You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.
I am afraid what they will do with that.
And let's not forget that US media, i.e. the New York Times, were initially quite enthusiatic about Hitler.
Something that's rarely talked about.
*The Unhealthy Alliances of Industry and #Fascism*
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#History does not repeat itself, but it surely does rhyme:
In the #WeimarRepublic, it was the heavy-industry and media mogul #Hugenberg that did pave the way for #Hitler and the #NationalSocialists:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113987420992520717
Whereas the millionaires' involvement in national politics was quite haphazard in 1920s + '30s #Germany, it has been a a Chinese-style, really long-range...
The Unhealthy Alliances of Industry and #Fascism
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...planning in the #US:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508
Whereas the #FederalistSociety and the #KochBrothers have been a perennial force, #PeterThiel and #ElonMusk have had a lot of influence in recent years, as we all know.
The #TrumpCoup has been in the making for decades:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114670353869544765
...and I contend that German-led #US #Fascism was never effectively dealt with is one,...
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The Unhealthy Alliances of Industry and #Fascism
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...if not the prime reason why the #AmericanExperiment has been derailed, at least:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112091382242661609
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114779307041554004
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A Google(tm) search on January 12, 2005 turned up some 5,000 hits on the following quote: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is generally attributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor. The quote, however, does not appear in the Enciclopedia Italiana in the original Italian.
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Liberalism is the road to fascism and neoliberalism is the motorway equivalent?
If you read the black American writers (and musicians) - Wright, Baldwin, etc - that washed up in Paris after the war, the experience they describe is escape from the burden of US systemic prejudice and discrimination. Baldwin was also gay. They spent a lot of time with Sartre and DeBeauvoir - and at the First International Congress of Negro Writers & Artists in Paris in 1956 Wright was the only speaker to complain about the near absence of black women writers. There were very direct, personal lines from the post-war experience of liberation in Europe to the black civil rights, 'women's lib' and gay liberation movements in the US in the 60s.
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and 1 million in new yorks bundt meeting at the Garden.....
@MrLaCave @bitboxer For an overview, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#1910s%E2%80%931950s
Also some more details: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highereducation
And they provided the tech support for those machines, so when the nazis wanted to know stuff like: can we create a category for say; religion
They where the ones that explained how.
Also they continued to supply parts for those machines even after the US entered the war via a subsidiary company in switzerland.
@[email protected] @MrLaCave @[email protected] @[email protected] Those I knew already, IBM was indeed new to me. In general all Ultra Rich in Germany have a dark history #taxtherich
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