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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by mtoner23 on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:10PM (#43684970)
there's no need to defend any good things the nazis did to germany
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by ceejayoz on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:12PM (#43684991)
The good things (and the promises of more) are what make them compelling for a while. Fascism is appealing because top-down directives from an absolute leader can work… for a bit.

Eventually you run out of the low hanging fruit that can be messed with by executive fiat, and then you have to find enemies to blame.

Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by skyyler on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:12PM (#43684995)
Reminds me of the venerable Dril:

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them.'

Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by legitster on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:12PM (#43685006)
Apologies. Did by no means try to mean it as a compliment to the Nazis - I just intended it as a comparison to help explain the justification at the time.
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:11PM (#43684989)
> At least the Nazi party created a strong economy in Germany

This is a myth. Wages of Destruction [1] details the Nazis’ autarkic economic incompetence.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction

Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by oyving on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:16PM (#43685055)
It didn't even do that. The Nazi economy was a debt fuelled spending spree that needed war in an attempt to sustain itself.
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by simmerup on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:20PM (#43685115)
The nazis just robbed minorities and used slave Labour to prop up their economy and rich certain people/ethnicities

Which, again, is a parallel to Trump. If the peoll,e he deports to El Salavdor start to have their assets taken by the state/their neighbours/the people that dobbed them in, good luck.

Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by oblio on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:11PM (#43684975)
Nope, it didn't. The Nazis started a war economy almost immediately and yes, they hiked employment, but the Nazi economy was boom or bust. They couldn't sustain it long term without the war.