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

William Lindsey :toad:

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

William Lindsey :toad:

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@stuartb @Burnt_Veggies Same here.

William Lindsey :toad:

@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?

William Lindsey :toad:

@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

JustRosy

@wdlindsy I'm so sorry to hear that she passed. It's clear that she was a very good and talented friend of yours. I've added the link you shared to the list of links under the video. It's right under the "Allegiance" links. Looks very informative! Thank you for sharing this with me!

William Lindsey :toad:

@JustRosy Yes, her death was quite a shock. She had just retired from years of teaching art in public school, had gone to an art workshop in New Mexico, and on the way home as she changed planes in Atlanta, she fell dead walking to her next flight. We had just seen her only days before as she came home from her final day of teaching and unloaded years of art items from her car.

Paul Sutton

@wdlindsy

I can't wait, we will then see all these Trump supporters celebrate then find the reality of a trump presidamcy is not as good as it was made out to be, we need to remember last time he ignored security briefings, may not sound much but that to me is pretty serious when your commander in chief can't even attend a briefing and take what is being discussed seriously.

He won't conceed power, either why would they, so will there be an election in 2028, in fact if they hold both houses will there even be midterms,?

William Lindsey :toad:

@zleap That's the thing, isn't it? In putting people like Trump (or Hitler, or Stalin, or Pol Pot, or Jim Jones) into power, people imagine they'll make life better for themselves and worse only for the others they want the fascist leader to target.

But it never works that way. They end up hurting themselves by enabling the fascist dictator.