trump #WhiteNationalism #NeoNazism #ICE #Immigration #Deportation