Brian JopekJul 2
On this the anniversary of the Night of the Long Knives, it's important to recognize what is happening here. It isn't hyperbole when it's accurate. - White Rose Resistance
Show threadMiakodaJul 2
@BrianJopek I don't study that stuff. I'm just autistic and pattern matched "this is how it began" quite some time ago!!!
Show threadMiakoda
@BrianJopek When my car got wrecked a couple years ago, I picked the replacement based on what can cross a northern border off the paved roads, and hold fleeing people.
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Brian JopekJul 2
On this the anniversary of the Night of the Long Knives, it's important to recognize what is happening here. It isn't hyperbole when it's accurate. - White Rose Resistance
Show threadDemocracy Dies in DumbassJul 2
@BrianJopek The first thing I see is how Trump's camp was built on the absolute cheap and how it manages to provide less actual shelter..
Show threadRobin BartonJul 2
@BrianJopek What happens when Trump can't deport the people he hates anymore? What will he do then?
Show threadTobiWanKenobiJul 2

@Robo105

The same thing the Nazis did. You fill up the camps, use the people as work slaves, and then you find some dumb fake reason to kill them all.

By the way, most countries won't be taking back those "illegal" immigrants anyway. And going by the words of the orange fascist, he's going to put born citizens into those camps as well. Which country is supposed to take in US-American citizens, if not the US?

@BrianJopek

Show threadJonathanJul 3
@TobiWanKenobi you let then catch disease and die
Show threadTmmikeJul 3
@Robo105 @BrianJopek Laura Loomer has a suggestion - 65 million meals for alligators, roughly the latino population of the US. Their final solution.
Show threadRobin BartonJul 3
@Tmmike @BrianJopek How can you become so pickled in hate that you can make such comments?
Show threadTmmikeJul 4
@Robo105 I believe that's her brand and it sells well on Faux News.
Show threadL'égrégore André ꕭꕬJul 2
@BrianJopek Alt text: side by side photos captioned "Trump's camps" and "Hitler's camps" together with the quote "I've seen several tweets comparing this to and saying things like'this is how it begins'. I teach Holocaust Literature so let me be clear – this ISN'T how it began. this is already several stages along the way." /Aviva Dautch
Show threadNoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈Jul 2

@BrianJopek

I wear a white rose pin on my lapel always for just this reason!

Show threadDan Neuman 🇨🇦Jul 2
@BrianJopek Why do I suddenly feel like Poland?
Show threadEmma-Martin has movedJul 3
@dan613 Same ☹️. In lieu of Lebensraum, I fear they'll eventually want the fresh water up here (maybe that's why the "AI" industry is slurping water with wild abandon). @BrianJopek
Show threadWitold KowalikJul 3

@martinl @dan613 @BrianJopek

There's still some chance you'll end up like Austria.

Show threadMiakodaJul 2
@BrianJopek I don't study that stuff. I'm just autistic and pattern matched "this is how it began" quite some time ago!!!
Show threadMiakodaJul 2
@BrianJopek When my car got wrecked a couple years ago, I picked the replacement based on what can cross a northern border off the paved roads, and hold fleeing people.
Show threadFat_FarangJul 3
@BrianJopek It started with Slick Willie Clinton's passage of the Telecom Act of 1994 opening the flood gates to corporate/billionaire ownership of media markets [Propaganda Normalized]. Then the Patriot Act of 2003 [Mass Surveillance-DHS Brownshirts]. The Fourth Reich officially begins when Lisa Murkowski declares “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” [Bill Beautiful Bill].
Show threadJuho MäntysaloJul 3

@BrianJopek

Not objecting to the argument, but to the chosen example: there are only so many ways you can set up cheap housing on limited area, particularly if you want walls around it.

Auschwitz looks pretty much like US army camp from the same time period, and Trump's concentration camp looks like US army fortifications in the Middle East.

Show threadBrian JopekJul 3
@iju I was in northern Iraq for nearly a year. The closest thing to the tent set-up may have been air conditioned tents that were wide open and you could set up a cot for an overnight stay at a FOB or LSA. I had nothing to complain about at all when it came to my accommodations once my unit reached our destination in Mosul. As for the barracks, when I was in basic combat training in 1990, stayed a couple nights at the beginning at the reception station in a WW2 era barracks. There were no cages
Show threadJuho MäntysaloJul 3

@BrianJopek

The photo I was thinking was the one below. So German, not US.

Show threadSimonJul 3
@BrianJopek of course it has already begun. The camps are in the US and its vassal states, and the genocide is happening in Gaza.
Show threadJan 'Maub' Kap. 🦄🥔Jul 3

@BrianJopek #alt4you A side by side birds eye shot of "Trump's camp" and "Hitler's camp" captioned with:

I've seen several tweets comparing this to Nazis / The Holocaust and saying things like "this is how it begins."
I teach Holocaust Literature so let me be clear - this ISN'T how it began. This is already several stages along the way. - Aviva Dautch

Show threadTobias BraunJul 3
@BrianJopek The tiny difference being that Hitler's camps where set up to murder people, Trump’s camps to get them out of the country. Not exactly the same, unless you are insinuating that Trump plans to murder the people in the camp. While I do concur that Trump wants to set up a fascist dictatorship, that is by no means identical to him replicating the third Reich. Fascism is a part of Nazi ideology, but there is much more (heinousness) to it than that.
Show threadmaholtzJul 4
@Braun_SL @BrianJopek in the beginning the camps was to carry the people out of the land. But no country was willing to take them. So they need a different solution.
Then and now.
Perhaps your tiny difference is only a question of time.
Show threadTobias BraunJul 4
@maholtz @BrianJopek
I'm not a historian, but I think the question whether the nazis planned the Holocaust from the beginning is not historically settled. There are historians like Saul Friedländer who say that decision wasn't made until 1941, while his former student Yaacov Lozowick contends that the intention was there from the start, only the means were missing. Again while I detest DJT I maintain that he is not a mass murderer.
Show threadmaholtzJul 5

@Braun_SL @BrianJopek we will see, where it ends with your Leader...
ICE get's now more capacity.
In. Germany we asked how that could happen... Why were so many people in line.

Why agree so many people in the US?
In Germany it is going in the same direction.
What need we in Germany to do, to stop this.
Any hints?

Show threadTobias BraunJul 5
@maholtz @BrianJopek Point of clarification: DJT is not my leader, as I am German too.
I think what we need is a rational immigration reform. For a long time, we had completely unbounded immigration, which has led to massive problems. I don't think the German public wants 0 immigration, they just want the feeling that we are actually managing it. In other words: points-based system like Canada for economic migration and very narrow rules for asylum-based migration.
Show threadTobias BraunJul 5
@maholtz @BrianJopek If we don't take rational, humane steps now to limit immigration, then the public sentiment might get worse and a potential right-wing government could feel emboldened to do inhumane things. Time to act now.
Show threadmaholtzJul 5
@Braun_SL @BrianJopek Immigration ist not the problem we face, it's just an indication. Global wealth distribution, monopols, injustice and corruption is our problem.
If that is fixed, there would be less immigration and more money to help where it is needed.
Show threadTobias BraunJul 5
@maholtz @BrianJopek That's a little too simplistic. Immigration is an exploitation tool of capitalism used to drive down wages of low-skilled labor, thereby widening the social divide in the host country. Why do you think poor people are against Immigration (and vote AfD) while rich people are pro Immigration and vote green? Because poor people are stupid and amoral? No, because they are disproportionately negatively affected by immigration while rich people profit from exploiting immigrants.
Show threadmaholtzJul 5
@Braun_SL that is weird. An exploitation tool of capitalism?
And therefore we need to reduce immigration?
So pushing the poorest to fight capitalism is your idea? Does not sound clever to me
Show threadTobias BraunJul 6
@maholtz Who is doing all the modern slave work in Germany? Immigrants. Why can companies like Amazon or Hermes do this? Because immigrants are willing to do it. The rich profit from cheap services while the poor find themselves crowded out by even more desperate people.
Show threadmaholtzJul 6

@Braun_SL and your solution is to push back immigrants? Really? No better solution?

Increase wage could help, more balanced taxes too.

Which live gets better, if you push back the immigrants? Do you hurt Amazon etc with that? Really?

Show threadTobias BraunJul 8
@maholtz Well yes, if they don't find anybody willing to work for a slave wage, they will have to offer better conditions, right?