We have Nazis and Nazi-lite -> MAGA

We have brown shirts -> ICE.

We are blaming immigrants and believing white people are somehow superior.

Now we just invaded a country, and say we will invade others.

What's happening here.. It feels strange. Is anyone else seeing this?

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[–] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No you're America.

The Germans in 1940 didn't have the lens of history to view the events through, they couldn't necessarily have predicted the path they were on.

America in 2026? Everyone with working senses warned you loud and clear for years that this is exactly what happens if he ended up in the white house again instead of prison.

Most of you didn't listen.

The fascists even published the plan in black and white before the election

It was bafflingly also largely dismissed

America is much worse now because you all know where this train ends and you're all letting the driver get on with it

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Come now, let's not pretend that Hitler and the Nazis invented authoritarianism. Saying they didn't have the lens or history to learn from is a little dismissive of two thousands years of written history.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Saying they didn’t have the lens or history to learn from is a little dismissiv

    Especially when it was publicly affirmed that they took their inspiration, in part, from the genocidal policies the US employed to destroy the indigenous people here. (And, I'd add, if you're not aware of just how euphemistic the term 'reservation' is, you should read up on how the US destroyed the indigenous people.)

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Fair observation, but conversely, this particular kind of populism very much started with the 20th century fascists, it's uncanny how similarly it's going now.

    Especially in terms of what people would be taught and expected to know about; I think you'd struggle to find anyone in the developed world who doesn't know at least the basics about WW2.

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