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[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

Wild that ayn rand instantly pops into my head and yet still works.

[–] Erna_muse@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago

Yeah I'm beginning to think everything wrong with people is the result of poor childhood development.

[–] tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip 0 points 14 hours ago

can some body explain ? Captain ?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The notion that the Nazis were competent is a retcon

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Depends.

Not competent at:

  • running a successful economy
  • building a stable future
  • balancing the budget
  • etc

Competent at

  • spending other people’s money
  • ruining a state
  • building rockets
  • industrial scale murder
  • convincing idiots they’re competent on stuff they’re most incompetent
  • etc
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: They were not that good at building rockets because they killed more people during production than were killed by the rockets.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They were gonna kill those people anyway. You can't measure the success of a project if you don't understand the goals.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Capitalism in a nutshell.

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You forgot they continued building rockets after WW2. 😊

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but von Braun didn’t have slave labor building Apollo

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

That wasn’t the point. And don’t forget that the USSR also had some help getting Laika into space.

I also meant to convey the off-topic sub context that a lot of Nazi walked away Hans Landa Style but without scar. A lot of Nazis weren’t punished, Nixon was pardoned, etc. We should stop allowing clemency in these cases.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Agreed. Humans are and always have been terrible.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah they were psychotic crackheads that ran their country into the ground too. Almost like there is some kind of through line with fascist thinking.

[–] jode@pawb.social 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, meth, but still

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Yeah, and they were grifters too.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It does feel like stupidity makes people buy into conservatism, and then fuck everything else up.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its fear and anxiety that make them stupid.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its the other way around. People are afraid of what they don't understand.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Ignorance of a world with an ever changing social structure, drives fear and anxiety in those who don't understand that. That fear and anxiety can be exploited at large to get people to make irrational decisions that benefit only a few.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There are levels.

WWII Nazis are far more competent than today’s Nazis.

Like there is an order of magnitude in the difference

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, you have to be at least 10^4^ dumber to follow an ideology that lost so miserably

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Exactly, it constantly amazes me how we have all our history lessons and yet our idiots are extra idiotic.

It’s as if education had the opposite effect on a certain group.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's their secret: it always has been both. They want to destroy the culture that created a feminism where women don't want to fuck them, so their master plan is to purge society of these ideas at any cost, even the collapse of the state and the economy and their own impoverishment.

The Nazis were never economically viable, but they succeeded at turning the Institute of Sexual Science into a historical footnote and delaying queer liberation by 70 years.

[–] angband@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Women didn't want to fuck them before, they were just forced to. Feminism didn't make women not want to fuck men, feminism was born because women didn't want to service men.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

The leaders at the top are just useful idiots. Trump barely knows where he is and is asleep half the time.

The ghouls around him and out of the spot light though know exactly what they are doing and are enriching themselves greatly while everyone watches the emperor with no clothes.

Sure you always get a couple true believers in the bunch but the ones you need to concern yourself with are not showing up on Fox News to spout off about trans people in the military or whatever.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Unless it is a master plan, like turning political rap into gangster rap.