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Originally Posted by belsarius
What frightens me is how Godwin's Law is now used as a proxy to the Boy who cried wolf. We have been so conditioned to see any mention of Hitler or Nazi's on the internet to mean an overreaction, many have lost the ability to see the truth happening before their eyes. There are too many excuses of how it is not happening exactly like in the 1930s, how Hitler was a monster and it is unfair to say someone like Trump can be as evil, or how the republicans can be as evil as the Nazis. But completely forgetting the lessons learned, the fact that it wasn't 1944 Nazis in the beginning, and we can't conflate how WW2 ended with how the rise of fascism began.
The total disregard for the rule of law when it comes to Musk and his team of youthful sycophants. The disregard for the sovereignty of other nations. The disregard for human rights, to the point of dehumanizing that we are seeing.
On this message board, most people are seeing the issues, but the frightening part is how many social media platforms have a message of discarding any of the evidence and are fine to cheer him on. It keeps me up at night wondering how today feels and how close it is to how the Austrians, or the Poles or the Chezchs must have felt in 1933..
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The other thing is even if it doesn't come to death camps, and wars of aggression, it doesn't mean that the comparisons were unfair.
the hundreds of thousands to millions that died of covid and other health outcomes he has already made worse, the hundreds of thousands who will die because of worse governance, the hundreds of billions $ that will be lost to unnecessary disaster relief after burying our heads in the sand, the enabling of China, Russia and Israels genocidal ambitions.
You can do Hitler like things, and be just a pernicious of a figure through fascism without literally gassing people