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Your last line was my point. Accomplishing the evils it accomplished is not a trivial thing to do. Those things took a lot coordination. So it was good at getting things done.
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Yeah no, functioning governments that don't coordinate every mechanism of the state towards oppressing, ethnic cleansing, and aggressive imperialism, don't have parallels worth mentioning.
That sounds dangerously close to "the ends justify the means." Are you saying that if a state has "good" intentions, then they'd be justified in borrowing the nazi's methods? Because that sounds an awful lot like what you're saying.
You seem to be assuming a lot about my intentions.
That said. Let's take the indocturnation of the populace as an example. Just about all functioning governments do it. Some do it with the aim of making thier citizens happy, healthy, and productive. So do it to further exploit the people. The nazis did it to build a war machine. But the tool is the manipulation of the education system.
So if you say to me... the government is manipulating the education system, and so did the nazis. It's not that much of an insult. If you say the government is manipulating the education system to build up a population they can call on to follow orders no matter how evil those orders are... now you are saying something very significant.
This administration is not only using the same tools the nazis did, but their intentions are very similar. The second half is a much more meaningful statement. And I am saying we should focus on their evil intentions instead of just dogwhistling. A lot of people don't see the intended goals of this administrations actions, and they need help to see it, and hopefully join the fight. Many who are already in the fight, will fight harder when they understand more of the goals.
The general strike in Minneapolis was a possible turning point. It could have spread and snowballed. But it didn't. Too many people just don't see the goals of this administration. Too many people have become desensitized to the word Nazi. We need to counter the administrations propoganda with things more than just name calling.