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It's funny and terrifying at the same time to see the US Empire crumbling in real time. (feddit.org)

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (30 children)

Americans have been fucked from the start, Hitler talked a lot about how he was inspired by Americans way of treating colored people.

Then they beat Hitler, but took all his scientists. They included rocket builders, but they also included political science and propagandistists.

The Nazis literally rebuilt in America, and took 71 years to show the people they were there, and 85 years to gain control of the largest military in the world.

Then they had an interesting civil liberties fight for less than a decade, before the Nazi republicans just started the war on drugs as a way of shutting them down and arrested / killed everyone involved.

I simply don't trust Americans to fix this problem themselves. It is my dire belief that the entire world will have to invade America, like we did with Germany.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Ooh, those Nazis, taking over America and doing such horrible things as...

the Civil Rights Movement...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s confusingly worded, but I think they were saying “they” as in “America” were having a civil rights movement (60s), and that the Nazi successors started the war on drugs to undermine and destroy it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Top Nixon aide and Watergate conspirator John Ehrlichman.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy (1980s, in the Reagan White House):

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N_gger, n_gger, n_gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n_gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N_gger, n_gger.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yep.

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