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There have been many horrible events, but recency bias, I would be interested in what if Hitler never came to power, there was no WWII, and no Holocaust. Would his failure to forge a path to power have prevented many of today's happenings and not put the US as the top world power for decades, or would we still have ended up here? Israel and Palestine would likely be different, nukes wouldn't have been dropped, and maybe the Soviet union wouldn't have collapsed. I'm not a history guy, so maybe all of this is off base. Again, certainly worse things in history that if changed would have reshaped the world, but this is definitely not a small thing affecting us today.
Unfortunately the decision makers / lawmakers are a slimy bunch that are good at propaganda.
Definitely an interesting “what if.” Hitler never coming to power would have completely reshaped the 20th century no WWII, no Holocaust, and a very different global power balance. So much of today’s world, from the US as a superpower to Israel- Palestine and nuclear politics, might have played out differently. Hard to say exactly, but it’s definitely one of those pivotal moments in history.
If Trump didn't have a playbook I wonder if he could have accomplished the same tyranny he has.
I'm in the US Virgin islands at the moment on a trip, and I had a good conversation with a taxi driver. Tourism is way down and they are all just as disgusted and feel just as helpless as the rest of us. It's still a US territory, but anecdotally his shit is flinging on everyone.
Trump is a symptom of the late-stage imperialist system the US Empire is in, not a unique figure dramatically changing the course of history.
Yeah, even without a playbook it’s wild how much influence he’s had. Sounds rough in the Virgin Islands too crazy how his actions ripple everywhere, even in territories most people barely think about.
It's unfortunate and I'm embarrassed by my fellow countrymen. The US certainly has not often been on the right side of history, but in the here and now, I'm truly disgusted by it all.
My guy, many of the Hitler policies was inspired by the southern US policies against the black population. Sometimes I wonder the nazi rise and fall didn't prevent something like that happening in the US in the XX century.