PirateFrog

I wasn't aware of the scale of those opposition parties, the Reichsbanner in particular. I also can't really find much info on their conflicts pre-1932, I assume they are only written about in German? Definitely an interesting topic to delve into.

Cheers for sharing the solid research :)

So yeah… Hitler’s (supposed) “popularity” should be viewed with the same suspicion as Putin’s.

Fair enough, though I could also see Hitlers public approval rating being real for a few reasons.

1. Unlike Putin & Trump, Hitler seemed to give frequent economic concessions to industrial workers to prevent dissent.
2. Their economy did improve (due to imperialist conquest and ransacking obv, which most of the population didn't seem bothered about)
3. His supporters seemed to suffer the same cognitive dissonance cult-like worship that MAGA currently suffers under (despite their economic conditions getting worse in the US), but perhaps on a much wider scale.

I'm not well read enough on Greek or Italian fascism to know if Mussolini or Metaxas were worse at quelling dissent or keeping the non-targeted groups 'happy', but from what I recall of Mussolini, his conquests were far less successful than Hitler's, which may have limited his economic ability to keep people pacified in the same way.

The only way anything changes for the better is because people like you and me and thousands of others fight for it, that's how its worked through all of history.

If we give up and lose hope, we're guaranteeing we'll lose before we've even tried, which is exactly what they want.

Don't give up hope, keep up the fight. We're in a much better position to win this than the Germans ever were in the 30's.

They do, but the way the fediverse works is that if someone else on your instance hasn't already searched a community by pasting in its URL, it won't show up in a normal integrated search, as it wouldn't have federated to your instance (searching a community directly or subscribing initiates federation).

Lemmyverse doesn't have that limitation, it crawls every instance and creates a complete list of every community across all instances, making its search very valuable.

I can't discount that possibility. I could see them supplying the blue states covertly, similar to how France did during the Spanish Civil War, but I'm not so confident on if they'd send boots to help.

This does assume the military fractures for an open civil war to take place. Without that, we're looking at an Irish troubles situation, I figure.

but he is more worried if my sister gets to see this that she will simply quit my brother in law.

Thankfully he doesn't have to worry about that, since your Sister already saw these texts last month.

I see you're tweaking things this time though, refining the wording to... I don't know, get the right sorta engagement?

Baffling why people go to this effort to create these little pieces of false drama, since there doesn't seem to be a profit motive.

Just bored, I guess?

but he is more worried if my sister gets to see this that she will simply quit my brother in law.

Thankfully he doesn't have to worry about that, since your Sister already saw these texts last month.

I see you're tweaking things this time though, refining the wording to... I don't know, get the right sorta engagement?

Baffling why people go to this effort to create these little pieces of false drama, since there doesn't seem to be a profit motive.

Just bored, I guess?

Could you link some sources for that massive resistance? Wikipedia says there was very little organized resistence for most of his rise to power, and the regime was SO popular amongst the populace, it prevented even anti-nazi's in the intelligence services from acting on their underground networks.

What we're seeing with the current fairly widescale open resistence is far beyond anything that happened in Germany.

And the first three episodes are free to watch on YouTube!

The rest can be watched through other means 😉 🏴‍☠️

And the first three episodes are free to watch on YouTube!

The rest (or all of them) can be watched through other means. Yarr, matey 🏴‍☠️

Damn straight 😌

I don't think we'll be getting any backup this time, it's up to us.