Nina spitting truths as always. She’s on fire recently, so follow her if you’re not doing so already.
To be clear; everyone working in my government, particularly after today, is a Nazi, or someone who works for Nazis. Do you know what we call people who worked for the Nazis, in the Nazi government? Yes, that is correct, Nazis.
So Machado is certainly not gonna feel lonely on the list of people on my TV who are definitely Nazis.
Oh, was that too harsh? Are you feeling bad for the good career civil servants, working for the literal fucking Nazis, who I have just impuned? Cool, let’s refer back to that part where I said I was surrounded by people who openly recognize that this is fascism, and ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY refuse to accept what that actually means.
We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis. Nobody says “the Nazi government and the career civil servants who hated them but stayed.”
“They’ll just find someone else.”
Then let them. “I took the job at the concentration camp because I was sure Hitler would find someone else” was not a good defense in court last time, and it won’t be this time either.
The complexities of how business owners had to deal with Germany under the war is no small thing. I cannot help but roll my eyes when people talk about ww2 with confident ignorance and black and white thinking. It was a very complex time and people like Schindler is a great example of how complex it was for many.
I for one think it was smart that some used their status within the regime to help the oppressed. Whether they were actively part of the nazi party or just trapped providing for the Germans to survive, I still think those who managed to risk everything to do some good for people who weren’t even seen as people, were brilliant.
In the same vein, the resistance wasn’t purely good and righteous. Many of them became violent criminals who continued looking for excuses to murder people even after the war ended. It was like they were addicted to the hate and the chase. Like for them it wasn’t even about justice. Just an excuse to harm and feel justified.
I am no scholar when it comes to ww2 and frankly the subject has always bored me because that was the only subject I learned about in history class, but one thing I appreciate to have learned from all those boring lessons is that people are complex and no one is fully good or fully evil.
People used to understand the nuances of a person. Nowadays, especially online, too many people seem to be completely obsessed with purity testing and the standards are inhuman. Not even Jesus would be able to pass the bar for what terminally online losers think other people should do to be considered a good person.