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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I don’t want to stoke any fears here, but I have a question - did Hitler ever condemn outright violence against Jews and other groups early on (while naturally being completely okay with it), or was that just on the table from day one?
Oh God! Natural light!![]()
Well...Hitler was REALLY big in mentioning so called "Verhetzer" in his speeches (meaning people who incite violence and hatred). But he was not talking about the people who were actually holding hate speeches, he was talking about Germans who were communists, social democrats or of Jewish faith. Also there was this narrative that some of Hitler's followers "overstepped" during the Reichskristallnacht. Which was naturally nonsense, what happened was exactly the logical consequence of his politics.
But Hitler did for a while pretend to have become less radical, in order to get the support of Hindenburg early on. If anyone had actually bothered to read "Mein Kampf" he would have never gotten away with this - I hope.
Edited by Swanpride on Oct 29th 2018 at 7:56:37 AM
No, they would just have claimed that Mein Kampf is "not serious/literal" or that they can control its author. Which, if memory serves, was indeed a widespread belief about Hitler.
Hey, didn't a lot of "Trump won't be so bad" folks claim these exact things about Big D? Also "take Trump seriously, not literally" thing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWe totally don’t have a gun problem in this country, right guys?
Edited by megaeliz on Oct 29th 2018 at 12:51:30 PM
And we've got reports of another suspicious package sent to CNN (their Atlanta HQ this time). Thankfully it was intercepted.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/29/media/cnn-atlanta-suspicious-package/index.html
It’s from the same guy as well.
You’d think they’d at least try to disguise it a little better.
Edited by megaeliz on Oct 29th 2018 at 12:55:34 PM
Kevin McCarthy, the #2 Republican in the House,
sent and then deleted a tweet telling people to stand up to Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg supposedly buying the election.
The fact that all three are Jewish is totally a coincidence.
Trump is going to Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
Haven’t they suffered enough? (Pittsburgh is overwhelmingly Democratic, just FYI)
Edited by megaeliz on Oct 29th 2018 at 4:11:15 AM
It gets better:
A group of progressive Jewish leaders told Trump that he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism. The comments came in the wake of the mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 dead and many more injured over the weekend. "Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted," the group wrote in a letter to Trump. "You have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterday’s massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country." (The Hill)

Not sure about the bomber but the synagogue shooter was critical of Trump; Too tolerant of Jews and their globalist refugee plot.