|
b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
you do not to be competent to do awful, terrible damage to a country. i strongly recommend people actually read up on the reality of Nazi governance. that we think of the Nazi state as somehow competent and efficient is a propaganda victory for the ages
26 replies 86 reposts 613 likes
|
Evan May
@gianttourtiere.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's one of the comforting lies people came up with to explain how people could support Hitler, or Mussolini. 'Well they ran a tight ship' is easier to live with than 'fascism was popular and people thought their ideas were good'.
1 replies 0 reposts 9 likes
|
Raoul Meyer
@mistermeyer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That this reputation seems to rest largely on their success at murdering Jews says a lot, I think. The Holocaust becomes the analog to Mussolini's making the trains run on time.
2 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
PoundingThePodium
@poundingthepodium.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The trains, in fact, did NOT run on time. And the real inheritors of Prussian militarized anal-retentiveness despised the sloppy Nazis.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Dr. Doctor Woo
@drdoctorwoo.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It turns out "Working Toward the Führer" is not a sustainable project, who knew.
1 replies 1 reposts 4 likes
|
Andy Pearlman
@apearlma.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Yeah, write a VRA that makes voting after 9 pm illegal and mandates ridiculously time consuming measures in "areas of concern" i.e. any cities. Kill the city vote. As an example. That doesn't require competence. It requires incompetence to ignore how obviously baffling stupid it is.
0 replies 0 reposts 22 likes
|
John Gorman
@jpgorman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As with Trump, they were good at rallies and not much else.
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
SpectorHairDay
@spectorhairday.bsky.social
[ View ] |
See also Stalin and his group of incompetent yes-men See also Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
NightTrace
@nighttrace.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Nazis were on *ALL OF THE DRUGS*, smh.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Ralf W
@raflw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Absolutely. But when one reads the Times saying "polls show voters prefer Trump policies", those articles*never* explore that he is disastrously bad at policy. The press is fooling itself in acting as if what he'll do will look anything like any past Admin. It won't even look like 45, because
1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
stan
@stanthemanchan.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A building takes years to build up but it can be destroyed in seconds with a careless bomb.
1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Andrew McCabe
@andrewahala.bsky.social
[ View ] |
How 1930s worked and 2025s on will work: a minor party official wrote to AH, early 1930s to ask permission to seize power in his local area from less ardent party members. AH wrote back and said the most ardent supporters are those who seize power and enact changes locally without asking permission
2 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Jessica
@jewishreader.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Unfortunately, the thing they were extremely competent at was the genocide.
0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
Ben Dees
@bendeebendee.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I don’t know anything about wiring a house, but I sure as hell bet I could smash a circuit breaker and cut enough wires that nothing in that house would have electricity it’s a lot easier to ruin things than to make them work
0 replies 1 reposts 29 likes
|
Brad T
@sammich-blt.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Don't forget the whole "Mussolini made the trains run on time" thing which, no, he didn't.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
ae
@blackbox.bsky.social
[ View ] |
the opening chapter of this talks about how unrestrained power has no need for rationality
"The greater the power, the greater the freedom in this
respect, and the less need for power to understand how reality is ``really'' constructed."
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Shawn Connery
@shawnconnery.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's the truly stupid that have the most potential for doing real damage. Not the cold competent, who act somewhat rationally according to incentives.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Sid Oozeley
@oozeley.bsky.social
[ View ] |
hitler did all that shit sleeping until noon and doing cartoon character amounts of drugs
2 replies 4 reposts 66 likes
|
drow zelensky
@dov.bsky.social
[ View ] |
noteworthy also that the entire nazi leadership was in fact on meth like all the time
1 replies 2 reposts 74 likes
|
Kosturdistan
@smurfburger.bsky.social
[ View ] |
One reason they were not taken seriously at first was because of their incompetence
0 replies 1 reposts 9 likes
|
Libby
@libbystigaard.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"But the trains ran on time!"
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Opals25
@opals25.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Seriously, we're in the position we are to some extent because the entire Republican MO is to just not govern. Getting into government and then just not doing anything so it grinds to a halt is incredibly easy for them!
1 replies 1 reposts 10 likes
|
@napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social
[ View ] |
This a thousand times over.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
@wrongbottom.bsky.social
[ View ] |
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Mother of a Ginger Claire ⚾️🪡🧵🧶
@bethrich52.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Nazis were so tangled in bureaucracy it makes your head spin trying to figure out their organization
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Eric Smalley
@ericsmalley.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That's one of the things that drove me nuts about the original Star Trek, Spock the infallibly logical Vulcan spouting the "they made the trains run on time" propaganda.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Castle Bravo
@castlebravoli7.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Nazis lucked out by inheriting the Reichswehr and the Weimar civil service. If they hadn’t their performance in WWII (the basis for “Nazi competence” myths) would have looked a lot more like Fascist Italy’s
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes