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con, my friend, I have to disagree with you here--there is in fact a whole hell of a lot to lose, which could in fact happen. Freedom's have to be earned and then protected.
You don't use apostrophes to pluralise words you fucking idiot.
Also, protecting freedoms means keeping your soldiers at home to protect your freedoms. It doesn't mean sending them to various third world shitholes to steal economic resources. Essentially, you are using the precise same argument Hitler did, who claimed he needed to invade Europe to "protect" it from Communism.
The only way we can get peace is by making people stop believing in their country and form the one world government. No one needs to fight for their "culture", or "people". If only the Democrat party had won there would be less crime, less oppression and racism.
After all WHO would risk their life for their country?
Nobody risks their life for their country, idiot. This is part of the cretinous bullshit they feed you to make it sound like a great idea to charge into battle against whoever they tell you is the enemy. When a foreign state power launches a ground invasion against the US and you die on the streets in a hail of gunfire, then that will be dying for your country. Flying 3,000 miles away to a third world shithole and killing all the people opposed to your intervention is called military imperialism, not dying for your country. Indeed, the irony is that the people you kill ARE dying for their country.
So, BOTH you and Trump ran away.. You ARE like the company you keep...
So NOT wanting to risk dying just so America can steal and murder in third world countries is "running away" in your book? I believe it's called smart, actually. What kind of idiot would help American banksters profit from murdering people and exploiting other countries' resources at the expense of their own safety just because the TV told you it was the patriotic thing to do.
It would be NICE if country's didn't want to invade us
9/10 times it's the Americans doing the invading, so you can stick it where the sun don't shine and blow it out of your ass.
I stood on that wall protecting YOU.
Who exactly where you protecting me from? Was it the middle eastern people you helped steal oil from or was it the vietnamese women you raped and murdered?
Donald Trump hates America too.
Donald Trump loves America, not in the sense that he truly wants to make it better, but rather he wants to cling to his idealized super capitalistic version of it. That's what MAGA really means, make America a corporation again.
I don't really know where to start as your comment is a complete word salad, you appear to just be playing semantics, but why?.
Patriotism isn't based on 'blind' loyalty, which in effect is counter intuitive to the definition.
If you really want to break it down, technically, 'Patriotism' by definition is perspective of the individual, quite the opposite to a 'cult like indoctrination'.
I could have saved myself a breath and copy pasted the dictionary definition, I suggest you save some embarrassment and look it up.
"an institution who's job is to control you."
I'll leave you with a quote that should hopefully resonate given the proclaimer.
"Ask not what you're country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"
He's describing patriotism in his own words, not arguing about the meaning of language you gargantuan dummy.
Patriotism isn't based on 'blind' loyalty, which in effect is counter intuitive to the definition.
That is PRECISELY what patriotism is, moron. Are you telling us that the average American conducts a full quantitative and qualitative analysis before they decide to start crying when they hear the national anthem? Do they study the sprawling history of American aggression and theft before they start chanting "USA! USA!" at sports games?
"'you appear to just be playing semantics, but why?'
He's describing patriotism in his own words, not arguing about the meaning of language you gargantuan dummy."
Ok but I am referring to your comment that I initially commented on, dummy.
But again it all comes down to your own misunderstanding, mainly so the definition of patriotism, which certainly isn't "chanting "USA! USA!" at sports games", maybe it's just your ignorance that's getting you so upset.
Ok but I am referring to your comment that I initially commented on, dummy.
Are you retarded? You were referring to Fact Machine's (i.e. DarkWanderer's) comment because that is the post you replied to. There are precisely ZERO posts from me above your reply you fucking idiot.
But again it all comes down to your own misunderstanding
It comes down to you being an insufferable, programmed idiot who wants to argue that black is white despite insurmountable evidence to the contrary.
the definition of patriotism, which certainly isn't "chanting "USA! USA!" at sports games"
This is blatantly a straw man argument. Nobody made the claim that the definition of patriotism was chanting "USA! USA!" at sports games. You are literally changing the arguments I am making before attacking them, which is what liars and idiots do.
If you really want to break it down, technically, 'Patriotism' by definition is perspective of the individual
That is the precise opposite of what patriotism is. Obviously. But please, continue to try to persuade us that 300 million different people all reached a completely individual decision to cry upon sight of the American flag, you stupid fucking idiot.
300 million people can all have individual different beliefs they believe to be patriotic.
Oh shut up you impossibly stupid, salivating moron. If you honestly believe that 300 million people all reached an individual decision to form a sexual attraction to a piece of inanimate rock called America, with no influence or persuasion from anywhere else, then you suffer from a level of stupidity for which no word exists to capture the magnitude of.
How exactly is one "loyal" to a piece of inanimate rock they were born on by complete coincidence? Rocks have no feelings or preference towards you, so to claim you can be loyal to them is RETARDED. It's literally retarded. Loyalty is something one has to people or philosophical ideals, not to rocks.
Patriotism is a social control methodology popularised by the Nazis, where idiots are persuaded to hate people from other places simply because they are from other places.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind" (Albert Einstein)
How exactly is one "loyal" to a piece of inanimate rock they were born on by complete coincidence?
Loyalty to the Constitution. You know...that piece of paper libs want to burn. You should read it some time. Or at least find someone who can read to read it for you.
Nobody has even read the entire constitution you idiot. Christ, you're so completely full of shit. People are loyal to something they haven't even read?
You know...that piece of paper libs want to burn.
Oh really bronto? It is libs who want to do that, yes?
Do it my way. Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a god damn piece of paper!" (George W. Bush)
Patriotism is a social control methodology popularised by the Nazis
Being loyal to a country, one's own people, or to one's tribe has existed for thousands of years. Even animals practice it.
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.[1][2] It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.
In zoology, examples include the tribes Caprini (goat-antelopes), Hominini (hominins), Bombini (bumblebees), and Thunnini (tunas). The standard ending for the name of a zoological tribe is "-ini". The tribe Hominini is divided into subtribes by some scientists; subtribe Hominina then comprises "humans". The standard ending for the name of a zoological subtribe is "-ina".
In botany, examples include the tribes Acalypheae and Hyacintheae. The standard ending for the name of a botanical tribe is "-eae". The tribe Hyacintheae is divided into subtribes, including the subtribe Massoniinae. The standard ending for the name of a botanical subtribe is "-inae".
In bacteriology, the form of tribe names is as in botany, e.g., Pseudomonadeae, based on the genus name Pseudomonas.[3]
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind" (Albert Einstein)
Isn't it interesting that you only quote the Germans...
I smell a little Freudian subconscious speak...
I can't remember where Marx and Hitler lived....some country somewhere that Conservanazi is obsessed with...
Albert was not a childhood prodigy. He started speaking relatively late when he was three years old. His parents made him see a doctor worrying that Albert had developmental issues.
Firstly, real feelings of loyalty toward one's friends and family are PRECISELY what patriotism is designed to exploit.
So we shouldn't have families or loyalty. Good one Karl...there's the key to happiness right there...you should keep thinking that way. Perhaps the prozak will give you a little comfort at night. No?
Secondly, I said the Nazis popularised patriotism. I didn't say they invented it you fucking illiterate twit.
How do you popularize something that is already popular...
Napoleon Bonaparte promoted French nationalism based upon the ideals of the French Revolution such as the idea of "liberty, equality, fraternity"
Oh that's definitely what I said bronto. You haven't just invented that straw man argument because you are a lying little Nazi who radically changes what other people say before attacking it. Fuck off and die you idiotic little shit.
How do you popularize something that is already popular.
Because it wasn't already popular. You just made that part up because you're a pathological liar and a fucking clown.
Napoleon Bonaparte promoted French nationalism based upon the ideals of the French Revolution such as the idea of "liberty, equality, fraternity"
I JUST TOLD YOU FIVE MINUTES AGO THAT THE NAZIS DIDN'T INVENT PATRIOTISM, YOU AUTISTIC NAZI TWAT.
lift up your hearts and draw new faith from the resurrection of our people… Ultimately we shall live to see the kingdom of freedom, honour and social justice. Long live Germany!
Speech at the Lustgarten in Berlin, April 4, 1932. As quoted in Hitler's Berlin: Abused City, Thomas Friedrich, Yale University Press, 2012, p. 272.
Adolf Hitler's anti-communism was already a central feature of his book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power.[3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry.[72]
In a speech in 1927 to the Bavarian regional parliament the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, used the term "Untermensch" referring to the communists of the German Bavarian Soviet Republic: "It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament."[73]
Prior to their seizure of powers, conflicts with Communists, and attempts to win them over, featured frequently in Nazi propaganda. Newspaper articles presented Nazis as innocent victims of Communist assaults.[74] An election flyer aimed at converting Communists.[75] Articles advising Nazi propagandist discussed winning over the workers from the Marxists.[76] Election slogans urged that if you wanted Bolshevism, to vote Communist, but to remain free Germans, to vote Nazi.[77]
Goebbels, aware of the value of publicity (both positive and negative), deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, including violent attacks on the Communist Party of Germany.[78] He used the death of Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".[79]
The spectre of Communism was used to win dictatorial powers.[80] The Reichstag fire was presented by Nazi newspaper as the first step in a Communist seizure of power.[81] Hitler made use of it to portray Nazis as the only alternative to the Communists, fears of which he whipped up.[82] This propaganda resulted in an acceptance of anti-Communist violence at the time, though antisemitic violence was less approved of.[83]
When the Pope attacked the errors of Nazism, the government's official response was a note accusing the Pope of endangering the defense against world Bolshevism.[84]
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Communists were among the first people that were sent to concentration camps.[85] They were sent because of their ties with the Soviet Union and because Nazism greatly opposed Communism.[86]
Films such as Hans Westmar and Hitler Youth Quex depicted the deaths of their heroes as martyrs killed by Communism; in both films, the movement appears as an overall threat, with some ruthless villains as leaders, but with some misguided Communists who could be inspired by the heroes[87]—as, indeed, potential Nazis.[35] Literature, too, depicted heroic German workers who were taken in by international Marxism, but whose Aryan nature revolted on learning more of it.[88] Der Giftpilz had a man tell Hitler Youth members that once he had been a Communist, but he had realized that they were led by Jews who were trying to sacrifice Germany for Russia's benefit.[89]
From very early on after the invasion of the Soviet Union, permission was given to eliminate all communists:
It is necessary to eliminate the red sub-humans, along with their Kremlin dictators. German people will have a great task to perform the most in its history, and the world will hear more about that this task will be completed till the end.
— Newsletter for the troops (Mitteilungen für die Truppe), in June 1941, [90]
There is a difference between the theoretical knowledge of socialism and the practical life of socialism. People are not born socialists, but must first be taught how to become them.
“German Volksgenossen!” Hitler’s opening speech at the new Winterhilfswerk, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, October 5, 1937. Also quoted in The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh [7]
Adolf Hitler's anti-communism was already a central feature of his book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power.[3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry.[72]
In a speech in 1927 to the Bavarian regional parliament the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, used the term "Untermensch" referring to the communists of the German Bavarian Soviet Republic: "It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament."[73]
Prior to their seizure of powers, conflicts with Communists, and attempts to win them over, featured frequently in Nazi propaganda. Newspaper articles presented Nazis as innocent victims of Communist assaults.[74] An election flyer aimed at converting Communists.[75] Articles advising Nazi propagandist discussed winning over the workers from the Marxists.[76] Election slogans urged that if you wanted Bolshevism, to vote Communist, but to remain free Germans, to vote Nazi.[77]
Goebbels, aware of the value of publicity (both positive and negative), deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, including violent attacks on the Communist Party of Germany.[78] He used the death of Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".[79]
The spectre of Communism was used to win dictatorial powers.[80] The Reichstag fire was presented by Nazi newspaper as the first step in a Communist seizure of power.[81] Hitler made use of it to portray Nazis as the only alternative to the Communists, fears of which he whipped up.[82] This propaganda resulted in an acceptance of anti-Communist violence at the time, though antisemitic violence was less approved of.[83]
When the Pope attacked the errors of Nazism, the government's official response was a note accusing the Pope of endangering the defense against world Bolshevism.[84]
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Communists were among the first people that were sent to concentration camps.[85] They were sent because of their ties with the Soviet Union and because Nazism greatly opposed Communism.[86]
Films such as Hans Westmar and Hitler Youth Quex depicted the deaths of their heroes as martyrs killed by Communism; in both films, the movement appears as an overall threat, with some ruthless villains as leaders, but with some misguided Communists who could be inspired by the heroes[87]—as, indeed, potential Nazis.[35] Literature, too, depicted heroic German workers who were taken in by international Marxism, but whose Aryan nature revolted on learning more of it.[88] Der Giftpilz had a man tell Hitler Youth members that once he had been a Communist, but he had realized that they were led by Jews who were trying to sacrifice Germany for Russia's benefit.[89]
From very early on after the invasion of the Soviet Union, permission was given to eliminate all communists:
It is necessary to eliminate the red sub-humans, along with their Kremlin dictators. German people will have a great task to perform the most in its history, and the world will hear more about that this task will be completed till the end.
— Newsletter for the troops (Mitteilungen für die Truppe), in June 1941, [90]
Having trouble reading English again, Herr Bronto? Here, let me help you.
Einstein was born in Germany, but renounced his German citizenship. He became a Swiss citizen in 1901, and became a US citizen in 1940, making him a dual US-Swiss citizen at the time of his death in 1955.
Which part of "renounced his German citizenship" are you having difficulty understanding exactly? Would it help if I used Asperger's-friendly language?
The animals already understand your pants and snorts fine.
Are you aware that this doesn't make any sense? There are exceptions of course, but in order for something to be humorous it usually has to make sense.
In our movement the two extremes come together: the Communists from the Left and the officers and students from the Right. These two have always been the most active elements, and it was the greatest crime that they used to oppose each other in street fights… Our party has already succeeded in uniting these two utter extremes within the ranks of our storm troops. They will form the core of the great German liberation movement, in which all without distinction will stand together when the day comes to say: ‘The Nation arises, the storm is breaking!’
As quoted in Der Fuehrer: Hitler’s Rise to Power, Konrad Heiden, Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1969, p. 147, first published 1944. Part of Hitler’s quote also cited in Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, A Harvest Book, 1985, footnote, p. 7
Adolf Hitler's anti-communism was already a central feature of his book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power.[3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry.[72]
In a speech in 1927 to the Bavarian regional parliament the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, used the term "Untermensch" referring to the communists of the German Bavarian Soviet Republic: "It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament."[73]
Prior to their seizure of powers, conflicts with Communists, and attempts to win them over, featured frequently in Nazi propaganda. Newspaper articles presented Nazis as innocent victims of Communist assaults.[74] An election flyer aimed at converting Communists.[75] Articles advising Nazi propagandist discussed winning over the workers from the Marxists.[76] Election slogans urged that if you wanted Bolshevism, to vote Communist, but to remain free Germans, to vote Nazi.[77]
Goebbels, aware of the value of publicity (both positive and negative), deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, including violent attacks on the Communist Party of Germany.[78] He used the death of Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".[79]
The spectre of Communism was used to win dictatorial powers.[80] The Reichstag fire was presented by Nazi newspaper as the first step in a Communist seizure of power.[81] Hitler made use of it to portray Nazis as the only alternative to the Communists, fears of which he whipped up.[82] This propaganda resulted in an acceptance of anti-Communist violence at the time, though antisemitic violence was less approved of.[83]
When the Pope attacked the errors of Nazism, the government's official response was a note accusing the Pope of endangering the defense against world Bolshevism.[84]
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Communists were among the first people that were sent to concentration camps.[85] They were sent because of their ties with the Soviet Union and because Nazism greatly opposed Communism.[86]
Films such as Hans Westmar and Hitler Youth Quex depicted the deaths of their heroes as martyrs killed by Communism; in both films, the movement appears as an overall threat, with some ruthless villains as leaders, but with some misguided Communists who could be inspired by the heroes[87]—as, indeed, potential Nazis.[35] Literature, too, depicted heroic German workers who were taken in by international Marxism, but whose Aryan nature revolted on learning more of it.[88] Der Giftpilz had a man tell Hitler Youth members that once he had been a Communist, but he had realized that they were led by Jews who were trying to sacrifice Germany for Russia's benefit.[89]
From very early on after the invasion of the Soviet Union, permission was given to eliminate all communists:
It is necessary to eliminate the red sub-humans, along with their Kremlin dictators. German people will have a great task to perform the most in its history, and the world will hear more about that this task will be completed till the end.
— Newsletter for the troops (Mitteilungen für die Truppe), in June 1941, [90]
To put it quite clearly: we have an economic programme. Point No. 13 in that programme demands the nationalisation of all public companies, in other words socialisation, or what is known here as socialism. … the basic principle of my Party’s economic programme should be made perfectly clear and that is the principle of authority… the good of the community takes priority over that of the individual. But the State should retain control; every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State; it is his duty not to misuse his possessions to the detriment of the State or the interests of his fellow countrymen. That is the overriding point. The Third Reich will always retain the right to control property owners.
Hitler's interview with Richard Breiting, 1931, published in Edouard Calic, ed., “First Interview with Hitler, 4 May 1931,” Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews, New York: John Day Co., 1971, pp. 31-33. Also published under the title Unmasked: Two Confidential Interviews with Hitler in 1931, published by Chatto & Windus in 1971
- Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but our own people.
- Since we are socialists, we must necessarily also be antisemites because we want to fight against the very opposite: materialism and mammonism… How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist!
You literally have nothing other than lies. You don't debate. You just turn the fucking truth upside down. I'm on the far left as you well know, and the Nazis were on the far right, which is exactly where you are.
In our movement the two extremes come together: the Communists from the Left and the officers and students from the Right. These two have always been the most active elements, and it was the greatest crime that they used to oppose each other in street fights… Our party has already succeeded in uniting these two utter extremes within the ranks of our storm troops. They will form the core of the great German liberation movement, in which all without distinction will stand together when the day comes to say: ‘The Nation arises, the storm is breaking!’
As quoted in Der Fuehrer: Hitler’s Rise to Power, Konrad Heiden, Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1969, p. 147, first published 1944. Part of Hitler’s quote also cited in Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, A Harvest Book, 1985, footnote, p. 7
Adolf Hitler's anti-communism was already a central feature of his book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power.[3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry.[72]
In a speech in 1927 to the Bavarian regional parliament the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, used the term "Untermensch" referring to the communists of the German Bavarian Soviet Republic: "It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament."[73]
Prior to their seizure of powers, conflicts with Communists, and attempts to win them over, featured frequently in Nazi propaganda. Newspaper articles presented Nazis as innocent victims of Communist assaults.[74] An election flyer aimed at converting Communists.[75] Articles advising Nazi propagandist discussed winning over the workers from the Marxists.[76] Election slogans urged that if you wanted Bolshevism, to vote Communist, but to remain free Germans, to vote Nazi.[77]
Goebbels, aware of the value of publicity (both positive and negative), deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, including violent attacks on the Communist Party of Germany.[78] He used the death of Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".[79]
The spectre of Communism was used to win dictatorial powers.[80] The Reichstag fire was presented by Nazi newspaper as the first step in a Communist seizure of power.[81] Hitler made use of it to portray Nazis as the only alternative to the Communists, fears of which he whipped up.[82] This propaganda resulted in an acceptance of anti-Communist violence at the time, though antisemitic violence was less approved of.[83]
When the Pope attacked the errors of Nazism, the government's official response was a note accusing the Pope of endangering the defense against world Bolshevism.[84]
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Communists were among the first people that were sent to concentration camps.[85] They were sent because of their ties with the Soviet Union and because Nazism greatly opposed Communism.[86]
Films such as Hans Westmar and Hitler Youth Quex depicted the deaths of their heroes as martyrs killed by Communism; in both films, the movement appears as an overall threat, with some ruthless villains as leaders, but with some misguided Communists who could be inspired by the heroes[87]—as, indeed, potential Nazis.[35] Literature, too, depicted heroic German workers who were taken in by international Marxism, but whose Aryan nature revolted on learning more of it.[88] Der Giftpilz had a man tell Hitler Youth members that once he had been a Communist, but he had realized that they were led by Jews who were trying to sacrifice Germany for Russia's benefit.[89]
From very early on after the invasion of the Soviet Union, permission was given to eliminate all communists:
It is necessary to eliminate the red sub-humans, along with their Kremlin dictators. German people will have a great task to perform the most in its history, and the world will hear more about that this task will be completed till the end.
— Newsletter for the troops (Mitteilungen für die Truppe), in June 1941, [90]
I understand your "tiring", but, we all know Bronto is 'right wing', and therefor, at this time, comes under the First Amendment …. unlike some of America's highly respected "security people" that are neither right OR left wing … but are tired of hateful far right bullshit, that do NOT come under said Amendment. Welcome to the world of Trump (and Putin)! :-(
- Because it seems inseparable from the social idea and we do not believe that there could ever exist a state with lasting inner health if it is not built on internal social justice, and so we have joined forces with this knowledge.
- we christened it "National Socialist.' We said to ourselves that to be 'national' means above everything to act with a boundless and all-embracing love for the people and, if necessary, even to die for it. And similarly to be 'social' means so to build up the state and the community of the people that every individual acts in the interest of the community of the people and must be to such an extent convinced of the goodness, of the honorable straightforwardness of this community of the people as to be ready to die for it.
There are no such things as classes: they cannot be. Class means caste and caste means race.
Adolf Hitler's anti-communism was already a central feature of his book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power.[3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry.[72]
In a speech in 1927 to the Bavarian regional parliament the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, used the term "Untermensch" referring to the communists of the German Bavarian Soviet Republic: "It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament."[73]
Prior to their seizure of powers, conflicts with Communists, and attempts to win them over, featured frequently in Nazi propaganda. Newspaper articles presented Nazis as innocent victims of Communist assaults.[74] An election flyer aimed at converting Communists.[75] Articles advising Nazi propagandist discussed winning over the workers from the Marxists.[76] Election slogans urged that if you wanted Bolshevism, to vote Communist, but to remain free Germans, to vote Nazi.[77]
Goebbels, aware of the value of publicity (both positive and negative), deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, including violent attacks on the Communist Party of Germany.[78] He used the death of Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".[79]
The spectre of Communism was used to win dictatorial powers.[80] The Reichstag fire was presented by Nazi newspaper as the first step in a Communist seizure of power.[81] Hitler made use of it to portray Nazis as the only alternative to the Communists, fears of which he whipped up.[82] This propaganda resulted in an acceptance of anti-Communist violence at the time, though antisemitic violence was less approved of.[83]
When the Pope attacked the errors of Nazism, the government's official response was a note accusing the Pope of endangering the defense against world Bolshevism.[84]
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Communists were among the first people that were sent to concentration camps.[85] They were sent because of their ties with the Soviet Union and because Nazism greatly opposed Communism.[86]
Films such as Hans Westmar and Hitler Youth Quex depicted the deaths of their heroes as martyrs killed by Communism; in both films, the movement appears as an overall threat, with some ruthless villains as leaders, but with some misguided Communists who could be inspired by the heroes[87]—as, indeed, potential Nazis.[35] Literature, too, depicted heroic German workers who were taken in by international Marxism, but whose Aryan nature revolted on learning more of it.[88] Der Giftpilz had a man tell Hitler Youth members that once he had been a Communist, but he had realized that they were led by Jews who were trying to sacrifice Germany for Russia's benefit.[89]
From very early on after the invasion of the Soviet Union, permission was given to eliminate all communists:
It is necessary to eliminate the red sub-humans, along with their Kremlin dictators. German people will have a great task to perform the most in its history, and the world will hear more about that this task will be completed till the end.
— Newsletter for the troops (Mitteilungen für die Truppe), in June 1941, [90]
- Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the power to do so, I will have gallows built in rows—at the Marienplatz in Munich, for example—as many as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink; they will hang there as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.
- In our movement the two extremes come together: the Communists from the Left and the officers and students from the Right. These two have always been the most active elements, and it was the greatest crime that they used to oppose each other in street fights.
Adolf Hitler's anti-communism was already a central feature of his book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power.[3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry.[72]
In a speech in 1927 to the Bavarian regional parliament the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, used the term "Untermensch" referring to the communists of the German Bavarian Soviet Republic: "It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament."[73]
Prior to their seizure of powers, conflicts with Communists, and attempts to win them over, featured frequently in Nazi propaganda. Newspaper articles presented Nazis as innocent victims of Communist assaults.[74] An election flyer aimed at converting Communists.[75] Articles advising Nazi propagandist discussed winning over the workers from the Marxists.[76] Election slogans urged that if you wanted Bolshevism, to vote Communist, but to remain free Germans, to vote Nazi.[77]
Goebbels, aware of the value of publicity (both positive and negative), deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, including violent attacks on the Communist Party of Germany.[78] He used the death of Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".[79]
The spectre of Communism was used to win dictatorial powers.[80] The Reichstag fire was presented by Nazi newspaper as the first step in a Communist seizure of power.[81] Hitler made use of it to portray Nazis as the only alternative to the Communists, fears of which he whipped up.[82] This propaganda resulted in an acceptance of anti-Communist violence at the time, though antisemitic violence was less approved of.[83]
When the Pope attacked the errors of Nazism, the government's official response was a note accusing the Pope of endangering the defense against world Bolshevism.[84]
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Communists were among the first people that were sent to concentration camps.[85] They were sent because of their ties with the Soviet Union and because Nazism greatly opposed Communism.[86]
Films such as Hans Westmar and Hitler Youth Quex depicted the deaths of their heroes as martyrs killed by Communism; in both films, the movement appears as an overall threat, with some ruthless villains as leaders, but with some misguided Communists who could be inspired by the heroes[87]—as, indeed, potential Nazis.[35] Literature, too, depicted heroic German workers who were taken in by international Marxism, but whose Aryan nature revolted on learning more of it.[88] Der Giftpilz had a man tell Hitler Youth members that once he had been a Communist, but he had realized that they were led by Jews who were trying to sacrifice Germany for Russia's benefit.[89]
From very early on after the invasion of the Soviet Union, permission was given to eliminate all communists:
It is necessary to eliminate the red sub-humans, along with their Kremlin dictators. German people will have a great task to perform the most in its history, and the world will hear more about that this task will be completed till the end.
— Newsletter for the troops (Mitteilungen für die Truppe), in June 1941, [90]
Adolf Hitler's anti-communism was already a central feature of his book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power.[3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry.[72]
In a speech in 1927 to the Bavarian regional parliament the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, used the term "Untermensch" referring to the communists of the German Bavarian Soviet Republic: "It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament."[73]
Prior to their seizure of powers, conflicts with Communists, and attempts to win them over, featured frequently in Nazi propaganda. Newspaper articles presented Nazis as innocent victims of Communist assaults.[74] An election flyer aimed at converting Communists.[75] Articles advising Nazi propagandist discussed winning over the workers from the Marxists.[76] Election slogans urged that if you wanted Bolshevism, to vote Communist, but to remain free Germans, to vote Nazi.[77]
Goebbels, aware of the value of publicity (both positive and negative), deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, including violent attacks on the Communist Party of Germany.[78] He used the death of Horst Wessel who was killed in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans".[79]
The spectre of Communism was used to win dictatorial powers.[80] The Reichstag fire was presented by Nazi newspaper as the first step in a Communist seizure of power.[81] Hitler made use of it to portray Nazis as the only alternative to the Communists, fears of which he whipped up.[82] This propaganda resulted in an acceptance of anti-Communist violence at the time, though antisemitic violence was less approved of.[83]
When the Pope attacked the errors of Nazism, the government's official response was a note accusing the Pope of endangering the defense against world Bolshevism.[84]
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Communists were among the first people that were sent to concentration camps.[85] They were sent because of their ties with the Soviet Union and because Nazism greatly opposed Communism.[86]
Films such as Hans Westmar and Hitler Youth Quex depicted the deaths of their heroes as martyrs killed by Communism; in both films, the movement appears as an overall threat, with some ruthless villains as leaders, but with some misguided Communists who could be inspired by the heroes[87]—as, indeed, potential Nazis.[35] Literature, too, depicted heroic German workers who were taken in by international Marxism, but whose Aryan nature revolted on learning more of it.[88] Der Giftpilz had a man tell Hitler Youth members that once he had been a Communist, but he had realized that they were led by Jews who were trying to sacrifice Germany for Russia's benefit.[89]
From very early on after the invasion of the Soviet Union, permission was given to eliminate all communists:
It is necessary to eliminate the red sub-humans, along with their Kremlin dictators. German people will have a great task to perform the most in its history, and the world will hear more about that this task will be completed till the end.
— Newsletter for the troops (Mitteilungen für die Truppe), in June 1941, [90]
It's actually quite common for highly functioning psychopaths to have high IQs. And pretty much everyone in the 1% is a psychopath. They didn't get that rich by being good people.
Oh, yes. Trumps "IQ" IS very high, higher even than Obama's or Jefferson's or Kennedy's or Eisenhauer's and several more highly regarded Presidents. Then comes the total lack of common sense. ALL the others were devoid of that problem. IQ isn't the deciding factor in a person, it's what s/he DOES with the IQ that counts! IQ minus common sense = zero / IQ PLUS common sense = infinity! Trump = ZERO!
You don't think the definition of a country is the 'inanimate rock' it is located on? Do you?
The only physically real thing about a country is the "inanimate rock" it is located on you fucking idiot. Everything else is a product of human imagination, including the borders.
patriotism
I am fully aware what patriotism means you patronising moron. Perhaps you should take your idiotic nose out of the dictionary and put it into a history book:-
Hitler used his own skills of oratory to appeal to the patriotism of the German people ...
