Really? “Oh pleeeease, you dunce, I know it’s difficult for people like you to understand, but powerful people are powerful”.

You are defending engagement with what equates to a soap opera for politics. You are actively defending people memeing about what some politician said - in this case even about something that is completely irrelevant to anyone but deluded religionists - which is just a lot of lies in every instance anyway.

Why don’t you promote engagement with shit they DO instead?

Are you deliberately fueling this pointless meme bullshit about political theater to make people feel better about themselves, in order to prevent them from doing something about the actually bad things that are going on outside of their doors right fucking now?

Or was that just some masturbatory eruption to satisfy your condescending impulse to snortleingly correct the defective thinking of some mentally inferior fool on the internet?

Why is my reply so heated? I see two possibilities:

• you do not know what you are doing
• you are doing it exactly because you know, and possibly because you are paid to do it.

And I give you the intellectual benefit of the doubt and say you are doing it deliberately.

People like you have been distracting the public discussion like this for as long as I live, and you try to make people criticizing the distraction look stupid, while elevating yourself.

“Pleeeeeeeease don’t be a dummy, my dearest friend and buddy, pleeeeeease!”. FUCK that.

We see preparations for concentration camps, actual genocides, the implementation of total surveillance states, the enactment of police state enablement laws, dismantling of human rights of every level, a burning planet, techno-oligarchs, so called “centrists” buddying up with fascists, territorial-/resource wars… and you defend people talking about SOME CUNT TALKING ABOUT SOME DEAD ASSHOLE WITH A TALL HAT? IN A POLITICS SECTION!

What the fuck!

If you say “Hey buddy, don’t harsh on our stupid time, let us only talk about dumb stuff this year”, I might just think “sigh Ok…” and dejectedly walk away, having my lack of faith in humanity validated once again, but your way of defending it is actually revolting to me.

If only it wasn’t so trivial for her to trick people into giving her attention and publicity.

I think I do that too rarely, so: thanks for putting work into writing a thoughtful answer.

The similarities were why I wrote. From what you wrote, I suspect that you are either a product of the German education system, or someone who is way more historically literate in that domain than the average non-German.

Demonizing/dehumanizing the German citizens did not help, and committed the same crime of racism and stereotyping that they had committed. With a very generous helping of post-war propaganda, and genius level ideas like the Marshall plan, they cemented the legend/cult of the clean and untouchable English and American super-man, who is everyone’s friend, and who fights for freedom and brings it to everyone, while they happily exploited, butchered and destabilized pretty much the entire world for almost exclusively revolting or questionable reasons.

Amazingly, that worked on the vast majority of the people in the western world. And I admit that it worked on me, until started informing myself when the PATRIOT act and WMDs in Iraq were daily newspaper headlines.

I believe it is now - once again - too late to prevent the descent into chaos and horror, and once again, the masses are cheering for the devil, until their feet have already turned to charcoal.

We face a similar scenario in Germany right now, and I bet the story sounds very similar everywhere where these elements are gaining power. The “centrist” parties - along with their buddies in the EU - are pushing police state legislation, and the far right wingers already have about the same slice of the vote-cake that the NSDAP had in 1930.

Austria already had their first period of (luckily incompetent, and too corrupt even for Austria!) Nazi rule, and the Brits… well they sure hate it when they don’t know everything about their peasants, do they? Resistance in France is a little stiffer, but the Le Pen story also echoes the whole Hitler prison sentence in some ways. There are too many examples of this shit.

I am afraid we humans - as is human tradition - once again failed to act upon what we should have learned from history, and if I am lucky, the old ticker in my chest hurries up a bit and decides to retire before too long, so that I don’t have to watch the REALLY bad parts play out.

Oh, I didn’t see that a non JS version is in the works. I just assumed it redirected to the regular page, because the block page practically looks the same. Thank you for correcting me.

1933, of approx. 65m Germans, 39m voted and gave the NSDAP 43% of the votes (after a harrowing year of violence, repression, propaganda and harassment by the SA and SS). That’s around 26% of Germans if I didn’t a dumb.

Two weeks later, he passed the enabling act.

In the next parliamentary election, he received 92% of the votes.

The next federal election was not held until after the war.

You don’t offer old., AND you force people through javascript with the intent to post to meta of all places. I understand I am not the target audience even without looking at the post, but I hope it’s clear to you how suspicious and ironic that combination of factors looks.