against the socialists/socdems

The SDP purged its ranks of Communists to appease Hindenburg’s State Police. You can’t side with a party that’s trying to rat you out to the cops and get you killed.

Which, again, brings us to the conservatives who held power by playing sides off each other until they misplayed their hands.

The path to fascism was paved back in 1919, when the original Communists were rounded up and executed by the conservatives.

The communists literally sided with the fascists

The fascists were barely sided with themselves, given all the backstabbing. It took the conservative party to elevate the Nazis to the Chancellorship.

If you live like a billionaire and you grift like a billionaire and you have borrowing capacity like a billionaire…

Trump hasn’t become rich

For a not-rich guy, he sure does seem to live the high life.

Why hide what is clearly quite popular?

Corporate media has the public totally sold on oligopoly. Elon will run our country into the ground and the Talking Heads on his payroll will tell the whole country how hard they need to clap.

And if you won’t, we all know the cops will.

I’m not a fan of any appeals to gatekeep energy use to “just essentials” instead permitting growth

There’s a huge gulf between essential and wasteful.

Even as a PoC, you’ll want a strong foundation to build on. Even as a temporary solution, you want to know the fix won’t fail the next time its under pressure. Even under time constraints, you want a solution that you are confident works when it goes live.

hostility never changed anyone’s mind

Chronic abuse absolutely shapes human perception and behavior.

In this case, a lot of Lemmy has been so battered down by “China Bad” propaganda that they’ll straight up deny the threat of climate change to justify rejecting Chinese manufactured goods.

The argument is always “solar/wind still use chemicals” and never “this is the net reliance on extractive industry by energy source”.

That said, general energy conservation is still important. You can’t cut emissions if all your new power just gets funnelled into Grok style AI.

They were at the inflection point back in 2008. They’ve been full tilt towards the improvement side of the curve for nearly two decades.

Europeans demolished their manufacturing sector when they stripped all the wiring out of the walls during the austerity years.

You can’t blame people for buying foreign when you’ve been defunding domestic infrastructure for over a decade.

I can fix him

Funneling migrants into the desert to die isn’t a bug, it’s a feature

Both.

The Wilson/Coolidge Era was nightmarish for immigrants, with a host of laws targeting East Asian migrants and displacing uncountable numbers of industrial workers particularly along the West Coast.

Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback set off a wave of police terror along the Gulf Coast, crippled the agricultural economy, and killed hundreds of migrants forced into transit.

The current border policy funnels hundreds of thousands of migrants through an inhospitality Texas/Arizona desert region that’s killed around 10k-50k people in the last decade.

None of it actually curbs immigration. It all just becomes a black market affair, affording employers a tool to depress wages and cartels an opportunity to press-gang border residents into cattle slavery.

I fail to recall anyone else being as spectaculary unpredictable and insane

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. President Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile Communist Bloc nations think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S. in fear of an unpredictable response

Literally Nixonian foreign policy to behave unpredictable and insane.

Well, they quite literally could have prevented Hitler’s rise to power

By all voting for Hindeburg, the guy who ordered the police to assassinate Rosa Luxembourg?

Stalin decided it was more beneficial to the USSR for the Communists to support the Nazis

Hindenburg thought it was more beneficial for the Conservatives to support the Nazis.

Stalin was the Boogeyman Hindenburg used to justify a fascist government. Purging the Nazis in 1933 was as important to him as it was in 1919.

Twice, Hindenburg sided with fascists to demolish any kind of civil socialist reform in his country. Twice “evil Russians” got the blame for a domestic slaughter.

That’s why you can have a Democrat running around hand in hand with Liz Cheney while the corporate media cheers.

Hitler is easy to fixate on as a bad guy because he’s an evil dead foreigner. Cheney is harder

His presidency was more like these prior administrations as well.

Trump is not a unique aberration in American politics. He’s a continuation of a historical trend.

We still need some of us to be willing to clean up the shit to preserve the truth.

People like this exist and you can find them. You just won’t have them advertised to you. Real journalism exists, but its speaks floating in a sea of disinformation.

I can only be so upset a people for failing to find it. There but for the grace of God go I.

I’m not sure I understand how your last sentiment relates

A great deal of informed opinion and intelligently dissenting views have been actively suppressed at the educational, political, and industry levels.

Whether you’re Cori Bush or Norm Finkelstein, you’re fighting and uphill battle just to be recognized.

The point here is that Hitler is cleraly the most famous crazy dictator.

He’s the Big Historical National Enemy. The one that we famously ground into humiliating defeat.

it’s looking like this Trump fellow is going to be remember quite a lot as well

Trump didn’t pattern his campaign after Hitler. He patterned it after Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan.