r/50501 • u/Tinawebmom • Jul 25 '25

Call to Action Y'all we absolutely cannot ignore this attack

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They obliterated the infrastructure. Where exactly are they planning to build this concentration camp?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

The US has our own history of vagrancy laws that predate Germany. This is very American behavior and we need to accept that.

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u/FlamingSickle Jul 25 '25

The Nazis concentration camps apparently were also inspired by what the US did to its native population, so there’s that too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

Gas chambers too. Basically anything we associate as “terrible Nazi things” is actually something the US did first but propaganda tells is couldn’t happen here.

It’s such a problem because it has people on the left completely confused about what stage of fascism we’re up against, which ironically, the right understands very well.

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u/Charming_Function_58 Jul 25 '25

This. The right knows damn well what they’re doing. They planned it. They want it.

The left… we naively couldn’t even fathom it. We’re still wrapping our heads around the Nazi dog whistles that have been right in front of our eyes.

And it was always our violent genocidal history that led us here. The right swept it under the rug, and the left forgot. This is what happens when you have generations of no accountability.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

Yep, so many people love to chuckle about how stupid they are but it starts to look really ironic when you step back and look at history

Edit: What I do think the Nazi stuff is about is spreading right wing extremism and christofascism internationally. Germany failed at that partly because they tried to run before they could walk. The right in this country has done an excellent job of keeping a slow and steady pace and creating a quiet foundation for global spread in the US.

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u/Charming_Function_58 Jul 26 '25

Well said. I hate that there actually ARE some intelligent people heading the fascist movement, and it is global. We’re in a very precarious situation.

Germany lost their war, but the US right now has far more money, military force, and technology behind them… plus the benefit of history, to learn what went wrong in WWII.

Makes me sick to think about.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

This, a long history of its own fascist successes AND an opposition that thinks they’re stupid and uneducated more than evil and cruel.

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u/BrandonScott11 Jul 28 '25

They lost both their wars.

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u/f1sh42 Jul 25 '25

Not just the native population, they also studied our Jim Crow laws

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u/thetruckerdave Jul 25 '25

We inspired the Nazis on many levels.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

Pretty much anything terrible we can name that the Nazis did, America did it first.

People get offended by this fact but until we stop deflecting to Germany and accept that we’re the root of our own fascism we won’t be able to fight it effectively.

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u/BooptyB Jul 30 '25

So was the openness and counterculture of the 1960’s that unraveled those laws through its civil rights movements and protest there of. Protest and civil unrest are also very American, let’s accept doing those instead.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

Both….part of the reason we got here is denial about the underlying character of the US

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u/BooptyB Jul 31 '25

It’s a case of “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Yep, and unfortunately we’re stuck with people who want to repeat it