Hey, what's the difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny? In one business interests and the state colluded to form a genocidal white supremacist empire to conquer a large swath of productive land to solidify their control of capital and in the other everyone spoke German. jazz hands
I have a vivid memory of the first time I realized that one man's Manifest Destiny is another man's Lebensraum. My head pretty much exploded.
Hitler exploded a lot of heads when he figured that out too (including ultimately his own, lol!)
Me at my five minutes on the open mic:
Hey, what's the difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny? In one business interests and the state colluded to form a genocidal white supremacist empire to conquer a large swath of productive land to solidify their control of capital and in the other everyone spoke German. jazz hands
Wild applause!