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  • bananon [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What do you think was the flash point in Germany when people realized that the descent into fascism had already happened? I thought America’s decline into fascism would be gradual because of how powerful it is, but in just one week we’ve regressed on 100 years of liberal reforms. I knew we were frogs being boiled alive, but it’s like they said fuck the water and threw us straight into fry oil.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      I think it has been gradual. Hence "the worst day in America history, only to be beaten by every subsequent day in American history" or whatever. There has been shocking event after shocking event for decades.

    • thekid [none/use name]
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      2 years ago
      1. Hitler being appointed chancellor

      2. April 1st, '33 boycott of Jewish businesses

      3. Nuremberg laws

      4. Kristallnacht

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

      Lib shit, but the point is there never will be one shining moment. We are in the interceding steps heading towards the abyss; hell, maybe we're already in it

      • Parzivus [any]
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        2 years ago

        Supreme Court had shit out at least three of these in a week so who knows?