🚨 This is literally textbook Aryanization
- State violence causes economic distress
- The targeted group forced to sell assets
- Non-targeted people get a 'deal'
- Economic incentives align with persecution
We have seen this before.
It is happening NOW in the United States.
Lili Pohlmann's father was murdered by Nazis because a building caretaker wanted his watch.
The fascist philosophy of humanity forming a hierarchy of value makes life cheap, and fascists squalid thieves.
I do a first run for all alt-text using machine learning image analysis, then revise and correct the output. It lets me provide as much detail as possible for every image I use. I prompt for accessibility alt-tex specifically. Ethically complicated practice but the benefit is quite large in that use case.
I wish there was a company focused on ethics. OpenAI and Anthropic weren't as bad as Google and Meta, but now they're both military contractors. And none of them are dealing with the environmental costs.
Powerful and very useful tools if the people control them and they're made sustainable. But of course it's all about enriching billionaires instead.
Disgusting Gringos!
"When relocating to the ghetto, Jews were only allowed to bring 25 kg of their belongings. The rest of their possessions were taken by the German Trust Office (Treuhandstelle)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto#Formation_of_the_Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto
Vote to "make the farm great again."
Get a cheap truck from a deported migrant worker.
Sit in your truck waiting for workers to show up for harvest…
🤢🫣
Same word works. Both because it's the best historical example and also because Trump also believes in similar racist conspiracies, ethnocentrism, etc,
Save money on abandoned farm workers' trucks.
Spend it trying to get staff for your next harvest.
Maga mastermind 🤢
This is exactly right. So we have the word "Aryanization" for it and it's the best word to describe what they're doing.
The breakdown is on purpose. I think that's key to understanding what they're doing.
The more people suffer the more they struggle, the more they want a leader and scapegoats. The more the fascists can divide people the more they can recruit them.
Same strategy the Nazis used in the post-WWI conditions in Germany.
"It was amazing. HG! All of their beautiful linens had the same initials as ours."
Mrs Hermann Göring
I cant remember the movie.
I am so tired of sarcasm.
Me too but tell me more if you'd like?
Nathan's comment is the wrong thing to say. As sarcasm it makes fascist assault on seem typically American annoying and normal.
If its not sarcasm, its glorying in evil. Might as well be Satan on his thrown kicking skulls.
He's actually participating. He goes on to list all the items you can get for good deals.
I can see why you might imagine it's sarcasm, who could be so awful? But this is the new normal for them.
I also questioned at first if it was a sarcastic post but then I saw it was on the evil site and that made things clearer... *Sigh* This is sickening
I am so sorry. Its like looking at surgery pictures, dealing with fascists. Its on Elons weapon twitter? There is no way to report or block them?
Filth. Beyond civilisation. Once called satanic.
Yes, on the evil site.
It's actually so widespread and mainstream, it's going all the way up to the government and trump's top advisors and all the politicians. So it's not a minority opinion but a massive fascist shift that is becoming fully normalized. It's all the silicon valley people, the 'race science' people, etc. All just embracing it without hesitation.
“textbook Aryanization” - hate it but good to know the term to describe it, thanks. 😐
#textbookAryanization#textbookAryanisation#Aryanization#Aryanisation#legalisedTheft#economicBenefitsOfPersecution
Yes, difficult because so much language that perfectly describes things happening in modern fascism comes from the most famous WWII example. For good reason but it makes it hard to talk about without people dismissing it. Gestapo, SS, concentration camp, etc. But I think personally we have to get over that because the very lesson of that period is how it was both absolutely horrifying and also unremarkable, because it only exposes something always there in our social/political systems.
Yes… “absolutely horrifying and also unremarkable, because it only exposes something always there in our social/political systems.”
Last year I read the book Nazi Billionaires & was horrified
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Billionaires
Then I read Killers of the Flower Moon & couldn’t sleep for a week.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_of_the_Flower_Moon_(book)
How did I get to be so dangerously naïve?
My honest answer considering all the events listed here: https://mas.to/@continuation/114809344400752194
I say this with full knowledge of how alarmist it sounds but I think the question to ask is this:
Knowing what you know about everything that happened after, what would you do if you were in Germany in 1933?
Do that, whatever it is.
Some can and will fight, others will need to leave. As the scholar of fascism said the lesson of 1933 is "get out sooner rather than later."
Also there is nowhere you can move to avoid the policies of the USA gov’t. IMO it makes more sense to stay in the imperial core and cause problems, especially when the rise of fascism is evidence we’re closer to winning than ever—fascism is capitalism in decay.
I started using my account on the evil site again for exactly that reason. To call it out document it and sound the alarm.
"Remigration" is ethnic cleansing. Eliminationist economics at work. "Aryanization": a Nazi euphemism for systematically taking property from persecuted groups. It started as "voluntary" due to economic coercion, later became theft backed by violence.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/aryanization
even the most mundane things were confiscated from Jews and either hoarded by the Nazis or given to people in areas around the camps
See: any Holocaust museum
Can't wait to see how @NBCNews @CBSNews @abc @CNN spin this as somehow acceptable, right, and good.
Economic pressure creates this kind of "voluntary" asset liquidation. Migrants facing ICE raids are forced to sell cars and other things quickly at below market prices so they can flee or prepare for detention. They're not choosing to sell. They're being forced by state violence.
This happened in Germany but it also happened in the United States during WWII. Japanese Americans were sent to the concentration camps and their homes, businesses, and farms were taken and often never returned.
(Little Tokyo briefly became a Black neighborhood during the war when people migrated West from the South. Including the rest of my family.)
Thank you for sharing this story that you've inherited. May memory save us from forgetting that it can happen here.
Just saw what happened last night on Crenshaw & Hyde Park near where we used to live. LAPD raided a public vigil for someone who was killed in yet another drive-by shooting. All hell broke loose.
I moved away in 2004. My brother moved in with me here in Albuquerque at the end of 2019.
We haven't forgotten 1992 either.
When this happens the population who aren't being targeted by ICE benefits from the sales. Americans can now buy trucks at a low price because of ICE. This creates a situation where people have an economic stake in the persecution. Just like Germans who bought Jewish businesses.
I would avoid minimizing what's happening - the desire to frame Trump as incompetent is understandable but the list of what he's doing is quite clear and is very dangerous.
For example: https://mas.to/@continuation/114809344400752194
Thanks for explaining it so clearly, the economic benefits to the in-group (who can loot with impunity) of persecuting designated out-groups: “This creates a situation where people have an economic stake in the persecution. Just like Germans who bought Jewish businesses.”
Like the person in yr toot gleefully bragging about the benefits to the 2nd hand truck market of ICE persecution…
A horrifying situation, but look at the past: it worked for the Nazis… How to turn it around? Sugar in the tank…
This is exactly how authoritarian regimes create economic stakeholders in genocide. Advertising the financial benefit of ethnic cleansing to create more popular support.
'Get those deportation numbers up and you too can profit from your neighbors being sent to a camp.'
I can't wait until we reach the point where ICE leaders are on the other end of the equation. It may take a few years but fascists always fail.
They will eventually come for him.
Two funny-peculiar things about these posts by “Nathan Halberstadt” are his German surname (therefore we presume some part of his origin is/was German; “Halberstadt” = “half city” literally, perhaps mid city or downtown) & lack of shame or any sense of history or irony. He is a poster boy for the bad.
Good people were taking what they could to keep it safe in case the people came back, or if their neighbors family showed up to salvage important stuff. One guy was trying to get people to help keep his neighbor’s truck from being towed away until the family could pick it up.
Bad people were celebrating “free stuff” that was up for grabs.
The plan for ethnic cleansing in the US is coming from the very top down.
Three phases:
1. 'removing' undocumented people.
2. 'removing' legal migrants.
3. 'removing' citizens judged as "non assimilated".
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-office-remigration-state-department-europe-far-right/
#Germany is not going to take #KingDonald back neither via #remigration nor by any other 'plan'!
With his second term his guarantee expired and he'll have to stay in his #sycophantwonderland .
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