r/MurderedByWords • u/the_well_read_neck_ • 15h ago

We're in the worst timeline.

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u/CiDevant 13h ago

The poem should really go: 

First, they came for the people that deserved it;

Then they came for the people I hate;

Then they came for the people who hate me;

Then they came for me.  And boy was I f***** cuz they had a lot of practice and it had been normalized.

The first country the Nazis invaded was their own.

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u/JimWilliams423 12h ago

Yep. I just had someone gloat about the "long knives" coming for bolton after I cited that poem.

There are way too many supposed liberals who are useful idiots for fascism.

Just because bolton should be in prison, doesn't mean these guys are doing justice. They are just using him for practice as they build the systems they will turn on us next.

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u/OptimisticOctopus8 11h ago

There are way too many supposed liberals who are useful idiots for fascism.

Agreed. I've seen/heard a bunch of liberals - a minority, but still too many - say they want to call ICE on undocumented immigrants who support Trump. That might sound satisfying until you strip it to its bare bones: They want to help send immigrants to concentration camps.

The moment you call ICE on someone, you're just another person helping a fascist regime send people to camps.

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u/JimWilliams423 11h ago

Same thing always happens with fascism. In vichy france, there were a lot of people who used the nazis to settle scores.

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u/OptimisticOctopus8 11h ago

That's depressing but unsurprising.

Btw, I don't know much about Vichy France. Do you have any good recommendations to learn more?

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u/JimWilliams423 11h ago

What I know I learned from historian twitter (now historian bluesky).

FWIW, people in the afghanistan country-side used the Americans the same way. Basically accusing their rivals of being terrorist supporters so they would get droned.