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I dunno what #history you’ve been reading, but if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy, I’ve got bad news.

If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

The living standards of the masses of the people declined, of course.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Question: How could the fascists keep their contradictory promises, once they got in power?
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In the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti-foreign-born.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Learning to identify native fascists and to detect their techniques is not easy. They plan it that way. But it is vitally important to learn to spot them, even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Once the fascists were in control of the government, not even the gang on top was safe from its own members.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Some of the party "big-shots" and some of those who had helped them take over were therefore "purged." Many would-be partners in the dictatorship, including some industrialists, wound up in jail, in exile, or dead.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Fascism is the precise opposite of democracy.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Lots of things can happen inside of people when they are unemployed or hungry. They become frightened, angry, desperate, confused. Many, in their misery, seek to find somebody to blame.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and church" was the Nazi slogan for women.
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It was easy enough for the fascists to promise all things to all people before they were in power. Once they were actually in power, they could not, of course, keep their contradictory promises. They had intended in advance to break some, and they did break those they had made to the middle classes, the workers, and the farmers.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

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An abandoned power plant in Hungary, built in the 1950s. At its peak, the 165-Megawatt facility was heavily polluting, producing 100 tonnes of sulphur dioxide daily until closing around 2000. It later served as a set for the Blade Runner 2049 movie.

#Urbex #BladeRunner #History #Photography #Hungary

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“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/…

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyz…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory @histodons #Histodons

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This famous poster from the Holocaust Museum displays the early warning signs of #fascism. While still applicable, I want to make it clear that we are chest-deep in the #fascist #cesspool and have been for *years*.

Pinning this to my profile in case you know someone who still has doubts. Send them this post.

History is repeating itself once again.

#unitedstates #uspol #uspolitics #antifascism #warning #History #resistandinsist