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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 2h

The Nazis used political manoeuvring and blatant power grabs to realize their evil ends. As well as brute force. Hitler knew that only by looking like a legitimate electable party could he begin to destroy Germany’s democracy from within...
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Rise Of The Nazis Season 1 Trailer | BBC Select

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 2h

ALSO WATCH: Rise of the Nazis ~ BBC
How did a nation like Germany allow, and even welcome, the destructive and disturbing ideas of Nazism to take hold? Told by those closest to the Nazi propaganda machine, and those desperate to stop it...
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How did a nation like Germany allow, and even welcome, the destructive and disturbing ideas of Nazism to take hold? Told by those closest to the Nazi propaganda machine, and those desperate to stop it, the rise of Hitler and his stranglehold on power are compellingly told. Was fascism something that had to happen, and what lessons can be learned to stop it happening again?

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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 1d

This 2016 review of at Hitler biography in the New York Times is more than it seems. Please take the time to read it. The parallels are so striking and really scary.
www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/b...

In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue (Published 2016)

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 21h

GERMANIA: Towards the southern end...would be a triumphal arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but...much larger; it would be almost one hundred metres high, and the Arc de Triomphe (at the time the largest triumphal arch) could have fit inside its opening... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 1d

“Transactions of wars”, a thing normal humans say all the time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: The Nobel Peace Prize was announced this morning. Your thoughts?

TRUMP: Which one?

Q: The Nobel Peace Prize. Your thoughts?

TRUMP: I made eight deals, transactions of wars

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

DONALD TRUMP SEZ: You gals need to learn how to "tough it out". Don't you dare take Tylenol™! Don't vaccinate your children, and don't circumcise your baby boys!
You weak women are causing all of this autism! Just like Eve eating the forbidden fruit!

John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

DONALD TRUMP SEZ: You gals need to learn how to "tough it out". Don't you dare take Tylenol™! Don't vaccinate your children, and don't circumcise your baby boys!
You weak women are causing all of this autism! Just like Eve eating the forbidden fruit!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is... Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."

John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

HANNAH ARENDT: “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― from 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' (1951)

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is... Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."

John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

HANNAH ARENDT: “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― from 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' (1951)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump has an event about drug pricing this afternoon after his visit to the doctor. Do you think one of his aides might explain to him before it that drug prices cannot in fact fall by more than 100 percent?

(This is a rhetorical question.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "This whole thing about the Nobel Peace Prize I think is silly. Do the right thing. Try to create peace. Lobbying for an award -- to me it looks unseemly."

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is... Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

GERMANIA: Towards the southern end...would be a triumphal arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but...much larger; it would be almost one hundred metres high, and the Arc de Triomphe (at the time the largest triumphal arch) could have fit inside its opening...
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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

GERMANIA: Towards the southern end...would be a triumphal arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but...much larger; it would be almost one hundred metres high, and the Arc de Triomphe (at the time the largest triumphal arch) could have fit inside its opening. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani...

Germania (city) - Wikipedia

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is... Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."

John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

HANNAH ARENDT: “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― from 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' (1951)

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is... Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."

John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 1d

HANNAH ARENDT: “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― from 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' (1951)

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John Lewis-Dickerson @jlewisdickerson.bsky.social · 2d

In his own mind, when Trump calls Schumer a Palestinian, he is essentially calling him a "sand ni**er" without actually uttering the "N-word"!
It's a dog whistle for his MAGA base.
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List of ethnic slurs - Wikipedia

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