In 1939, the legal expert, Ernst Rudolf Huber, declared: ‘Asking people to vote is intended to strengthen the Führer’s position vis-à-vis the outside world and to be a clear demonstration of national unity. However, it is the Führer who continues to incorporate the true will of the nation.’ Hitler was not, therefore, bound by the results of the votes.

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The [German Fascists] kept speaking of ‘true democracy’, ‘improved democracy’ (Goebbels), ‘better’ and ‘simpler democracy’ (Hitler), or of ‘genuine democracy’. During the 1934 plebiscite, the Interior Minister, Wilhelm Frick, asked: ‘Where in the world is there a country that is ruled so democratically as Germany?’ Hitler liked boasting, above all in the presence of foreigners, of the ‘40 million Germans’, who stood ‘united behind him’; he was not prepared ‘to take any action without having reassured himself of the people’s trust’.

In August 1934 he told foreign correspondents: ‘Every year I take the opportunity to submit my authority to the approval of the German people. […] We barbaric Germans are better democrats than other nations.’ The official justification for the ‘Plebiscite Law’ of 14 July 1933, which was designed to facilitate the ‘consultation of the people’, stated that this was simply a procedure based ‘on old Teutonic legal forms’.

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I think that we all hand out permanent bans too easily. It makes sense for obvious ragebait accounts and spambots, but for users who are socially awkward or in need of reeducation, a permanent ban is just too long. That is a measure much better suited for lost causes. I can ask @[email protected] to consider reducing your ban (maybe to a week or something), but I can’t promise anything.

I agree that something like the Shoah is extremely unlikely to befall Jewish people again, and seeing so many false alarms over antisemitism would make anybody feel cynical. I take antisemitism seriously and even I have to say that they’re wearing down my morale. It’s like attending a hotline but receiving dozens of calls everyday from little kids over trivial problems.

That being said, some Jews (especially the Charedim) face harassment from individuals, and occasionally the violence becomes lethal. Nearly seven years ago a neofascist stabbed Blaze Bernstein to death, and of course there was the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting later that same year. I know that those aren’t the most recent examples, but it is plausible that the ordinary incidents usually go unreported because the victims don’t expect the authorities to do anything.

Personally, though, I think that the focus on antisemitism is too narrow. Jewish people have plenty of problems, and some will tell you that antisemitism is not even in the top five. They have varying responses depending on where they live: pollution, inaccessible healthcare, want of transportation, want of worker’s rights, or even settler-colonialism (it affects one Puerto Rican Jew whom I know), to name only a few examples. Treating antisemitism as Jews’ only problem is inaccurate and uncreative.

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Yeah, when you make easily falsifiable claims like ‘memorials or to draw attention to the deeds, not to honor it’, it is pretty clear that you did not read a damn thing that I linked to you, proving that you don’t care about Fascism after all. Thanks for the confirmation.

Feel free to keep goofing around here but I’m done with you.

I am giving you a very simple and very easy test so that you can demonstrate to everybody your reading comprehension and your ability to engage in conversation. You are neither required to divulge any personally identifiable information nor depart with any possessions. Now I am going to ask you for the third and final time: tell me what I wrote at the bottom of this comment.

Máo was particularly annoyed by the Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus, 树麻雀) part of the diet of which was grain. Chinese scientists had calculated that each sparrow consumed 4.5kg of grain each year — and that for every million sparrows killed, there would be food for 60,000 people. Armed with these statistics, Máo launched the Great Sparrow Campaign to address the problem.

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The campaign against the sparrows was finally terminated in late 1959 when the Academy of Sciences leaders highlighted the findings of scientists such as Zhu Xi and Zheng Zuoxin. Zhu and Zheng had autopsied the digestive systems of sparrows and found that three-quarters of the contents were harmful insects and only one-quarter was human food. This showed that sparrows were beneficial for humans.

On this advice from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Máo declared a complete halt to the Great Sparrow Campaign, replacing sparrows with “bed bugs” in the “Four Pests” campaign. Suddenly sparrows were not just protected but the domestic population was supplemented by imports of sparrows from [Soviet] Russia!

Eventually, after several years of poor crop yields, the situation began to improve. The number of people who starved in the 1958–1961 famine is disputed — and it’s impossible to say how much of the disaster was caused by the extermination of sparrows — but there can be no doubt that this episode is a stark lesson about the unintended consequences of human interference into natural ecosystems.

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No, I’m giving you a very simple request: tell me what I wrote at the bottom of my comment. Copy the text and paste it in your next reply to me. You know how to copy and paste text, right?

Okay, here’s something easy for you: what did I write at the bottom of my comment? Can you tell me what I wrote? Tell me what I wrote.

There are still Fascist sculptures in Germany, Fascist monuments in Italy, Axis monuments in Japan, Axis collaborator monuments in Ukraine, Axis collaborator monuments in the Baltics, and many other works and street names dedicated to either Axis personnel or their collaborators throughout the world.

Also, please stop marking your English comments as ‘Deutsch’. It’s annoying.

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Sometimes I wonder if anybody would tip me for my research. I doubt it, though.

Clearly, the answer is to go the way of the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador and make voting compulsory on pain of death. I’m sure that if centrists, neoclassical liberals, and white moderates watched Oliver Stone’s Salvador, they’d think that that system is a great idea. If anything, they’d say that summarily executing people for lacking a voter permit is being too nice to them.

I am pretty happy about the fact that I taught somebody five days ago of the Palestinians’ Jewish heritage. She had also been under the mistaken impression that they were simply the descendants of some Arab tribe that moved in shortly after the Roman Empire expelled the Jewish population, and when I showed her the reality, she was fascinated.

Funny story about my source of inspiration: out of boredom, I looked into archived /pol/ threads (which I don’t recommend doing, by the way, especially with images turned on) where some antisemites wrote off the Palestinians as being Jewish. Then I did the same thing on X (formerly known as Twitter) and found others doing it, though some users actually brought up the fact in good faith and offered evidence for it. That was what really sparked my interest.