As the United States hovers at the edge of fascism, the history of Germany can help.

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@CassandraVert So well-stated and well-noted.

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@lolonurse I do, too. I keep in mind how they nattered on about the big red wave coming in 2020, and it never arrived.

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@lolonurse I will keep doing all I can in my own little way to fight — and am happy to know others are fighting alongside me.

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@KathleenC I very much agree. Thank you for making these points so clearly.

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@beingreal I very much hope you're right about that.

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@jwcph I think it's one thing to say that making these points won't turn GOP voters towards any light, and another to say that it's "too late" to make these points. I think they have to be made over and over and I'm grateful to Timothy Snyder for doing so when the media have been mealy-mouthed about all of this.

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@DRBLD2009 Not sure if you're responding to that statement by Jess Piper or something else.

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@tantramar @fsinn Touché — wonderful skewering of that tired, mendacious mainstream media meme of "economic anxiety" as the heart of the Trump voter's universe.

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@SherBeareth I say the same every time I read something he says that's worth considering.

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@the5thColumnist Indeed.

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@pjs Thank you. I'll read this with interest.

Chris Mackay 🇨🇦

@wdlindsy @fsinn “economic anxiety” — that’s the term I was half-remembering and flailing about for. You got the idea even though I didn’t fully land it.

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@stuartb @Burnt_Veggies Same here.

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@tantramar @fsinn Ah, but you did land it! I knew right away the meme you were highlighting.

JustRosy

@wdlindsy And on top of that, here's what else they're voting for:

JustRosy (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Future Headline: Trump's Mass-Deportation Economy FAILURE Brings SOCIALISM to USA! https://calendar.ucsc.edu/event/japanese_american_farming_experiences_prior_to_and_during_wwii The Humiliating Wrath of Anti-Immigration Economics on Ordinary US Citizens: https://justrosy3.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/the-humiliating-wrath-of-anti-immigration-economics-on-ordinary-us-citizens/

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William Lindsey :toad:

@JustRosy Thank you for that valuable reminder. Brings to mind George Takei's painful accounts along with a dramatic telling of his family's interment at Rohwer camp in Arkansas. That was such a shameful period in American history, one of many such shameful episodes.

JustRosy

@wdlindsy Thank YOU for the reminder! I knew I forgot to include something! He's the whole reason I first found out about it! It wasn't in my childhood history books at all. Lemme go fix that!

William Lindsey :toad:

@JustRosy You're welcome. Because I grew up in and live in Arkansas, reading what was doing to Takei and his family is even more painful, since they were sent to a camp in Arkansas. A neighbor of mine discovered at her college in Arkansas a large cache of artwork produced by the Japanese internees in Arkansas, and did a valuable service in presenting this artwork to the whole world as an artistic chronicle of the years Japanese Americans spent in camps here.

JustRosy

@wdlindsy I'm so sad, and hopeful at the same time, to read this. Sad for what happened before. Hopeful, in the sense that perhaps if her work continues to gain traction, it will help to prevent such a travesty from being repeated. Do you have a link to her work that you can share here?

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@JustRosy I don't have a link that seems to point directly to her work to preserve, catalogue, and exhibit artwork produced by Japanese internees, though I see this work mentioned in various obituaries written about her when she died several years ago. Here's an article she wrote in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Suan Turner Purvis was her name, a good neighbor and friend of mine who died shockingly and suddenly, and whom I still grieve.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Encyclopedia_of_Southern_Culture/uj4vqIjD-_AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22susan+turner+purvis%22+%22japanese%22&pg=PA435&printsec=frontcover