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Just finished “Babylon Berlin” and am sort of transfixed
I’m sure you’ve heard about the four-season German TV series streaming on MhZ (the service on which I’ve been watching it). And I’ve just, today, been delighted to learn there will be a fifth season. Which is good because the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Culture, Fascism, Government, MAGA, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, Technology, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, Trumpism
Tagged "Babylon Berlin", "Run, Busby Berkeley, CGI (computer generated imagery), Elon Musk, Lola, MhZ streaming service, Tom Tykwer, Trump, Weimar Republic
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Turning factoids into facts: Mars, Hitler and history
Let’s All Go to Mars! So many MAGAts, including the MAGAt King, have been heralding our imminent landing and community-building on Mars, presumably via one of Elon Musk’s rockets. Another presumption: it is one which isn’t prone to shattering mid-air … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Human rights, Immigration, The Facts of Life
Tagged "History of the Modern World", Adolph Hitler, Elon Musk, Galactic Cosmic Radiation, George Santayana, German Chancellor, German Communist Party, German elections 1932, German President, history repeating itself, JJ Palmer, Joel Colton, kidney failure, Mars trip, Nazi Party, Paul von Hindenburg, Poland, Reichstag, SpaceX, tesseract, Weimar Republic, World War II
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Is the atmosphere in the US right now like that in 1930’s Germany?
It’s generally understood that a country is not vulnerable to a dictatorial take-over if its domestic, economic and political climate(s) are in good shape. So I’ve done a bit of research to make a comparison between the United States a … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Government, Joe Biden and his people, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Asian Americans, Black Americans, crime rates, Hispanic Americans, inflation, job growth, job loss, Latino Americans, MAGA, Native Americans, Orthodox Jews, price increases, The Great Depression, unemployment rate, wage depreciation, Weimar Republic, Weimar Republic economy
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