What a wonderfully horrifying quote
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immutable@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
“Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3 while 1/3 watches.”—Werner Herzog.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Nah. America had Nazis in the 30s too. We’re immune to the most rabid varieties of fascism and authoritarianism because they don’t produce all the cool products Americans demand.
Americans might be plagued with racism and bigotry, but we’re way too lazy and invested in our own lives for a coup. Literally our bread and circuses are way too good.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Your bread is pretty shit though. One of the things I miss when I’m over for more than a week is actual, good bread.
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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Good bread is expensive or made yourself.
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It seems pretty common for travelers to lament the lack of good bread like at home. Bread basically a living organism that is ultra local. Good bread like at home really only exists at home. Local water, temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors seem to play a big part.
Ask anyone from New York or New Jersey about getting a good pizza or bagel in another state. It doesn’t matter who makes it or if they’re using the exact same recipe, perfect bread can evidently not be replicated outside the region. There is even a bagel company in south Florida, catering to snowbirds turned transplants, that claims to use water from that region to make their bagels.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
It’s not as delicate a matter as you make it out to be. I was just looking for a kind that isn’t mushy like toast or full of sugar like a bagle. If classic sourdough or whole grain with an actual crust exist in the US it’s not trivial to find for foreign visitors.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Good bread like at home really only exists at home.
Or at a quality bakery. But those aren’t nearly as profitable as fast food joints.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I’m in VA and I have a couple of spots that sell their food “from NY water shipped daily.” Idk it is bomb as bagels and pizza though. I’m not sure what’s the water does but I enjoy eating it.
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That describes the 2/3rds that’s watching or being killed. Our complacency is what makes us vulnerable.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s selection bias. Folks who resist get stomped on. The folks that remain are increasingly docile.
Repeat this process over and over again - from the Palmer Raids to the Blacklists to the crushing of the Civil Rights / Antiwar movements to the Drug Wars and Terror Wars - until your culture is properly domesticated and you can do whatever you want to them.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think the anti-war movement - more specifically specifically the anti-draft movement - caused a lot of unintended damage. By effectively ending the draft it removed many young people’s connection to world events.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars would have been met with a lot more resistance. If all those years of stop-losses and quadruple deployments had instead been years of drafting young people, a lot more people would have stood up the the Bush administration. That would have gotten a generation politically active and would have prevented a lot of what’s happening today.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We’re immune to the most rabid varieties of fascism
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Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Waking up? I’m pretty sure we’ve been well aware sense the civil war.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
immutable@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
TIL updated my post to reflect that
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Only this time instead of a silly mustache model, we have a cheeto baked rolley-polley.