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Brian JopekI knew this slush fund shit sounded familiar. 😡
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Steve "PodcastSteve" Lubetkin@BrianJopek History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme.
Jacquelinethe merger of the state and the corporation goes hand in hand with the alliance of the industrialists and the fascists
Mother Bones@BrianJopek Jesus 😓
stevenray@BrianJopek wow. Sadness.
Barbara Monaco@BrianJopek Damn. 😲
Dan Morris@BrianJopek Republicans are so unbelievably disgusting. I'm just utterly and completely disgusted with all of them.
Tropical Chaos@BrianJopek I am both disgusted and alarmed!
Julie Hughes@BrianJopek Well...I'll be damned. He really DID read Mein Kampf.
FvH 🦣@juliehuz @BrianJopek It was probably Stephen Miller who read it for him.
@hengstenberg @BrianJopek ...yeah, who am I kidding
Andi H@BrianJopek
I'm sure Trump will find a use for it in Nov 2028... 🙄
I'm sure Trump will find a use for it in Nov 2028... 🙄
derptron@AH_99 @BrianJopek There will probably be a rush of this through the courts and to final payment. Well before midterms. Then it will be used to pay for his poll observer army.
He'll get this war heated up.
The Janx Devil@BrianJopek I had to look that up because I wasn’t sure it was real, but well, I don’t know why I was suspicious of it.
WorldTravelerAll7omg, i just posted this. this is so insane!
https://mastodon.world/@WorldTravelerAll7/116604238845308010
scubapro28Q: That's an amazing historical coincidence. Has it been fact checked?
A: " Yes. In 1930 Martin Bormann established the Hilfskasse der NSDAP (Nazi Party Auxiliary Fund), a party-run benefits/relief fund that collected member premiums and made discretionary payments to party members injured or otherwise in need — including support for activists who had been imprisoned before the Nazi seizure of power."
Wow...........just wow.
eribosot@scubapro28 @BrianJopek It's similar, but not the same. The claim in the screenshot that the fund was used to "compensate SA Stormtroopers who committed street violence" is completely made up. SA Stormtroopers were simply given amnesty.
Per ChatGPT [citing Wikipedia]:
"In 1930 Martin Bormann established the Hilfskasse der NSDAP (Nazi Party Auxiliary Fund), a party-run benefits/relief fund that collected member premiums and made discretionary payments to party members injured or otherwise in need — including support for activists who had been imprisoned before the Nazi seizure of power."
@scubapro28 @BrianJopek Ha! it's a battle of the bots, apparently. Per Gemini [citing Wikipedia]:
"No, the [...] Fund of German Trade and Industry [...] was not used to compensate SA stormtroopers who were convicted of street violence. [...] The money [...] was used for [...] funding major party infrastructure, and financing Hitler's personal expenses and inner circle."
It also says the Fund was created on June 1, 1933, when Hitler was Chancellor. The SA had its own fund, "Rote Hilfe."
I think the fund you mention ("Hilfskasse") is a different and earlier fund.
Count Holdem@BrianJopek Gotta nip it in the bud, sooner rather than later.
Hot Dog Water, roiling"It will all be dependent on a co-Me: T." is how it printed on the wheezing ticker-tape machine in his poached ham of a head.
gmoke@BrianJopek Winter Relief Fund was a Nazi-organized charity collected during the winter months. Pressure to contribute was considerable, and armbands and pins were distributed for public display to identify donors - and thus non-donors. Much of the money was siphoned off by the Party, and scholars have noted that it kept the populace short of extra cash and acclimated to the idea of privation.
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@BrianJopek oh gosh what a jolly Chamber-of-Commerce sort of name for it. Trade and Industry!
Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓@BrianJopek of COURSE there’s another nazi analogy
@BrianJopek Did Hitler have the balls to have him and his family declared immune from whatever tax agency they had at the time?
I have to give it to them...that's a fucking ballsy move. If they get away with it we now they're untouchable and it's just done...finished. No 250 year anniversary though one will be celebrated.
Michael Engel@crazyeddie @BrianJopek “Throughout his rise to power, Hitler neglected to pay taxes on his income and allowances. In 1934 […], the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405,494 ℛ︁ℳ︁, equivalent to €1.92 million in 2021, for failing to declare his income or file tax returns. He was given only eight days to pay off this debt. Hitler responded by ordering a state secretary of the ministry of finance to intervene, and became tax-exempt.”
Flaming Cheeto@BrianJopek on the one hand, I'm upset. OTOH, I thought we were at '35 or '36
Wannabe Astronaut@BrianJopek
Huh. Who knew "drain the swamp" meant "expel anybody who is not a literal Nazi".
Hackshually, it was pretty obvious to lots of people, to be honest.
Peter Bindels@BrianJopek so that puts us half a year before the end of free elections?
VHG 🇪🇺🇩🇪@BrianJopek copy cats. Not a single genuine own idea.
H4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦@BrianJopek Place your bets for the paedophile felon’s Enabling Act 1933.
“By allowing the chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act of 1933 was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany.”
Toni Aittoniemi@BrianJopek Tell me more about how it’s not fascism yet..
muddle@BrianJopek Actually, the world of Nazi finance is really interesting.
Serge 🔻@BrianJopek @mcnado that’s why they’re called neo-nazis. They’re not even being original while destroying democracy and rule of law.
obscurestar@xerge @BrianJopek @mcnado Neo makes them feel all red-pilled in the Matrix (oblivious that the Warchowski's say the red pill is about transgender stuff)
need to use words they'll understand:
Wannabe nazis. Weimar Weebu.
Important to remind them that not only are they childish uncreative copycats, most of them are too old and out of shape to have served for real nazis. They'd have been laughed at or put down by their own idols.
They're Trump's Brownsharts, nothing more.
Drey@BrianJopek - History repeating it self. Disgusting.
🍉 –Hans Bot– 🙃@BrianJopek @hansbot If this doesn’t send shivers down your spine, you’re on the wrong side of history
xs4me2From the textbook indeed..
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