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usonian

(26,596 posts)
Sun Jun 29, 2025, 12:00 PM Jun 2025

Are we there yet? Yes. Time to ask: "What would have stopped Hitler?"

The situation:






General Strike?
That's one idea.
Others?

More info on a General Strike:

General Strike Info

https://generalstrikeus.com/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10114325 (Activist HQ)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220438506 (GD)


356,638 COMMITTED
10,643,362 NEEDED

WHAT IS A GENERAL STRIKE?
A general strike is when working people refuse their labor until demands are met • research shows we need 3.5% of the population, or 11 million Americans, to be successful • the strike card below tracks our progress so we all know when it’s time to strike •

WHY ARE WE STRIKING?
We’ve voted, we’ve protested, and still, they ignore us. Our government refuses to meet our basic needs while the billionaire class hoards wealth and power. We can’t afford to wait any longer. Our labor is our greatest strength and if we strike together we can make real change.

Tell me, what else is working?


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Are we there yet? Yes. Time to ask: "What would have stopped Hitler?" (Original Post) usonian Jun 2025 OP
We know what would have stopped Hitler Freddie Jun 2025 #1
I left out "peacefully" but be careful in all cases what you wish for. usonian Jun 2025 #3
Dr. Who knew. Oopsie Daisy Jun 2025 #2
a world war eShirl Jun 2025 #4
A better treaty at the end of World War I. Jim__ Jun 2025 #5
What would Shitler want? Gaza? He's getting that, if not Greenland and Canada. usonian Jun 2025 #6
Kicking for "THIS IS NOT A DRILL" usonian Jul 2025 #7

Jim__

(15,278 posts)
5. A better treaty at the end of World War I.
Sun Jun 29, 2025, 12:55 PM
Jun 2025

Seriously, Keynes predicted that the harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty would lead to economic chaos and future conflict. If it wasn't Hitler, it would have been something else. From This Day in History:

...

On December 8, 1919, English economist John Maynard Keynes publishes The Economic Consequences of the Peace, a blistering critique of how the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I would wreak economic and political havoc throughout the European continent. In effect, he predicts the chaos that would engender the Nazi state.

Keynes, an official representative of the British Treasury, had attended the peace conference at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, which began in January 1919 and ran until June 28, when Germany begrudgingly signed the treaty with the Allies, officially ending the war. One of the most outspoken critics of the punitive agreement, he had walked out of the conference in protest in late May. In his The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published just over five months later, Keynes predicted that the stiff war reparations and other harsh terms imposed on Germany by the treaty would lead to the financial collapse of the country, which in turn would have serious economic and political repercussions on Europe and the world.

The book was passionately written and widely read—both unusual for an economic treatise. In it, Keynes made a grim prophecy that would have particular relevance to the next generation of Europeans: “If we aim at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare say, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very long the forces of Reaction and the despairing convulsions of Revolution, before which the horrors of the later German war will fade into nothing, and which will destroy, whoever is victor, the civilisation and the progress of our generation.”

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usonian

(26,596 posts)
6. What would Shitler want? Gaza? He's getting that, if not Greenland and Canada.
Sun Jun 29, 2025, 01:32 PM
Jun 2025

Trump Gaza.

Hitler played on the poverty after WWI

Trump's playing on the economic miracle Joe Biden worked.

His Leni Riefenstahl/Joseph Goebbels media spectacular cast it as "depression" and all the idiots bought it.

Say, Goebbels looks like Stephen



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