I knew this slush fund shit sounded familiar.

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@BrianJopek

"It will all be dependent on a co-Me: T." is how it printed on the wheezing ticker-tape machine in his poached ham of a head.

[gmoke@mastodon.social]

@BrianJopek Winter Relief Fund was a Nazi-organized charity collected during the winter months. Pressure to contribute was considerable, and armbands and pins were distributed for public display to identify donors - and thus non-donors. Much of the money was siphoned off by the Party, and scholars have noted that it kept the populace short of extra cash and acclimated to the idea of privation.

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@BrianJopek oh gosh what a jolly Chamber-of-Commerce sort of name for it. Trade and Industry!

[ogjester@pnw.zone]

@BrianJopek of COURSE there’s another nazi analogy

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@BrianJopek Did Hitler have the balls to have him and his family declared immune from whatever tax agency they had at the time?

I have to give it to them...that's a fucking ballsy move. If they get away with it we now they're untouchable and it's just done...finished. No 250 year anniversary though one will be celebrated.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@AH_99 @BrianJopek There will probably be a rush of this through the courts and to final payment. Well before midterms. Then it will be used to pay for his poll observer army.

He'll get this war heated up.

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@BrianJopek on the one hand, I'm upset. OTOH, I thought we were at '35 or '36

[a_minion@mastodon.social]

@BrianJopek

Isn't that tantamount to aiding and abiding the enemy. Aren't there rules against actions like.

[brianjopek@mastodon.world]

@A_Minion Well, there’s supposed to be

[a_minion@mastodon.social]

@BrianJopek

US Constitution
Article 3
Section 3
Clause 1

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act . . .

Can we get a Witness? A second?

[hengstenberg@nrw.social]

@juliehuz @BrianJopek It was probably Stephen Miller who read it for him.

[dascandy@infosec.exchange]

@BrianJopek so that puts us half a year before the end of free elections?

[vgoller@nrw.social]

@BrianJopek copy cats. Not a single genuine own idea.

[h4heights@mstdn.social]

@BrianJopek Place your bets for the paedophile felon’s Enabling Act 1933.

“By allowing the chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act of 1933 was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany.”

[me_@sueden.social]

@crazyeddie @BrianJopek “Throughout his rise to power, Hitler neglected to pay taxes on his income and allowances. In 1934 […], the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405,494 ℛ︁ℳ︁, equivalent to €1.92 million in 2021, for failing to declare his income or file tax returns. He was given only eight days to pay off this debt. Hitler responded by ordering a state secretary of the ministry of finance to intervene, and became tax-exempt.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Adolf_Hitler

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@BrianJopek Tell me more about how it’s not fascism yet..

[eribosot@mastodon.social]

@scubapro28 @BrianJopek It's similar, but not the same. The claim in the screenshot that the fund was used to "compensate SA Stormtroopers who committed street violence" is completely made up. SA Stormtroopers were simply given amnesty.

[muddle@infosec.exchange]

@BrianJopek Actually, the world of Nazi finance is really interesting.

[xerge@mastodon.nl]

@BrianJopek @mcnado that’s why they’re called neo-nazis. They’re not even being original while destroying democracy and rule of law.

[juliehuz@mastodon.world]

@hengstenberg @BrianJopek ...yeah, who am I kidding