Re: Students go after the hypocrites

On 5/5/2024 10:20 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:

and that the analogies with respect to fighting against Nazi Germany don't hold water. Nazi Germany was one of the wealthiest and mightiest states on Earth in 1939.

 Where did you get that? Germany was one of the worst victims of the
worldwide economic crisis as the new owners after WW1 withdrew their
funds to cover their own butt. And the people voted for AH in 1933
because of that. It could only come better. They assumed. In a land
with just toy military. No air force, no navy.
6 years later, the Nazis had solved that military thing, but not the
wealth issue. Those who had paid for a Volkswagen (VW Beetle) in
advance found out it had transmogrified into a Jeep lookalike,
and it was not theirs.

Yeah, the average German wasn't wealthy. The ruling elite of Germany made out pretty well under Nazism, well the ones that lived, anyway.
<https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/>
The survivors in upper-middle management made out pretty well after Nazism too, stepped into the power vacuum and in the West carried on largely business-as-usual. Being a CPA instead of a storm trooper imbues a certain longevity, I guess.
But that Nazi Germany was some kind of socialist country just cuz the word socialist was in the name is a laugh, German industry made out on the war better than just about anyone. Most of the same slave-labor using companies exist in some form today with an unbroken dynasty of management back to the death-camp days, and their products in every home worldwide.
If that was the legacy of national "socialism" it's sure given capitalism a run for its money in the capitalism department.

I wonder how brain damaged someone like Trump must be   to force
military buildup in other states. With capabilities comes greed
to use them. As you can see, 6 years made quite a difference.
 And no, there is no protection. Just the expectation that Europe
stays Coca-Cola land. And some extra class aircraft carriers like
Ramstein. I'm unconfortably close to that.
  Gerhard.