Yep… pretty much. These are all ideas and if we don’t all agree to live by them, then some can do whatever they want.
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And that is fucking terrifying, and equally fucking true. I hate the timeline, I hate it to pieces.
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Sounds like my grandparents in 1933.
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Maybe Tromp is a (narcissistic, of course) student of history.
- Define who is Non-American, Then Deport Them
Jackson dealt with Native Americans hindering white farmers and frontiersmen from acquiring farmland by forcibly removing nearly 125,000 of them from millions of acres of their cultivated land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. The federal government forced them to walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi River. This march was afterward known as the Trail of Tears.
Trump’s solution to increase wages is not to raise the $7.50 federal minimum wage but instead to promise to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants. He argues that they are getting jobs that should go to “real” citizens. This is similar to how Jackson saw that taking Native American homelands would open up now vacant land to farmers and frontier families.
Both immigrants and Native Americans lived in peaceful communities, but when any one individual among them committed a violent act, the entire community was characterized as evil. This allowed the use of force to remove them as a danger to U.S. citizens.
- Use the U.S. Military to enforce Executive Decisions.
Jackson did not illegally use the military domestically, but he did use it with the acquiescence of Congress. Trump is depending on this response from Congress.
And so on…
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And with USSC declaring him an infallible, unaccountable god-man, his ability to absolutely fuck up the whole workings and population of the country is pretty uncharted. All I can see as an option is to make it as difficult as possible to get where he wants to be. Resist where- and whenever we can.
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TFG is a lot of things, but a student of anything is not one of them.
What he is, is surrounded by people who are students of history.
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I also think many fascist ideas are far less intellectual than how they keep being presented. Look at these three ideas…attack people you see as vulnerable, use violence to enforce your power, only work with loyal sycophants. It’s literally just government through bullying. Is it maybe possible that every bully has these ideas instinctively rather than learning them from a careful study of 19th century bullies?
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It might have been said earlier in the 20th century before 1944, but this is the first incidence that I’ve heard that uses the word “groovy”, long before the hippies laid claim to it.
But then, we white people have appropriated enough from the culture, ain’t we? (i am guilty as i bought a dashiki at a flea market because I loved the way it looked, not because I wanted to be Black. that came later, lol.)
And aren’t those uniforms sharp?! And aren’t their harmonies, too? I love the “barbecue in Berlin” line, the way he sings it. What a gift!
The lyrics also seem to be an early stab made by Warner Bros. to be more “progressive” when it came to representing race, especially in the military. Gotta have the p’ganda that yells, "We’re all in this together!.
addendum: the full flick is at the internet archives, natch! To me, it’s a great example, broad as it may be, of the attitudes of that time. Especially the songs in this and the two other usa/wwii p’ganda movies, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Thank Your Lucky Stars”, the latter honestly being non-stop bananas!
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‘Remember what it was all for’: US veterans in Europe to mark WWII Battle of the Bulge
Also, Nancy Pelosi who was supposed to be there had a mishap in Luxembourg that required hip replacement surgery and was transported to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
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Pop pop was there for that… 
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Anita O’day says it here @ 0:59, that’s the earliest I’ve ever heard.
the uploader says it’s a 1941 release.
Malcolm X said that “hippies” were white kids that went to the uptown clubs in zoot suits and copied the slang.
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The beatniks said hippies were kids playing at being beats.
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I didn’t know the Röstigraben was fortified!
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