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Spring is here and the beach bars reopened. So I jumped on my bike and raced to the beach today. Love it!! 🥰
March 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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With people going to polls 🗳️ in Germany today 🇩🇪— this is an excellent and clear eyed assessment of where things stand.

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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9b82e57...
On the eve of elections, Germany is deeply divided and in a dark mood
The issue of migration has attracted so much attention that it has distracted from the fundamental geopolitical and economic challenges
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Media that dared to questioned him were vilified as "the enemy" and "Marxists."
Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, bragged about how the Nazis were able to intimidate the media into giving them favorable coverage, and didn't need to give direct orders.

The Nazi regime and its /8
February 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The German press under Nazi rule highlighted instances of violence by Jews to convince the public that Jewish immigrants were a danger to the "real Germans."

Hitler wasted no time dismantling democratic institutions. Loyalty wasn't just encouraged; it was demanded. Opponents were silenced. /7
February 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
if they constantly had an
"enemy within" to blame while the corporatocracy robbed the country blind.

An easy target was one of the smallest minorities. Hitler removed birthright citizenship rights of Jews and started rounding them up for mass deportations for being "illegally" in the country. /6
February 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
strikes.

Progressives and trade unionists were imprisoned and sent to concentration camps. Corporate profits skyrocketed while working class Germans lived paycheck to paycheck.

Hitler, who became a billionaire while in office, knew he and his clan of oligarchs could get away with the scam /5
February 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Chancellor in 1933.

Hitler appointed German oligarchs as his economic advisors. He proceeded to privatize government run utilities, solidifying support of the economic elite.

With the working class divided along cultural and ethnic lines, the Nazis shut down workers unions and abolished /4
February 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
promised to return Germany to greatness.

To solidify his base, Hitler masterfully scapegoated minorities for the nation's problems, exploiting societal divisions with an "us vs. them" narrative. Many Germans took the bait. Hitler's Nazi Party continued to gain traction, until he became /3
February 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
the “corrupt" Social Democrats.

Hitler cleverly positioned himself as the voice of the "common man," railing against the "elites," cultural "degeneracy," and the establishment, who he all labeled as "Marxists." He claimed the education system was indoctrinating children to hate Germany, and /2
February 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Read this and then tell me which of these parallels you don’t see..?
In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government.

He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of /1
February 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Spring.. 🥰
February 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM