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When the American civil war starts. I wonder who will have Ben’s trophy on their wall after the conflict.
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America is currently waiting and sleeping through the time when a civil war or attacking the terrorists is possible. Germany would never have escaped the clutches of the Nazis without outside help. The stupid thing about a world power, however, is that once it has reached this status, nothing helps. Technology is now so advanced that it is no longer a problem.
Counterpoint:
The nazis collapsed not because of foreign intervention but because their ideology held that they were all super special boys and everyone else on the planet was subhumans to be subjugated - same as this administration.
These guys are duck-ups and what they want to do is either pointless or harmful to themselves.
These fuck ups have palantir drones and flock cameras and we’ve already seen technology like sonic crowd disruption weapons and microwave attacks intercontintenally.
Nazis didn’t have any of that shit and hitler himself didn’t have access to 4000 satellites
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Never forget Hong Kong.
Lui Kang is stateless now.
Exactly, they will bring themselves down through their own virtuosic incompetence.
They are too fucking ignorant of history to understand that by replacing experienced, intelligent leadership with loyalists who believe their own propaganda, is that they have given their opposition the gift of competence. Now the Resistance will have leadership that knows how to really wage war, as well as thousands of insider government workers who hate their stupid arrogant MAGA slavemasters, and will be willing moles, leakers, saboteurs, etc.
Bullshit.
The downfall of the Nazis was because they attacked Russia but were in no way prepared for the Russian winter. Where many soldiers simply froze to death (one must not forget meth or Panzerschokolade). This means that soldiers who are overtired do not realize that when they are tired, the body no longer works at 100%, making it more susceptible to cold and producing less heat). This mass death from the cold gave the USSR the opportunity not to be overrun and to push back the Nazis. Had it not been for the winter, the USSR would have fallen. America would have had an enemy over a much larger area (this was all before the Americans were able to seize all the knowledge of the Germans), the Germans were already close to completing the atomic bomb... as well as stealth airplanes etc. Believe me, if so many had not frozen to death in the East (fortunately) it would all have ended very differently.
So you're saying that they believed themselves to be special boys and that the Russians were subhumans to be easily subjugated?
Thanks for opening my eyes!
The "no foreign intervention" line is pretty nonsensical when the Nazis collapsed from foreign bodies entering their heads at high velocity.
Yes, it happened because they were moronically arrogant and started a war they couldn't win, but there's literally nothing more worthy of the term intervention than someone killing your ass.
The arrogance does not cause the collapse. The reaction to the arrogance causes it.
Hitler's meddling in military policy and fixation on impractical ideas had a big effect in hamstring ing the Nazi war effort.
It doesn't matter how incompetent a fascist is if no one takes the opportunity to put a bullet in them.
They had everyone ready to appease them at the start, but they kept going.
The arrogance causes our reaction which causes the collapse.
I understand and agree with your point that the arrogance is both their motivation and downfall, I just don't agree that it should be phrased as arrogance causing their defeat itself.
The Nazis weren't beaten because they were arrogant. The people they hurt and tried to hurt have their own agency, and it was their choices and actions that beat the Nazis.
That's important. It takes deliberate effort to beat fascism, from everyone opposed to it.
Lol no. Check the link. The collapse began with russian winter.. Cause most died there. This and just this was the beginn of the collaps. Your comment feals the pretty arrogang american way.
Before you think up something again. Yes, the Americans and Russians are partly responsible for the downfall of the Nazis and without their active intervention the collapse would never have happened. But without the mass deaths caused by the winter, it wouldn't have helped either.
The two positions in this thread aren't as opposed as they appear. Nazis did think of themselves as special boys. That's why they thought invading Russia was a good idea.
There are sometimes counterfactual arguments where people say "what if the Nazis did X instead, would that have saved them?". And where a lot of these end up is the realization that for them to have even tried it, they would have had to be something other than Nazis. If it hadn't been invading Russia, it would have been something else.
Fascism is more fragile than it appears on the surface.
"Fascism is more fragile than it appears on the surface."
It wasn't just Jews who were killed. Of course there were those who thought differently and those who resisted, but they were also sought out in order to kill them. Moreover, such events can never be compared with previous events due to technological progress. So we see the future of drones in Ukraine and we see globally how much is being invested in AI. The means that can also be used for oppression are taking on proportions of progress that could mean the downfall of humanity very fast. In America, they are now taking action against education, which is the most powerful weapon.
I'm a former Jehovah's Witness, so I'm well aware of the other groups targeted by the Nazis.
As for technology, they just put on a display of how well they use it. Signal can't fix dumb. This will always happen, and it will always be an opportunity to exploit.
Fortunately, the technology is still a long way from having access to all the knowledge via BCI. But I am a pessimistic optimist and think that if fascism takes over globally, they will want to trigger the boss fight as quickly as possible (since they love oil etc. and are against climate neutrality) and then everyone will die anyway.
Yeah just like the "bank run" on FTX wasn't what caused it to go bankrupt, it was actually the owner's hubris.
In much the same way that the fire didn't burn the house down, it was the tenant buying matches four days earlier.
If you're willing to go that many levels down to get to the root cause of an event you might as well say the nazis being humans is what caused the collapse.
I say that it was not the reason for the downfall of the Nazis. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-russian-winter-froze-hitlers-nazi-empire-its-tracks-190821 Education helps. I was in no way advocating it or anything else.
The nazis also wouldnt have gotten in charge without outside influence
Nah, let his body rot in the sun, and let the buzzards have a feast.
His corpse in death is as dry as his wife in life
We need a butt taxidermy contest. Well I assumed it was the butt.
Can't we all have a piece?