• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    TBF, Hitler got a lot of his ideas from the US. Germany was just a smaller and less ethnically diverse country than the US, so there was less resistance to fascism.

    Letting the South off easy after the Civil war was the big mistake.

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      we also had nazi parties and sympathesizers in the us, that was really not dealt with, plus the OG, racist party KKK.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      it was. it got us the nazis. letting a single confederate officer (who wasn’t a double agent or something) avoid the noose was such a huge mistake. not dispossessing everyone who claimed to own another human completely was also a mistake.

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        Exactly. The government should have seized the land of every plantation owner that made a living from slave labor, and distributed it to former slaves as reparations.

        • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          every fucking inch, and a bag of each of their blood too, just for the symbolism. or filtered them through that loophole in the 13th amendment for a decade or so, men women and children.