Posted on 12/16/2020 8:01:12 AM PST by linMcHlp
On Monday, June 17, and again on Tuesday, June 18, freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated that the "authoritarian and fascist" Trump administration "has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying." "Concentration camps are an institutionalized practice in the home of the free … a presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist."
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Some years back I, in a thread about SJWs and the then latest antics, wrote a short sci-fi post about aliens approaching our world and the ship’s captain expressing his disbelief that the science officer was detecting a Class 8.5 Stupid.
“Impossible!” stammered the captain, “Even the Planet of Hey Watch Me Do This only ever gets to a Class 7.5 Stupid and it’s the stupidest planet in the known universe.”
I subsequently went on to partially define the upper limits of this Stupid Scale, based loosely on the Richter Scale, in view of the idea that low IQ stupid simply lacks the ability to do widespread harm where high IQ stupid can inflict great harm. Likewise, some levels of Stupidity are distinguished by having (or lacking) the power to affect wider areas of influence.
An “8.5” is a Stupid not just incapable of sustaining a civilization (as Cultural Marxism is incapable of by intent) but which threatens the survival of a whole world.
Class 9 Stupids can threaten an interstellar civilization like the Federation or even a whole galaxy.
Class 10 Stupids threaten all existence, all life, everywhere.
So-called modern “Progressives”: we have nothing to offer except fear itself.
Actually calling everybody you disagree with fascist is an old communist strategy. Invented by Stalin.
Stalin’s gulags preceded Hitlers concentration camps, it was Hitler learning from Stalin how to oppress people.
AOC is not very original. But why coming with new strategies, if the old ones worked so well for 100 years.
When asked to give and example of right wing extremism Jordan Peterson gave Auschwitz as an example.
I’ll never listen to anything Peterson ever has to say.
“the ship’s captain expressing his disbelief that the science officer was detecting a Class 8.5 Stupid”
I had to stop LOL, before proceeding. Thank you.
Couple Soviet pictures. Except for different clothes of the inmates, they could be taken in Auschwitz as well.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/soviet-gulag-inmates.jpg
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/katyn-massacre.jpg
There are Concentration Camps and there are Death Camps.
A Concentration Camp is meant to confine people in a specified area, not necessarily to kill them.
The first recorded Concentration Camps came during The Boer War, when the British imprisoned the Boers.
I seenk eet was Brackass Ooohsama.
This much we know. A decent person does not steal the vocabulary of one horror to discuss the discomforts and inconveniences, or even the heartbreaks and tragedies, of the other. As horrific as the black lung, the police chases, the incarceration, and the death all were, they were not those horrors as lived in Auschwitz, which was an experience so cursed you don't use the same vocabulary when speaking of the one about the other. You just do not do that.
I have been listening to survivors' testimonies on YouTube. I recommend them to everyone.
Yep.
I’m reading a history of the French Foreign Legion, Our Friends Lie Under The Sand.
I just finished the chapter about the French fight in Ceylon.
Not a well known war.
Much of what they did was influenced by how the British did things.
The amazing thing to me was their non-combat casualties.
Finally, after the WW II, Stalin adopted several Nazi concentration camps for the Gulag.
Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald in DDR were the most infamous examples. There were even some inmates who served twice in the same camp! Once as Nazi’s prisoners, freed by Allies, and later re-arrested by Communists and send back to the same camp.
Unfortunately, the Soviets had the time to cover their tracks, so documentation of Soviet atrocities is rather scarce. Both Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen were razed to the ground, when the Soviets finally closed them (after over 10 years of operations). What you see now is later sanitized DDR reconstruction, carefully omitting all Soviet references.
Plus the press is keeping it under the lid. They do not like to show their people acting like fascists.
I did a little digging about her situation. Hitler had put a plan in place to remove Polish people from whole sections starting in the West. She was from one of the most western sectors. She and her family were removed and taken to the camp for elimination.
In the place of the Poles being removed, select German families were being moved into to take over their land. It was a wholesale destruction of a people.
8.5? He must not have cruised by our west coast and northeast.
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Old article now posted.
I’ve been making my way through the book: “A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nickolaus Wachsmann. I’m currently in the chapter titled “Holocaust.” The book is very detailed, and I highly recommend it.
However, the conditions at these camps are so horrendous because of overcrowding, and lack of supplies, that people quickly die from starvation and disease. Gassing, according to the Nazis was "more humane" Not "more humane" for the victims, but "more humane" for the soldiers, who were the ones who had to conduct the mass shootings.
Once you get past the high 7s the difference between Classes of Stupid is not quality of the Stupid so much as it is the ability to threaten a wider area by your Stupid.
A Class 8 represents Stupid able to doom a civilization, a species or a planet.
At this time SJWs simply lack the power to threaten more than Humanity and this world.
To paraphrase Super Grover: If they could, the would, but they can’t, so they don’t ... and thus they are merely a midrange Class 8.
Since that original post genderism has come along as well as things like black people burning down black neighborhoods and angry white Democrats doing the same while claiming that they are somehow helping ... all of which is moving us into the higher midrange.
But barring the sudden discovery of cheap warp technology they simply lack the wherewithal to be any sort of Class 9.
Yeah, they look just like the living skeletons found in Germany. Did they have gas chambers and ovens? It may have not been a good move, but they were treated humanely.
I think you meant to refer to internment camps.
AOC ought to be banned on twitter as a liar and a bitch, but she has freedom of speech, which is more than Czeslawa Kwoka ever had. I never thought I’d be tempted to punch a woman other than my mother-in-law, who’s now deceased so too late. AOC, stay away from me or I won’t be responsible.
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