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Rikard's avatar

They don't see it, because the old symbols aren't present.

No Totenkopf-emblems, no marches with torches and drums, no military parades.

So it can't be (inter)national socialism (aka globalism).

Magical thinking at its finest is what we are seeing: if the sigil isn't present, the thing is not the same thing. Just look at the language used in Canada by authorities currently re-enacting the eugenic programs of the early 20th century. Nothing about "improving the racial stock", but lots and lots of blather about rights and mercy.

Yet the end result is the mentally ill, the handicapped, the poor, and the old and debilitated are being euthanised, "by their own choice".

Bitterly funny is that the same nation is adamantly against capital punishment, not due to lack of trust in the court system, but that it is morally wrong to execute criminals.

The exact same impulse as was evident in nazi-Germany and Soviet Russia, that normal criminals were treated with some level of respect while the "useless eaters" and the political criminals were only worthy of loathing and hatred.

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epimetheus's avatar

As you correctly note, there are 'elective affinities' (apologies to Goethe) between the 'Modern' systems of right (fascism, widely understood), left (socialism, ditto), and centre (liberalism, ditto).

Check out Wolfgang Schivelbusch's tellingly-entitled vol., whose title translates into Distant Relationship: Fascism, National Socialism, New Deal 1933-1939 (Munich: Hanser, 2005).

None of these is 'good', for these range from 'bad' (liberalism) to 'worse' (the other two).

And, yes, the amount of double-talk is astounding. I keep wondering how much longer this cognitive and other dissonances can go on. I suspect (hope) that this is mainly inertia of a bunch of zombie-fied ideas and systems.

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paolo's avatar

Interesting thoughts.

But I also want to add a clear and evident political thing happening and a real question: How the Kingdom of the Holocaust's victims is completely siding with Neo Nazi Americans and Ukrainians? I mean, doing this they loose any respect for what they suffered in WW2. So, we should also review the WW2 saying that maybe after that war Israel started collaborating with ex nazi... May be while hunting for ex nazi all around the world, Mossad become more and more Nazi! It make sense to me.

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epimetheus's avatar

Well, that's the tricky question:, right: what about WW2 and its 'prehistory', or antecedents?

If the current mess in Ukraine is stranger than fiction, what about its implications for its clear roots?

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Kazimir Malevitch's avatar

Dear Professor, it surprise me to hear that Nazi or Neo Nazi are back and kicking.... not neo fascist... ha, ha, ha!

BTW: interesting publication the one you're linking, txs!

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Rick Larson's avatar

Quirky repeats in the old nobility playbook.

Greenies ought to be informing other humans leopards can't live in Europe

Every time the a nuclear drop is threatened, the Germans will build 10 more leopards.

Must be too many peasants in Germany again, extra souls to harvest.

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