Comments on: A question I shouldn’t HAVE to ask

By: Raoul Duke

Raoul Duke — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:07:29 +0000

(Sorry if this ends up being a double post. The blog ware doesn’t like me?) Hey, but e.g. The Man in the High Castle was a good book. I should be able to get into fiction w/out that equating me to a fascist supporter, because I am not a fascist supporter. Where can we sign the petition to remove the special status corporations have under law in the USA? Seriously. (That movie The Corporation was fun!) So far I’m pretty much expecting the fascism to become rock solid in, like, say, the next decade? As if it already isn’t?

By: Raoul Duke

Raoul Duke — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:53:00 +0000

Thank you for the post. While I don’t have a 100% problem with people playing around with Nazis in fiction (P K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle is a great book), I completely agree that fascist dictatorships are evil, and that the dream of having one is entirely too alive and well in the USA. And I didn’t know about Bulter. Where do I sign the petition to revoke the privileged status of “coporation”s? Seriously. (Oh, that movie The Corporation is pretty good, too.)

By: Enfranchised Mind » The Horror of the Third Reich

Enfranchised Mind » The Horror of the Third Reich — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:10:27 +0000

[...] sure which one) just got to the Third Reich, too. This got me thinking back to Brian’s post, A question I shouldn’t HAVE to ask, and I wanted to expand a bit on some of those thoughts. If the very reality of the Third Reich [...]

By: Minna

Minna — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:18:01 +0000

I’d never heard of Smedley Butler before. What a tragedy! In response to this, I posted in my LJ about him and submitted his Wiki bio to Fark- see if I couldn’t educate the masses a bit. ;) The link was redlit, but a couple of the TotalFarkers saw it and left positive remarks (which, if you know anything about the typical Farker mentality, is really impressive).

Thanks for the new knowledge! He’s been added to my pantheon of personal heroes. =)

By: Enfranchised Mind » Just as a Reminder, There Are Two Authors Here

Enfranchised Mind » Just as a Reminder, There Are Two Authors Here — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:18:12 +0000

[...] who has authored the popular posts on Postgres, Nazis, and Lazy Lists, [...]

By: Robert Fischer

Robert Fischer — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:28:22 +0000

This is one of the things that get me. As recent German immigrants during WW2, my family’s psyche was deeply touched by the Nazis, and that’s become a part of our family culture. As a fan of Germany, I’ve ended up in some social circles that rubbed shoulders with Neo-Nazi groups. I’ve known people who have been converted into that ideology, and I’ve seen how it can be both attractive and self-destructive. Struggling with theology the systematic and total evil of the Nazis and the relentless social, philosophical, and scientific campaigns is something that can easily crush your faith in God and humanity — see Ellie Weisel’s “Night” for one example. So this is an issue that is very serious to me.

If you aren’t petrified of Nazis and overwhelmed by the demonstrated and enticing evil, then you don’t understand what was really going on. It’s simply horrific — every facility of human progress was turned into an instrument of evil with unnerving ease and alacrity.

This is part of the reason I still can’t deal with Cardinal Ratzinger being made the pope. Anyone who has taken an oath of allegiance to the Nazis, under duress or otherwise, is unfit for an influential office. I wouldn’t have them as the Worshipful Master of my Masonic Lodge, and much less as the leader of the largest church in Christianity. It’s simply not okay: this guy, at one point, swore an oath to Hitler. That’s all I need to know about him: he’s out.