this 1933 diplomatic cable from the american embassy in berlin to FDR that was sent three months after #Hitler took power goes hard

"๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜Ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ข ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ. ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜–๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฌ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ."

#Germany #EU #nazi #Nazis #AfD #FDR #ww2 #WWII #WinstonChurchill

well this toot blew up lol... i guess one thing i take away from it is the extent to which "character is destiny" and how the character of the #Nazi regime was painfully obvious to people of good faith even from its first moments (to that end I also recommend Dorothy Thompson's 1941 essay "Who Goes Nazi?").

unfortunately while there are dissimilarities between that crew and trump's, e.g. the glorification of war, it's also true that there are a lot of scary war loving fascists on team #Trump. Ken Silverstein managed to get a hold of a private group chat featuring a lot of these folks earlier this year. Who was in the chat:

- #ErikPrince (#IraqWar Blackwater massacre guy)
- #KimberlyGuilfoyle (Don Jr's gf)
- #MichaelFlynn
- #NRA guys
- #AfD guys
- #TuckerCarlson
- Israeli intel
- Congressmen who resigned in various scandals

...and worse.

https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

#Election2024 #Trump #DonaldTrump #uspol #uspolitics #MAGA #MAGAts #Republicans #Democrats #QAnon #fascism #fascist

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.

The New Republic

@cryptadamist

Larger group has been working for 40 years to reverse human rights, mainly via Courts. But the full group, tied to Trump/Project 2025 has a uniting membership attached to Nazi's/Genocide.

1. Prince has repeatedly been involved in Genocide on innocent civilians--either directly, or via Putin (Wagner/Orcs) Ukraine, (likely GA & Syria), China (CITIC, Uyghur's), Iraq, plans to colonize S. Africa/Latin America, etc.
2. Bolton set stage for more WC/Genocide w/9/2018 speech to ICC.

1/

@cryptadamist
2/

KoM are a self-serving, mercenary, paramilitary org, ("charity" is a front). I've cataloged 270 in US, & their specialties/careers. Many are CIA/MIL/Media Moguls/Judges. Others are leading tech hardware/software, tied to AI/Musk/Thiel. Far-rt extreme thinktanks contributing to Project 2025, like Hillsdale College are also dangerous to control USA civilians.

"AI & The Human Soul"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMRTFbN3gew

USA citizens need to plan now to counter Project 2025 plans B4 1/1/25.

AI and the Human Soul | Dr. Jordan Wales and Dr. John Sieffertt

YouTube
@cryptadamist #ErikPrince should scare the shit out of anyone who values human rights and a viable planet!
@DoomsdaysCW as scary as Erik Prince may be he's not nearly as scary as Michael Flynn (who, of course, was also in the group chat)...
@cryptadamist They seem to travel in the same circles (Putin), and were both involved with similar operations (Iraq, Afghanistan) -- the only difference is that Flynn is military, while Prince is a "civilian".

@DoomsdaysCW Flynn is also demonstrably more straight up mentally ill / insane, at least from what i've seen. like he's out there talking about QAnon stuff, shouting "WWG1WGA" etc.

put it this way: if erik prince were in charge i don't doubt there would be mass arrests of anti-trump protestors but if michael flynn were in charge i don't doubt they'd just run the protesters over with tanks tiananmen square style

@cryptadamist
I believe that early 2016, messages to similar effect went from Washington to London, Paris, Berlin, Canberra, Ottawa, Beijing, etc.
Come January, it will be largely copy-paste.
@cryptadamist Today, the same message could be sent mostly unchanged from the German embassy in the USA back to Berlin.
@cryptadamist Superb diplomatic briefing. So prescient, and so pertinent today.
And nice touch that his name is Anglicised version of Messerschmidt

@cryptadamist

Nowadays we know better than ableism. Fascists are fascist because of decisions they make, not because they're victim to a mental illness that makes them unable to know/do better.

cc @AkaSci

Of course there had to be a reply doubling down on ableism...
@cryptadamist "๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฌ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ" - well, they were prepared enough to eventually kill a few million people.
@Torbencht The evil ones who donโ€™t know how to do a task succeed by excess precisely because they donโ€™t know they They are all horrific. @cryptadamist

@cryptadamist
without penalizing the sender, I wish, the #fediverse services could find a easy mechanism that a factual post could use to attach the #provenance of the data they are presenting.

I realize that there are many challenges but we need start addressing those and solving them.

We could start by resolving that 1 of the 4 offered images be an image of a link to where you found that facts that are being presented.

Please make improvements and offer your own ideas.

@cryptadamist

This is just terrifying ๐Ÿ˜ž

It is so, so close to where we are now.

@FediThing woth remembering that at least trump is just corrupt, greedy, and narcissistic and not obsessed with making war, but then again michael flynn, erik prince, the AfD, and various other legitimate fascists company are all of course also on team Trump...
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash
Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.

The New Republic
@cryptadamist I canโ€™t find the matching document. Could you give me a url? I did a Historical documents search and got results with the name & date but none matched this and when I added some distinctive words from the text the seach came up empty.
Boosting the above from @cryptadamist with an added content warning.
@cryptadamist โWith few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere. Others are exalted and in a frame of mind that knows no reason. The majority are woefully ignorant and unprepared for the tasks which they have to carry through every day.โž
โ€”Message from US Ambassador to Germany, to US President Roosevelt in 1933
#USPol
@cryptadamist History repeats itself?
@cryptadamist Hmmm..... The upcoming US Presidency and administration.....
@cryptadamist And therein lies their weakness.

@cryptadamist > ๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ...

wait, what language is that? my tts reads only unicode scalar values in decimal, what alphabet is this?

@esoteric_programmer it's just italics. same text as in the alt text of the image.
@cryptadamist lol, those look like entirely foreign characters. Yeah, I saw the alt text, but I thought this means something else since it's so garbled. Either way, history is fun indeed, while we can still keep it unaltered