Nina spitting truths as always. She’s on fire recently, so follow her if you’re not doing so already.

To be clear; everyone working in my government, particularly after today, is a Nazi, or someone who works for Nazis. Do you know what we call people who worked for the Nazis, in the Nazi government? Yes, that is correct, Nazis.

So Machado is certainly not gonna feel lonely on the list of people on my TV who are definitely Nazis.

Oh, was that too harsh? Are you feeling bad for the good career civil servants, working for the literal fucking Nazis, who I have just impuned? Cool, let’s refer back to that part where I said I was surrounded by people who openly recognize that this is fascism, and ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY refuse to accept what that actually means.

We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis. Nobody says “the Nazi government and the career civil servants who hated them but stayed.”

“They’ll just find someone else.”

Then let them. “I took the job at the concentration camp because I was sure Hitler would find someone else” was not a good defense in court last time, and it won’t be this time either.

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    Hitler had no power whatsoever without the will of the German populace.

    It was the sum total of all the trivial efforts - like those of that janitor - that gave us the Holocaust.

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      Dictators have immense power despite what the populace wants. That’s… what makes them dictators. Even when everyone opposes the military, their opposition is the military, so the people tend to lose horribly.

      Are you more responsible for capitalism than Elon Musk?

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        Are you more responsible for capitalism than Elon Musk?

        The consumer class is responsible not just for making Musk a billionaire, but also Bezos, Zuckerberg, Brin, Arnault, Ballmer, all of the Waltons… The most accurate answer to your question is “Yes”, I am indeed more responsible for capitalism than Elon Musk.

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                Now you’re just being intellectually dishonest.

                No, I’m not on the list. Hitler’s janitor wasn’t on the list. Guillotining Hitler’s janitor wouldn’t have stopped the Holocaust. Hitler’s janitors refusing to go to work would have. Hitler’s janitors guillotining Hitler would have. Guillotining me and the rest of the consumer class won’t solve the problems we created.

                Take some personal responsibility.

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                  I am indeed more responsible

                  So you’re more responsible?

                  Now you’re just being intellectually dishonest.

                  So you were lying.

                  Guillotining me and the rest of the consumer class won’t solve the problems we created.

                  So you were lying badly.

                  Take some personal responsibility.

                  So words don’t mean things.

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                    So you’re more responsible?

                    Yep! “I” being the entire consumer class that created all of the billionaires. I feel I was pretty clear about that. You were well aware of that when you suggested that “I” should face the guillotine. That was your dishonesty.

                    Hitler had no power without the support of the German people. “But he was a dictator!” Dictators have no power without the support of the people. When the people laugh at him and call him an idiot, he’s not a dictator. He’s just some random dickhead yelling at the clouds. He was only a dictator because people followed his dictates.

                    Your argument was that Hitler’s janitor wasn’t responsible for the holocaust; that his Nazi role was trivial. The sum totality of all those “trivial” Nazi roles is what gave us the holocaust.