#Hitler

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: DESPOTISM]1/25One evening, over some of the most delectable rawas tikkas known to mankind and much alcohol, a friend and I had a chat. As always, a lot was

Melon 🍈 🌈

writerofscratch

This mentality is exactly what led to the nightmare.https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1324724174208724992 I'm thinking about this 1955 quote from Aimé Césaire."what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime

Quinn Murphy

qh_murphy

I... See lots of people making comparisons of the present moments to Europe and nazis and it blows my mind at how warped our history teaching is.We don't even have

Mike Burns

wrytir

I couldn't watch in real time. This was the most NAZI-est of NAZI rallies I have ever witnessed. Godwin me all you like, but I am a degreed historian who

Daloha Rodríguez-Molina, MD, MSc

darokun

I dare to say that November the 9th is the most eventful day in modern German history.1. 09.11.1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and

Kingfisher & Wombat

UrsulaV

I was trying to find a way to express something vaguely like this, but this thread is very good.https://twitter.com/jeffsharlet/status/1324387833336025091 Basically, though, it seems like people expected a landslide denunciation of

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Two republics that failed, with consequences for the whole world, have lessons for the U.S.:Pre-Imperial Rome between 133 BCE and 27 BCEWeimar

Finchelstein

FinchelsteinF

Mussolini wasn't a weak leader but was a horrible one. Trump was both weak & horrible. Trump did not take full responsability for followers' terrorist acts as Mussolini did. BM

Ruth H. Hopkins, B.S., M.S., J.D.

Ruth_HHopkins

Today is the 130th anniversary of the #WoundedKneeMassacre. On December 29, 1890, the 7th Cavalry surrounded a peaceful encampment of Lakota with Hotchkiss guns and slaughtered ~300. They were mostly

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

The report reminds us that Western governments spent a ton of money and time tracking a largely-imagined Islamic terror threat as a much more dangerous white supremacist terror movement blossomed

Scott Adams

ScottAdamsSays

CNN keeps reporting that claims of election fraud are "baseless." I had to look up the word to be sure I still know what it means. Merriam Webster defines "baseless"

clay martin

offthe_res

lets take a minute and talk about this vaccine. Left, firmly believing Trump is Hitler, insists we take the vaccine because it corrects Trump bungling covid response. Right, it seems,

Aidan Comerford

AidanCTweets

- Hello Mrs. Y- Actually, It's Mrs. X. - I didn't take my husband's name when we got married.- Oh, okay, for politeness sake, I'll call you Mrs. X.- Politeness?

Carl Zha

CarlZha

Chinese artist 乌合麒麟 responded to Australia PM Scott Morrison demand that his art depicting real Australian war crime in Afghanistan be retracted w a new art piece 2 hrs

Uhtred Ragnarson™

CopyOfOne

Exactly how it worked in Russia. Anyone who was successful was said to be "exploiting the poor" and sent to the gulags.https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1336345285648257026 Wokeness/SJW-ism is not just some mildly irritating fad

Damon Linker

DamonLinker

A short thread:Criticism is: You’re wrong and here’s why. Cancellation is: You can’t say that and I’m going to try and get you fired or considered a moral monster for

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