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this 1933 diplomatic cable from the american embassy in berlin to FDR that was sent three months after #Hitler took power goes hard
"𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺."
well this toot blew up lol... i guess one thing i take away from it is the extent to which "character is destiny" and how the character of the #Nazi regime was painfully obvious to people of good faith even from its first moments (to that end I also recommend Dorothy Thompson's 1941 essay "Who Goes Nazi?").
unfortunately while there are dissimilarities between that crew and trump's, e.g. the glorification of war, it's also true that there are a lot of scary war loving fascists on team #Trump. Ken Silverstein managed to get a hold of a private group chat featuring a lot of these folks earlier this year. Who was in the chat:
- #ErikPrince (#IraqWar Blackwater massacre guy)
- #KimberlyGuilfoyle (Don Jr's gf)
- #MichaelFlynn
- #NRA guys
- #AfD guys
- #TuckerCarlson
- Israeli intel
- Congressmen who resigned in various scandals
...and worse.
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash
@Saupreiss the parallels are... concerning.
@cryptadamist
I believe that early 2016, messages to similar effect went from Washington to London, Paris, Berlin, Canberra, Ottawa, Beijing, etc.
Come January, it will be largely copy-paste.
@cryptadamist Today, the same message could be sent mostly unchanged from the German embassy in the USA back to Berlin.
@cryptadamist Superb diplomatic briefing. So prescient, and so pertinent today.
And nice touch that his name is Anglicised version of Messerschmidt
Nowadays we know better than ableism. Fascists are fascist because of decisions they make, not because they're victim to a mental illness that makes them unable to know/do better.
cc @AkaSci
@project1enigma @cryptadamist @AkaSci
This isn't about people becoming fascists because of mental illness, it's about fascism being a form of mental illness and fascist governments providing a home for dangerously crazy people to thrive.
If you think corporate America favors sociopaths, wait until you see Trump's regime...
US politics, ableism "against" fascists
Of course there had to be a reply doubling down on ableism...
@cryptadamist "𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩" - well, they were prepared enough to eventually kill a few million people.
@Torbencht @cryptadamist I don't think that counts as a daily task. Not in 1933.
@laxla @cryptadamist Different priorities!
But yes, of course I am not 100% correct here, this is also hyperbole.
But I also think that I am not totally wrong. The menial things are of lesser importance to some. Cleansing the homeland is a dearer task for them.
@Torbencht The evil ones who don’t know how to do a task succeed by excess precisely because they don’t know they They are all horrific. @cryptadamist
@cryptadamist
without penalizing the sender, I wish, the #fediverse services could find a easy mechanism that a factual post could use to attach the #provenance of the data they are presenting.
I realize that there are many challenges but we need start addressing those and solving them.
We could start by resolving that 1 of the 4 offered images be an image of a link to where you found that facts that are being presented.
Please make improvements and offer your own ideas.
@mral @cryptadamist such a solution exists; footnotes.
In GitHub markdown, they go like this:
My statement[^1].
[^1]: meow
thank you
> Others are in a frame of mind that knows no reason. The majority woefully ignorant and unprepared for the tasks they have to carry through every day
This sounds exactly like how I, an Israeli, would describe the government of Israel. Fuck.
@FediThing woth remembering that at least trump is just corrupt, greedy, and narcissistic and not obsessed with making war, but then again michael flynn, erik prince, the AfD, and various other legitimate fascists company are all of course also on team Trump...
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash
@cryptadamist I can’t find the matching document. Could you give me a url? I did a Historical documents search and got results with the name & date but none matched this and when I added some distinctive words from the text the seach came up empty.
1933 Germany and present-day US parallels
Boosting the above from @cryptadamist with an added content warning.
@cryptadamist ❝With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere. Others are exalted and in a frame of mind that knows no reason. The majority are woefully ignorant and unprepared for the tasks which they have to carry through every day.❞
—Message from US Ambassador to Germany, to US President Roosevelt in 1933
#USPol
@cryptadamist History repeats itself?
@cryptadamist Hmmm..... The upcoming US Presidency and administration.....
@cryptadamist History doesn't repeat but it does make distorted echoes of itself.
@nini "first as tragedy, then as farce"
Larger group has been working for 40 years to reverse human rights, mainly via Courts. But the full group, tied to Trump/Project 2025 has a uniting membership attached to Nazi's/Genocide.
1. Prince has repeatedly been involved in Genocide on innocent civilians--either directly, or via Putin (Wagner/Orcs) Ukraine, (likely GA & Syria), China (CITIC, Uyghur's), Iraq, plans to colonize S. Africa/Latin America, etc.
2. Bolton set stage for more WC/Genocide w/9/2018 speech to ICC.
1/
KoM are a self-serving, mercenary, paramilitary org, ("charity" is a front). I've cataloged 270 in US, & their specialties/careers. Many are CIA/MIL/Media Moguls/Judges. Others are leading tech hardware/software, tied to AI/Musk/Thiel. Far-rt extreme thinktanks contributing to Project 2025, like Hillsdale College are also dangerous to control USA civilians.
"AI & The Human Soul"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMRTFbN3gew
USA citizens need to plan now to counter Project 2025 plans B4 1/1/25.
@cryptadamist #ErikPrince should scare the shit out of anyone who values human rights and a viable planet!
@DoomsdaysCW as scary as Erik Prince may be he's not nearly as scary as Michael Flynn (who, of course, was also in the group chat)...
@cryptadamist They seem to travel in the same circles (Putin), and were both involved with similar operations (Iraq, Afghanistan) -- the only difference is that Flynn is military, while Prince is a "civilian".
@DoomsdaysCW Flynn is also demonstrably more straight up mentally ill / insane, at least from what i've seen. like he's out there talking about QAnon stuff, shouting "WWG1WGA" etc.
put it this way: if erik prince were in charge i don't doubt there would be mass arrests of anti-trump protestors but if michael flynn were in charge i don't doubt they'd just run the protesters over with tanks tiananmen square style
@cryptadamist Yikes! I see your point!
@cryptadamist @DoomsdaysCW This is funny, because years ago, Flynn was my commander.
People don't read him right. He's not insane, he's scared of being held accountable for his treachery. I'll say this: I witnessed him furiously threaten a friend's ex wife with every punishment under the sun because she'd called Flynn's office and made up a bunch of BS to fuck with her ex and try to talk the Army into garnishing his paycheck and giving it to her.
Flynn went absolutely apeshit when Obama fired him. And he had good reason to be furious: The Joint Chiefs had directed Flynn to share classified intel with the Syrian government via Turkish NATO intermediaries, because Obama's Syria strategy was the exact opposite of effective. Obama couldn't just fire the JCOS because the whole thing would become widespread knowledge and a huge scandal, so he chose to shove Flynn onto the sword.
The rest is history. But Flynn's too smart to act the way you think he would, even if he plays a lunatic on TV.
@cryptadamist And therein lies their weakness.
@cryptadamist > 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦...
wait, what language is that? my tts reads only unicode scalar values in decimal, what alphabet is this?
@esoteric_programmer it's just italics. same text as in the alt text of the image.
@cryptadamist lol, those look like entirely foreign characters. Yeah, I saw the alt text, but I thought this means something else since it's so garbled. Either way, history is fun indeed, while we can still keep it unaltered
Yep, that’s called the incompetent white men only form of government