"Remigration" is ethnic cleansing. Eliminationist economics at work. "Aryanization": a Nazi euphemism for systematically taking property from persecuted groups. It started as "voluntary" due to economic coercion, later became theft backed by violence.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/aryanization
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Lili Pohlmann's father was murdered by Nazis because a building caretaker wanted his watch.
The fascist philosophy of humanity forming a hierarchy of value makes life cheap, and fascists squalid thieves.
@continuation This is what the banal evil of complicity looks like. It's the murderous union of dehumanized indifference to suffering and the unreflective worship of Mammon.
@continuation the thing this guy values more than humans: some piece of shit beater that died 4 times on the ride home
@continuation That speaks volumes about their thought process. Blinkered with zero compassion.
As a side note, that is some next level Alt text there! Immensely impressed.
As a side note, that is some next level Alt text there! Immensely impressed.
@FourQ
I do a first run for all alt-text using machine learning image analysis, then revise and correct the output. It lets me provide as much detail as possible for every image I use. I prompt for accessibility alt-tex specifically. Ethically complicated practice but the benefit is quite large in that use case.
@continuation I see what you mean from an ethical perspective. I've used Google Lens for a couple of things myself though. Usually when word blindness hits hard which is happening more and more but like to avoid it if I can. When the energy runs low or I just can't accurately type I've used the microphone on the keyboard.
Does the ML accessibility gains justify the means? I think we have to ask someone visually impaired. It is impressive though. :/
Does the ML accessibility gains justify the means? I think we have to ask someone visually impaired. It is impressive though. :/
@FourQ
I wish there was a company focused on ethics. OpenAI and Anthropic weren't as bad as Google and Meta, but now they're both military contractors. And none of them are dealing with the environmental costs.
Powerful and very useful tools if the people control them and they're made sustainable. But of course it's all about enriching billionaires instead.
@continuation Enriching billionaires seems to be the order of the day. They'll donate a few million to reap multitudes more as a result. Musk reportedly met his annual tax quota at 00.15 on 1/01/25! It's nauseating.
@continuation that is why I recently posted about approaching local farms regarding possible "Pick your own" in order to help them avoid going under, lose less food to "rotting in the fields" and, let them know that we support them.
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It'll be the gold from their teeth next.
It'll be the gold from their teeth next.
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Pretty sure it worked just like this in Nazi Germany, too.
Pretty sure it worked just like this in Nazi Germany, too.
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Disgusting Gringos!
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When the Japanese-Americans of Terminal Island were interred during WWII, their fishing boats were resold - but they were considered to have bad luck.
https://sanpedro.com/san-pedro-area-points-interest/japanese-memorial-terminal-island/
When the Japanese-Americans of Terminal Island were interred during WWII, their fishing boats were resold - but they were considered to have bad luck.
https://sanpedro.com/san-pedro-area-points-interest/japanese-memorial-terminal-island/
@continuation there's about a million versions of this post knocking about but the real question is, assuming you are still able to, what's next in 2028? It's easy to shout fire but the difficult part is putting the fire out. Giving the entire list of fuckwits you have as politicians, what's stopping another asshole from trying it again in four years time? And it's not just facists, because there are plenty of looney left out there as well. 1)
@continuation Sounds familiar? It should
"When relocating to the ghetto, Jews were only allowed to bring 25 kg of their belongings. The rest of their possessions were taken by the German Trust Office (Treuhandstelle)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto#Formation_of_the_Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto
@continuation it is what i have labeled as #EconomicGenocide against the Hispanic Society. The largest and fastest growing segment in the US.
@continuation it’s of eminent importance as a Jew in Antwerp explained to me, to keep realising that the prosecution of Jews had everything to do with robbery; with claiming ownership of things that were not yours. This robbery / financial aspect usually gets too little emphasis in the analysis of the events that led up to the holocaust.
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Ghouls. I hate this with all my being.
Ghouls. I hate this with all my being.
Vote to "make the farm great again."
Get a cheap truck from a deported migrant worker.
Sit in your truck waiting for workers to show up for harvest…
🤢🫣
@continuation One step away from celebration of windfall deals on tooth-shaped gold
@continuation in Germany it was called "Arianisation" how could that be called here? Magasation?
@JohnfromParis
Same word works. Both because it's the best historical example and also because Trump also believes in similar racist conspiracies, ethnocentrism, etc,
Save money on abandoned farm workers' trucks.
Spend it trying to get staff for your next harvest.
Maga mastermind 🤢
@continuation Reminds me of exhibitions about plundering the Jewish people before they were deported in Hamburg, Germany
A lot of people were very excited to buy things for the cheap, even if it meant to exile or kill their neighbors.
https://www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/en/news/news/neue-ausstellung-im-rathaus-ausgeraubt-vor-der-deportation
A lot of people were very excited to buy things for the cheap, even if it meant to exile or kill their neighbors.
https://www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/en/news/news/neue-ausstellung-im-rathaus-ausgeraubt-vor-der-deportation
@SimonHain
This is exactly right. So we have the word "Aryanization" for it and it's the best word to describe what they're doing.
@continuation this is evil, it's also stupid. The entire society gets poorer and less productive, services are cut, debt is added and almost of all of it so the rich can get richer, but you get a one time discount on some second hand stuff. Idiots. Good luck when it breaks down and there is no one to repair it and the parts are double the price because of tarrifs.
@BenjaminKlein
The breakdown is on purpose. I think that's key to understanding what they're doing.
The more people suffer the more they struggle, the more they want a leader and scapegoats. The more the fascists can divide people the more they can recruit them.
Same strategy the Nazis used in the post-WWI conditions in Germany.
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@continuation @phire these fuckers did the same thing during the Japanese-American internment
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"It was amazing. HG! All of their beautiful linens had the same initials as ours."
Mrs Hermann Göring
I cant remember the movie.
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I am so tired of sarcasm.
@kevinrns
Me too but tell me more if you'd like?
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Nathan's comment is the wrong thing to say. As sarcasm it makes fascist assault on seem typically American annoying and normal.
If its not sarcasm, its glorying in evil. Might as well be Satan on his thrown kicking skulls.
@kevinrns
He's actually participating. He goes on to list all the items you can get for good deals.
I can see why you might imagine it's sarcasm, who could be so awful? But this is the new normal for them.
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I also questioned at first if it was a sarcastic post but then I saw it was on the evil site and that made things clearer... *Sigh* This is sickening
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I am so sorry. Its like looking at surgery pictures, dealing with fascists. Its on Elons weapon twitter? There is no way to report or block them?
Filth. Beyond civilisation. Once called satanic.
@kevinrns
Yes, on the evil site.
It's actually so widespread and mainstream, it's going all the way up to the government and trump's top advisors and all the politicians. So it's not a minority opinion but a massive fascist shift that is becoming fully normalized. It's all the silicon valley people, the 'race science' people, etc. All just embracing it without hesitation.
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“textbook Aryanization” - hate it but good to know the term to describe it, thanks. 😐
#textbookAryanization#textbookAryanisation#Aryanization#Aryanisation#legalisedTheft#economicBenefitsOfPersecution
@Su_G
Yes, difficult because so much language that perfectly describes things happening in modern fascism comes from the most famous WWII example. For good reason but it makes it hard to talk about without people dismissing it. Gestapo, SS, concentration camp, etc. But I think personally we have to get over that because the very lesson of that period is how it was both absolutely horrifying and also unremarkable, because it only exposes something always there in our social/political systems.
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Yes… “absolutely horrifying and also unremarkable, because it only exposes something always there in our social/political systems.”
Last year I read the book Nazi Billionaires & was horrified
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Billionaires
Then I read Killers of the Flower Moon & couldn’t sleep for a week.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_of_the_Flower_Moon_(book)
How did I get to be so dangerously naïve?
@continuation definitely concerning as something that could erode the current unpopularity of mass deportations. What do you think can be done to counter this?
@scott
My honest answer considering all the events listed here: https://mas.to/@continuation/114809344400752194
I say this with full knowledge of how alarmist it sounds but I think the question to ask is this:
Knowing what you know about everything that happened after, what would you do if you were in Germany in 1933?
Do that, whatever it is.
Some can and will fight, others will need to leave. As the scholar of fascism said the lesson of 1933 is "get out sooner rather than later."
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My flaw, if surviving the ‘getting the hell out’, would be the recrimination of all the people I didn’t/couldn’t save. why me? did you get _everyone_ into the lifeboat?
My flaw, if surviving the ‘getting the hell out’, would be the recrimination of all the people I didn’t/couldn’t save. why me? did you get _everyone_ into the lifeboat?
@continuation @scott Lots of people couldn’t leave then or now. IMO the real lesson of WWII is “people who participated in the Resistance survived at a far higher rate than those who peacefully cooperated with the authorities.”
Also there is nowhere you can move to avoid the policies of the USA gov’t. IMO it makes more sense to stay in the imperial core and cause problems, especially when the rise of fascism is evidence we’re closer to winning than ever—fascism is capitalism in decay.
@continuation Puyallup River Valley once had a lot of Japanese American farmers....
@continuation wish the Nazi were here so we could let them know that we know what they are.
@aardvark
I started using my account on the evil site again for exactly that reason. To call it out document it and sound the alarm.
@continuation Well that is loathsome
@continuation shitty nazis being shitty nazis.
"Remigration" is ethnic cleansing. Eliminationist economics at work. "Aryanization": a Nazi euphemism for systematically taking property from persecuted groups. It started as "voluntary" due to economic coercion, later became theft backed by violence.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/aryanization
@continuation gold teeth
gold rings
clothing
shoes
blankets
gold rings
clothing
shoes
blankets
even the most mundane things were confiscated from Jews and either hoarded by the Nazis or given to people in areas around the camps
See: any Holocaust museum
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Can't wait to see how @NBCNews @CBSNews @abc @CNN spin this as somehow acceptable, right, and good.
Economic pressure creates this kind of "voluntary" asset liquidation. Migrants facing ICE raids are forced to sell cars and other things quickly at below market prices so they can flee or prepare for detention. They're not choosing to sell. They're being forced by state violence.
This happened in Germany but it also happened in the United States during WWII. Japanese Americans were sent to the concentration camps and their homes, businesses, and farms were taken and often never returned.
@continuation My grandparents saw it firsthand. Their Japanese American neighbors were rounded up and sent to the camps. They lost everything. Their stores in Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights became white owned. And they couldn't get most of those businesses back when they returned home.
(Little Tokyo briefly became a Black neighborhood during the war when people migrated West from the South. Including the rest of my family.)
@IveyJanette
Thank you for sharing this story that you've inherited. May memory save us from forgetting that it can happen here.
@continuation It's already happening. MacArthur Park was the latest example. People forget that it erupted in the 1992 citywide uprising and rebellion.
Just saw what happened last night on Crenshaw & Hyde Park near where we used to live. LAPD raided a public vigil for someone who was killed in yet another drive-by shooting. All hell broke loose.
I moved away in 2004. My brother moved in with me here in Albuquerque at the end of 2019.
We haven't forgotten 1992 either.
@continuation Paradise Ridge vineyard in Sonoma is one such. Japanese owned until the owner was put in a camp. The current owner told me when I visited and bought some wine some years ago.
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It also happened in the Netherlands, houses and property abandoned by Jewish people were 'taken into custody' by neighbors. In some cities they were even confiscated by municipal governments (the Hague i. e.) while they were still living there (you're a renter now).
Some who were able to retrieve their home after returning from camps or hiding, had to pay taxes missed during the war and even fines on top (Amsterdam).
It also happened in the Netherlands, houses and property abandoned by Jewish people were 'taken into custody' by neighbors. In some cities they were even confiscated by municipal governments (the Hague i. e.) while they were still living there (you're a renter now).
Some who were able to retrieve their home after returning from camps or hiding, had to pay taxes missed during the war and even fines on top (Amsterdam).
@continuation Japanese Canadians were also interned during WWII.
When this happens the population who aren't being targeted by ICE benefits from the sales. Americans can now buy trucks at a low price because of ICE. This creates a situation where people have an economic stake in the persecution. Just like Germans who bought Jewish businesses.
@continuation ⏫just like the conscription sales in sulla's rome
@continuation much like everything else the MAGA crowd puts out, this is a load of horsecrap, and some wishful thinking by some racist idiot, truck prices aren’t budging, especially used ones. If anything else, they continue to rise, due to the administrations complete lack of understanding how economies work
@sfalken
I would avoid minimizing what's happening - the desire to frame Trump as incompetent is understandable but the list of what he's doing is quite clear and is very dangerous.
For example: https://mas.to/@continuation/114809344400752194
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Thanks for explaining it so clearly, the economic benefits to the in-group (who can loot with impunity) of persecuting designated out-groups: “This creates a situation where people have an economic stake in the persecution. Just like Germans who bought Jewish businesses.”
Like the person in yr toot gleefully bragging about the benefits to the 2nd hand truck market of ICE persecution…
A horrifying situation, but look at the past: it worked for the Nazis… How to turn it around? Sugar in the tank…
This is exactly how authoritarian regimes create economic stakeholders in genocide. Advertising the financial benefit of ethnic cleansing to create more popular support.
'Get those deportation numbers up and you too can profit from your neighbors being sent to a camp.'
@continuation I wouldn't believe the price either. The cost of "freedom" is fucking expensive.
I can't wait until we reach the point where ICE leaders are on the other end of the equation. It may take a few years but fascists always fail.
@continuation there's far more effective profit by dismantling wealth of the billionaires, as opposed to fighting for scraps and losing your soul in the process.
Rationality doesn't necessarily play a role in here though.
Rationality doesn't necessarily play a role in here though.
@continuation Join in the killing and you too can loot the corpses.
@continuation Nathan doesn't think they'll ever come for him.
They will eventually come for him.
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all the trucks in the world won't do Tate and Nathan as much good as taking the time to read Eichmann In Jerusalem right now.
all the trucks in the world won't do Tate and Nathan as much good as taking the time to read Eichmann In Jerusalem right now.
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The possessions of the WW2 Japanese detainees went for firesale prices to their neighbours.
The possessions of the WW2 Japanese detainees went for firesale prices to their neighbours.
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Two funny-peculiar things about these posts by “Nathan Halberstadt” are his German surname (therefore we presume some part of his origin is/was German; “Halberstadt” = “half city” literally, perhaps mid city or downtown) & lack of shame or any sense of history or irony. He is a poster boy for the bad.
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@liquor_american
You can have this truck for just the price of genocide and slavery of anyone the regime decides is criminal.
@liquor_american
You can have this truck for just the price of genocide and slavery of anyone the regime decides is criminal.
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I first learned about this aspect of ethnic cleansing / genocide via the 1976 film "Mr. Klein". Great film, and highly relevant to the current moment, sadly.
I first learned about this aspect of ethnic cleansing / genocide via the 1976 film "Mr. Klein". Great film, and highly relevant to the current moment, sadly.
@continuation I was seeing posts on Massachusetts Reddit where neighbors were photographing piles of stuff that landlords were putting on the curb after the tenants were snatched by ICE.
Good people were taking what they could to keep it safe in case the people came back, or if their neighbors family showed up to salvage important stuff. One guy was trying to get people to help keep his neighbor’s truck from being towed away until the family could pick it up.
Bad people were celebrating “free stuff” that was up for grabs.
The plan for ethnic cleansing in the US is coming from the very top down.
Three phases:
1. 'removing' undocumented people.
2. 'removing' legal migrants.
3. 'removing' citizens judged as "non assimilated".
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-office-remigration-state-department-europe-far-right/
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