Andrea Junker :verified:Strandjunker@mstdn.social
Oct 27, 2026, 8:45 PMJust a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.
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DietmarDO1HMN@mastodon.radioOct 27, 2026, 9:09 PM@Strandjunker and the Germans in the east only had fake elections until 1990...
Oct 27, 2026, 9:21 PM@Strandjunker Unlike Germany splitting in two; the US may collapse into a jungle anarchy.
Oct 27, 2026, 9:58 PM@EvoScale @Strandjunker
I think that something like a Mad Max scenario is not so improbable anymoreAll those heavy weapons in the hands of loonies
Carsten Frankecarstenfranke@mastodon.socialOct 27, 2026, 9:22 PM@Strandjunker done...
Lars Stitzstitzl@mastodon.socialOct 27, 2026, 10:09 PM@Strandjunker Even worse, millions of Germans didn't get the chance to vote again *ever* - as they were killed in the meantime in the war or in a concentration camp.
ShodoShodo@bonn.socialOct 27, 2026, 10:28 PM@Strandjunker That’s why I learnt as a Gernan teenager that you go to vote, no matter what. Because people fought for my right to vote and because there will be consequences if I don’t.
chollingcholling@bytes.programming.devOct 27, 2026, 10:32 PM@Strandjunker Just a reminder that Hitler wasn't elected in 1932. The "moderate" candidate was, and he responded by appointing Hitler Chancellor. There's a lesson there as well.
Oct 27, 2026, 11:42 PMi often think about Hindenburg appointing Hitler chancellor
or Lincoln choosing Andrew Johnson as his VP
upon either one's death, the world suffered mightily
(nonAmericans: Johnson sabotaged Reconstruction after the Civil War. many historians consider him worse than Trump- Johnson preserved the Confederate power structure. violent systemic racism continued)
there's this appeal to "nobility": spare your enemy, work with them
it's bullshit when dealing with monsters
John Jacob Jingleheimer SchmitGenXotaku1971@urusai.socialOct 27, 2026, 11:46 PM@benroyce @cholling @Strandjunker
I often say SCOTUS is OUR Paul Von Hindenburg, and each shadow docket ruling siding with the Administration is a piecemeal rolling out of a latter day Enabling Act, via the batshit "Unitary Executive Theory".
LevkaLevZadov@kolektiva.socialOct 28, 2026, 12:14 AMThe lesson to be learned is that ballots didn't stop the Nazis. Bullets did.
Twilight PaladinThyLunarPaladin@mastodon.socialOct 27, 2026, 10:38 PM@Strandjunker That non-voters aren't to blame, because he lost that election. Who _is_ to blame is his opponent, who made him Chancellor after winning the vote.
The lesson is that we shouldn't capitulate to fascism or lesser evilism.
Byrnensorg🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇩🇰byrnensorg@mastodon.ieOct 27, 2026, 11:45 PM@Strandjunker This is the era of people not learning lessons, they'll not only sleepwalk, they'll stride willingly into another dictatorship.
The November Man ☯️🇺🇦🏳️🌈TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.comOct 28, 2026, 12:16 AM@Strandjunker Truth
Piper🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🔻pconnelly@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 1:27 AM@Strandjunker and the vote that for them hitler was the moderate vote not the communist vote. Stop shaming people for not supporting a genocide.
LukefromDCLukefromDC@kolektiva.socialOct 28, 2026, 2:08 AM@Strandjunker How many people did Weimar Germany prohibit from voting entirely, or throw impossible obstacles (e.g a pardon for prior offenses) in front of?
- Oct 28, 2026, 3:48 AM
sure but that doesn't absolve those who are perfectly capable of voting, but merely choose not to
in fact, those who choose to not vote are betraying those whose voting rights are abused, because through voting can we overturn voter suppression, with the right candidate
voter disenfranchisement is a huge fucking problem
also a huge fucking problem: lazy entitled losers who just can't be bothered to vote
QuasitQuasit@vivaldi.netOct 28, 2026, 2:28 AMIf you're suggesting we vote for candidates who support genocide or other inhuman policies, that's how we ended up with fascism in the FIRST place.
hiphopheavenhiphopheaven@mastodon.socialOct 28, 2026, 2:32 AM@Strandjunker this is highly inaccurate. Here the real reason why Trump may become Hitler, it is because you left all your previous war criminal free like Bush
lucaluc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.placeOct 28, 2026, 6:50 AM@Strandjunker It's worth remembering that at an electoral event, before last elections, the deranged one said that voting him that time make voting no more a hassle.
The proposal was extremely clear.
SoziAufTourSoziAufTour@troet.cafeOct 28, 2026, 7:24 AM@Strandjunker I know what, you're trying to tell.
Still the Germans of that era weren't robbed of elections or democracy for that matter. They gave it away. Willingly.
And most people cooperated.
Hell.. post war polls showed that a majority of Germans thought that National Socialism was a good idea badly executed.