I bet forty percent of the country wouldn’t mind firing up the ovens as long as the smokestacks are blowing downwind.
James Lee Burke, A Private Cathedral
To be honest, I suspect that a sizable fraction of those forty percent wouldn't care which way the wind blew. They'd just call it progress, or greatness, or something equally heartless, cruel and stupid. 😞
They weren’t above building the camps in their own back yard and they were, with typical Teutonic efficiency, sited close to railheads and the major population centres of their intended victims:
Dachau
Buchenwald
Dora mittelwerke
Neuengamme
Sachsenhausen(Berlin)
Matthausen…
It's obvious to me, but apparently not to others? that if we were serious about controlling the number of undocumented immigrants, we'd punish the employers. No work, no immigrants. Why aren't anti-immigrant people more angry with those employing those ineligible to work legally?
*I know this is a tangent to the expressed attitude towards a little Jewish girl & her family historically shared by those who willingly assisted in the Holocaust, but it's related to the discussion.
Can we flip the script on the employers who take advantage of hardworking, vulnerable people?
...and how does one know who's illegal without any due process? Can I just call someone I'm not too fond of an "illegal", and then ICE will come take them away and deport them or send them to a foreign concentration camp even if I'm lying?
And it won't just be brown people. Once RFK's autism directory is off the ground, you'll just have to say your left leaning neighbours are showing signs of being in the spectrum
Or when they fully make women property again, any woman who has the audacity to consider incel behavior “low quality” behavior will be sent to the death camps too.
Fuck this administration and any supporter of it. America is a despicable place, any member of the wealth class is trash.
Damned if we do ("hey, you Americans sure need more lessons in international history!")...damned if we do ("Fuck you Europe, that's your history and us Americans don't care!").
I meant your Russo-fascist observation would be lost on the majority who can’t tell the difference between Marxist socialism and national socialism of the NSDAP.
This "Krasnov" Russian asset nonsense is just a distraction for Americans to avoid facing that this brand of fascism is all-American and a product of American culture and history and "American Exceptionalism". When you sincerely believe you are 'the greatest nation' of course you turn into nazis.
Need I remind you that the USA was founded on the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans and throughout its history the US has used violence to impose its will on others. In many ways, this is who America has always been.
I was talking to my sister about all this bullshit the other day, and she said, and I quote "ICE is just doing their job." I laughed at her so hard she hung up on me. She knew I would retort with, "Those cunts tried that excuse at Nuremberg too!"
What is the worst thing that happens to an ICE agent that balks? He/she gets fired? So fucking what. A lot of us have gotten fired. It's not like the real Gestapo is going to throw you in a dungeon.
I hope so. As far as I understand, what they're doing is not only immoral, but also super illegal. The next democratic president should launch an initiative to lock up as many of them as possible and then abolish the fucking thing.
There were 8.5 million Nazis. 1 million of them were criminals, 20,000 major offenders. They held only a couple hundred trials, less were convicted, most got light sentences, only 2 dozen got significant punishments.
That's right, but it was only the worst. Germany was gradually changed after the war by measures of education and rules of acceptable speech. They still have to fight the tendrils of evil and so does the US. We have allowed it to go too far, mostly bc of Russian disinformation.
If there was a memoir called "I Was Only Following Orders" by Hauptsturmfuhrer Mueller or whatever right before his execution at Nuremberg, these people would think it had a sad ending.
I wonder if Officer David Kirkland Jr. a corrections officer who was arrested and charged after helping to smuggle drugs and a cell phone into the Cocke County Detention Center.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Of course he’s a jr.
if you’re incapable of naming your child something new what hope is there of them learning something new?
Like tolerance, empathy or compassion.
Apologies to the juniors out there who are better.
Aside from the fact that David is clearly already a nazi, how in the hell do they know which people are "illegal"? Do they go up to folks like ICE demanding papers, information or is it just skin color & accents? Frankly I don't want David or his ilk in my town, I'll happily take the refugees.
Show this in all its repulsive truth.
In red states, even The Diary of Anne Frank is banned — as if a child’s terror, hiding, and racist murder are too much for a child to read, but not too much for them to phucking repeat.
The Gaza hotel video (that implies ethnic cleansing) and the deportation porn the child predator posts on his social media basically proves that a lot of this is about sadism.
Virginia only recently became somewhat solidly blue after being purple up until about 8 years ago, and its governor is a Republican who ran on transphobic hysteria in schools. So it's not THAT blue. Drive into rural VA in 2021 and it was Trump signs EVERYWHERE.
Also the only times I have been very noticeably racially profiled in a negative manner, as a light-skinned, mixed-race person were in Virginia. That's also where some woman tried to redirect me to the men's bathroom because I had short hair. AND don't forget Virginia was a slave state.
They banned The Diary of Anne Frank so that they can repeat the Holocaust, which MAGA would very much love to do. But this time, they want to make sure that they can hurt not only Jews, but as many people of color as possible, leaving only uneducated white people.
I don't condone hurting innocents but Nazi wannabe MAGAts can get what they deserve. They and people that agree with their hate, racism, beliefs in general should get what they dish out and deserve, eye for an eye.
A woman working in a bookstore made a comment to me that, “They couldn’t have possibly killed million Jews. I said, “Right. They also killed political rivals, the disabled, the gypsies, etc.” She wasn’t amused. So I told her,”They were proud. They recorded what they did!”🤦♀️
My dad was there at the ending of the war. His unit got to take townspeople to the concentration camps to show them. “They claimed they had no idea, but they had to, the smell alone!”
This. My sister did work in Germany writing her thesis. She worked with a German archivist who at dinner one evening said that the Nazis kept excellent records, which allowed for accurate accounting of what was done, who ordered/did the deeds, names of the dead allowing for prosecutions later.
And this is also why the Russians think that Nazis are just anyone that's against Russia's agenda. Because that's all that mattered from their viewpoint of Nazism, as the rest of the policies the Stalinists were still onboard with...
Why education is important. I was at a bakery. Clerk asked a woman if she had a number. Woman rolled up her sleeve to show the number tattooed on her arm. She was a survivor. Clerk had no idea what she was talking about. I paid for the woman’s goods went to my car and wept.
This was many ye are s ago. I was shocked.I think it was the first time I actually heard someone in person express doubts about the extent of the holocaust.
Sure, don't use any judgment, don't consider the morality of the law. If a hated minority group has been declared "illegal," just obey the state and send them to their deaths. Let's hope David never finds himself in a targeted group.
It's really not even funny. I see the comments from these people-- in their Youtube communities and stuff, and people, this is serious shit. These people are all onboard, largely because WE have failed to BREAK the propaganda ecosystem, but setting that aside, there are MANY collaborators among us.
Not to induce fear or whatever. No, more a reminder to LOCK IN. Cause these evil fucks are really all on board with the "abregos a criminal, teh demoncrats are trying to make my kids trans and me gay, and the illegals are raping our wives" NONSENSE AND LIES.
Eh, I hear you, but this is a misguided attitude suited for normal times, not when we are facing a REAL, legitimate enemy to the country, constitution, and our people.
Same with all the legends in our history who chose their enemy well and helped move our country forward. John Brown, MLK, Abe, etc
The real enemy is lies. Knowing where they come from and how to counter them is the best tool for prying open the folly of MAGA. For instance, I'm impressed with how Pete Buttigieig has been doing it on conservative platforms.
I have relatives who need to be educated. So I'm stuck with peace
exactly why they gotta bully the palestinians all the time - it's cover to say that they wouldn't be complicit with nazis/authoritarianism. but they would. why should we fight for their social security or "lost" manufacturing jobs? rotted souls too late to save. Let them keep choking on opiods.
She’s an illegal so deport her and her child. No discretion to make exceptions on humanitarian or moral grounds.
However, at the discretion of the president, the Jan6 violent domestic terrorists have been pardoned.
"Legal"
The Constitution is the law of the land. Rights enshrined for all PEOPLE
Trump is illegal because he is going against the law of the land.
Suck on that, Kirkland
Terrifyingly bold with their stupidity. Everyone will remember posts people make like this one since that can be looked up and unless there's an obvious change in recent posts, I know I wouldn't hire a guy like that in the future after the eventual, predictable, fall of the Nazis
And these people that say they would call in a minute.They do know what happened to anne Frank, right? Hitler sold all their jewelry their art their homes and then killed them.
Maybe they are aware of what happened with Anne Frank. They could be happy to remove someone they hate. I met several MAGAts with hearts only filled with hate towards different people. I lost the faith in humanity from those experiences.
Yes, some were family. I was exhausted listening to people share their hate for gay people& racism I just tell them off now I'm too old for that shit anymore. Lost a lot of people in my life and realize that I know a lot of pure evil selfish. The repub party is made up of evil, hate& stupid.
After some encounters with MAGAts, I decided that I needed to take care of my mental health. I just cut off family members and friends who are MAGAts. It was exhausting to interact with MAGAts.
Felt but the same way you seek solace in this platform the family members you disagree with are finding their solace among likeminded folks elsewhere. Everyone is doubling down on their bubbles and in the end none of this is actually helping.
This hurt to read because I fear you’re right. I have to believe that all of this isn’t entirely futile. Endless button mashings on screens equate to ‘connections’ of MUCH less quality than in-person communications, but they’re more numerous. The other bubbles aren’t nearly as motivated for change.
It doesn’t matter what their motivation is, they’re apparently doing a better job of using these online spaces and organizing offline—having a common enemy is a powerful motivator. Liberals tolerate/scroll away from people who disagree and infight, conservatives form a gang and hit them with a bat.
BUT… where we are building strong inclusive communities, they exist in hate bubbles. And like the Trump Nazi Party is proving, that hate will eventually eat itself, and implode. There IS a difference.
AND in their minds, so are they. Waiting for the hate to eat itself and implode—this is centuries worth of build up and it’s been fermenting in online spaces since 2008. The only difference is one side has very effectively channeled their anger and lit a fuse that’s going to explode EVERYTHING.
Same. Just had a very disturbing convo with my sis. She's MAGA but I was sure she would have started questioning her beliefs after all this shit. Nope. Still echoing Fox propaganda. I don't know how to respect someone who supports this regime. I guess I can't.
He could have googled "Anne Frank."
It is important to teach both history and literature, but Anne Frank could have been missed or forgotten.
What we need to teach is curiosity.
A simple "Who?" instead of the knee-jerk need to respond would make the world a better place.
This says two things: the OP was spot on and all the child predator has to do is declare anyone he doesn't like to be violating the law by existing and he too can have a Holocaust with millions supporting it.
See that square thingie in the bottom right? If you tap that when you make the screenshot, you can get the text and add it to the alt for the picture. It makes the words searchable, translatable, and accessible to ppl who use screen readers. :)
To davidkirklandjr, idiots like you created the atmosphere for her unfathomable demise. I'm sure u read about the rest of that saga. Don't continue to be idiotic in regards to what is taking place in our time by an administration that wants to repeat history on their terms. Check ur history out too!
Exactly! Either David admitted he is for what the Nazis did or he lacks understanding of the history. Of course, Anne Frank was illegal under the Nazi regime!
Let's be clear.
Laws are man-made. Justice is divine. Democratic laws struggle to be Just. Autocratic laws are made by Hitler, Trump, Orban, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Stalin.
I did not study law. Because I would not swear to upholding u just laws. Career decision. At 17.
https://www.annefrank.org/en/ Annes house is still in use, by visitors, diary in print, taught in schools Hitlers was blown up by the US GI's, his ashes spread on a forest road.
So, I guess that settles that, doesn’t it. Of course, she was “illegal.” Did this horrible person quoted above just not know that? Never understood that? Slept through history class
I cannot understand how someone can hear "illegal" with no evidence or context, not question it at all, and assume that means the person has lost all rights including their right to exist.
Anne Frank was illegal under the laws of the occupying Nazi regime. Those laws came into effect in early 1941 after which the Frank family went into hiding. That fact does not mean those laws were just. Some people resisted and helped refugees but most did nothing. The laws were not meant for them.
I can accept Christians who treat others with kindness because they fear hell. Still a good result. I respect atheists and anyone who treat all with kindness by the "Golden Rule," because humans evolved to live in societies. For the MANY unkind Christians who ignore Christ's teachings, fuck you.
What the fuck is wrong with these ghouls? Do they think they are superior to other human beings? Do they not care that other people suffer? Please explain it to me. I am not a Christian because I have not accepted Jesus as my savior. I have, however, accepted Jesus as my role mode: be kind.
I honestly don't know. But I do think they are so full of "self" that there is no room for "others." Still does not explain how they reached that state of greed and narcissism.
Why do we still insist on ignoring all the Christians who treat people with kindness because it's...the right thing to do? https://www.thechristianleft.org/
Its the Trump administration.
They planned this for the last 4 years and is now executing;
Project 2025
Bondi
Vance
Leavitte
Vought
Miller
Homan
(add David Kirk and Jesse Watters)
These are the ringleaders of our problems today
They want YOU to be like them
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These edgelord think being evil makes them strong "alpha" males
James Lee Burke, A Private Cathedral
Dachau
Buchenwald
Dora mittelwerke
Neuengamme
Sachsenhausen(Berlin)
Matthausen…
Evil fuckers.
Can we flip the script on the employers who take advantage of hardworking, vulnerable people?
Fuck this administration and any supporter of it. America is a despicable place, any member of the wealth class is trash.
Not 'like Nazi Germany'
Not 'verging on Nazism.'
They're Nazis.
🤷
Seems they went way too easy on them.
According to my nonna and bestefar-both resistance fighters- those were the ones they knew about.
#NoHumanIsIllegal
- Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
We are here. These are our neighbors. Some of them would help us in an emergency. But we are here. They are not ok.
The Heritage Foundation have been planning and working towards this for decades.
if you’re incapable of naming your child something new what hope is there of them learning something new?
Like tolerance, empathy or compassion.
Apologies to the juniors out there who are better.
how would he disprove it with no due process?
maybe he could tweet out how that would work out from el salvador?
In red states, even The Diary of Anne Frank is banned — as if a child’s terror, hiding, and racist murder are too much for a child to read, but not too much for them to phucking repeat.
Conservatives aren’t protecting children; they’re protecting ignorance.
Don’t fear the F word.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/anne-franks-diary-too-explicit-school/
https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-get-florida-school-to-ban-anne-franks-diary-adaption-2023-4?op=1
Mother's for liberty is a conservative organization in multiple states and they are trying to ban more books constantly. As we speak.
https://littlefreelibrary.org/about/book-bans/book-ban-map/
Because it appear that no red states have.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nazi-s-defense-of-just-following-orders-plays-out-in-the-mind/
They mean business. So we have to too..
Same with all the legends in our history who chose their enemy well and helped move our country forward. John Brown, MLK, Abe, etc
I have relatives who need to be educated. So I'm stuck with peace
However, at the discretion of the president, the Jan6 violent domestic terrorists have been pardoned.
The Constitution is the law of the land. Rights enshrined for all PEOPLE
Trump is illegal because he is going against the law of the land.
Suck on that, Kirkland
Nobody chooses where they are born.
Every habitable place on Earth was once inhabited by a different culture/nation/tribe.
Nobody has any special rights to a specific place on the planet. Even if you were born there, through no effort of your own.
Or 3/4 of my family.
grateful for like minded here. My bluesky family.
It is important to teach both history and literature, but Anne Frank could have been missed or forgotten.
What we need to teach is curiosity.
A simple "Who?" instead of the knee-jerk need to respond would make the world a better place.
That right there is the difference between Republicans and moral people. ✌🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Never forget the ppl hiding Anne Frank were breaking the law.
The ppl who killed her were following it.
If so, pretty shitty of you.
A cult, the lot of em.
They can’t handle the truth.
Laws are man-made. Justice is divine. Democratic laws struggle to be Just. Autocratic laws are made by Hitler, Trump, Orban, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Stalin.
I did not study law. Because I would not swear to upholding u just laws. Career decision. At 17.
Delusions that their caste is above it I guess.
https://www.thechristianleft.org/
Guess we are in trouble 🤦🏻♀️
https://open.substack.com/pub/peoplespartyus/p/imagine-a-better-world?r=2lkf6n&utm_medium=ios
Its the Trump administration.
They planned this for the last 4 years and is now executing;
Project 2025
Bondi
Vance
Leavitte
Vought
Miller
Homan
(add David Kirk and Jesse Watters)
These are the ringleaders of our problems today
They want YOU to be like them