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[โ€“] 58008@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I've been working through a few biographies of the top brass of Nazidom, and even with the rather perfunctory understanding I've gained from these books of Hitler's seizure of power and all that followed in Nazi Germany, my ears are pricking up in horror every day as I listen to the latest news from around the world. And I'm not even going so far as the Holocaust. If the Holocaust and WWII never happened, the Nazi regime would still have been an unmitigated nightmare.

The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels' and Himmler's rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit? We know how this story ends. We have examples of it from recent memory, we don't even need to cast our minds back to the 1930s ๐Ÿคทโ€

[โ€“] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 11 months ago

Some of them see it, and approve.

Others are old and mentally ill, and care only for what power they can gain in their remaining few years, regardless of what that will bring later.

Others are merely useful, and go along with whoever is currently in power.

Others are afraid, so they do not oppose the changes, for fear of losing what they have, and desperately cling to hope that something else will stop the worst from happening.

Others...

and on and on it goes, just as it did before, just as it ever was, and quite frankly, now I see that so will it ever be.

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