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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly blackpilling to see so many 'libertarians' I knew in college go down the fascism pipeline. Turned out they did not regard freedom and liberty as universal values for all mankind, they were just anti-establishment children who wanted to own the libs and use slurs without consequences.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

It's astonishing how bad this has gotten, how long this has gone on, and how little urgency Democrats have to fix this problem. This is the best we can do to oppose the greatest threat to American liberty in a lifetime, maybe ever? Who is the audience for this?

I'm running against Steny Hoyer, btw.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, and here's a video of stupid Göring showing off the same stupid bison to stupid Lord Halifax who was still trying to negotiate with these stupid people in 1937. Even the newsreader realizes how stupid it is and says "maybe they should ask the bison."

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Lord Halifax In Germany (1937)

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

I'm currently running for US House against my 86-year-old Congressman, Steny Hoyer, in Maryland. If you want someone in Congress who understands this and won't be afraid to call out fascism for what it is, please consider supporting my campaign.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

So the point is, even if these people are in fact dumb, did not earn their positions, and are only there because of their slavish devotion to a fascist leader, they are no less dangerous when handed the levers of power.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

And then I remembered there were other toys, less innocent though winged, and these might some day be launched on their murderous mission in the same childlike spirit and with the same childlike glee.”

And indeed, scarcely 5 years later, Göring's air force was dropping bombs on London.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

“The chief impression was that of the most pathetic naïveté of General Göring, who showed us his toys like a big, fat, spoilt child: his primeval woods, his bison and birds, his shooting-box and lake and bathing beach, his blond ‘private secretary,’ his wife’s mausoleum and swans and sarsen stones."

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

The next day, the British ambassador wrote about Göring’s open house in his diary. “The whole proceedings were so strange as at times to convey a feeling of unreality,” he wrote, but the episode had provided him a valuable if unsettling insight into the nature of Nazi rule..."

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

One day in 1934, Hermann Göring invited all the ambassadors to his estate to show off his things. He tried to get his pet bison to breed, which was unsuccessful. He showed them his ostentatiously decorated house with a bronze statue of Hitler (is any of this sounding familiar?).

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson details the experiences of FDR's ambassador to Nazi Germany 1933-1937. William Dodd was a Virginia history professor. He kept sending cables back to DC about how insane and dangerous the Nazis were (ignored by the State Dept's antisemitic career diplomats).

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

The Nazis were also mediocre and nepotistic. They intentionally chased smart people out of the country (especially Jews, but also many liberal Germans). Like Trump's minions, they self-selected for blind loyalty and willingness to carry out orders, but not necessarily for talent or intelligence.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 1d

Remind those who remain in positions of power that Trump won't be in power forever. He may have secured immunity from SCOTUS for himself but his functionaries did not, everyone else will be held accountable by prosecutions, Congressional hearings, professional associations, etc.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly blackpilling to see so many 'libertarians' I knew in college go down the fascism pipeline. Turned out they did not regard freedom and liberty as universal values for all mankind, they were just anti-establishment children who wanted to own the libs and use slurs without consequences.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 2d

These are the stakes. We are at a similar point in US history. We urgently need leaders who are willing to call out fascism for what it is and stop pretending this is normal. Dem Reps like Steny Hoyer and Chuck Schumer can't even bring themselves to say the word fascism out loud.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 2d

The Nazis still couldn't form a governing coalition after the Jul/Nov 1932 elections, but the Reichstag Fire on Feb 27, 1933 was leveraged to arrest opposition ahead of the notorious March 5 elections. Free & fair elections were not held across all of Germany again until 1990.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 2d

In the summer of 1932, >100 people were killed in brawls and political clashes across Germany. The Nazis used the resulting chaos to present themselves as the only political movement who could save Germany from unrest, arguing that democratic governance was weak and ineffective.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA extremists, including Stephen Miller and the President himself, are desperate to provoke violence in order to justify further expansions of power. This is identical to the Nazis, who used provocations to destabilize democracy, intimidate opponents, and generate chaos.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 2d

More like $1,000, but they didn't do it for the money, they did it to appoint a commissar acceptable to the regime

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 3d

I like the implication that every law enforcement resource in Oregon should be marshaled in support of immigration enforcement, that's actually kind of funny

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 3d

Even exterminating Jewish peasants was big business. They brought all their housewares with them, that stuff was all sorted through and shipped to Germany. You can go to Auschwitz today and see the big piles of shoes, pots and pans, etc. It's overwhelming but doesn't begin to illustrate the scale.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 3d

An understated factor in the Holocaust was the economic incentive. Removing Jews from society wasn't the only motivation: property, businesses, etc were targets. My grandfather's city in Poland was known for its Jewish leather goods; the tanneries remained in operation after the war, minus the Jews.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 3d

It's just absolutely pathetic. I'm so angry, we would not be in this position in the first place if people like Schumer, Steny Hoyer, etc hadn't been in charge.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 3d

Ok level with me here, who was this one about

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · Aug 21

Steny Hoyer looks great for his age. I've always made it clear this race is about Democratic leadership's failure to advance a compelling vision of government for working people, and not because our politicians are evil, elderly vampires who draw sustenance from lobbyists' money.

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Harry Jarin for Congress @harrymd5.bsky.social · 5d

Great clip! Important that we (Dem candidates) acknowledge voters' concerns were legitimate and present a new path forward, not just offer the status aquo ante.

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