If these people have their way, the USA will become a religious autocracy that respects human rights on a level comparable to that in Iran.
Der Vergleich von Frieza mit der AfD ist überaus treffend, finde ich. Aggressiv, von sich selbst berauscht, rücksichtslos, empathielos. Und auf der anderen Seite Frieza.
They're not resisting because they profit from the regime. Same happened in Germany back then - industrialists were in favor of Hitler all the time because it meant no trade unions and a shitload of business from the state.
48 year old German here. My grandparents were born in the 1920s. Here's what they told me about Hitler's regime.
In the 1920s, life in Germany was pleasant, so the Nazis didn't get all the support they needed because their fearmongering didn't work very well.
Then, the Black Friday crisis hit Germany hard. Harder than any other European nation. Huge unemployment, a lot of discontent and desperate people. The Nazis used that to their full advantage - many people fell for them, but still not the majority of Germans.
So my grandparents still didn't take them that seriously. Even those Germans who knew what the Nazis had planned couldn't believe they would really do it. Try imagining living in 1932. If someone told you about WWII and 6 million dead in concentration camps, would you really have been able to take that seriously?
Then, suddenly, Hitler came to power. Still, not the majority of people supported him - but it took mere weeks to take away all their civic rights, their right to protest, their right not to be detained without due process, their right not to be surveilled, their right to live in a home the police can't raid without reason. It all happened too quickly.
So they all became afraid - VERY afraid. And too many of them minded their own business, after all, if they were law abiding citizens, what did they have to fear, they thought.
The famous quote by Martin Niemöller illustrates it:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
The bottom line is this - at no time during the entire Nazi regime were there enough people in Germany who could and would put up the resistance necessary to stop the Nazis. But there were always lots of people opposed to them, but intimidated into being silent.
I would love to be an attractive woman. It would be like an all you can f*** buffet. I'm an ugly dude who has to work extremely hard to get laid. I dream of being sexually attractive.
However, I really really would not wish to be trans. I simply don't have the courage to face the backlash of all the bigoted backwards losers who hate on them. That's why I absolutely admire and support trans people because unfortunately (and also somewhat ironically), in our day and age, it still takes a lot of balls to be trans.
This guy earned > 1 million euros per year before he became chancellor and told a journalist he believes he's middle class. Nuff said.
No matter how often it's posted, it remains a fake.
Noch einfacher: Kündigen. Ich habe in den letzten zehn Jahren sechs Mal den Job gewechselt. Ergebnis bisher: 325% Gehaltssteigerung.
No atheist hates god. How can you hate something you don't think exists?
As a German citizen born in Berlin to parents who were both babies in 1945, I would like to say:
Americans be like
I live in Berlin. I can go shopping for groceries, head back home, cook a meal using those groceries and eat within one hour of home office lunch break.