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20k americans at a nazi rally at madison square garden, 1934
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- 25,000 Democratic socialists (liberals) D*******Hayoth
- and MAGA was born...utopian
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- I don’t quite think they knew what the real agenda was at that point. That hall was probably empty by 1944toemaas
- They were duped by the promise of socialist healthcare.palimpsest
- what’s up with that modern looking DAWA sign on the left banner?uan
- @toemass they actually did, there were actually competing American Nazi parties at the time. If you're interested, look up the German American Bund..garbage
- ..and the Christian Front. There was a huge swathe of America that actually supported Hitler, hence why we tried to stay out of the war.garbage
- And why the recent rhetoric of goons from the GOP should very alarming.garbage
- *be very alarming.garbage
- So Garbage, Huge swathes of the US supported hitler and that’s why you stayed out of WW2 for so long? And I suppose those huge swathes of sympathisers had...Morning_star
- ...a change of heart when?...when what happened? Oh, sorry, ...they’ve been lying dormant until now and ALL support the GOP? FFS really? You actually wrote that down?Morning_star
- I read that this happened again in 1939 but i don’t know about laterscarabin
- This image was from 1939. Can’t find anything about 1935. https://en.m.wikiped…Morning_star
- Ah, yeah. Wtf do i knowscarabin
- @morningstar What the hell are you talking about? Antisemitism and American Nazis were a big thing. As in we had the Neutrality Acts and we would have..garbage
- ..turned a blind eye if Pearl Harbor didn't happen. Then we fired up our internment camps and war machine. There was a big push at the time..garbage
- ..for Christian Nationalism, and I don't get how you don't see that parallel with current GOP firebrands echoing that sentiment.garbage
- There was a fascist theocracy then that was sympathetic to Hitler, and we're seeing signs of it now from the far right. Read a fucking book.garbage
- @Garbage. The US wanted to remain out of any global conflict this the Neutrality acts. It had NOTHING to do with Nazi sympathies. Roosevelt, who aposed the...Morning_star
- ...the acts increased tensions with Japan and updated the Neutrality Act to allow ‘cash and carry’ arms sales to France & UK. Provocation worked and Pearl...Morning_star
- ...Harbour happened and finally Roosevelt had his support to enter WW2. To interpret what happened as wide spread Nazi/fascist sympathy is fantasy.Morning_star
- You're ignoring history, but I see you spelled it "Harbour", so I can't fault you for being misinformed on American history.garbage
- Very weird to be so invested in being so wrong, but you do have a history of being immune to facts.garbage
- Ford himself was distributing antisemitic pamphlets to the point where he has a shout out in Mein Kampf, and only when it became..garbage
- ..profitable did he start aiding the American war machine. You're missing the subtext of the Neutrality Acts. We were going to let it happen and be ok with it.garbage
- So long as that pot didn't boil over, then it did, and we had to get involved. It is kind of weird that you're defending dead American racists from the 30s.garbage
- The same lout that started an effort to start making all of the Confederate statues that we are finally tearing down. You might be in over your head.garbage
- @Garbage. Apart from mentioning Henry Ford, a known anti-semite and inspiration to Hitler, in essence you just repeated what i said. I would, however, ...Morning_star
- ...be interested in the subtext of the Neutrality Acts as I'm missing the nuances you seem to understand. Thanks.Morning_star
- Ummm. These people were racist cunts. There’s no way around that. The fact that they were democrats is irrelevant. The GOP is that party now.monospaced
- @morningstar There was a massive antisemitic undercurrent in both progressive and conservative parties at the time. Ol' Roos was a notorious racist.garbage
- Dude had a problem with German Nazis, because the back-home way of dealing with the "Jewish Problem" was to not let too many of them live in the same place.garbage
- Also after the war went on, there were discriminatory immigration restrictions against Jews, both for fear of them being German spies or compromised.garbage
- Estimated that over 100k people might have died because we wouldn't let them in. And we interned over 100k Japanese people.garbage
- The Neutrality Acts were just a series of us doing as much as we possibly could to do nothing until our stronghold in the Pacific was threatened.garbage