A thousand thanks from Germany, Thom, for your excellent reports on the attempt by Trump and his cronies to destroy American democracy. Voices like yours are desperately needed.
Much of this reminds me of what my parents told me about the time Hitler came to power in the 1930s; what they told me about the pervasive fear; about the beating…
A thousand thanks from Germany, Thom, for your excellent reports on the attempt by Trump and his cronies to destroy American democracy. Voices like yours are desperately needed.
Much of this reminds me of what my parents told me about the time Hitler came to power in the 1930s; what they told me about the pervasive fear; about the beatings my mother endured as a young girl because she kept visiting Jewish groceries; about the emaciated concentration camp prisoners to whom my father secretly left food by the roadside at night, from where they were driven every morning to the places where they had to work until they were exhausted; about the interrogations by the Gestapo; about the despair at the sudden disappearance of friends, teachers, colleagues; about the hope that the Americans would come and bring back freedom.
All this returns to my mind when I read your reports. But the fact that you and others are speaking out gives me a spark of hope that the American people, unlike the Germans back then, might succeed in averting the worst and standing up against injustice, against contempt for all values, standing up for freedom and democracy, for respect and empathy.
Nevertheless, as a biologist, I have a single critical comment: please don't do the pig, which is a very intelligent species, the injustice of comparing it to a stupid, uneducated and unscrupulous human like DJT. It does not deserve that.
They were. But they didn't see it that way themselves. They did what had to be done, did what they felt was their duty as human beings. And never complained about what they themselves had to suffer.
I very much hope that it won't be as bad for you in the US. But I fear the clique around Dark Enlightenment, Longtermism, and Effective Accelerationism has a very precise plan to transform and abuse the American society according to their “vision”. It scares me.
It will take more than a few brave people to stop this.
Yes, it most certainly will. But the numbers for their side also are not there now. They have a few thousand militias that are not well coordinated, and have only small arms. They do not have state control that is ironclad in more than 15 states. TFG today tried to create a national order for everyone to re-register to vote with proof of citizenship, but it does not control every state. Elections are state by state, not federal. Its ranks are filled with incompetents. Many dozens of screw ups already. Where will the actual military be in all this? Will hundreds of thousands of Marines, Army, Air Force and Navy attack their own state's and country's citizens? It will take many millions of us, all across the country, beginning to work deep inside this monstrosity. On every front, the resistance and betrayals from us must begin. We needed, for many decades, to root out and destroy the rotten bastards in this nation. Now is the time to get this done.
A thousand thanks from Germany, Thom, for your excellent reports on the attempt by Trump and his cronies to destroy American democracy. Voices like yours are desperately needed.
Much of this reminds me of what my parents told me about the time Hitler came to power in the 1930s; what they told me about the pervasive fear; about the beatings my mother endured as a young girl because she kept visiting Jewish groceries; about the emaciated concentration camp prisoners to whom my father secretly left food by the roadside at night, from where they were driven every morning to the places where they had to work until they were exhausted; about the interrogations by the Gestapo; about the despair at the sudden disappearance of friends, teachers, colleagues; about the hope that the Americans would come and bring back freedom.
All this returns to my mind when I read your reports. But the fact that you and others are speaking out gives me a spark of hope that the American people, unlike the Germans back then, might succeed in averting the worst and standing up against injustice, against contempt for all values, standing up for freedom and democracy, for respect and empathy.
Nevertheless, as a biologist, I have a single critical comment: please don't do the pig, which is a very intelligent species, the injustice of comparing it to a stupid, uneducated and unscrupulous human like DJT. It does not deserve that.
Your parents were heroes.
They were. But they didn't see it that way themselves. They did what had to be done, did what they felt was their duty as human beings. And never complained about what they themselves had to suffer.
I very much hope that it won't be as bad for you in the US. But I fear the clique around Dark Enlightenment, Longtermism, and Effective Accelerationism has a very precise plan to transform and abuse the American society according to their “vision”. It scares me.
It will take more than a few brave people to stop this.
Yes, it most certainly will. But the numbers for their side also are not there now. They have a few thousand militias that are not well coordinated, and have only small arms. They do not have state control that is ironclad in more than 15 states. TFG today tried to create a national order for everyone to re-register to vote with proof of citizenship, but it does not control every state. Elections are state by state, not federal. Its ranks are filled with incompetents. Many dozens of screw ups already. Where will the actual military be in all this? Will hundreds of thousands of Marines, Army, Air Force and Navy attack their own state's and country's citizens? It will take many millions of us, all across the country, beginning to work deep inside this monstrosity. On every front, the resistance and betrayals from us must begin. We needed, for many decades, to root out and destroy the rotten bastards in this nation. Now is the time to get this done.