Mastodawn

Been saying this for a while, but will repeat it for emphasis: “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

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Nicole Parsons 20h ago

@Strandjunker

Agreed, but the defense of "I was only increasing shareholder value" was accepted as a defense for corporations.

It successfully got those corporate interests acquitted, the same ones who funded the Nazis from 1933 onwards.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5815470-fossil-fuel-industry-accountability/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/business/oil-liability-shield-laws-climate-lawsuits.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/utah-fossil-fuels-legal-shield

We can be assured that the kleptocrats of Project 2025 are laying the groundwork to escape culpability.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

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Nicole Parsons 20h ago

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/05/and-the-money-men-billionaires-are-making-the-hitler-mistake/

The financial backers who platformed the Nazis.

Hitler had lots of American friends
http://bradleywhart.com/hitlers-american-friends/

Hitler had lots of aristocratic friends
https://susanronald.com/books-panel/hitlers-aristocrats/

Hitler had lots of media friends too
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2022-04-19/newspaper-axis-six-press-barons-who-enabled-hitler

Hitler had lots of corporate friends too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Billionaires

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19125905/

Consequences await Trump’s corporate oligarchs too
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/

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

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

Trump and the money men: Billionaires are repeating the Hitler mistake - Salon.com

Germany's business elite thought they could control the demagogue. Steve Schwarzman and Peter Thiel think that now

Salon.com

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Lynn D 19h ago

@Npars01 none of the wealthy and corporate supporters of Hitler on either side of the Atlantic thought that he was a “mistake.” That was just the narrative that they invented when he started losing and they knew that they might be held accountable. Unless, we the people everywhere (I have started a preliminary list of the Canadians involved), start holding our current crop of thesearseholes to account, they will do the same again.

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Nicole Parsons

@Lynnd

Charles Stross's science fiction novel Glasshouse got me interested in how The Moneyed manipulate narratives about history for self-advantage.

Why is the murder of historians & destruction of their work so critical to the powerful in the prelude to war?

Self-serving narratives about the Civil War and "Slavery is Good for You" feeds the financialization & entrenchment of inhumanity, for example.

Just like how banking & private equity hedge fund managers fund ecocide now.

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Nicole Parsons 17h ago

Until Rachel Maddow & Sarah Paine started discussing the role of elites in the rise of Hitler, I had never heard of how a domino of world events was set in motion by Gilded Age robber barons & their irresponsible greed.

Henry Ford should have faced trial for trading with the enemy.

90 million people died from his bigotry.

Trump & his MAGA billionaires should be facing trial for RICO and threat funding.

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Nicole Parsons 17h ago

Jack Smith's report underlines the betrayal of democracy by broligarchs, petrostate despots & oil oligarchs.

The international scope alone still astonishes me.

The onslaught of disinformation trying to sweep the crimes of the Epstein Class under the rug is evidence enough of the crucial role played by journalists & historians.

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WhiteHotaru 9h ago

@Npars01 you might find the works of @chrisstoecker very interesting. His book „Männer, die die Welt verbrennen (Men who burn the world)“ analyses the different spheres of influence and their worldwide connections.