tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post275001998957163721..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Fascists Don't Kick In Our Doors. They Don't Have To, We Leave Them Unlocked.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-82712006852021582822019-08-22T00:32:13.043-07:002019-08-22T00:32:13.043-07:00Hi Mound,
Back to the comments of your posting and...Hi Mound,<br />Back to the comments of your posting and read your response. It's so important to hear where people come from and their experiences. Thank you to your family, your father, and all of those who went to Europe to fight. Little did they know what would happen.<br />My parents both were children in occupied Holland. My mother lost both of her parents in 1943; her father was shipped to Berlin to work in the factories and died under allied bombs. <br />Yet the stories my parents tell are of childhood, living through confusing times and learning their German neighbours were fighting them.<br />I've spent my life trying to understand the unfathomable grief that everyone carries from those times, not so much anger, but grief. And I wonder how we can prevent that from happening to children today. <br />The worst that I see today - besides the intolerable imbecile sitting behind the desk in the oval office - is the affect his actions and words have on the kids. When I see those young people on camera behind him at his rallies, I shake my head at the parents who expose their children to such disrespect. Or the policies against children at the US southern border. I know the impact on those children will affect them and their own children for generations. It can't be underestimated - lost generations of children caused by a careless charlatan and his authoritarian policies. It's insidious.<br />Thanks again Mound!tfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03692583906757611808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35415135619081875382019-08-20T11:05:43.717-07:002019-08-20T11:05:43.717-07:00"How could fascism take hold in America when ..."How could fascism take hold in America when most of the populace finds it repugnant? Well, how did it take hold in Germany in the 30s?" I too have read "Defying Hitler", and other books. One of the biggest problems was the indifference of journalism and news papers. They (journalists) refused to rouse the German population as to what they knew was happening thinking it would go away. When Trump wants to buy Greenland, you know what he is doing. <br /> It will be Canada next and that is not far-fetched. Anyong<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-70790071946054207952019-08-19T23:41:28.648-07:002019-08-19T23:41:28.648-07:00'They Thought They Were Free' is not the e...<br />'They Thought They Were Free' is not the easiest read, TF, and it's certainly no 'feel good' work. <br /><br />I've been engaged in this from my youth. When I was about 10 I would wonder how the German nation turned Nazi. I was studying classical piano - Handel, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach and such and deeply admired their genius. I loved to play their music.<br /><br />At home we got by. My dad was horribly wounded in the war, two bullets and the worst, shrapnel. Scars on his torso, his arms, his legs and his face from the devastating shell fragments. A lung gone, about half his stomach, two thirds of his upper and lower intestine. One uncle dead, another a psychological basket case/drunk. All good men and true.<br /><br />They patched my dad up as best they could. They kept him alive but every other year or three it would go wrong and then it would be a race to get blood into him faster than he was bleeding out. What a mess. Do you know the godawful smell of blood when it pours out of your arsehole? I do.<br /><br />What I'm leading up to is that I wondered, at that early age, how the German people could be so gifted, so talented and then, suddenly, so evil, monstrous. I pondered whether there was something inherently malevolent in the Germans or, given the right cirumstances, could we be as bad or worse.<br /><br />What does the rise of this foul right wing fascist movement tell us about ourselves? How did these 'ignoramuses' get so drawn to the dark side?<br /><br />I fear that today we've become a bit like Haffner's Germans of the 30s. They needed to fight back but they were abandoned by their leaders.<br /><br />We tolerate these pukes like the slime who left the "Eternal Jew" reference in these comments. I wasn't embellishing my upbringing in noting that my dad and my uncles had left their loved ones and put it all on the line so that they could shoot, shell and bomb people who thought as he does and then put it into action. The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48848861496419859172019-08-19T23:04:25.306-07:002019-08-19T23:04:25.306-07:00Thanks Mound!
I'll check out both books.
I c...Thanks Mound!<br /><br />I'll check out both books.<br /><br />I copy a comment from goodreads about They Thought They Were Free --<br /><br />"Dr. Meyer's book shows how everyday people who feel themselves threatened, learn to conform to a gradually more encroaching authoritarianism, how difficult it is to recognize where one's accustomed life is being redirected, and how extremely difficult it is for anyone to effectively resist."<br /><br />When people are made to feel afraid, they can be highly motivated to follow a charlatan; a "flamboyant deceiver".<br />tfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03692583906757611808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76397089051764394532019-08-19T18:59:26.151-07:002019-08-19T18:59:26.151-07:00Anon, you've crossed the line of acceptable di...<br />Anon, you've crossed the line of acceptable discourse on this blog. You're a thoroughly nasty piece of work. BTW, my daughter lives and works in Europe along with many of her girlfriends from Canada. Dublin, London, Stockholm, Prague, Budapest, Malacca and more. Neither my daughter nor any of her friends nor her betrothed (who has lived there all his life) know the Europe you describe in your hate-filled screed. As I said, in better times we used to shoot, shell and bomb people who said the same things you're saying. We didn't do that because we were offended by the speech so much as what it led to.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-20860660614485551112019-08-19T16:12:48.475-07:002019-08-19T16:12:48.475-07:00No Muslim rape gangs? Ok Mr Denial.
https://en.m....No Muslim rape gangs? Ok Mr Denial.<br /><br />https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63669930312475001902019-08-19T15:16:08.944-07:002019-08-19T15:16:08.944-07:00Milliennial Facist/White Supremist 5:24, 5:58, 6:2...Milliennial Facist/White Supremist 5:24, 5:58, 6:21 - Have you been to Europe? I have frequently been there many times in the last four years and you are clueless. There are no Muslim rape gangs, that's a bullshit story peddled by your facist friends. Acid attacks are by the gangs and criminals who have had their knifes and guns confiscated in the crackdown. There are 500 million people in Europe, way more than North America but their crime rate is much lower than in North America, not including Canada. I have been to Manchester before the terrorist attack and I would go again because it's relatively safe there. I've also been to Liverpool and Birmingham, in those supposedly no go zones full of Muslims which don't exist. I've stayed at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas as well. A few years back I walked past a homeless person putting a gun in the same place Tomi Lahren stores her gun. This was in Hollywood. Europe is much safer than the USA, much safer than Mexico where one million Canadians holiday every year. Europe is safer than Seattle, a city I spend a lot of time in. Grow up junior and stop spreading lies.<br /><br /><br />mr perfectAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-38641372825913726012019-08-19T06:26:44.504-07:002019-08-19T06:26:44.504-07:00
Every right-wing nutjob kills in the name of his ...<br />Every right-wing nutjob kills in the name of his God, Anon. Fundamentalism, whether Islamic, Judaic or Christian, is a murderous business and a lasting scourge. It affords everyone a mortal enemy and a litany of plausible grievances. Do try to get over your sanctimonious self.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-51289667601439227772019-08-19T06:21:09.711-07:002019-08-19T06:21:09.711-07:00Here's a story from your neck of the woods Mou...Here's a story from your neck of the woods Mound. There's a mentally ill man named "Jessica Yaniv" who has been suing small immigrant-run beauty salons for refusing preform a Brazilian on him (in other words refusing to wax his Male genetilia). He's using the BC human rights commission to sue these poor women out of business.<br /><br />This is what your dad and uncles fought for. Some legacy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8730893328360160012019-08-19T05:58:12.633-07:002019-08-19T05:58:12.633-07:00No comment on the Muslim rape gangs trafficking yo...No comment on the Muslim rape gangs trafficking young girls or the ever increasing acid attacks? Knife crime? Lee Rigby? The Subway bombings? Westminister bridge? The Ariana Grande concert massacre? Nothing? Part and parcel I suppose eh Moundy? Geez I hope I can be a morally superior boomer one day and turn a blind eye too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27126724065455721862019-08-19T05:40:30.454-07:002019-08-19T05:40:30.454-07:00
Anon, I needed a moment to ponder what you remind...<br />Anon, I needed a moment to ponder what you remind me of but then it came to me. My dad and my uncles were the original anti-fa and they spent a few productive years shooting and bombing people with whom you would be quite comfortable. <br /><br />Now, like some sort of toenail fungus, your kind is back. Degenerates Uber Alles, I suppose.<br /><br />In other circumstances I would have deleted your post but it is an object lesson of the vermin in our midst.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89358198908561126222019-08-19T05:24:26.150-07:002019-08-19T05:24:26.150-07:00"The Nazis no longer felt any restraint; with..."The Nazis no longer felt any restraint; with their gangs, they regularly broke up election meetings of other parties. They shot one or two political opponents every day. ...The new Prussian regional interior minister promulgated an incredible decree. It ordered the police to intervene in any brawl on the side of the Nazis, without investigating the rights and wrongs of the matter, and furthermore to shoot at the other side without prior warning."<br /><br />Sweet! Unfortunately I assume Germany was at least 95% white when Hitler took power. America is only 60% white and dropping so it looks like the Eternal Jew won after all.<br /><br />Now the Krauts can have Muslim rape gangs, terrorist attacks, and Drag Queen story hours instead! Progress!<br /><br />How about those hundreds and hundreds of acid attacks in your jolly ol England Mound? Dieversity is our strength, dontcha know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-41585088306648474312019-08-18T19:00:16.702-07:002019-08-18T19:00:16.702-07:00TF, in addition to 'Defying Hitler,' you m...TF, in addition to 'Defying Hitler,' you might find 'They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45' by a German-speaking American Jew, Milton Mayer.<br /><br />The author relocated to Germany after the war and managed to 'pass' as an ordinary citizen. He zeroed in on 10 Germans and focused on their perceptions of Hitler, the Nazi party and what Germany went through before, during and in the aftermath of the war.<br /><br />"'They Thought They Were Free' cuts through the noise, revealing instead the slow accretions of change, complicity, and abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil."The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80065775100737526072019-08-18T18:50:52.874-07:002019-08-18T18:50:52.874-07:00Cap, I don't know what to make of this busines...<br />Cap, I don't know what to make of this business about Tulsi Gabbard. I wasn't aware she was a contender for the Dem nomination and it seems she isn't.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-78362710696868581812019-08-18T18:48:49.957-07:002019-08-18T18:48:49.957-07:00Rumley, I don't share your confidence. The Rep...<br />Rumley, I don't share your confidence. The Repugs are not constituted to revert to the 'party of Lincoln' once Trump is gone. There are too many acolytes in the wings waiting to continue his relentless onslaught on American democracy. Spend a couple of hours watching a Senate or House committee hearing and you'll see what I mean.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45653342379763119152019-08-18T18:45:58.754-07:002019-08-18T18:45:58.754-07:00Rural, I pretty much agree with all of your observ...<br />Rural, I pretty much agree with all of your observations and concerns. It's the near absence of public outrage that most worries me.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-74364900212589393802019-08-18T18:44:36.697-07:002019-08-18T18:44:36.697-07:00Well, Gyor, America is no longer a democracy, voti...Well, Gyor, America is no longer a democracy, voting notwithstanding. Just as 30s Germany saw a betrayal by the traditional political parties, the Dems have failed to protect the nation from the political capture of the "bought and paid for" Congress, the executive branch, the regulatory branch and, now, the judiciary. Read the 2014 Princeton study by Gilens and Page that found the national government no longer responsive to the electorate.<br /><br />In Canada we're fed electoral platforms that are largely horse shit, all with the objective of seizing the 'brass ring' which amounts to somewhat less than two votes out of five, enough to ensure a solid majority of seats without the consent of the majority of the governed.<br /><br />All of which proves that voting is not necessarily synonymous with democracy.<br /><br />Political religion, the evolution of today's military/industrial/neo-conservative,Christian fundamentalist/corporate warfighting complex and perma-war, gerrymandering and the rise of the surveillance state, all these and more are the markers of modern fascism. It doesn't have to be in the model of the Fuhrer so long as the instincts prevail.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43211879446932367302019-08-18T15:28:27.234-07:002019-08-18T15:28:27.234-07:00There are many parallels between the rise of Trump...There are many parallels between the rise of Trumpism in the USA of the 2010s and the apparent ease of the rise of Nazism in Germany of the 1930s.<br />Just watched a dramatized version of Albert Speer's memoir - Inside the 3rd Reich - where Rutger Hauer plays Speer as an eager innocent and devoted follower of Hitler. The program tries to capture how one person, along with the general public, can get caught up in the euphoria of a "crazed" leader - at rallies, in rhetoric, in disenfranchisement, in scapegoating the "other". How the lust for power, prestige and money can close your eyes to the realities of fascism.<br />We can lose our freedoms in the blink of an eye; look to history to see what "can" happen.<br />Thanks for the writings!tfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03692583906757611808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63482119103776744362019-08-18T15:21:01.456-07:002019-08-18T15:21:01.456-07:00Tulsa Gabbard is currently polling at 1% nationall...Tulsa Gabbard is currently polling at 1% nationally. The only polls she's ever led were the Drudge Report and Breitbart News spot polls after the July 31st debates. This far-right, fake news favourite is your champion of democracy?! Give your head a shake!<br /><br />CapAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43340479384922633732019-08-18T13:29:27.139-07:002019-08-18T13:29:27.139-07:00The Portland Proud Poodles this weekend had a dish...The Portland Proud Poodles this weekend had a disheartening experience. Outnumbered 3 or 4 to 1 the Load Boys were faced with ; a brass band in banana costumes, a dancing unicorn, clowns and worst of all The March of the Corgis. The people of Portland laughed at Donnie's Dorks and they left within half an hour protected from the killer corgis by all of Portland's police.<br /><br />The influence and power of Trumps Troopers has been faced down. Hopefully this will continue.rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63880259163718692642019-08-18T13:28:23.336-07:002019-08-18T13:28:23.336-07:00I briefly alluded to this a while ago (in one of m...I briefly alluded to this a while ago (in one of my now rare posts), frankly it scares the shit outa me, the parallels between what happened then and what is happening now, not just in U.S.of EH, is Just a forerunner of what COULD happen if our electorate does not wake up. Not that the choices are very good either way!!Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36370165371359551062019-08-18T13:19:22.534-07:002019-08-18T13:19:22.534-07:00America isn't becoming facist, it will still h... America isn't becoming facist, it will still have elections.<br /><br /> And in 2020 Trump will lose unless DNC corruption screws everything up again (and the DNC is cheating to screw over Tulsi Gabbard who they fear).Gyorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773307017058386989noreply@blogger.com