My grandmother was a secretary in a Nazi concentration camp, filling out death certificates (“heart attack”); they issued these for people they didn’t immediately murder on arrival.

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

My grandmother was a secretary in a Nazi concentration camp, filling out death certificates (“heart attack”); they issued these for people they didn’t immediately murder on arrival.

This was 80 years ago & I’m two generations removed.

I think about it often.

Don’t let it come to this here.

https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/371/051/576/210/311/original/355980463c200a3d.jpeg

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@thomasfuchs

The wealthy have always fostered fascist movements. There needs to be taxes on billionaires
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/25/international-scheme-to-tax-billionaires-wealth-technically-feasible-study-finds

How are the Waltons any different than Florence Gould?

Disguising collaboration under a shield of philanthropy.

https://theconversation.com/why-billionaire-philanthropy-might-not-be-as-generous-as-you-think-241862

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/florence-goulds-toxic-gifts/

https://forward.com/culture/399317/why-do-we-keep-honoring-this-unrepentant-anti-semite/

The billionaires funding Trumpism all share a common goal: money laundering & tax evasion.

Just like Hitler's enablers.
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/25/billionaires-have-broken-media-washington-posts-non-endorsement-is-a-sickening-moral-collapse/

[herrbischoff@mastodon.social]

@Npars01 @thomasfuchs I‘d like to leave this article here – from August 1941.

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@herrbischoff @thomasfuchs

At the time this 1941 article was written, we didn't have the predictive analytics capabilities of today.

Today it's easier to forecast who will go Nazi. The moneyed. The privileged & their coterie of wannabes.

The hateful. The resentful who blameshift instead of being accountable. Sadists.

The greedy. The takers. The status conscious. The mediocre.

The religious. The brainwashed authoritarian who cannot persuade, only coerce & menace.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/dave-mccormick-senate-billionaire-donors-20241024.html

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@herrbischoff @thomasfuchs

Who goes Nazi?

Cognitive rigidity. Bigotry. Conformists.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01624-y

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/12/trump-voter-authoritarian-research/

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/1/13480416/trump-supporters-sexism

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31721-6

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/finding-a-new-home/202407/what-donald-trumps-most-loyal-followers-may-have-in-common

https://www.vox.com/2016/2/23/11099644/trump-support-authoritarianism

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533/

https://www.psypost.org/new-psychology-research-indicates-that-social-rigidity-is-a-key-predictor-of-cognitive-rigidity/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/freedom-learn/201702/childrearing-beliefs-were-best-predictor-trump-support

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/01/how-your-parenting-style-predicts-whether-you-support-donald-trump/

https://www.psypost.org/right-wing-authoritarianism-appears-to-have-a-genetic-foundation/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-023-00161-4