From Yale Historian Timothy Snyder: A warning following Trump's Bloodbath statement

[surfered]

Ordinary people tortured and executed “heretics” in Spain by the thousands.
Ordinary people burned tens of thousands of “witches” in Europe and tried and hung them in New England.
Ordinary people slaughtered several hundred women, children, and elderly Native Americans at Sand Creek, Colo. and committed atrocities against the dead.
Ordinary people deported, executed, and starved a million or so Armenians.
Ordinary people starved millions of Ukrainians.
Ordinary people incinerated prisoners in Third Reich camps we still make movies about.
Ordinary people murdered between 1.5 and 3 million others in Cambodia.
Ordinary people killed close to one million of their neighbors in Rwanda with machetes and rifles.
Ordinary people systematically massacred about 8,000 of their neighbors and Bosnia.
Ordinary people murdered and raped Israeli villagers on Oct. 7, 2023.
Ordinary people responded by leveling cities and starving children.
Ordinary people attend rallies where their leader “confers martyrdom upon criminals who try to overthrow a democracy they associated with subhumans.”
Ordinary people live next door.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Werner Herzog may not have said it, but it bears repeating.

Dear America:

You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.

[DENVERPOPS]

3. When you hear "their" rhetoric

they are fanatic, and obsessed that the only way, is their way. And they all feel their means justifies the end.

These Republican Voters and Politicians have been grooming the U.S. Citizenship for a long long time people.......The first major step was corruptly installing Reagan in the Whitehouse as their front man and puppet. All while HW, Cheney, Rumsfeld went to work in the shadows utilizing every trick in the book to start rolling out their form of government........These same people were in a full roll out by the time they published their Project New American Century report in the late 1990's. Then they totally corrupted the 2000 election, with their involvement of the US Supreme Court. The USSC had absolutely positively not a leg to stand on for declaring themselves the group's legal standing to throw the election to WBush. Same with the 2004 election.......

During the Reagan occupation, a respected foreign journalist showed me in great detail, how our media was already leaning right, and growing more in that direction every year. They were doing a whole lot of subtle stuff, and in some cases outright censorship of what was really going on. In our nation and around the world...........The so called "Panama Invasion" by our troops, for instance, that was reported by the entire U.S. Media was 180 degrees, from factually what actually took place down there......

Like I have said countless times since 1980, the perfect title of a book about he past 45 years would be:

WHILE THE NATION SLEPT.........

[LudwigPastorius]

2. If you haven't seen "The Act of Killing" it is...

a remarkable documentary about the banality of murderers. The filmmaker interviews some of the perpetrators of the mass killings in Indonesia 55 years ago under Suharto.

It’s really chilling how human beings are easily able to justify and compartmentalize the most despicable acts imaginable.