Posted on 08/01/2020 8:53:29 AM PDT by rktman
Today, the BLM and Antifa mobs use similar identification measures to target their public enemies, but in something of a reverse tactic. In the immediate aftermath of the death of George Floyd, many shops and homes displayed signs that supported BLM and the protestors. Now that several weeks have passed, however, and destructive riots continue to rage across American cities, and the acronym BLM has become a widespread visible phenomenon seen posted in the windows of almost every street front business and home in American cities. But do these signs really convey genuine support, or is there an alternative motive?
What began as passionate graffiti and banners in solidarity against an unjust killing are now just impassionate loose-leaf sheets of paper with the letters BLM printed or magic-markered across its page. These signs not longer carry the sincerity of we want justice, as it has become an identifying mark that signals to the anarchic mob please don’t vandalize me. The signs have become something of a corrupt, sacrilegious Passover Blood on homes and commercial business. If the letters BLM are visibly posted somewhere on your street front window, the angry mob just might consider leaving you alone as they parade down through your neighborhood breaking windows and vandalizing along the way.
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The future Nazi Party was the German Worker’s Party when Hitler joined it in 1920. It was a tiny regional party featuring a grab bag of nationalism, antisemitism and anti-capitalism.
The anti-capitalism turned out to be rhetoric and it definitely wasn’t Marxism. When Hitler eventually took power over Germany the Nazis didn’t collectivize farms or take over industry. He even managed to sell off a few that the government owned. The actual German Marxist and socialist parties always regarded the Nazis as bitter enemies having nothing in common with them.
Hitler is one who renamed the party the National Socialist German Workers Party, the NSDAP. He lifted the name from already existing Austrian party, and people today pretending that ‘Socialist’ had some great philosophical significance to the Nazis are just being stupid. It was just a name, a borrowed one at that.
No one at the time thought it was a party of the Left. But it wasn’t of the Right either. It’s generally regarded as sui generis, a criminal regime controlled by a madman.
Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich used to be widely read. Less so are George Mosse’s books like Nazi Culture or his Crisis of German Ideology. But any familiarity with good histories would put an end of this current nonsense of trying to recruit Nazism as a bludgeon for scoring political points in 2020.
Pelham,
More accurately and in contrast to your claim:
The future NAZI party was a grab bag of socialism, nationalism, anti-semitism, and anti-capitalism.
The socialist anti-capitalism (against capitalism of the individual) remains to this day, as the largest of three factors against the west and against western culture.
The second factor remaining to this day, being The State and its command of crony capitalism, as a force, in order to enforce German socialism’s job security.
The third factor in modern times, growing since the 1970’s, is both social and German state prejudice against the God of Israel and Jesus Christ.
That socialism of the NAZI Party leading up to and during WW-II -— regardless of the term “socialism” intending to be some rhetorical tool used by The Party’s insiders, mechanics, for the purpose of scoring political points in the 1930’s and 1940’s -— was the leading attraction and motive for voting for Hitler, and that stuck thru World War II until German knees began to wobble in 1944.
That socialism, now days, still fanatical for some, and a bit more quiet for political appearances (in other words, hidden), for others in Germany, fuels the animosity of the socialists, and resentment by socialists, toward the west and toward individual self-determination and success.
Anything that the socialists can define to be, or they may perceive to be, a threat against state control over job security (and lifetime security), is both an enemy of the German or otherwise, modern socialist state(s).
That includes the STASI roots (with the tacit permission of Angela Merkel) who set up so-called “anti-fascist” organs within the former Eastern Germany, but which, began training in Oregon and then Washington (state), and eventually on the island of Samoa. The results of which we now see as “Anti-Fa,” rioting in some cities of the US.
Regarding collectivism and ownership before and during WW-II, the NAZI Party (NSDAP) was not itself, the legal holder of all deeds and all articles of incorporation in a formal sense. But the NAZI Party owned all German people in addition to all other conquered people during Germany’s WW-II conquests; and the NAZI Party held all of the controls of, and over, ownership in Germany thru its notions of legal means including “the rule of law,” as follows:
The threat of personal death and destruction, backed up early on, and followed relentlessly thru WW-II, by killing, imprisonment, and torture.
The destruction by that coercion [usage], by fascist-socialism of today, is being fanned by the left; the mayor of Seattle, for example. And our concern, is presently, how we prepare to defend ourselves against fascist-socialism’s killing, imprisonment, and torture.
Speaking for more than a friend.
In other words you’re another one who has never read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or any of George Mosse. That’s quite an imagination you have.
Some time ago, you were in the ball park, but I could not reply.
I'd argue for a more immediate and permanent solution but that's just me.
And still be in office! If not Arkancided at some point!
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