To be fair, Hitler got a lot of his ideas from America…

He implemented worse shit than America was doing, obviously. But that’s because the most extreme in America didn’t have control.

This pivotal meeting on the road to the Nuremberg Laws involved repeated and detailed discussion of the American example,” Whitman writes. (p.96) The Germans were not interested so much in U.S. segregation laws; their goals were to disqualify Jews from citizenship and to criminalize marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews, in order to “protect German blood and honor.”

For this, they looked to a number of American legal innovations. One was the way in which the U.S. immigration quotas, adopted by Congress in 1921 and tightened in 1924, were structured to heavily favor what were considered “racially desirable” people in northern and western Europe, and severely reduce the number admitted from eastern and southern Europe (primarily Jews and Catholics) and from Asia. Although the U.S. was by no means the only country to decide immigration based on racist ideas, Whitman notes, it had become “the leader in developing explicitly racist policies of nationality and immigration.” (p.36)

The Nazi jurists were also keenly interested in America’s development of a type of second-class citizenship for residents of Puerto Rico and the Philippines, the territories that the U.S. captured and occupied in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The Supreme Court upheld the conquered peoples’ status as “non-citizen nationals.” German legal scholars created an extensive body of literature on the subject, which the Nazis utilized. “America, in the eyes of this German literature, was a laboratory for experimentation in diminished citizenship rights,” Whitman notes. (p.43)

Finally, the Nazis looked closely at the laws in 30 states prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks, the last of which (Virginia) was abolished only in 1967. In defining who could marry and who could not, these American precedents included helpful (to the Nazis) ways for deciding the status of persons of mixed-race. The issue of “mongrelization,” which entered the American legal system originally because of relations between white masters and black slaves, was important to the Nazis in addressing the question of Germans who were of partly-Jewish descent.

As an example of the prominence of sentiment in America against race-mixing, Whitman quotes U.S. Senator Theodore Bilbo (Democrat of Mississippi) railing, in 1938, about how “mongrelization” could “destroy white civilization.” Bilbo worried that “even one drop of Negro blood placed in the veins of the purest Caucasian destroys the inventive genius of his mind and palsies his creative faculty.” (p.77) Many states—primarily, but not exclusively, in the south—defined a Negro as someone who had any Negro ancestors; hence the term “one drop.” Ironically, the Nazis considered the one-drop rule too harsh, and instead adopted the one-grandparent rule to define Jewishness.

http://new.wymaninstitute.org/2024/02/was-hitler-inspired-by-america/

Let that bit at the end sink in.

The American South had stricter “racial purity laws” then the fucking nazis

We actually did in WW2…

Europeans were already less racist, but when Americans finally showed up, especially in France, absolutely no one gave a fuck what color their skin. The Nazis did, but by that point they were dead Nazis.

When American GIs returned, the Black ones didn’t like the idea of going back to being second class citizens, and the white ones were less inclined to think they were lesser.

That lead to the civil rights movement in the 60s.

It’s probably from his drinking…

He was getting duis thru the late 90s and had a court ordered rehab and a bunch others.

Especially back then a lot of those include a healthy dose the kind of Jesus rich people love.

Throw in normal mental decline of aging and the lead exposure from his love of cars that you’d manually add lead too…

And yeah, obviously he’s a Republican now.

His brain is cooked, and has been for decades by now.

We really need to start teaching modern history to kids as it happens…

The younglings honestly don’t understand this has been happening for decades before trump showed up.

The silver lining is trump is so fucking bad at selling it, that damn near everyone is realizing what he’s doing. They thought Iran would get them support, but it’s fairly obvious they know how calendars and our government works…

They’ll drag it out till midterms with likely escalations leading up to election day. Everytime trump mitigates gas prices and brags, Iran can just squeeze harder.

Reminiscent of Nixon with Vietnam, except no one has to convince Iran they’re better off with a muzzled trump than one who can do anything he wants with the American military.

Happy to help!

The more informed people the better these days.

Organized crime, fraud, petty thieves, etc, they all have thing to lose.

What?!

You get into that, because you don’t have anything to lose

Like, that’s the entire situation we’re avoiding in the first place.

The amount of people who “love that lifestyle” but come from an average upbringing are statistically insignificant and likely couldn’t do anything on their own.

You did remind me about an old rap song tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh-_ZiEu5A

The other people that “love that lifestyle” love it because they don’t have anything else. It is what is, so to deal with it you trick yourself into thinking it’s a choice. But very few are deluded enough to not understand they can die any day. They just embrace crashing out because they’re gonna crash no matter what.

But idiots see it and think the people in that lifestyle wouldn’t do anything to get to the suburbs.

That’s the only explanation it leaves such a tiny sliver of coastline…

Best case scenario, OP doesn’t understand they’re 20 years late an 4chan exists.

More likely they want to train AI on it, worst case they want everyone’s IP and confessions too.

Like, even if they have good intentions, they don’t seem to understand what “anonymous” even means and how hard that is online these days.

Nah.

Like I get what you’re saying, and everyone should be able to live how they want as long as it’s not hurting anyone else…

But historically you’re wrong. And while I understand you’re trying to be an ally, you’re just repeating rightwing propaganda about how different “lifestyles” are mental illnesses and people who desire a different lifestyle needs help.

Like, if you were correct, the data would back it up.

Israel.

Israel is the perfect scapegoat on this, all trump has to do is pull his ships back and stop being a defense for Israel.

That’s literally what the American Christian right has always wanted with their support of Israel too.

Their doomsday prophecy is:

1. Jewish ethnostate in Israel

2. War in the Middle East, started by Israel

3. Israel getting wiped off the map which causes the rapture

4. Nonbelivers have to experience Armageddon

Which was cool with Israel up to step 2, but we just passed that a few weeks ago…

right now

Lol

Go to settings and you can block the entire instance

When their admin gets bored, they ban anyone they disagree with. You don’t even have to interact with them, they just browse and remove anything not toeing the instance line:

Some authoritarian dictatorships are actually totally rad guys!

There’s always ever been one apt comparison:

https://youtu.be/cWp8_jjri2A?t=1301

The root cause of gun violence and really all crime is people feeling they have nothing to lose.

Give people something to lose, and they won’t throw it away.

During a call with NBC News on Saturday, Trump boasted that the U.S. military “totally demolished” the island, adding that “we may hit it a few more times just for fun.”

According to the Pentagon, the U.S. military used $11.3 billion worth of munitions in the first week of the war in Iran.

Essentially just setting billions of dollars on fire and causing massive human suffering for funsies…

11.3 billion in week 1, and we’re 3 weeks in with no signs of stopping.

It’ll cost $100,000,000,000 by the time it’s over, but we can’t “afford” healthcare or education

They were counting on being able to get Crockett, and to be fair she flat out said she even entered the race was the polls Republicans pushed.

Talerico has a really good shot of actually winning, and it scares the shit out of Republicans.

A charismatic candidate with good policy helps swing a lot of down ballot races too in the state government

Russia uses Iranian drones…

The price just skyrocketed and supply might go to zero if Iran uses all they can make

Ukraine is winning because they found cheaper drone defenses than drones…

Were burning thru our sophisticated interceptors because we’re wasting them on drones 1/100th the prices.

Iran just has to keep pumping out the same drones they’ve been sending to Russia.

Like, Ukraine is literally the one government that knows how to win this kind of war.

They gave someone on a terrorist watch list a VISA just sona CI could never leave his side till the FBI picked him up for an “assassination plt” the CI planned and the guy on the list wasn’t even into.

The only thing crazier than that, would be thinking it wasn’t done once.

If China attacks Taiwan as America/Israel waste all their interceptors…

There’s nowhere on the planet that would be able to stop Iran or China in a war.

The entire western hemisphere relies on Taiwanese chips for weapons including interceptors.

Even just a chip embargo similar to Iran is doing with oil would be disasterous.

And incredibly likely now that everyone is distracted.

They’re just play acting at being generals.

Kegsworth is a piece of shit, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he honestly didn’t know what “quarter” actually meant or even that it was a legally defined term under damn near every single military treaty.

They’re not just evil, they’re evil idiots.