This is, for me, where the Nazi/fascist parallels work best. ‘Good’ people did nothing as the awfulness escalated because they were justifiably terrified of getting their heads kicked in or killed. It’s about comparing similar points in the process as opposed to comparing end days with early ones.
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Leonardo Carella
You can't understand the behaviour of US elites - Democrats being too timid, Republicans debasing themselves, bureaucrats who behave like pushovers - without reference to the constant threat of political violence that has come with MAGA. Every day is January 6. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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*[Gellately's study] exposed "once and for all the substantial consent and active participation of large numbers of ordinary Germans". Its head of historical publishing, Ruth Parr, called it a landmark study of the terror '
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard
Yet they said & did nothing.
A camera crew carried on filming despite being told they weren't allowed to, which was brave, but they didn't stop it (they were journalists).
It's almost like he's never read the "good" book he's meant to be so fond off.
Surely he now knows it's off to a place hotter than a club Med resort in August?
https://www.jandehn.com/post/submit-fight-or-flight
Such a system is designed with the repression and rewards built-in. But there are always individuals who can be paid to do dirty work, or want to get into somebody's good books, by carrying out a task.
But hey, we're all talking ICE at the mo....
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-palantir-immigrationos/