"I'm an American-American!" Are you paying attention?

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[LakeArenal]

1. Wow. Just wow.

Scary too.

[oswaldactedalone]

2. Those who don't know history

are doomed to repeat it. We’re living through it now.

[sop]

15. That's why they don't wants kids to learn history.

[barbtries]

24. bingo.

why they're so bent on misrepresenting and demonizing CRT. Because it seeks to teach history based on facts instead of all the myths they've been pushing for so long.

[appalachiablue]

3. Great message from 1943, TX for posting.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. While long, it is so relevant to our situation now. It would never, ever happen, but

wouldn't it be grand if it were shown during the half-time show at the Super Bowl.

[KS Toronado]

13. How about before the midterms?

[Ferrets are Cool]

36. Yeah, I couldn't think of anything big enough to get millions of eyeballs before

Super Bowl.

[KS Toronado]

40. Being 3 minutes long

probably best spread on social media, right click on image, select copy image address or whatever your
browser calls it and paste somewhere. That's what I did and got what's below, hope it works.

Link to tweet

[Cyrano]

5. The evil never goes away. It just changes its name.

Nazis then. MAGA, Qanon, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers now. But they're all selling the same hatred for the same reason. They want power. And turning us against each other is their path to that power.

[COL Mustard]

10. They all sell fear

I remember asking my Mom how Hitler was able to come to power. She said that he was able to manipulate public opinion and make Jews scapegoats.

Sadly that was a long time ago, and she’s forgotten what she taught me back then, and is full T***p now. But he’s different. 😔

[Tadpole Raisin]

6. Absolute truth! By the time these rwnj's realize they are easily disposable it is too late.

Almost 80 years later and we still have to fight this.
Damn scary! Thanks for posting!

[Martin Eden]

7. Fascism is as Fascism does

Fascism is here and now in America.

[COL Mustard]

11. I am a retired American soldier

I am dismayed that we have to fight Fascism again , and in our own country. Damn straight I’m anti fascist.

[Martin Eden]

18. My father served in WW2. The Greatest Generation was anti-fascist

What really chafes me is the way fascists in America wrap themselves in our flag and crow about Constitional freedoms.

They desecrate the flag and are the biggest threat to our Constitution.

[COL Mustard]

33. Thank you for your father's service. They were the greatest generation!

My Dad served also - Korea and Vietnam. Vietnam changed him; when he came back from that he was never the same. Bad times. Unfortunately he would be all up in TFG's camp, I'm sure.

[DFW]

51. So did mine

And my grandfather served in World War I. My father-in-law was Hermann Göring’s “poor slob on a farm” who did NOT “come back in one piece.”

I always get into trouble when I’m back in the States and some right-wing idiot tells me, “well I speak American.” I reply, “no, you don’t. You speak European. England is in Europe, not on the Great Lakes. If you speak “American,” then I take it you speak Navajo, Hopi, Seminole, Wampanoag, Apache, Nahuatl, Tlingit, Cherokee, Iroquois, whatever.

[frazzled]

8. Scarier yet is

Watching the recent Ken Burns documentary on the Holocaust and America, which concerns the history of anti-immigration policy and attitudes in this country, of all kinds, not only anti-Semitism.

These are actors in this clip ... the footage in the Burns film is real: American Bundt conventions, America First rallies, Nazi sympathizers, Father Coughlin, Charles Lindbergh, etc. in addition to FDR’s own State Department, and an intransigent Congress. It will scare the pants off you how close it is to today’s views and situation.

[wryter2000]

21. I have to find that

I wonder if it's available online at PBS

[Lonestarblue]

27. I was not able to watch the broadcast either, but I googled it for my local PBS station.

You might be able to watch it with this link.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the-holocaust/

[wryter2000]

30. Bless you

I knew someone at DU would find it.

[Yoyoyo77]

25. We were closer to the edge then than many realize.

Don't forget the business plot, attempted coup during FDR's first term.

[Tommymac]

9. K&R&B for The Absolute Truth - don't let history repeat itself. Vote Blue2022 nt

[IronLionZion]

12. I'll know we're in a recession when educated DUers complain about H1Bs

There are around 500,000 H1Bs in the US of all races and nationalities. About 250,000 are from India. And about 5 million US citizens are of Indian race or ancestry.

Educated liberal Democrats turn stupid really fast on this issue when things get a little difficult. When it's challenging to find jobs, people stop caring about where a person is born, raised, or hold citizenship. They don't even care about papers, of which I have a US birth certificate and passport. These jobs are only for "real" Americans, not job stealers like you. No job for you!



"Papers please" is the law. "Race please" is illegal and wrong.

[NullTuples]

20. I saw a LOT of abuse by employers last time around

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In tech, in the 2000's. H1B workers are at the mercy of their employer and some companies very much took advantage of that power inequity. The H1B program needs a ton of regulation, with teeth, to protect H1B workers.

[IronLionZion]

37. Correct. Companies abusing power inequity is the problem

Pitting white vs brown, or "real Americans" vs "foreign looking" is all part of their plan.

What's it going to take for more workers to unionize to bargain for better conditions

[Demanchor]

41. 20 years ago

It smacked of legalized slavery to me. I’m not in that field anymore. I do hope the situation has changed but I have my doubts.

[IronLionZion]

45. Fewer Indians want to come to the US for that type of work now

since other countries are more friendly like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

H1Bs are coming from other countries in Asia and Africa these days. But the stereotype persists that if someone in America looks vaguely Indian, they must be an H1B.

[Joinfortmill]

32. My H1B story. I worked for a large insurance company that shall remain nameless...

In the mid 2000's, the company went through a huge transformative upgrade of the IT department. It took about two years to complete. Near the end of the process, the company held an 'all employees' meeting where management congratulated themselves for the outstanding success they had achieved. There was even passing praise given to the employees who had actually implemented the changes.

Soon after, the company began hiring new H1B employees, mostly from India. The current long term employees were asked to train them. Apparently the new hires from India were working out ok, because a few months later the company hired many more H1B employees, and began terminating the current employees, mostly longterm, higher paid employees, and offering them packages, but only if they would train their replacements.

I worked in another department (the company tried to outsource the annual federal report our department produced. It didn't go well and they scratched that effort, but that is a another story). One morning our manager came by and told us to stay at our desks and 'keep our heads down'. There was a mass layoff going on in the IT department and we were not to acknowledge or speak of it.

This is a true story. Management is not your friend.

[IronLionZion]

35. They likely contracted out their IT. That's the root problem

American want to be employees. IT is a cost center for many companies. Managers prefer contractors who can be added for a few weeks or months and removed easily and without notice, temp agency style.

It's a deplorable way to live. The contract workers have to pay thousands of dollars to move to a new city every few months with little or no reimbursement. Americans don't want to live like that. The American dream always involves home ownership.

Reform contracting to treat workers better and that fixes the main motivation to hire H1Bs. There's a reason Americans won't even apply to the many American contracting firms all across the US. It's the same reason why American contracting firm recruiters clog up my inbox when I put my photo in LinkedIn, but I get fewer messages when I take my photo down. It's an American tradition to treat brown people badly in ways that white people will sue or quit or expose them in the media.

[appmanga]

44. Went through a similar thing...

The offshores and H1Bs were going to be the new developers and we were going to be "business analysts". I don't want to be indelicate, but the only training they got from me was a description of a pretty much impossible anatomical act. That went for management too.

[IronLionZion]

46. I get that a lot

the impossible anatomical act.

I have absolutely 0 training in development or testing, I just look like the people who do it. It's absolutely bonkers that they assign me to development and testing.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Us against them... until further differentiation makes you a 'them'.

Us against them... until further differentiation makes you a 'them'.

[housecat]

16. Chilling. Germany knew the power of scapegoating and divide and conquer. So does Trump and his cult.

[sop]

17. Tucker calls them "legacy Americans" now.

[3Hotdogs]

19. Who was the actor, playing the fascist?

Looks familiar.

[Bucky]

55. Richard Lane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Be_a_Sucker

[3Hotdogs]

62. Thanx

[trusty elf]

22. This was prescient.

[Hekate]

29. Stunning. How on earth did you find this?

It’s almost too good to be true.

[trusty elf]

31. Isn't it amazing!

I've known about it for some time, and have posted here on DU more than once. Stunning is the word! It really is mind-bogglingly prescient.

Jaw dropping stuff, indeed.

[niyad]

39. Would you post this again as its own OP for wider visibility?

[Solomon]

60. Wow! I used to watch this show growing up and I've seen this episode before, but that was before

I'd ever heard of the real Trump.

Wow. Just wow. This is some real twilight zony stuff!

[Joinfortmill]

23. If we all cared about our fellow humans, we'd be better off. So simple, but seemingly so impossible.

[wryter2000]

26. IIRC, the whole master race stuff originated in the US

The stuff about race and IQ sorted all "racial" groups by what they called intelligence. Guess who came out on top?

I made quite a study of the issue in grad school. It's bogus science. Period. What that prof said is accurate. There is no evidence that genetics causes group differences in IQ.

I put racial in quotes above because there are no races in homo sapiens as a taxonomist would use the term.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

50. I think that IQ measurements are inaccurate

There is no doubt that the genetics of 1 group compared to another will show some differences.

Intelligence has many sides and nuances. There is much to be appreciated from the many types of minds.

[Bucky]

58. And how you define group is also unscientific

And there's a great deal of doubt that the genetics of one "group" versus another will show differences.

The research literature is not entirely clear on what it is exactly that IQ tests measure, and there's all sorts of problems with the cultural biases of any given set of questions, but it's pretty clear that one thing IQ tests do not measure is that which we call "smarts". My college education professor once told me the main thing they measure is someone's ability at taking certain kinds of tests.

[Bucky]

57. The idea has many roots

Some of it can be traced to Thomas Jefferson and his "natural philosophy" speculations on the abilities of different races. It was all his style of seat-of-the-pants subjective intellectual speculation that led to some very good as well as very bad idea

But there were eugenics ideas bouncing around the Western world including skull studies that drew naive inferences about intelligence for decades during the 19th century. That's how science works. There also was the idea that racial distinctions we're mostly situational poppycock, and that idea came out of America too. In fact, that argument also can be traced to Thomas Jefferson and his natural philosophy.

[Hekate]

28. Films like that were still around when I was a kid. The message was still everywhere, in Superman..

… in comic books, anything a kid might see. The message: We were not going to be like that. Our fathers fought that war.

It’s been too long. Joe Biden is right: this is a battle for the soul of America.

[Stuart G]

34. The sadist thing about this is: Many in the U.S.A. don't know what "Fascism" is. (no text)

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The most powerful movie ever made is now at Democratic Undeground...

Night and Fog..

entire film at this link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217191080

[karin_sj]

38. Chilling

And so true so many years later.

[Emile]

42. History has an awful way of repeating itself.

[Rhiannon12866]

43. Twitter replies:

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[SeattleVet]

47. Here's a good quality copy of the complete film.

It was a 1943 War Department film. I've seen it a few times, and it's is very powerful. It runs a little over 17 minutes.

[Auggie]

52. Thanks

[ChazII]

48. Free Masons

Yes, there are still people who think the Masons are devil worshipers but I haven't heard about them trying to overthrow the country.

[Bucky]

54. Oh for Pete's sake...

Theyre just Rotarians or Kiwanis clubbers with a secret handshake.

The crazy ass things people make up about Masons are mind boggling

[ChazII]

61. I know that as I have been involved

with them since 1972. I totally agree with your last sentence.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

49. The radicalized Republican party uses Fox and hate radio to disseminate this fascist message.

What we see is the result of decades of self-selection for extremism, pushed by billionaires determined to take over government to bend it to their desires.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-republican-party-get-so-corrupt/578095/

[Bucky]

53. In the Nazis' defense, they're a lot more subtle about it now

They've learned about dog whistles and code words and are much more effective at stirring up paranoia and suspicion. Plus they went to all the trouble of creating their own news networks this time around, which is so effective that it has even hatched a couple little baby hate networks.

They've even gotten people to doubt science things like the moon landing or evolution. Which is ironic, given how they themselves are proof of how a snake can evolve and adapt to a new environment.

[Emile]

56. Today we call them Christian Nationalists.

[Hotler]

59. The thing about our Nazi is that they have upped that hate level from brown/black skin

and Jewish people to Democrats and Liberals. their death camps will be for us.

[Oppaloopa]

63. I would love to hear Frank Sinatra singing "What is America to me"