[extropy-chat] Re: is america fascist yet?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> >If the Axis had
> >won WWII we'd be eating sushi & rice and reading in
> >German how Hitler vanquished Communism 60 years ago.
> 
> Our ranks would have been thinned out a tad. There'd be no Eliezer 
> Yudkowsky to pester us, for example. Not too sure about Zero Powers
> either.
> 
> Yikes, sometimes this list seems to be top-heavy with posters who
> skipped  all their history classes.

Depends on which history classes you are talking about, and who is
writing the history books. The Final Solution was only implemented late
in the war as a means of concealing the slave labor and substandard
living conditions, human experiments, etc. from the inevitable war
crimes investigators. At least until 1943, the only gas chambers were
used to delouse clothing of prisoners (they weren't tall enough for a
person to stand in). Originally the nazi plan was to have the jews work
their 'debt to germany' off for up to a decade, then be deported to
Palestine, where the idea was that they'd not make life difficult for
europeans anymore, just the arabs. To this end, various zionist groups
received assistance from German agents in Palestine in causing
difficulties for the British through the 1930's. 

If the Japanese hadn't mucked things up with an attack on the US, the
european war would have been over by '43. Hitler was reportedly truly
pissed when he heard about Pearl Harbor. Having sat out the war, with
an economy in a continuing miserable state, the US would have been in
little position to dictate international policy to either Germany or
Japan, and cries of Sino-German cultural imperialism would be the norm
here in the US by now. Hell, we might have asked them for foreign aid....

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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