lol, he slaughtered that whole plane of people in season 1.

These people are just dumb as bricks and need it literally spelled out for them to understand anything.

They barely understand text, let alone heavy handed subtext.

"Er ist wieder da" was the most depressing comedy movie of the decade. ("Don't look up" is this decade's winner)

It gets even more depressing when you learn that many of the public scenes are NOT scripted, they're literally a guy in a hitler suit, out in public, think Borat, but with nazis.

I read something ages ago, some study or something, not sure how legit, and it basically came to the conclusion that the only way to stop people from liking and associating with Nazi ideology is to not expose them to it, because there are some people that will like it if exposed, and it can't really be stopped.

It's a pretty good watch, I think it was free on youtube when I saw it a couple years ago.

Edit: yup still on there, with English subtitles

https://youtu.be/WiiUm7v0ilo

And they still didn't get it.

It's not even an allegiance to "National Socialism" or the NSDAP, per se.

Some people are aroused by the prospect of telling people, with impunity, that they or their group are in charge of everything forever and everyone has to applaud it on pain of torture and death.

They have a perverse, sometimes sexual, stimulation at the prospect of threatening, abusing, and submitting people to their doctrine of what they unilaterally deem to be the natural order of things.

Simply put, they feed, at every level, on the pain and misery they cause.

Naziism is just an ideology that appeals to some common instincts, which becomes an issue when enough of them are in precarity that they warm up to making the ideas policy.

It doesn't make for a very good state. Incompetence and nepotism rises to the top. Data driven science is tossed aside for ideology-driven rhetoric. Officials govern on vibes resulting in famine, plague and war. Also the country turns into the very kind of shithole it accuses other nations of being.

Eventually, you have bombers from rival countries blocking the the sun over the capitol. International tribunals exercise judgement and enforce their law, since the nazis failed to provide rule of law to their own. Children pick up pieces of the trainwreck.

And we learn (or fail to learn) once again why we don't let the fascist autocrats take over, even when they are very, very rich.

We in the US have a choice: clean up the mess early, or let China clean it up for us. And China will make us jolly sorry if we make them clean it up. We'll be their buggery bitch for a century or two at least.