Post AnzwIIkcFZjsvi0RSi by philip_cardella@historians.social
(DIR) More posts by philip_cardella@historians.social
(DIR) Post #AnzwIFpT74q1rtFm6q by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-11-13T10:47:02Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
One thing that's less discussed about #fascism is it's often incredibly poorly run. Replacing skilled and experienced people with loyal and ruthless but otherwise unqualified ones is pretty typical and a fatal flaw that can be exploited to accelerate fascisms demise.This doesn't mean fascism isn't inherently destructive, dangerous and murderous. It is. But it prefers those things over stability and longevity no matter the propaganda.And fascists aren't necessary stupid. 1/3
(DIR) Post #AnzwIHXojfuJBj0hsG by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-11-13T10:50:27Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
I have a very hard time thinking about the Holocaust because it's absolutely awful. But it's an interesting example of this. They created an industrial method for murdering innocent men, women and children with the gas chambers.But, it wasn't working because even #Nazis broke down over the awfulness of it all if they participated in the whole process. So they created segments and isolated Nazis into the segments so they didn't have to participate in the full murder process. 2/3
(DIR) Post #AnzwII6udByowZQjZo by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-11-13T10:55:06Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
(Holding my vomit down--so awful)Then there's the whole process of getting the victims of the gas chambers to their deaths. Millions were just murdered in the streets or in forests, but millions needed to be transported and that took a lot of effort and thinking. During a war they were losing.Hitler invaded Poland believing France and England would let him and the US would stay out of it. He KNEW he couldn't win a war against UK, FR and US in 1939. The death camps started in 1942
(DIR) Post #AnzwIIkcFZjsvi0RSi by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-11-13T10:58:14Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
What I'm saying is: the Nazis provoked a war they couldn't win and knew they couldn't win. Three years into this war *they took time and resources they didn't have to create a machine of pure hate and evil just because they wanted to* and not only accelerated their own defeat in the process but--they knew--increased the consequences of their losing exponentially.They KNEW the death chambers were what we now call a crime against humanity and they FEARED the consequences. Did it anyway.
(DIR) Post #AnzwIJGsJdXkXl6CkC by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-11-13T11:02:00Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
I guess my point is do not under estimate this moment's evil and destructive power. But do not over estimate the fascist invulnerability either. This new lot is led by a fucking reincarnated (no not literally) Hitler inner circle shit in Stephen Miller. I'm not sure if that makes him more likely to make the exact same mistakes or to be more aware of the folly of his heroes but it's worth noting. These people can and will be beaten. The question is at what cost? Fin
(DIR) Post #AnzwIJvzqkR8bIL2q8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-11-13T11:06:13Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@philip_cardella Yeah... it's not a sustainable or effective way to use power for very long. Fascism is a death spasm. How do we keep the flailing limbs and grinding teeth of the dying angry beast from taking too many of us out in its self destruction?
(DIR) Post #AnzwcrpJY651VV0hIe by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-11-13T11:09:56Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@futurebird right? And, as Liam Neeson in Schindler's List pointed out, even one is too many. Some people will choose to make ultimate sacrifices.But so many will be victims of this who get no choice. It makes me sick. Both thinking about the future and thinking about how we've dishonored 6 million people, mostly Jews, who were murdered needlessly. The world said never again. We lied.