• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    TBF, Hitler got a lot of his ideas from the US. Germany was just a smaller and less ethnically diverse country than the US, so there was less resistance to fascism.

    Letting the South off easy after the Civil war was the big mistake.

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      45 minutes ago

      we also had nazi parties and sympathesizers in the us, that was really not dealt with, plus the OG, racist party KKK.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      it was. it got us the nazis. letting a single confederate officer (who wasn’t a double agent or something) avoid the noose was such a huge mistake. not dispossessing everyone who claimed to own another human completely was also a mistake.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 hours ago

        Exactly. The government should have seized the land of every plantation owner that made a living from slave labor, and distributed it to former slaves as reparations.