1Password’s VP of Product ist fully onboard with DHH. So this wasn’t a fluke after all. Glad things have been set in motion so I can cancel my @1password subscription soon.
@mvsde @1password is he... making a reference to Leni Riefenstahl here, or does he reach his fascistic tendencies some other way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will?wprov=sfla1
@michel_slm @mvsde @1password this does indeed read like an explicit Nazi dogwhistle
@ndevenish @michel_slm @mvsde @1password oh, maybe I can help. German historian here.
Nietzsche had used that phrase "Wille zur Macht" in books he published himself. Then a book by that title was a different thing. It was assembled after his death by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, who cut up his notebooks and rearranged the scraps into a doctrine of strength over weakness.
Elisabeth was a big antisemite who founded a race-based colony in Paraguay. Her fabrication of Nietzsche is what the Nazis pushed. Scholars have treated the book as hers, and not his, ever since the Colli-Montinari edition of the 1960s.
DHH's post has none of the man, the thinker, and all of the sister's toxic bullshit: weak men, hard times, a hero generation, total war. That phrase with that reading has one source: Nazi Weimar where Elisabeth welcomed Hitler in 1934 to pose together with her brother's bust.
I'll write it up.