Posted by beckett2 on October 23, 2018, at 19:50:50
In reply to Re: post coffee » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on October 23, 2018, at 4:21:34
> My skin doctor used to work in NZ and told me the skin cancer rates there were even higher than Aus. It is actually nice there to be out in the sun when t is cool. I had thought the hole in the ozone layer was if not fixed then getting better. Maybe not so? No solution to protect your northern British skin?
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> My line on the Nazis was considerably influenced by Christopher Clark'e "The Sleepwalkers", after which I concluded that Hitler's world outlook of dog eat dog was an understandable reaction to a lethal situation existing in (shall we say) cockpit Europe where everyone wanted revenge for something in the past, except perhaps for the British. That doesn't explain the Jews, but it does explain the French and Russian desire to destroy Germany. (Then the Kaiser was an idiot.)
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> HG Wells was asked sometime before WW! 'What do you think will happen to the BROWN races' and he replied 'I assume they will just have to go.' That's a lot of people to get rid of. Was WWI an example of the return of the repressed? Of course the wrong people died. But one wonders what would have happened to the rest of the world without it. The Germans hadn't had much time to get going. There was a small genocide in Namibia? (Goering's father) The Belgians excelled themselves. Half the population in 30 years? (Plucky little Belgium.) The British built railroads and institutions in India. Did they reduce it to beggary? (as that recent book argued). Not to speak of the settler societies. (Cowboys and Indians, Doris Day, The Black Hills of Dakota, clear inspiration for Hitler). If this is the nature of the world, and we wish to accept that, maybe the choice of victim is less important than acting out this perversion of Nietzche.
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> With Eichmann there are 2 accounts: That from the trial in Jerusalem and the other from a recorded conversation with a young dutch Nazi. Any Nazi worth his salt was not meant to stand around waiting for orders. (This brings to mind Christopher Browning on Trump.) The simple act of giving the police old military hardware (Obama) brought the overseas wars home to the USA. Tanks in Ferguson?
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> At this point in my rumination I shake my head and feel disappointed. And it doesn't look good down the road.>The simple act of giving the police old military hardware (Obama) brought the overseas wars home to the USA. Tanks in Ferguson?
If they have it, chances are, just like a good dramatist knows when placing a rifle in the frame, it will eventually be used.
Last week I learned there was a potential military plan to use nuclear bombs in Vietnam.
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