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Never crossed my mind that anyone would think that — but racists' mental gymnastics skills are so often... impressive. I just always took it as saying Hitler was (also) a hypocrite, and I think lotsa ppl mean the same about closeted, outspoken homophobes 🤷♀️
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Never crossed my mind that anyone would think that — but racists' mental gymnastics skills are so often... impressive. I just always took it as saying Hitler was (also) a hypocrite, and I think lotsa ppl mean the same about closeted, outspoken homophobes 🤷♀️
All those countries around Germany had large numbers of citizens who aided in the Holocaust with gusto. After they agreed to pin it all on Germans alone. Even Austrians got to play victim. And the French? 🖕
I'm listening to this rn, and grasping what Milgram's experiment taught us abt our neighbors
I'm listening to this rn, and grasping what Milgram's experiment taught us abt our neighbors
Speaking of tariffs, totalitarianism, and myths a culture will tell itself to deny its own atrocities, please enjoy
Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 [2005]
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Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 [2005]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postwar...
Download Audiobook + PDF drive.google.com/file/d/1r4f-...
![The little countries that emerged from the collapse of the old land empires in 1918 were poor, unstable, insecure—and resentful of their neighbours. Between the wars Europe was full of 'revisionist' states: Russia, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria had all been defeated in the Great War and awaited an occasion for territorial redress. After 1918 there was no restoration of international stability, no recovered equilibrium between the powers: merely an interlude born of exhaustion. The violence of war did not abate. It metamorphosed instead into domestic affairs—into nationalist polemics, racial prejudice, class confrontation and civil war. Europe in the Twenties and especially the Thirties entered a twilight zone between the afterlife of one war and the looming anticipation of another.
The internal conflicts and inter-state antagonisms of the years between the world wars were exacerbated—and in some measure provoked—by the accompanying collapse of the European economy. Indeed economic life in Europe was struck a triple blow in those years. The First World War distorted domestic employment, destroyed trade and devastated whole regions—as well as bankrupting states. Many countries—in central Europe above all—never recovered from its effects. Those that did were then brought low again in the Slump of the Thirties, when deflation, business failures and desperate efforts to erect protective tariffs against foreign competition resulted not only in unprecedented levels of unemployment and wasted industrial capacity but also the collapse of international trade (between 1929 and 1936 Franco-German commerce fell by 83 percent), accompanied by bitter inter-state competition and resentment. And then came the Second World War [...]
The cumulative impact of these blows was to destroy a civilization. The scale of the disaster that Europe had brought upon itself was perfectly clear to contemporaries even as it was happening.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fzlezpmuxpcfxkpkr7bop74x/bafkreibj7w2crg77bi4f4ui3avtqryss7mf2onvwypjuroecgmpywqqv24@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
All those countries around Germany had large numbers of citizens who aided in the Holocaust with gusto. After they agreed to pin it all on Germans alone. Even Austrians got to play victim. And the French? 🖕
I'm listening to this rn, and grasping what Milgram's experiment taught us abt our neighbors
I'm listening to this rn, and grasping what Milgram's experiment taught us abt our neighbors
Patton was a vile antisemite who admired nazis. After the war he kept 1000s of Jews, whom he referred to as subhuman in his diaries, captive in the same camps, many for years longer than the nazis had. He even left nazis in charge of those camps. Eisenhower overthrew Iran's PM and installed the Shah
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Patton was a vile antisemite who admired nazis. After the war he kept 1000s of Jews, whom he referred to as subhuman in his diaries, captive in the same camps, many for years longer than the nazis had. He even left nazis in charge of those camps. Eisenhower overthrew Iran's PM and installed the Shah
Go home, George Bush is lonely
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Go home, George Bush is lonely
Ain't no way he's showing up
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ain't no way he's showing up
Remember when the IRA almost hit it with mortars from van using long division and a parking spot for an aiming system with John Major inside the building? Good times
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Remember when the IRA almost hit it with mortars from van using long division and a parking spot for an aiming system with John Major inside the building? Good times
The new Operation Condor.
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The new Operation Condor.
If you use one of the many YouTube downloader sites to download any YouTube video, you can watch it using your own video player without ads 😉
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you use one of the many YouTube downloader sites to download any YouTube video, you can watch it using your own video player without ads 😉
Y'all gonna STAND in the rain across the street? Lol STAND is a great name for you guys. Chain yourself to the entrance or stay home, losers
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Y'all gonna STAND in the rain across the street? Lol STAND is a great name for you guys. Chain yourself to the entrance or stay home, losers
Fvck ai
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November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Fvck ai
👆 raised Mormon / educated guess
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
👆 raised Mormon / educated guess