The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

@MarkHB

The person in charge of the executive branch of our government studied under #RoyCohn, why is it at all surprising that he uses #Nazi tactics?
#NazisRaus

@MarkHB Not a day goes by that I don't read the news hoping to not see, yet totally expecting a modern Horst Wessel.
@MarkHB watch Taco's birthday parade, will he storm the hill and detain democrats?

@urethane108 @MarkHB

The democrats would deserve it, tbh. Collaborators are frequently the first ones to get executed.

@MarkHB We’re up to page 199 in “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”

@MarkHB yeah, like the provocation in #Altona where the #Nazis shot up a working-class neighbourhood.

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

Altona Bloody Sunday - Wikipedia

@MarkHB yeh, the big take away from that was protests don't work in a fascist regime. Riots, sabotage, assassinations, do

@MarkHB What exactly do you think the AltRight and Nazis in the USA have been doing for the past decade?

They literally tried to storm Congress to hang the Vice-president for being too law-abiding. Or as the modern Nazi pronounces it, "too woke".

Note, how the legal system, in a total surprise (not), treated the Nazis who tried to putsch on January 6th like nice honourable gentleman. IANAL, during committing a felony, you are responsible what your accomplices do. So if they murder someone,

you are up for full murder charges (details might vary by jurisdiction). Now when police officers are killed, in practice, most often, their fellow LEOs from the director of the FBI to the mall cops are out for blood, and are actually dulling the needles for the lethal injection.

How were the dead Congress Cops avenged? With a serial pardon, but notice that the DOJ did not real handle that under Biden either. As the saying goes in German, justice is blind on the right eye.

Please note, that Hitler got 5 years fore his "honourable" putsch (while theory Bavaria could have executed him), served a year in hotel like accommodations (the honourable finding of the court comes here in, thus the nice quarters).

And that is actually a very brutal and unexpected verdict: His judge was himself a right extremist, and the two lay justices (service the role of the jury in this case) literally told him before the trial, they will not convict Hitler to prison.

But back to the USA, you have been living in a modern version of the Weimar Republic for the past 1-2 decades, you have been boiling slowly since 9/11.

Notice, #Trump has crossed the line into illegality because he wanted to cross it. To set a precedent. Much of the cruelty he is doing, if he would be willing to fill in some more forms, to do a bit more patient, wait till the courts confirm which tortures are the legal ones to apply, he could probably get away with 80-90% of the cruelty legally

It would just not be such a great, beautiful TV performance, like dropping armed forces on a commie metropolitan area. (As a European, no offence, you idiot Americans don't even know what a Communist is or how Communism looks, even Bernie is by objective standards a rather conservative neoliberal a$$hole. With that classification, please consider what the rest of the US political class is, by our standards.)

And would not set precedents that the US Imperator can do whatever he wants.

@MarkHB Do you know where I can find any details? Looking so I have receipts later. Did some searching but finding mostly the big events in their rise to power, not this kind of activity.

@abosio @MarkHB

You can research the SA and it's morphing from a street fighting gang into a militia until its existence threatened the Party and Hitler's authority.

This is not that dissimilar to the Proud Boys.

One paper, which is on JSTOR is 10.1017/S0008938913000605

@MarkHB Seems like a good time to remind people to watch Andor, if you haven’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGzPX6YeE8

The Ghorman Massacre | ANDOR

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