@Kiloku yup. https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/117234848897497981

@WiteWulf correct! Precedent goes back even farther. Here's some American history the Americans never study or talk about:

Zyklon B is what "America First" poured on Mexicans at the El Paso border crossing in the 1920s. German scientists cited this approvingly in 1938, three years before the same gas went into Auschwitz. Intent was never hidden: the Münchener Post exposed the Nazi "Endlösung" plan on 9 Dec 1931 a full year before he seized power.

That's what MAGA is (1900s America First), but it goes back further. The first concentration camps?

Cherokee stockades of 1838 held some 13,000 people before a march that killed a quarter of them. That's by Jackson, who Trump calls his favorite President, even more than President "America First" KKK Wilson. And then the Slaveholder Rebellion Confederacy built concentration camps too, refused Black Union soldiers POW status: murdered or forced labor, 1863.

Hitler cited the clearing of the natives and the 1924 immigration law as his model, and called Ford his inspiration for antisemitism. He named his personal train the Amerika. He believed he would simply do for Germany what Jackson, Wilson and Ford had done for America.

@david_chisnall it's like replacing libraries with smoke shops filled with tabloids

The first camps were all shells of industry... an Oranienburg brewery, an Osthofen paper factory, a Kemna cotton mill, a Bremen freighter. Walled, empty, cheap to hold, already idle. The "blocked" American data center fits the type exactly.

Every time someone says "but there isn't enough water and power", my mind goes to Nazi labor camps withholding water and power. And then people campaigning for the data centers say it is "for the jobs", when an actual finished data center is maybe a couple dozen dead-end roles.

Look at those falling wage share and acute shortage headlines, look at labor camps in Nazi Germany.

As a German historian, I'm looking at the 1933–38 playbook. Push a targeted race and married women out of the workforce. Count their absence as recovery. Freeze wages, dissolve the unions, cap dividends and route profits into rearmament as "growth."

By 1937 that meant "full employment" with a falling wage share and an acute shortage, which meant //forced labor// after 1938.

Dachau opened in a disused factory. Is there a data center near you that stalled? No water, no power, fenced perimeter. Could it be converted to a labor camp?

@ndevenish @michel_slm @mvsde @1password Here you go.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-funded-by-1password-vp-who-wrote-honest-security/

@ndevenish @michel_slm @mvsde @1password oh, maybe I can help. German historian here.

Nietzsche had used that phrase "Wille zur Macht" in books he published himself. Then a book by that title was a different thing. It was assembled after his death by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, who cut up his notebooks and rearranged the scraps into a doctrine of strength over weakness.

Elisabeth was a big antisemite who founded a race-based colony in Paraguay. Her fabrication of Nietzsche is what the Nazis pushed. Scholars have treated the book as hers, and not his, ever since the Colli-Montinari edition of the 1960s.

DHH's post has none of the man, the thinker, and all of the sister's toxic bullshit: weak men, hard times, a hero generation, total war. That phrase with that reading has one source: Nazi Weimar where Elisabeth welcomed Hitler in 1934 to pose together with her brother's bust.

I'll write it up.

@xgranade agreed! I just made this website and it has felt far more rewarding than any quick thing.

https://echtorff.org

@jwz it's the "if she floats she's a witch and must be burned to death, but if she drowns she isn't" crowd. they go around with a bag of carrots and string...

@cultdev @baldur you mean like Arbeit Macht Frei? or more like get into this rail car for a ride to fresh air and warm vineyard sun picking grapes? The Nazi invasion and violent occupation of Hungary, with promises of a better life than could be had from liberation, killed nearly 500K in just a couple months.