• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    4 days ago

    Remember when Germany removed every intellectual in the entire country and then had to deal with having zero intellectuals for a generation after they lost two wars?

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      Remember when German was the language of science and technology, and then suddenly it wasn’t?

      There is no better of faster way to irrelevance than fascism.

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        The defeat of German Nazism was not a foregone conclusion. It was the Soviets behind 70% of Nazi casualties that defeated German Nazism - at tremendous cost I might add.

        Fascism isn’t some fad that inevitably falls out of fashion because people magically start seeing the contradictions, but a cancer that has to be militantly suppressed with utmost prejudice.

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          This time, there’s no one to save us. Fascism in the United States will rule us until the end of the century.