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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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#USpol #Rascism #Fascism #History

That has been the fascists' standard operating procedure ever since the #ThirdReich, as artfully described in #MartinNiemöller's poem #FirstTheyCame:

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It is not original thinking, though. The great military strategist, #SunTzu postulated in his principle of #Subversion thousands of years ago:

"5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;" (#TheArtOfWar).)

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The#NextCivilWar is already in full flight.

MastodonHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)@faraiwe@mastodon.world I guess you know #MartinNiemöller's poem, too: "First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me" 1) ...
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Eric the Cerise

Martin Niemöller, the author of the "First they came for..." poem, was an antisemite and a nazi supporter ... until he came to understand what he'd been supporting.

He spent 7 years in a concentration camp for changing his mind.

Today may not be the day ... but the day will come when many Trump supporters, well, change their minds.

Look for those people. Don't throw them back.

I keep thinking of that video of the 3 US soldiers in Ukraine, one of them admitting he voted for Trump, twice ... but after they saw how Trump treated Zelenskyy in the White House, never again.

These are the people that will make the difference.

One of them might even write a poem about it.

#MartinNiemoller#FirstTheyCame
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Pixelcode 🇺🇦

Many enthusiastically share pastor #MartinNiemöller's famous poem “I remained silent”, and there's no doubt they do so with the best of intentions, but I hesitate to praise #Niemöller.

- Wishing to fight for his fatherland out of “Lutheran ethos”, he appealed to Hitler to serve as a submarine commander.
- While he was later deported to KZ Sachsenhausen's “honourable bunker”, he also proudly embraced radical #antisemitism.
- He only added the “When they came for the #Jews” line after 1945.

When they came for the communists, I remained silent; for I was not a communist. When they came for the social democrats, I remained silent; for I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I remained silent; for I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.
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William Lindsey :toad:

Jim Stewartson reminds us of the witness of German pastor Martin Niemöller, whose famous poem about those who refused to stand up to the Nazis and speak out against their inhumanity is now a classic.

As Stewartson notes, Niemöller supported the Nazis and welcomed Hitler as a strong, manly savior figure appointed by God, until Hitler began to try to take over the German Protestant church. Then Niemöller spoke out and was sent to Dachau.

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MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy · Niemöller NationBy Jim Stewartson
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#News #USA #Truth #martinniemoller

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

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Strypey

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

#MartinNiemöller, former Nazi sympathizer and concentration camp survivor

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encyclopedia.ushmm.orgMartin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."Learn about the origins and legacy of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous postwar words, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…”
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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I guess you know #MartinNiemöller's poem, too:

"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me" 1) ...

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