@B_Bird @alice fascism promises things it cannot do; so it has to deliver on "the distractions"

There were a lot of German Jews who wouldn't believe the fascists could do what they did. Don't be there when it's too late to leave.

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I'd argue that what the Nazis did to the Jews was in fact the distraction. Both from the perspective that it gave the government a thing to point at to say they were doing things, but also that they initially claimed they intended to deport them, not kill them. (Where have we heard that before.) The Nazi deathcamps were initially internment camps that gradually became death camps as all other optiones of keeping "undesirables" out of society became infeasible.

Because big empires can't actually deport a small nations worth of people somewhere else without causing an Israel level of mess, kind of like when big empires deported a bunch of people to create Israel.
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