People are sometimes disappointed by the patheticness of modern fascism but the idea that fascism ever wasn't this pathetic is just part of the mythology The Germans who supported Hitler were also goofy handwringing babies for the most part - ThreadSky

kennedytcooper.bsky.social • 2 days ago

People are sometimes disappointed by the patheticness of modern fascism but the idea that fascism ever wasn't this pathetic is just part of the mythology

The Germans who supported Hitler were also goofy handwringing babies for the most part

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somebodyfxd.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wish more people made the connection that the belief of "I'm superior because of my genes" really just means "I'm superior... b-because!!!"

matte-gender.bsky.social•2 days ago

especially when they are clearly the least qualified candidate even amongst white people

owlgoddess.bsky.social•2 days ago

sexomarxist.bsky.social•2 days ago

Behold the ubermensch

shuchancellor.online•2 days ago

it's a very common misconception even I briefly fell prey to, I discussed this at one point with @jkatsfoter.bsky.social

k-nightgyr.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think my favorite story to show how stupid and pathetic Nazis are is that they rejected certain fields of science as "Jewish science" and banned them... including the study of nuclear physics. Great job, assholes, you fucked yourself out of an atomic bomb.

droctorock.bsky.social•2 days ago

goes a long way to explain how their program rejected using graphite, which the Manhattan project used successfully and is readily abundant, and insisted on using heavy water, which is hella rare, due to a simple decimal point placement error

kencf0618.bsky.social•2 days ago

We blew up the heavy water plant anyway, just to be on the safe side.

droctorock.bsky.social•1 day ago

yup! first an elaborate sabotage mission by the real ministry of ungentlemanly warfare, then again with a regular bombing run iirc

matthias0815.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank God

majestic12.bsky.social•2 days ago

And history is repeating now as we gut any scientific research that reads as “too woke” by the dipshits using LLMs to search studies for verboten words and then tossing the entire thing if they find any.

justlinda802.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bingo

fortunatessera.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you wrote this into a movie people would call it too heavy-handed lol.

gifsmooth.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, the only reason that they seemed less pathetic in the 30s is that they were all driven insane by WW1 instead of the current crop who were driven insane by Twitter.

titaniumman91.bsky.social•2 days ago

They're both movements of losers, but the fascists of the 30s were losers who had gone through trench warfare and lived, these chucklefucks version of that was arguing with Twitter users who had anime girl profile pics.

smol-rora.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably more their propaganda, one of the few things they found some success in, like hell even now it fools fuckwit illiterate losers online.

gifsmooth.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean it doesn't help that the US basically adopted the same bullshit in the years since. We just adopted a new rifle called the "Spear" that shoots ".277 Fury" ammo. The whole modern operator culture shit is basically a direct copy of SS indoctrination.

niccolomorandi.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'd recently been thinking about Andrew Tate and that I believe the guy uses sun glasses as a way to look tougher than he really is.

dngrs.bsky.social•1 day ago

cheamus.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's wild, because I never understood what "snowflake" meant, but it was them redefining a word to mean that they melt under pressure, which is how they understand the term and why they don't like being unique and a part of a larger phenomenon.

iheartnoise.bsky.social•1 day ago

Its funny too because people who overuse the word snowflake are usually the first to get upset while being called out. Same with "you're triggered" crowd.

iheartnoise.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same with people advising others to take meds. I like asking them which ones they recommend.

dollworks.bsky.social•2 days ago

In part, I suspect this misconception is driven by movies and media about the era. Hard to make a film that both shows the horror of fascism’s impact on a population and how pathetic the fascists themselves are; as an audience it beggars belief.

staciajones.bsky.social•2 days ago

I took a couple of history classes with the late Dr. George Kren and remember him saying something to the effect of "people think we make fun of the Nazis to be insulting, but the truth is they were genuinely pathetic and weak"

youjogirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Their uniforms weren’t even designed by Hugo Boss. That’s a myth

andrew37.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not designed by, but produced by. They were actively involved in the Nazi effort and even used forced labor.

kimberlydairine.bsky.social•2 days ago

yeah but those babies had survived WWI

kimberlydairine.bsky.social•2 days ago

whereas these babies have survived, what, BLM? And now they have PTSD about what they've seen about Cities on TV

billygist.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s like how people think past athletes and celebrities were way cooler than today’s…no they would’ve been just as lame if they had access to social media

badfengshui.bsky.social•2 days ago

If I remember correctly, Mel Brooks made this point after writing The Producers. The Nazis were ridiculous, image-obsessed losers.
They talked a big game, believed their own hype, destroyed their own country, and tended to die by their own hands.

stutler.org•2 days ago

Our current Nazis should follow their example, especially your final bit.

smol-rora.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Wunderwaffe program is a testament to their incompetence and stupidity.

shaunisonline.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Empire Never Ended is really good at putting into context just how pathetic fascists have been the entire damn time. Just big crybaby losers with some of the dumbest ideas you've ever heard in your life.

celendine.bsky.social•2 days ago

Apparently even Mussolini thought this about them. So pathetic even their allies thought they were tiresome

rootrot1519.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ganz's "Jock-Douch/Creep-Loser Theory of Fascism" is pretty spot on for explaining the alliance: "a cult of sheer physical strength and action wedded to a wounded and brooding consciousness of impotence and humiliation" - they hated and envied each other

kencf0618.bsky.social•2 days ago

And he ~invented Fascism!

protestcheese.bsky.social•2 days ago

we’ve all seen the pic of hitler in shorts

gario.bsky.social•2 days ago

yeah even a light reading of eco reveals that they're pathetic piss babies

"the enemy is both strong and weak" because they wanna feel tough while also being perpetual victims, how could that ever be anything other than pathetic?

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