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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Roman Way to Trash a Republic | When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I do that too rarely, so: thanks for putting work into writing a thoughtful answer.

  The similarities were why I wrote. From what you wrote, I suspect that you are either a product of the German education system, or someone who is way more historically literate in that domain than the average non-German.

  Demonizing/dehumanizing the German citizens did not help, and committed the same crime of racism and stereotyping that they had committed. With a very generous helping of post-war propaganda, and genius level ideas like the Marshall plan, they cemented the legend/cult of the clean and untouchable English and American super-man, who is everyone’s friend, and who fights for freedom and brings it to everyone, while they happily exploited, butchered and destabilized pretty much the entire world for almost exclusively revolting or questionable reasons.

  Amazingly, that worked on the vast majority of the people in the western world. And I admit that it worked on me, until started informing myself when the PATRIOT act and WMDs in Iraq were daily newspaper headlines.

  I believe it is now - once again - too late to prevent the descent into chaos and horror, and once again, the masses are cheering for the devil, until their feet have already turned to charcoal.

  We face a similar scenario in Germany right now, and I bet the story sounds very similar everywhere where these elements are gaining power. The “centrist” parties - along with their buddies in the EU - are pushing police state legislation, and the far right wingers already have about the same slice of the vote-cake that the NSDAP had in 1930.

  Austria already had their first period of (luckily incompetent, and too corrupt even for Austria!) Nazi rule, and the Brits… well they sure hate it when they don’t know everything about their peasants, do they? Resistance in France is a little stiffer, but the Le Pen story also echoes the whole Hitler prison sentence in some ways. There are too many examples of this shit.

  I am afraid we humans - as is human tradition - once again failed to act upon what we should have learned from history, and if I am lucky, the old ticker in my chest hurries up a bit and decides to retire before too long, so that I don’t have to watch the REALLY bad parts play out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Roman Way to Trash a Republic | When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1933, of approx. 65m Germans, 39m voted and gave the NSDAP 43% of the votes (after a harrowing year of violence, repression, propaganda and harassment by the SA and SS). That’s around 26% of Germans if I didn’t a dumb.

  Two weeks later, he passed the enabling act.

  In the next parliamentary election, he received 92% of the votes.

  The next federal election was not held until after the war.