I have a lot of Germans that follow me and watching them correct Americans in the comments about how their situation very much resembles what happened in Germany in the 1930’s is helpful.
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My Parents were teenagers through WWII, in Lithuania, Poland and Germany, they have told me what they witnessed and experienced. What has been happening in Gaza for the last 2 years has already been reminding me of what happened in Germany in the 1940's!!
jul 6, 2025, 10:27 am • 3 0 • view
The big difference between USA 25 & Germany 33 is conditions when things went off the cliff. Hitler had a fertile field to work with. A staggered economy, the Versailles Treaty & general social unrest. Trump has to create as much of that first,rhetorically or in reality, in order to get his way.
jul 5, 2025, 7:04 pm • 20 0 • view
Trump created none of it. The lack of conditions required for a populist takeover to happen naturally meant that far right interests had to buy or create media companies with the very intentional purpose of creating the delusions we now see. This is a decades old project; Fox News was 1996.
jul 6, 2025, 2:36 am • 23 0 • view
jul 6, 2025, 11:24 am • 7 1 • view
1. Jerry Falwell floats the idea that separation of church and state wasn't a good idea. Americans agree. 2. Forms Moral Majority. 3. Gets Reagan elected. 4. Dissolves Moral Majority because it was no longer needed. Americans love covering for Evangelicals.
jul 6, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
What. That is exactly what 🇺🇸 has.
jul 5, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump did not have a lost war, a stagnant economy or general social unrest to the point of open insurrections. He created the illusion of a stagnant economy, tried to hold power through an insurrection & has been trying to provoke a mass casualty event.
jul 5, 2025, 7:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Hitler walked into a perfect storm and used it to take power. Trump needs similar conditions, but they didn’t exist in 16 or 24, so in both cases he created the “I inherited a mess” lie. His sycophantic supporters lapped it up, despite all of the evidence to the contrary.
jul 5, 2025, 7:13 pm • 5 0 • view
I disagree with a lot of that, North America is in a full blown affordability crisis since 2022 you are confusing that with “ the economy.”
jul 5, 2025, 7:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Affordability is an issue, I know, however there are other components to the economy, and Trump did not inherit a mess in either election, and the only serious insurrection or insurrection like events were carried out by those who supported him. I didn’t say the situation was perfect.
jul 5, 2025, 7:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Affordability is what creates the chaos.
jul 5, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Many things create chaos. A pandemic can create chaos. A politician can grasp on the right thing and turn the chaos to their advantage. Hitler did, Trump is trying to.
jul 5, 2025, 7:20 pm • 3 0 • view
We’ve all thought, How did all the “good” Germans let those concentration camps happen . . .
jul 6, 2025, 7:12 am • 8 0 • view
The same way the West lets Gaza happen!
jul 6, 2025, 10:23 am • 0 0 • view
For one the Third Reich was secretive about the “final solution.” The other part is most Germans like most Americans, pretended everything was fine or they really were “Making Germany Great Again.” I don’t have more than a hs diploma but I know WW2 and US history. Too many ppl don’t care to learn
jul 6, 2025, 10:37 am • 3 0 • view
If I recall correctly, the ‘Final Solution’ was hidden, but the citizens did know about the concentration camps. It was sold to them quite the same way the camps are being sold to the US today.
jul 6, 2025, 11:32 am • 4 0 • view
Makes perfect sense and I’m sure many POS Germans that knew about the camps and applauded them were very similar to these MAGATS laughing about “Alligator Auschwitz” and the abductions of people they believed were subhuman due to the words of the Nazi’s and Trump regime. 😡
jul 6, 2025, 11:36 am • 3 0 • view
Uh, that was my point.
jul 6, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
What's very interesting about it too is this pervasive illusion that somehow Germany in the late 1930s was somehow more efficient and productive, or that the trains actually ran on time in Mussolini's Italy.
jul 5, 2025, 4:15 pm • 7 0 • view
Shows you the gulf between people who can and can’t tell the difference between “The trains always ran on time” and “You could be punished arbitrarily for complaining the trains were late”.
jul 6, 2025, 11:24 am • 5 1 • view
And when you can just decide resource allocation by fiat, you can definitely get some results. If your world begins and ends with train schedules and you don't care about where those resources came from that seems fine.
jul 6, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I have friends who are children/relatives of those who escaped and those who did not escape Nazi Germany. Their input helps me understand my outrage is not an overreaction as so many try to convince me. #NoKings #RESIST
jul 6, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Professor Wolff lays it out well, as he usually does, in this short vid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dj0...
jul 6, 2025, 2:06 pm • 2 0 • view
This regime in the USA is following the Nazi playbook page by page...every law they make...every move they take.
jul 6, 2025, 10:18 am • 9 0 • view
So when this is all over we can expect a wall down the middle of the US, experimental synth music, mullet hair cuts, stone-washed jeans, white socks, slip-on shoes and a buoyant car industry!
jul 6, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Cut the BS Germans correcting Americans!! You sound like someone who wrote I'm not a Yrump supporter but ... He was and you are. You don't fool anyone with a smattering of intelligence but I'm sure it works on your friends in MAGA.
jul 6, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
So Hitler didn't say "Make Germany great again"? Didn't create a secret police force with unlimited power of arrest and detention. Didn't have ambitions of taking over other Countries. Didn't do a deal with Russia which only changed after the Nazis betrayed the agreement. Do I need to go on.
jul 6, 2025, 2:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Calling Trump a Hitler-wannabe is inaccurate. Hitler killed 6 million Jews in 12 years. (75% after ‘42.) Trump’s USAID rug-pull will kill 14 million in 5 years, 2/3rd children. TWICE the body count in HALF the time. Imitate Hitler? The Trump Regime is going to OUTDO the Third Reich.
jul 5, 2025, 3:23 pm • 30 2 • view
He always wants the top spot
jul 5, 2025, 8:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep. To be the best of the worst.
jul 6, 2025, 8:12 am • 1 0 • view
Let's not forget to take into account all the people he killed during COVID
jul 5, 2025, 7:40 pm • 5 0 • view
What are you talking about? Do you think that Trump invented COVID? Do you think before you speak?
jul 6, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
Perhaps YOU should think. FACT-Trump’s negligence& lies about COVID caused the needless deaths estimated 400-600 THOUSAND Americans. “It’s a HOAX!” “Go away like magic.”? USA is 4.5% of world population But 25% of world COVID deaths. AND his vaccine disinformation killed off @ 500k more.
jul 6, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
When did Trump said it was a hoax? He was the one that let Fauci shut down the country and do social distancing, remember?
jul 6, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow. Are you INTENTIONALLY being a MAGA troll Or is your brain just that programmed? What sources of info do you review?
jul 6, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 1 • view
I asked you a question and you didn’t answer, so I don’t think you have any sources or info of your own
jul 6, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Are YOU suggesting he didn’t? Google “Trump COVID Hoax” Take your pic of the THOUSANDS of sources. And Fauci? Trump demonized him because he refused to lie to America that HCQ and ivermectin were miracle cures. youtu.be/G5TZ6fTYrsE?...
jul 6, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I did google it www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/tr...
jul 6, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Limited by space… 700k, plus anti-vaxxer suicide. The irrefutable FACT: US 4.5% world population 25% COVID deaths. That’s how much worse we did than any other nation.
jul 6, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
When it’s through policy it’s talked about much differently unfortunately
jul 6, 2025, 5:12 am • 5 0 • view
Hitler masked his actions as policies that benefited German citizens.
jul 6, 2025, 9:05 am • 6 0 • view
ICE detention facilities are very much policy. They’ve just become one of your highest funded organisations. They’re building poor quality facilities in very dangerous locations. I promise you. This will not be viewed through the lens of “policy” when looked at in hindsight.
jul 6, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Both sides have been funding ICE and militarizing the police for the last 30+ years. It’s always been policy.
jul 6, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Do not “both sides” this. That’s STUPID bullshit. We have built a torture chamber/concentration camp. Alligator Auschwitz. US democracy has FALLEN, and we are are under control of a white nationalist fascist dictatorship. A lawless regime of grifting criminals and outlaws. “But, Hunters laptop..”
jul 6, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
This article is from 2014!! If you aren’t rich your vote holds near zero weight. Both parties are controlled by corporate interests. People are sick and tired of the democrats being slightly “less evil” www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
jul 6, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, we all know. Who GAFF? What do you suggest, NOW? Establishment Dems are problem. Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries, weak DNC leaders, step down or be removed. Elect Progressives who REJECT Oligarchy and corp donations, (like AOC does). There are Fighters, not just fundraisers. Fight or die. Well?
jul 6, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed that is the first step is to remove those establishment dems. But if history has taught us anything, you won’t be able to vote your way out of this. Many many examples of this, unfortunately it typically ends in a violent revolution
jul 6, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
BUT!… IF D’s keep building a modern communication network, Use INDIVISIBLE’s framework for organizing, Town halls, And pro-democracy policies. Wealth tax, universal healthcare, end Citizens United, ban disinformation, and serious judicial reform. The death toll will be limited.
jul 6, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. And what state do you think that violence is going to start? Hint: it’s spelled T E X A S. White “Christian” Nationalism / neo-nazism, fueled by fossil fuel $, has dominated TX. Abbott put a target on any “woke leftist”. AG Paxton’s a criminal & should be in jail, but Garland 🤬 protected him.
jul 6, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I think their point is that it shouldn't be.
jul 6, 2025, 5:37 am • 2 0 • view
Of course it shouldn’t, but every single US president is a war criminal and responsible for thousands of deaths home and abroad. Don’t think most people are ready that conversation.
jul 6, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Respectfully, that is an intellectual cop-out. “Both sides…” “everyone is just as bad” “Whatabout” Is what GOT us to this collapse of US democracy. What president EVER threatened to arrest entire news organizations, or jail political opposition?
jul 6, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you going to admit that you were wrong when you said that Trump called COVID a hoax?
jul 6, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Democracy has been dead in this country for decades. Princeton had a study in 2014 claiming this. What got us to the collapse of the US is late stage capitalism. Trump is a symptom of the root cause. The democrats being an awful opposition party deserves a ton of blame.
jul 6, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Did the jews in Germany deserve some blame for allowing this to happen? Come on man, you seem to know good, relevant facts. We aren’t talking about policy, but survival. “Both sides” want to end poverty Democrats, by raising up the poor. Republicans, by killing them off. No difference, is there?
jul 6, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Did the Jews ever have any power in Germany? If the democrats were a good opposition party and implemented meaningful policies and ran good candidates they would never lose elections. Be more upset that your party ran a terrible election and unlikeable candidate.
jul 6, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you prepared for your state to house refugees from Southern states? Arrest ICE Nazis in Your cities? Take a beatdown to stop the next George Floyd street execution? Or just observe and comment? It is YOUR democracy that’s dying, too.
jul 6, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
According to “some people”, the jews DID run everything in Germany and were responsible for their depression. Just how Trump talks about Democrats. And fuck that “terrible campaign” & “Unlikeable candidate” bullshit. Only if you are a racist piece of shit, like 77 million people are.
jul 6, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Yea running on supporting Israel and funding their genocide was so popular, I’m sure that had nothing to do with Kamala losing. Do some self reflection, the democrats fucking suck
jul 6, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
#overheard
jul 5, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I read They Thought They Were Free right after the election, and again earlier this year. It's tough to read, because the similarities are nearly identical. It is heartbreaking but critical to understand, as we are repeating the recent past.
jul 6, 2025, 1:07 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s a special kind of horror for Germans living in the US.
jul 5, 2025, 3:19 pm • 22 0 • view
The similarity between 1930s Germany and today’s US is not a coincidence – it’s a roadmap.
jul 6, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Yup
jul 6, 2025, 3:05 am • 1 0 • view