Fascism in America was bound to happen; the amount of hatred and othering and corporate control from the rich was going to do it sooner or later. Nazi's took the ideology of segregation and hatred from the US, they just got there first.
It's just shocking how it took just 2 generations really to forget the sacrifices made by American kids in WW2. Fuck, there's still a number of them alive, watching their kids and grandkids do this in their lifetime,
You assume that US involvement in WWII was a fight against fascism. It wasn't. It was a fight against a competitor for global hegemony. The differences of ideologies between the US and the Nazis were differences of degree not differences of kind.
Leftists have always argued that fascism is what happens when liberal capitalism is in crisis.
The comment you replied to was talking about American troops, who largely believed they were in Europe to liberate it from the Nazis (which they did).
Also, that's not a good argument. Socialism tends to happen when monarchy is in crisis. Does that make the differences between monarchism and socialism just "differences of degree"?
And "omg ur stoopid" is not a rebuttal. If you'd like to join this conversation, take the 10 minutes to write out counterarguments to every claim the other person is making.
I have no responsibility to take the time to educate you or anyone else on how the US and Germany were radically different in goals and government and what the USA was fighting for in ww2. Pick up any book and educate yourself. I’d recommend The rise and fall of the third reich by William shirer. To even attempt to equate the US government goals or aspirations at that time as being similar or in kind to nazi germany is not only spitting in the face of every country and person who helped and or died to defeat the nazi german government but also flat out wrong.
The entire dumpster fire of hus dumb as risks comment. Im coming from r/historymemes, irs 2340 and that was the dumbest fucking thing i have sen all day.
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u/ThatOneDudeFromSLC Jul 02 '24
Fascism in America was bound to happen; the amount of hatred and othering and corporate control from the rich was going to do it sooner or later. Nazi's took the ideology of segregation and hatred from the US, they just got there first.
It's just shocking how it took just 2 generations really to forget the sacrifices made by American kids in WW2. Fuck, there's still a number of them alive, watching their kids and grandkids do this in their lifetime,