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Talking Rotten
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27/02/2019 15:59:19
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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Politics
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Economics
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Miscellaneous
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>>Seems to me I've heard that line before :)

AKA "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Just for interest, here's a real life timeline selection of Nazi suppression of free speech.

December 5, 1930: Goebbels and thugs disrupt screening of "All Quiet on the Western Front," a film decrying the cruelty and pointlessness of war based on experiences of well-known author Remarque. The Nazis used the contemporary equivalents of pepper spray and smoke bombs to stop the film. Audience members who objected were roughed up by thugs dressed in black. Remarque emigrated to Switzerland in 1931, the film was banned outright when the Nazis took power and his citizenship was revoked in 1938.

March 13, 1933: Goebbels now heads the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda that controls all media including newspapers, radio, movies, theater, art, and music. Nazi fanaticism is formally integrated into the MSM.

May 10, 1933: Goebbels wastes no time, attending a massive Opera Square book burning 2 months after his appointment as propaganda minister. In his speech he condemns works by communists, pacifists, Jews and foreigners (specifically North Americans) as un-German. Libraries are purged of disallowed books to be burned by students as Goebbels praises the cleansing of the German spirit.

We're supposed to believe that Trump and/or the GOP has started on a similar timeline. I'd suggest that if there are similarities, it's the intolerance and frank suppression of conservative voices by thug's veto on campuses and in social media as the contemporary equivalent of Opera Square, backed up by Antifa thugs who believe that if you call somebody else a Nazi, you can behave like a Nazi yourself.

I'm not saying there's merit in linking others to Nazis as a shield of sanctimony for vile attacks on them: I'm saying it's absurd that the comparison is made to Trump by people who exhibit more similarities themselves.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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