As a history buff I always find this to be a wild statement America with all of its flaws is no where near as bad as Nazi germany was if it was that very statement you made would basically sentence you to death with how censored media and speech was and I always see people use deportations and compare them to the holocaust which also is pretty insensitive to actual victims of the holocaust because again these two thing are incomparable many other countries have practiced mass deportations and majority of the people being deported were those convicted of crimes and have a record but besides that this isn’t singling people out due to their ethnicity this is signaling people out due to their citizenship status but no we do not live under an authoritarian government not even close you guys are just being dramatic like at least for me my life is no different than it was under Biden or under Obama
(2) You should read this, as a "history buff." If it does not ring true to what is happening right now, and why your "it doesn't feel any different right now" is still alarming, I don't know what will:
From "They thought they were free" by Milton Mayer '
""And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have."
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. "
you are a dog shit history buff then, our government is currently acting identically to how Nazi Germany started. It didn't start with death camps. It started just like this. And no, your life is not just like it was under Obama or Biden, your eyes are just closed. Every single day things that have literally never happened in American history are happening.
If you're interested in actually knowing what's going on, a great place to start would be legal eagle or some more news. Or even just, the White House website.
You aren't a history buff then when you can't see the parallel between late Weimar/early hitler and Trump's acting now. I'd guess you are the type of person that is only interested in the second world war and not how it got there, elsewise you wouldn't be that stupid.
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u/pm_me_pierced_nip May 25 '25
This is my favorite video on the internet. To me, it captures the true meaning of being American