Onkel Mori
Andrea Junker 
1923: Hitler’s failed coup.
No real consequences.
No fundamental changes.
1933: Hitler takes power.
I wish I could implant this into everyone’s brain.
Art - US Expat in Spain@Strandjunker The one major difference (although I'm still concerned). Germany, during the rise of Hitler, was economically shattered and any con man promising to make Germany great again was an easier message to swallow.
Micio Bertoldo@azphilosopher @Strandjunker
Mostly wars were started to deviate the attention from e. g. unbalanced economies or other national problems...
Mostly wars were started to deviate the attention from e. g. unbalanced economies or other national problems...
rexi@Micio @azphilosopher @Strandjunker
imagine if #Putin had applied for #Russia's EU membership mid-2008, when the Ruble was up.
According to me it would have been a much safer, forward oriented and prosperous Russia -- and Europe.
@rexi @azphilosopher @Strandjunker
🤣 ask Sweden Norway, the Baltics, Ukraina how sure the all felt before 2008...Maybe it was better for the rouble 0.030
🤣 ask Sweden Norway, the Baltics, Ukraina how sure the all felt before 2008...Maybe it was better for the rouble 0.030
xs4me2@rexi @Micio @azphilosopher @Strandjunker
Imagine if Putin would have been Gandhi you mean? Almost from the start it was clear how this dictator and former KGB agent full of resentment would develop.
@xs4me2 @Micio @azphilosopher @Strandjunker
no, not what I mean.
he still would have had megalomaniacal ambitions, and would have stretched the feasibility of Europe -- but, differently.
@rexi @Micio @azphilosopher @Strandjunker
If any, Yeltsin should have made different choices. Putin cultivated the NATO dolchstoss legend almost from the start. He is a vile dictator.
The Russian Federation lost its right to exist. It needs deweaponization and deputization. Otherwise it will stay a threat to worldpeace.
@Micio @azphilosopher @Strandjunker
He is doing very well, isn’t he…
freshbake@azphilosopher @[email protected] errr... well, we're fucked
⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir@azphilosopher @Strandjunker remember how hard it was to swallow in the US in 2020, see how people all over Europe seem to swallow it so eagerly....
Paul McO'Smith III@azphilosopher @Strandjunker Make Germany Great Again.
Optimistic Moron@Strandjunker
To be fair the Wiemar Republic, did put Hitler in jail for a few months. He used the time to write Mein Kampf.
That said, it is pretty safe to assume that Trump in jail and without access to ghost writers or ChatGPT wouldn't be able to write much.
To be fair the Wiemar Republic, did put Hitler in jail for a few months. He used the time to write Mein Kampf.
That said, it is pretty safe to assume that Trump in jail and without access to ghost writers or ChatGPT wouldn't be able to write much.
PeachMcD@OptimisticMoron @Strandjunker
This #library worker is here to say:
Mein Kampf is the *same exact drivel*
as any of #TFG's current stump 'speeches'
His base doesn't care. They'd buy it. His donor base would buy out the runs to put it at the top of the list & force #CorporateMedia to report on it
Sharon Gibson Morgan@OptimisticMoron @Strandjunker Hitler was sentenced to five years in Landsberg Prison for treason, but he only served nine months. During his brief imprisonment, he was treated more like a celebrity than a prisoner, receiving a host of visitors. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitler-s-cushy-prison-life-in-the-1920s-revealed-2008754.html
Hitler's cushy prison life in the 1920s revealed | The Independent
Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment while jailed in 1924 and was allowed hundreds of visitors – sometimes unsupervised – including some 30 to 40 celebrants of his 35th birthday. The details have emerged from documents written by officials at the prison near Munich where he was held.
Quentin Ruyant@OptimisticMoron @Strandjunker it's not as if it was a master piece, it's badly written
Eric MacKnight@Strandjunker Similar history behind the right-wing army officers who started the Spanish Civil War.
Nicole ParsonsHitler didn't have Republican billionaire donors funding his anti-democracy movement like Trump does.
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/leo-leonard-desantis-super-pac-funding
Hitler didn't have perverse misuses of philanthropic tax laws attacking democracy & voting
https://www.propublica.org/article/barre-seid-heartland-institute-hillsdale-college-gmu
Hitler didn't have both foreign hostile nations and #KochNetwork enabling Nazism
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus
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Jzikah does superb visuals of Republicans and their sedition
Far better impact than a link or a chart at identifying the billionaires attacking democracy.
Here's another favorite of Jzikah's superb work...
The aims of the Federalist Society were never about Constitutional protections or about law & order.
It was established to roll back the civil rights gains of the 20th century, especially those enabled by the Voting Rights Act.
1. Thwart the ratification of the ERA
2. Reduce or eliminate access to the ballot box for the poor, young, women, LGBTQ+, immigrants, & especially black & brown voters
3. Preserve the remnants of the Confederacy & reconstitute Jim Crow.
1/2
2/2
4. Keep the Electoral College. Gerrymandering. Voter suppression. Unrepresentative Senate
5. Tax evasion
6. Unfettered pollution & privatization of the commons (air, water, public lands)
7. Fostering unfettered gun violence & political subversion through threats of violence
8. Thwarting the expansion of civil rights like LGBTQ+ marriage, privacy, worker's rights, consumer protections
9. Convert the armed services into a mercenary agency at the beck & call of corporate interests
4. Keep the Electoral College. Gerrymandering. Voter suppression. Unrepresentative Senate
5. Tax evasion
6. Unfettered pollution & privatization of the commons (air, water, public lands)
7. Fostering unfettered gun violence & political subversion through threats of violence
8. Thwarting the expansion of civil rights like LGBTQ+ marriage, privacy, worker's rights, consumer protections
9. Convert the armed services into a mercenary agency at the beck & call of corporate interests
Jürgen Hubert@Npars01 @Strandjunker Hitler absolutely received money from German industrialists.
Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him"Hitler didn't have Republican billionaire donors funding his anti-democracy movement like Trump does."
For the record: Hitler indeed was funded by industry tycoons of his day. (Yet, your statement as it stands happens to be correct: Those were not members of the USA's Republican party.)
Trimp's billionaire supporters run the gamut of the 1% unheard of by Hitler.
Most of Trump's donors remain anonymous though, just like Hitler & his Swiss bankers.
1. Purportedly "anti-communist" Koch (Koch is just anti-union & anti-worker who pals around with communist despots like Putin)
2. "Oil industry forever" types like Harlan Crow & Peterffy
3. Legalized gambling interests & organized crime like McMahon, Adelson, & Bigelow
4. Wall Street "perpetual growth ...
1/2
2/2
... on a finite planet" delusional conmen preparing to harvest the capital gains of retiring anti-tax boomers like Griffin, Ron Baron, Schwarzman, Chris Hohn, Drunkenmiller, Navarro, Peltz, & Yass
5. Gun nuts & religious bigots, like Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks
6. Neo Nazis like Bradley, Lauder, Tim Mellon
7. Tax evaders like the Sacklers
8. Weird tech lords like Musk, Larry Ellison, Mercer & Thiel
9. White supremacists like Uihlein & Barre Seid, Hendricks
10. Hollywood tycoons like Perlmutter
TJ Radcliffe@Strandjunker Also: two left-wing (Marxist) parties hated each other more than the right. If the SDP and the Bolsheviks had cooperated they would have beaten the bad guys.
And: it won't be Trump in round two, but Robert Kennedy, who is far more dangerous. He may be a bit player in 2024, but he'll be front and center 2028, and he's an educated, articulate, anti-science, fascist nightmare with a famous name.
Alan@tjradcliffe @Strandjunker This is an extremely reductive view of Weimar politics. The Beer Hall Putsch wasn't even the first coup attempt (check out the Kapp Putsch). The SPD was holding on by the skin of its teeth and was center-left enough to allow for the rightwing Iron Front to kill the Spartacus movement but they themselves in turn were stupid enough to attempt an armed uprising without popular support. Meanwhile the left and the monarchists had been fighting all over Germany.
@tjradcliffe @Strandjunker Calling them all Marxist is silly and many of those left of the SPD weren't in line with the Bolsheviks either. Bavaria alone had to separate consecutive socialist republics. Meanwhile German courts would let rightwingers walk free for crimes against leftists as long as they were political ("out of passion for the fatherland", i.e. the Empire not the republic). But yes, the Nazis were enabled by a broad coalition of the right.
MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲People are not aware and open to knowledge until they smell the Zyklon-B lethal gases in the group showers, then it's too late.
If WWII hadn't interrupted his plans, Father Conklin, the megalomaniac, antisemitic, Catholic priest had plans to install a fascist government here on our soil. He had a large following. Our problem is too many gullible, bigoted, racist citizens who are easily swayed into hating "the others."
Rachael Maddow wrote a well researched book about that.
Luna chan@Strandjunker This is why Trump must face justice.
Exactly, plain and simple…
DocHolliday@Strandjunker great! 10 years, we still have a little over 9 left.
Anthony@Strandjunker "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"
Jamie Mason
YetAnotherGeekGuy 
@Strandjunker Trust me … it’s already in the GOP’s “brain”.
Nihl L'Amas@Strandjunker but i was assured by smart people that hitler was tamed in 1924.
Kevin Karhan @Strandjunker I wish I could implant the knowledge on how to get rid of facists into everyone, alongsite the conviction to do so...
So that people like #Elser are there and hopefully successful when needed, and their memory not relegated to a footnote in history books...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Elser
Dehghan Saiee@kkarhan @Strandjunker Didn't know about Elser. Yeah, I hope that hope doesn't boil down to that in a few years.
@dehgsa @Strandjunker if you want to avoid that: Make shure the people don't fear the government that the government fears the people and keep up the #2A, because that's what the facists will try to bar their victims from first.
I.e. the Nazis first barred jews, socdems and communists from prossession of any firearms.
@Strandjunker There must be legal limits or consequences for everyone who damages or fails the community, either thru bribery, air and water contamination, corruption and breaking any institutional laws. We are living thru a lot of political and environmental crisis and some people in the government and multinational companies are either not obeying the law or doing what they could to get away with it.
What I keep trying to imprint in ppl's brains is: 🚩🚩🚩🚩
➡️ Everything Hitler Did Was Legal
At The Time ⬅️
@Strandjunker implant what?
Matt Sicker@Strandjunker 1889: Hitler was born.
Noel KellyChanges like effective Antitrust laws. Starting with media and big tech.
Taking the Federal rolls, redistricting, and election operations away from the states, with a Federal Electoral Commission, like Australia.
Must have stronger data privacy laws.
Election on weekends or making election day a Federal public holiday.
Lee 🌏
DesignDamon@Strandjunker I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
@Strandjunker
Absolute agreement!
Absolute agreement!
Dagmar Hoogland@Strandjunker it is planted in everyones brain. People just fail to see the similarities with current events. It's not just a phrase. History really has the tendency to repeat itself.
Panos 🌏💚♻️🌳@Strandjunker I'm not sure I understand the point...
Shirley Eugest@Strandjunker Also that Hitler did not "win an election."
Martin Nutty
Kerri Levine
Tammy Schoch@Strandjunker I’ve noticed similarities to Hitler since 2015, but when I mention it, everybody chastises those who make Hitler comparisons.