Why didn't you do something about your country triggering a genocide in gaza? You had a whole fucking year.
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But we made memes asking "why?".
And I upvoted them. That's makes me part of the active resistance
Technically an actual hero.
I'm doing my part
We can learn from history. The people have more access to information than ever before. If we teach people how to put that information to good use instead of sharing propaganda we can stop it this time.
A man named Luigi Mangione stood up and did something about it.
And the powers that be are working tirelessly to destroy him without making it so obvious that it riles the rest of us up.
Yeah the issues is that nobody else followed suit. He could not do it alone
Not to oversimplify but a shit economic situation was a large part of the reason the Nazis were able to rise to power.
And as I look at around at our current world.... Oh. Shit.
But jokes aside, I think a lot of people are just not aware enough to realize how easy it is for extremism to fester in a society where people are economically (and morally) depressed. If you want to know why Hitler rose to power, then look no further than 1930s Germany to understand that. Our world doesn't look too different from that.
And besides, it's not like anyone knew exactly what was going to happen as events unfolded. Nothing like WW2 had ever occurred in the history of the planet, so even if you had a perfect time machine so you could go back and tell people what was about to happen, it's not like they would actually believe you. People were miserably, angry and desperate... so they wanted to fuck around, and eventually they found out, so to speak.
And one last point: Nazi Germany is also an extreme example of what can happen to a depressed society, and it's not like things always turn out the same way. I'm pretty sure that things are going to end pretty miserably before the world becomes a better place, but it doesn't necessarily mean WW3 or another Holocaust or anything like that. We can't know any of this with certainty - all we can do is hope for the best (and prepare for the worst, as they say).
The Nazi just brought home the method used by the french and brits in the colonies. Europeans weren't shocked at genociding jews, they were shocked on them attacking "civilized" nations.
Wanna talk about how they gazed people in algeria?
I think a lot of people are just not aware enough to realize how easy it is for extremism to fester in a society where people are economically (and morally) depressed
They're "not aware enough" because the education systems, as well as the media, which are controlled and or owned by the people looking to manipulate them, and deliberately ensures that from infancy the population is only given a white washed version of history that serves those in power, so that exactly this can happen.
Which only reinforces OP.
The idea that any of this is accidental, or worse, is some inevitable part of "human nature" is just one more way in which those in power manipulate you in to accepting it as reality.
All true, except that it doesn't really get better because after we manage to contain or survive the upcoming Nazi/extremism movement, nature will punish everyone on the planet for not having done anything about climate change. So first we have to deal with huge societal and political problems, and then with huge natural ones (which also cause huge societal and political problems as a result). We know the answers to both of these problems, but we aren't changing anything.
jokes aside
Where joke
For real.
And the answer is: Many people were doing something against it, but they were arrested while the majority looked away afraid to be in their place.
Anyone that thinks standing up to people in power is easy has never done it. Everyone should respect the people that do.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder should be read by everyone.
I'm starting to think there were fewer Germans that were NOT Nazis than I thought. That's the way it seems now.
Most people are just happy to roll with the flow. Especially in German culture, switching off empathy is still quite commonplace. So a lot of people who were deeply involved in Nazi atrocities werent necessarily ideologically convinced, they just saw an opportunity to make a career in the new order and were willing to commit any crime for it. A lot of these people were preserved as useful and made careers again in Western Germany, as the US wanted to quickly reestablish Western Germany as a strong country to have a fighter against Sowjet communism.
they just saw an opportunity to make a career in the new order and were willing to commit any crime for it.
None of that is unique to Germany, nor the 1930's-40's, but rather a core feature of capitalism, which is why it always decays in to fascism.
a lot of people who were deeply involved in Nazi atrocities werent necessarily ideologically convinced, they just saw an opportunity to make a career in the new order and were willing to commit any crime for it
somehow that sounds worse than just being a nazi
Some ate the propaganda, while others got purged from voter rolls.
start an affinity group