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TygrBright

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26. Do you really believe [Redacted]'s true believers would NOT...
Mon Aug 28, 2023, 11:18 AM
Aug 2023

...joyfully hack all the transfolk they could corral to pieces with farm implements, etc., if they were given the chance and sanctioned to do so by a supportive government?

I have no such trust.

The fascism of the 21st Century is a holocaust in the egg. Should it hatch out, we WILL see mass death on a scale Pol Pot, Hitler and Stalin would have envied.

A partial (to say the least) list of those at risk of extermination should their power grab succeed:

LGBTQ people
Brown people (except for some "useful" ones, perhaps)
"Liberal activists"
Muslims, Pagans, Parsi, B'hai, possibly Buddhists
and, oh, yes... Jewish people.

They're plenty antisemitic.

There is some legitimacy to claim comparing any single incident to the Holocaust thus trivializes it, but to compare the period PRIOR to the Holocaust with contemporary politico-cultural events not only does NOT "trivialize" the Holocaust, it HONORS the lesson of that horrific episode in human history.

Those who do not learn therefrom, are doomed to repeat.

somberly,
Bright

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Except that Hermann Goering was not a coward GeoWilliam750 Aug 2023 #1
But he was, he committed suicide instead of facing justice. nt ImNotGod Aug 2023 #3
That's not cowardly. Disaffected Aug 2023 #7
Goering wanted a soldiers death Journeyman Aug 2023 #16
He had grandiose delusions just like tRump, he figured he would be welcomed by the allies as a ImNotGod Aug 2023 #18
Uniforms & Narcissistic Personality NowISeetheLight Aug 2023 #23
Uncanny malaise Aug 2023 #2
I was watching a short youtube vid showing mugshots of WWII nazis and when Goering showed ImNotGod Aug 2023 #5
Great job malaise Aug 2023 #11
This too Celerity Aug 2023 #12
Amazing graphic! FailureToCommunicate Aug 2023 #19
There could have been some Trump relatives fighting in Normandy on D Day. keithbvadu2 Aug 2023 #4
Trump's grandfather was kicked out of his native Germany for failing to do his mandatory military ImNotGod Aug 2023 #6
More Trump vs Nazis stuff... WarGamer Aug 2023 #8
Only if the next coup attempt fails. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2023 #9
Just a short story... WarGamer Aug 2023 #14
Yeah. More than one holocaust survivor said they're scared. I believe them. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2023 #20
My great-grandparents and grandfather and his siblings left Lithuania 50 years before no_hypocrisy Aug 2023 #25
Do you really believe [Redacted]'s true believers would NOT... TygrBright Aug 2023 #26
you have to know how to read, first. demosincebirth Aug 2023 #10
Maybe. Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler"... First Speaker Aug 2023 #21
Here's a quote from the ADL WarGamer Aug 2023 #24
It's the glare of hate. Aussie105 Aug 2023 #13
Thanks. Saved me a post. usonian Aug 2023 #17
I kinda hope one of the similarities doesn't happen but there might be something like that. captain queeg Aug 2023 #15
if trump was a girl. barbtries Aug 2023 #22
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