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Where did we go wrong? We stopped killing fascists. Appeasement never works when one party has no interest in concession.
BINGO.
The reconstruction of the south shouldn't have ended until 1960, giving near a hundred years to set things right. Instead chickenshit halfhearts let the south return to political power and return to treating POC like slaves. Then they let their grandchildren build fucking monuments and statues to slavemongers.
I wonder if US insistance on the Nuremberg Trials was a result of seeing the results of failing to hold their own fascists adequately accountable after the civil war.
from what I've read, not really. it was so hard to get many held and charged in the first place, the trials were very much a race against time to see how many the could convict before sentiment in germany turned.
The nazis did base a lot of their hateful shit on crimes the state and other racists perpetrated against americans tho. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler
I wasn't aware that countries in South America ever rebelled against the US constitution, insisted on the enslavement of their fellow citizens and then lost a war about that issue, requiring their slaveocracies that we burned to the ground to be reconstructed....
Oh my god. Do you people ever stop.
If only you could make a list of all the fascists and go door to door and drag them out into the street and execute them.
Then everything would be OK!
There's a whole generation that fought and died to retain our right to stand up to fascism, xenophobia, etc. With this in mind, it would be bad form to stop defending freedom and democracy, don't you think?
I do like how your comically suggested solution to fascism is "become a fascist" though :-P Not everybody thinks like them.
Right? the greatest generation sacrificed tens of millions to stop these assholes but our generation is just gonna let them stroll back into power?
And these fascists can't even muster the weak competence the 20th century fascists had, it's half-assed fuckwits like Trump.
Thank our lucky stars they aren't competent, or we'd be in camps.
It's easier than lobotomy so really a no brainer
Despite the fact that many people think like fascists, thankfully due to the results of fascism they often don't possess the wealth and power to enforce their self imposed authority and don't need killing. But don't let that nuance get in the way of a big ol' swig of rageahole.