Harvey Fliester
psychopomp disasterThe Nazis did not successfully murder millions because every German was a Nazi. They succeeded because not enough Germans were anti-Nazi.
You have the power to stop it from happening again. All it takes is the willingness to stand up and fight.
C.Suthorn 
Stand up now or fight later.
In my childhood, I lived for a few years in a village that had a Jewish majority until 1933. From my children‘s room window, I could see the parking lot that had been the synagogue before it was burned down in Kristallnacht. The house I lived in had originally been built as the residence for the jewish actors of the local theatre (the vanity project of a local celebrity).
Frank Cote@ieatkillerbees Fox news is an integral component of the plan.
Phantom Kitty (Trans)@Frankc1450 And Faux News is now running CNN, and not a lot of people know about this hostile take-over last week of what used to be a dependable news source. So the lies and fear-mongering will continue to spread.
@phantomkitty hostile take over?
@Frankc1450 CNN got bought and is now being run by someone who also helps run Faux News. He is dictacting exactly what can and not be reported on CNN as of last week.
@phantomkitty wow! Thanks. It was already shitty. Just what we need, another billionaire feeding us shit.
Patricia Kayden@ieatkillerbees So very well said. Neutrality allows fascists to act without opposition. Speak up and actively oppose fascists.
Steinar Bang@ieatkillerbees
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Shield Maiden@ieatkillerbees "willingness to stand up and fight" A fine sentiment...but the trouble is not enough people know HOW to do this in the most effective and efficient way. There's always an acute lack of actual good ideas on putting this into practice without actually engaging in "fighting".
NoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️🌈Absolutely! I’m old, I’m crippled and I live far from any city in a very Red county.
But if my only barricade is Masto ( as the Bird has fallen to the Fascists)I will be here to boost, to agree and , if the time comes, to offer my place as a stop on underground railroads to pass on refugees or to help women obtain abortions, as I am in a state where it’s still legal.
Never again, for anyone, anywhere, ever.
Riley S. Faelan@ieatkillerbees: Incidentally, this principle also works the other way around. This is exactly why the majority of fascists' "recruitment" efforts are not spent on converting non-fascists into fascists, but people who might oppose fascists into people who would rather not.
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@ieatkillerbees One lesson to learn there, is to fortify & harden democracy to be maximally able to defend against its enemies.
The Weimar Republic's democracy wasn't, even less with a Reich president, being a former imperial conservative officer, empowered to appoint the Reich chancellor despite the Nazi party (fatally presumed natural ally of German conservatives) gaining roughly 33.1% (-4.2%) of the Germans' votes in the election before Hitler's 1933 power grab, which marked the beginning of his genocidal terror state, intimidating, incarcerating & killing (like eg Sophie Scholl & her co-resisters of the "White Rose") every suspected opponent of the Nazi regime & its mass-murderous leader.
After WWII, Germany had learned this lesson the hard way, that only a democracy, that's legally capable of efficiently defending itself against its enemies, will see the next day & the days following.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_democracy
#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #Democracy #JusticeMatters #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice
rood@ieatkillerbees there were enough Nazi haters. There were too many rich industrialist Nazi backers. Like Musk. You have to get/give permission to bury the type.
Carl Anthony@ieatkillerbees if you have not seen it yet, the Hitler Lost Tapes series on Hulu covers this topic well - and it examines how the landscape is shifting in the United States to allow someone like a Hitler to gain unmitigated power.
Gargravar@ieatkillerbees as self-righteous as that statement must make you feel, and it also makes me FEEL what you are saying is right, it is also open to a million different interpretations, not to mention the extreme (ignored) complexity of translating a specific historical socio-economic-poltical context to the current day, and is thus basically meaningless bullshit.
Art - US Expat in Spain@ieatkillerbees and to american liberals, if the right is winning (by cheating) the 2nd Amendment argument , then use it to your advantage. Brandishing weapons is stupid. Hoarding excessive ones is ridiculous but there is nothing wrong with having a gun that you hide in some secure spot for worst case scenarios. If the other side ever does provoke that, they will be shocked that they are outgunned and outsmarted by people that are far better physically and mentally.
RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur@ieatkillerbees The “good” news is you don’t have to go far to find nazis. They’re in your town, assaulting city council and school board meetings.