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doc03

(35,340 posts)
Sat May 22, 2021, 05:44 PM May 2021

Watched a documentary on Netflix last night

The Last Days. It was a first hand account of Hungarian
Jews from Nazi concentration camps. It is hard to believe that civilised people could do those things. The one women said the Nazies took over her village with two SS men on motor cycles. People she knew all of her life in the town turned on the Jewish population overnight. Very disturbing films from Auswitz and other camps. It got me thinking that Trump people are actually capable of the same thing.

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Biophilic

(3,665 posts)
1. Even a few months ago I would have said "No chance". Now I'm afraid that I believe it could happen
Sat May 22, 2021, 06:08 PM
May 2021

here and we would have a hard time fighting it. I have to keep the faith that we will be able to bring things back to a relatively safe time for most people. No, I'm not crazy enough to believe it will ever be completely safe again. At least not for a very long time. As long as Capitalism is in the hands of mostly white people it will be used to control those who aren't as well as those they deem inferior. Yeah, being part of history can be unsettling at best.

doc03

(35,340 posts)
3. I am surrounded by the Qnuts here and I believe if the Republicans get charge
Sat May 22, 2021, 06:39 PM
May 2021

in 2025 us Democrats my have to exercise our 2nd Amendment rights.

kimbutgar

(21,155 posts)
7. You know MTG equates wearing a mask to being a prisoner in a concentration camp!
Sat May 22, 2021, 08:01 PM
May 2021

The stupidity of those people hurt my brain.

I remember seeing years ago a documentary about the Holocaust in college in the 1970’s and it scared the “ F” out of me!

paleotn

(17,920 posts)
8. If the nation of Goethe and Beethoven can go down that rabbit hole...
Sat May 22, 2021, 08:07 PM
May 2021

any nation can.

On edit. My Dad saw the camps in 1945 as a early 20's GI. He made sure his children knew and understood exactly what he saw. His children did the same with their children. Never, ever forget.

Dan

(3,564 posts)
9. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind....
Sat May 22, 2021, 08:10 PM
May 2021

And, as I say this - my one Republican friend, who is a good Christian and for the most parts a good person - would be on the sidelines saying out terrible it is the non-republicans have to be rounded up and interned for their own good.

Yes, Trump has shown the nation and the world, what we are and there is no denying that.

The sad part is that a lot of people in other nations would fight for their right to life, but here?

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
10. I think it would be a tiny minority of DUers that couldn't easily imagine the "T people" in...
Sat May 22, 2021, 08:21 PM
May 2021

...what has become known as The Stanford Experiment. But I see them as not just participating in it, but falling over themselves in the rush to be one of the guards.

Authoritarian Level: Perfect.

doc03

(35,340 posts)
12. I can see many of them doing just like the Nazi sympathizers did back them. I mean
Sat May 22, 2021, 10:52 PM
May 2021

some are just totally insane. I see some houses with 10 or more Trump flags on their porch and yard another flag I have been seeing
more and more of is Fuck Biden. We couldn't stand Trump but I never saw shrines built to Biden or Hillary or one damn Fuck Trump flag.
These people are just anti American scum. There is a guy that set up a tent in an empty lot selling Back the Blue, Fuck Biden and Trump 2024 flags. After January 6th they claim to back the Blue.

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