jakemax (06-20-2021), Matt Dillon (06-05-2021)
trump might be out but his subhuman rabble are still around
A 79-year-old Holocaust survivor says in a new interview that the U.S. under President Trump feels like Germany did just before the Nazis took over.
Stephen Jacobs told Newsweek that the rise of the far-right under Trump “feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin.”
“Things just go from bad to worse every day,” he said. “There’s a real problem growing.”
Jacobs, a New York architect who said he knows Trump personally, referred to the president as an “enabler” of far-right rhetoric.
“Things that couldn’t be said five years ago, four years ago, three years ago — couldn’t be said in public — are now normal discourse,” he said. “It’s totally unacceptable.”
“I couldn’t say that Trump is a fascist because you’ve got to know what fascism is,” he said. He also said that the president is “a sick, very disturbed individual” who is “out for himself.”
Jacobs designed the Holocaust memorial at Buchenwald and spoke with Newsweek ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12.
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jakemax (06-20-2021), Matt Dillon (06-05-2021)
christiefan915 (06-06-2021), evince (06-06-2021)
1929 -30 in Germany isn't "Just before the Nazis took over." That's years before they gained power. It was the Weimar Republic and Germany was in the throes of a depression, brought on in good part by onerous French and British (mostly French) reprisals for WW 1 in the form of reparations. The French Army still had troops in the Ruhr at that point although in diminishing numbers.
As for the "rise of the far right" that isn't happening in America. Instead, the radical Left is gaining power here--as they did to a good degree in Germany in the years in question. The Nazis were one of several radical Leftist groups that were vying for power by the early 30's in Germany. It wasn't guys like Trump that were likely to get control of Germany but the sort like Beto O'Rourke, Kamala Harris, or AOC that were where Germany was headed.
A 79 year old wasn't born in 1929.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
anonymoose (06-05-2021), Flash (06-03-2021), Matt Dillon (06-05-2021), Sirthinksalot (06-03-2021)
Here we go again ...
Hitler was such a radical leftist that his first government in 1933 was a coalition with the far-right National Party. Then the ultra-conservative President Hindenburg signed the Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, and the aristocrat-dominated army went along with it.
And he never had a majority in a free election. Just like Trump, lol.
Iolo/Penderyn (06-07-2021), no worries (06-21-2021)
Hitler was a major fucking problem...until he died in 1945.
We needn't obsess over him now.
We've got the Kims and the Putins and the Salmans and the entire American Seditionist-Republican Party with whom to deal these days.
We do celebrate Dolph's birthday every year, but we call it Stoner Day not to give him any dap.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
PostmodernProphet (06-05-2021)
This is him.
He was born in Łódź, Poland, in 1939. His father, a physician, moved the family to Piotrków, near Warsaw, shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland in September of that year.
Piotrków, where many Jewish refugees in Poland fled, would become the Nazis' first ghetto.
Liquidated in 1942, a labor camp was established with two factories, where the family lived until their brutal separation in 1944.
https://www.newsweek.com/im-holocaus...ok-over-876965
He didn't lie. Jacobs actually said it.
Perhaps more alarming than the far-right getting braver is the seep into mainstream politics of their hate, their talking points, their rhetoric. "It feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin," Jacobs speculated, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018 on Thursday.
Hitler spent the 1920's rebuilding the Nazi Party after the failed Beer Hall Putsch. In 1930, the Nazi Party began being a major party. In 1932, they won enough of the vote to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany. So 1929-1930 was the beginning of his rise to power, with him getting leadership starting in 1932.
No. The Occupation Of the Ruhr completely ended in 1925.
Are you actually arguing that there was not a storming of the Capitol Building?
OK, you are just being insane now.
no worries (06-21-2021)
Trump was more like Mussolini and not because he looks like him. He is more Fascist than nazi.
He has plenty of designs for power without questioning.
Hitler is a righty. Just like Mussolini and Trump. Trump wants unfettered power. He needs all the fettering he can get.
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and the oscar goes to..........
seriously, you trump haters are so over the top with your drama and histrionics.........
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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