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The press must get across to American citizens the crucial importance of this election and the dangers of a Trump win. They don’t need to surrender their journalistic independence to do so or be “in the tank” for Biden or anyone else.

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[–] agent_flounder 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And history has demonstrated capitalists and fascists being allies.

Edit: this Atlantic article deals with IBM helping Hitler. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers-willing-business-partners/303146/

Edit: now the article below is from a left wing political mag so beat that in mind.

https://jacobin.com/2022/08/nazi-germany-national-socialism-hypercaptialism-social-darwinism-liberalism

Even aside from the fact that other conservative and liberal parties actually voted for full powers to Hitler in 1933, his regime was characterized by massive interventions to help out private business. And the social Darwinism championed by the Nazis, counting the “unproductive” as mere wasteful expense, obeyed the logic of judging human life by the yardstick of profit.

Edit: I'll see if I can find anything else.

[–] Sanctus 14 points 1 year ago

If anyone else thinks its weird that capitalists, nazis, and billionaires always seem to be in close nit circles; stop thinking its weird.

[–] agent_flounder 10 points 1 year ago

I realize the following is from R**** 😲 but it is AskHistorians and so, quality post and well cited.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/y8h0zJqf18