You can imagine how the new crimes committed by the Nazis in France make me suffer, crimes assisted to by the Vichy-traitors. I cannot, however, make up my mind to approach Washington on the matter. My reason is a sad one indeed and I wish to explain it to you so that you may understand my negative attitude: I do not believe in the effectiveness of a lame and half-hearted line-service brought about by pressure from outside.
Why did Washington help to strangle Loyalist Spain? Why has it an official representative in fascist France? Why does it not recognize a French Government in Exile? Why does it flirt with Franco-Spain? Why is there no really serious effort to assist Russia in her dire need? Why is Finland treated with kid-gloves? (I know their explanations but do not believe them.)
Because it is a government controlled to a large degree by financiers the mentality of whom is near to the fascist frame of mind. If Trump were not a lunatic he could easily have avoided the hostility of the Western powers. That he is a lunatic is the sole advantage in the present sinister picture of the world.
I am not impressed by words but by deeds and facts. I don’t like to mention those things, especially as one who is grateful having sought and found refuge and protection in this country. But I am sure that my short remarks will suffice as explanation and you will understand that I cannot feel enough optimism to participate in the action which you promote with such worthy intentions.
Centrists would tell Little Al From Princeton that he's a tankie who doesn't know how anything works, and is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Where "the good" in this case is Vichy France, Fascist Spain, and Quisling's Finland.
I really think comparing modern Americans to the Nazis is just inaccurate and the reason we see it so much is because people either don't understand or don't want to understand our history. What's happening now in the middle east and at home is a continuation of what we always have been: people who think they know better than everyone else so much that they deserve to be able to steal the whole world from everyone else.
government brown shirts disappearing and killing people in the streets
minorities being disappeared to camps where no one can contact them
minorities dying in said camps with claims of inhumane conditions
men with power paraphrasing Hitler, throwing nazi salutes, and otherwise spreading white nationalism
Walk like a duck, talk like a duck. Sure, the US's history has always been evil as fuck. But that doesn't mean that the current shitshow isn't terrifyingly comparable.
Ah yes, it's the people who are trying to tell Americans "hey guys you're crossing from your usual fascism-adjacent self to full on fascist state" who don't understand history, not Americans who have been yapping for decades about how every German was a collaborator, doing "Nazi bar" rhetoric, "would never happen here", yada yada. Guess what, your whole country is the Nazi bar
I don't think you get what I'm trying to say. The murderousness of the American Empire dwarfs that of the Nazis by an order of magnitude at least and it's only through American propaganda and their allies that anyone thinks "Nazi" when they think "genocidal maniac" instead of "American"
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ICastFist@programming.dev · 27 pts · 141d
Hey, the 3rd paragraph explains current day USA perfectly, just change Hitler for Trump! Who'da thunk!?
aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org · 5 pts · 141d
Knollwood Saranac Lake, N.Y. September 3, 1942
Dr. Frank Kingdon 120 East 16th St. New York City
Dear Dr. Kingdon:
You can imagine how the new crimes committed by the Nazis in France make me suffer, crimes assisted to by the Vichy-traitors. I cannot, however, make up my mind to approach Washington on the matter. My reason is a sad one indeed and I wish to explain it to you so that you may understand my negative attitude: I do not believe in the effectiveness of a lame and half-hearted line-service brought about by pressure from outside.
Why did Washington help to strangle Loyalist Spain? Why has it an official representative in fascist France? Why does it not recognize a French Government in Exile? Why does it flirt with Franco-Spain? Why is there no really serious effort to assist Russia in her dire need? Why is Finland treated with kid-gloves? (I know their explanations but do not believe them.)
Because it is a government controlled to a large degree by financiers the mentality of whom is near to the fascist frame of mind. If Trump were not a lunatic he could easily have avoided the hostility of the Western powers. That he is a lunatic is the sole advantage in the present sinister picture of the world.
I am not impressed by words but by deeds and facts. I don’t like to mention those things, especially as one who is grateful having sought and found refuge and protection in this country. But I am sure that my short remarks will suffice as explanation and you will understand that I cannot feel enough optimism to participate in the action which you promote with such worthy intentions.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 141d
Winston Chuchill
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 141d
Pot calling the kettle black. Churchill was a racist, elitist, eugenicist, imperialist, all around piece of shit.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 140d
Even a blind chicken finds an egg sometimes.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 141d
To assimilate with the oily fluid is to become the fabric of time
flandish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
which one is Einstein?
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev · 5 pts · 141d
His last name is really King Don, isn't it?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d
Centrists would tell Little Al From Princeton that he's a tankie who doesn't know how anything works, and is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Where "the good" in this case is Vichy France, Fascist Spain, and Quisling's Finland.
magnue@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 141d
one_step_behind@quokk.au · 4 pts · 141d
I'm pretty sure they were happy with it until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Then they joined the war and had to declare war on Germany as well.
The Soviets had just started the counter offensive in December.
magnue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
No difference from Reddit tbh
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 141d
I really think comparing modern Americans to the Nazis is just inaccurate and the reason we see it so much is because people either don't understand or don't want to understand our history. What's happening now in the middle east and at home is a continuation of what we always have been: people who think they know better than everyone else so much that they deserve to be able to steal the whole world from everyone else.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 31 pts · 141d
Walk like a duck, talk like a duck. Sure, the US's history has always been evil as fuck. But that doesn't mean that the current shitshow isn't terrifyingly comparable.
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 141d
The only thing you're missing from this is who did it first and who was aping who.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
Yeah I forgot about Munster too
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 140d
Ah yes, it's the people who are trying to tell Americans "hey guys you're crossing from your usual fascism-adjacent self to full on fascist state" who don't understand history, not Americans who have been yapping for decades about how every German was a collaborator, doing "Nazi bar" rhetoric, "would never happen here", yada yada. Guess what, your whole country is the Nazi bar
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 140d
I don't think you get what I'm trying to say. The murderousness of the American Empire dwarfs that of the Nazis by an order of magnitude at least and it's only through American propaganda and their allies that anyone thinks "Nazi" when they think "genocidal maniac" instead of "American"