kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@dump_stack Oh Godwin's law isn't to be applied mechanically - if there are specific similarities between events in Germany in 30's why should we be prohibited from bringing them?

@dump_stack

Oh yes, just as there certainly wasn't any official call from the German government for Kristallnacht in 1938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

or from the Catholic church for St. Bartholomew's Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew's_Day_massacre

They just happened 🤷‍♂️

😉

@gemlog

Another classic trick of these times was a long report on price changes mentioning prices dropping on locomotives, concrete and dozen of other totally irrelevant items and 20% price increase for meat mentioned somewhere in between.

Note that prices for all goods in these times were set by the government and to sell them at any other price or manufacture them privately for sale was a criminal offense.

Of course, a huge black market existed in parallel to the official economy.

@gemlog

I still remember when news in 80's Poland were worded in exactly this way - 10 paragraphs about, say, a new model of locomotive being produced for export and then at the very end a tiny mention of "temporary difficulties in food distribution", really meaning thousands people on the streets due to massive food shortages.

@vfrmedia @gemlog

Not disputing the innovation, and maybe this reporting style is just a coincidence here, but I doubt it as it comes from a official news agency of a government still living deep in the Soviet mentality 😉

@dump_stack

No, because Gohmert was lying about the court cases being dismissed on "legalities" just as Trump was lying about "mass election fraud". Both did that specifically to push Trump's supporters towards violence and they succeeded.

@gemlog

LOL this is so much Soviet style of reporting - 90% of the article boasting about an invention and then at the very end a single paragraph on, surprise:

> At the daily meeting of the CDP, the causes of the failures to deliver Havana's agricultural products to the farmers' markets and the penalties imposed on those responsible were also analyzed.

@dump_stack

And the best evidence to my interpretation is that Trump supporters on the streets didn't actually follow your rather convoluted idea that he was suggesting they need to resort to the legal system but simply stormed the Capitol, directly following Trump and his friends :😆

@dump_stack

You're now making up an interpretation of his words.

Because, in the first place, his accusations against the cases being dismissed by courts without justification are made up. Courts dismissed the cases because there was little or no evidence of fraud.

What this actually makes of his word is a blackmail - "accept the cases in courts artificially or we go to the streets".

At the same time Trump, his son, Giuliani and others also openly talk about "fight", "combat" etc.