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Bard spotting on Bluesky 12 October 2024 :marseyrandom:

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In light of the rhetoric at Aurora, buckle up, because I'm going to dump (a Wikipedia article) on your timeline

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in...

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Stab-in-the-back myth - Wikipedia


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The stab-in-the-back myth … maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians …


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar Germany as "a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest 'national opposition' – fourteen years … at last … swept away by the National Socialist movement under Hitler and the victory of the 'national revolution' of 1933"


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Dolchstoß was a central image in propaganda produced … in the early days of the Weimar Republic, including [the] Nazi Party. For Hitler himself, this explanatory model for World War I was of crucial personal importance.[35] … Throughout his career, he railed against the "November criminals"


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

And this, which makes my blood run cold and my eyes water every fricking time I read it

The Allied policy of unconditional surrender was devised in 1943 in part to avoid a repetition of the stab-in-the-back myth. According to historian John Wheeler-Bennett, speaking from the British perspective, …


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It was necessary for the Nazi rΓ©gime and/or the German Generals to surrender unconditionally in order to bring home to the German people that they had lost the War by themselves; so that their defeat should not be attributed to a "stab in the back".[36]


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

… Hunt argues that it was not the guilt of wickedness, but the shame of weakness that seized Germany's national psychology, and "served as a solvent of the Weimar democracy and also as an ideological cement of Hitler's dictatorship".[40]


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

These are the same conditions under which the MAGA movement has developed.

They're constantly acting out of shame for failure to some mythological ideal of America and manhood.


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

They're told they live in an occupied land, betrayed by criminals who lost a (mythical, nebulous) struggle who control the government


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Wikipedia article is kind enough to do:

See Also the myth of the Lost Cause of the US Confederacy


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

What the frick are we going to do


Gestalt Ersatzquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

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