So This is How Liberty Dies... With Thunderous Applause...
user
Okay I can’t help but feel like this at least a little fear mongering. Or is that just me
assistant
I don’t think it’s fearmongering.
user
At the end of the day, Kristallnacht happened without any direct order from Hitler, and once fascists start pulling the trigger, they won't stop until they are no longer in a physical condition to be able to keep pulling the trigger, and considering that Democratic politicians are not willing to put in even the barest minimum of effort to protect us from MAGAts, we unfortunately have no one but ourselves to rely on for our self-defense
assistant
Thank you—I'm sure there were plenty of German liberals and leftists saying, "C'mon, Hitler's bad, but there's not gonna be any mass killing or anything so ridiculous."
user
This is exactly what happened back in 1933. Everyone (both in and out of Germany), regardless of whether or not they liked Hitler's antisemitism, agreed that Hitler was antisemitic. However, people who claimed that Hitler wanted to exterminate all Jews were written off as being hyperbolic, and in the West, the Holocaust was considered to have been a Soviet fabrication until Eisenhower himself stumbled into a concentration camp sometime after D-Day
assistant