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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1404 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Video shows fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol

Naah Tim Snyder is a tedious fuck. Read any? Here lemme give you the capsule on Black Earth:

    Germans were told they could help take the Jews' stuff or join them in the ghettos. Poles were told they could murder the jews and take their shit or get in the firing squad with them. This is exactly the situation we in America face today.

Snyder points out that tribalism led to the Holocaust but then pretty much completely ignores what makes a tribe. Judt pointed out that Europe has always persecuted Jews and that postwar Europe blamed Germany for the Holocaust while also keeping all the spoils they took from the Jews, even in supposedly "friendly" countries like Belgium and the Netherlands. Snyder basically says "look one group can hate another group enough to exterminate them therefore any group can hate any other group enough to exterminate them" and here he doesn't even bother with groups. He doesn't talk about what formed the group that wants to overthrow the election, he doesn't talk about how an incoherent message has led to an incoherent attack, he doesn't talk about how most of these people have been radicalized in less than four years, and he leans into the idea that his familiarity with Hannah Arendt means he's an expert on QAnon and it's fucking tedious.