Thread by @LaineyRubin

UNNERVING DEJA VU:
Quotes from, "The Land of Deepening Shadows, Germany at War", D. THOMAS CURTIN 1917:

"Germany entered the war with 💥the government in control of all the forces affecting public opinion💥, The only way which newspapers,editors, reporters teachers, professors

theatre managers etc, could hope to do anything was to 💥make sure to please the government. To displease the government meant to be silenced or to experience something much worse..."💥

"There is only one way to realize the distress in Germany & that is to go there and travel as widely as possible, preferably on foot. The truth about the food situation and the growing discontent cannot be told, it must be memorized and carried across the frontier in the brain."

"Children are early made to realise that all hope of succeeding in life rests upon the passing of these examinations. 💥Thus the despair which often leads to suicide on the one hand and knowledge without keenness on the other." 💥

"Those who knew only the old and pleasant Germany
do not realise 💥the speeding up of the hate machine 💥that has taken place in the last decade. The protests against this State creation of hate grow less and less as the war proceeds."

"There is no cure for this evil state of affairs."
The hate machine, anti-feminism (popular now among MAGAs): "Women have become even more 💥a servant of the master of the house...to elevate the man at the expense of the woman." 💥

💥"The story of how all Germans were made to think
as one man is a story of one of the greatest phenomena
of history.💥💥💥

"Only those who have seen the virulence of the caricatures, circulated by picture postcard, can have any idea of 💥the horrible material on which the German child is fed...💥

"The only protest I ever heard came from the Artists' Society of Munich, who objected to these loathsome educational efforts as being injurious to the reputation of artistic Germany and 💥calculated to produce permanent damage to the juvenile mind." 💥

"Subjects are discussed w/boys/girls of 11 & 12, that make an Anglo-Saxon anxious to get out of the room. I do not know whether it is this or the over-education that leads to 💥the notorious child suicides of Germany, upon which so many learned treatises have been written💥

These are just a few random quotes, but on the whole the similarities are unnerving, such as DeVo's plans for edu, the homeschooling movement w/*Christians*, the new anti-feminism, men trying to control women/their bodies...

💥The full text is here:

archive.org/stream/landofd…

"A virtue carried too far becomes a vice. (EVANGELICALS)

In Germany patriotism becomes jingoistic hatred and
contempt for others (TRUMP'S RHETORIC), organisation becomes the utilisation of servility, obedience becomes
willingness to do wrong at command." (THE MAGAS)

"...venomously instructing them in their duty of "hating with the whole heart and the whole mind," and convincing them that "only through hate can the greatest obstacles be overcome," (WEAPONIZED HATE FOR DEMS, IMMIGRANTS, NON-WHITES AS PATH TO SUCCESS)

TRUMP'S PROPAGANDA ABOUT HIS *FRIENDS*, UN AND VLAD:
Americans ... are inclined to ascribe to the
Germans their own qualities. In nothing is this more
obvious than in the idea that the fair treatment
of Germans in England will beget fair treatment of the
English in Germany."

THE SITUATION WITH IRAN?

"State worship had advanced so far that the German people entered the conflict in the perverted belief that the German Government had used every means to avert war. It is a mistake, however, to suppose that the German people entered the war reluctantly.

EROSION OF DECENCY, DESCRIBED AS WEAKNESS
Kavanaugh, Graham in hearings?

"When Maubeuge fell I heard Germans of all classes
boast of how their soldiers struck the British who
offered to shake hands after they surrendered to the
Germans."

I am not doing a well-organized and chronological job of this thread, but if anyone would like to do it over, better and with all parallels inserted, I'd gladly hand over the word doc I created with the full text, which is an excellent first-person account of what he saw himself.

"The majority... believe what they are officially instructed to believe, no more/less. The overmastering self-hypnotism which leads the present-day German to believe that black is white, if it adds to his self-satisfaction, is one of the most
startling phenomena of history.😱🤔

Build the wall!?

"No German, except for necessary reasons of State,
should ~be allowed to leave the country for a number of
years after the war."

Fourth of July, national anthem?

"Scores of followers swelled to hundreds. The
troubles of the day were forgotten. Eyes brightened
as the throng kept step with the martial music. "

"There was the customary cursing of the Agrarians and the expressions of resolve to have a new order of freedom after the war, expressions which I believe will not be
realised unless Germany is compelled to accept peace..."

On long lines/food rationing:
"The Gvt has taught the people a lesson. They
will wait hour after hour, 😡docile and obedient
henceforth, if necessary until they drop, make no mistake of that. "People think most of revolution when they are hungry," was what one leader said.

I cannot help but think of the imminent recession (at best) because of the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the most wealthy of all, disguised as a tax cut for the non-wealthy.

"The more munitions the Allies ‼️make Germany use⁉️,
the more fat she must use for this purpose, and
‼️the less she will have for the civil population‼️, with a
consequent diminution of their output of work. "

"From unimpeachable authority I learned that the Poles were intensely discouraged at the thoroughness with which the Prussians stripped the country after the last harvest, and that in some sections the people are actually dying of hunger."