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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(8/8)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... your way to the border or the airport:</p><p><a href="https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">privatdozent.co/p/the-great-pu</span><span class="invisible">rge-of-1933-9f0</span></a></p><p>//</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(7/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... More than 250 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> professors and employees were fired from the University of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> in 1933–34 and numerous doctorates were withdrawn. 👉In May, some 20,000 books written by “degenerates” and opponents of the Nazi regime were removed from the university library and burned in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Babelplatz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babelplatz</span></a> ... 👈"</p><p>Read on... On...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(6/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p>... 1933 with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> party’s seizure of control in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> and their passing of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berufsbeamtengesetz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berufsbeamtengesetz</span></a> (“Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”), certain groups of public employees were dimissed from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> universities. That is, 👉civil servants who did not fit the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> racial or societal ideal had to leave their jobs in...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p>... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(5/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p>... mathematics was rivaled, if at all, only by Britain (Medawar &amp; Pyke, 2000). Of the 100 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nobel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nobel</span></a> Prizes awarded between the years of 1901 and 1932 (the year before <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> came to power), 33 had been awarded to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germans</span></a> and/or scientists working in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>...</p><p>... Then, starting in..</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(4/n)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>...The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p>👉“If the dismissal of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdolfHitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdolfHitler</span></a>👈</p><p>See the future US in the mirror?</p><p>"Prior to the 1930s, 👉<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> had dominated the natural sciences for more than one hundred and fifty years.👈 Its reputation for excellence in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine... </p><p><a href="https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">privatdozent.co/p/the-great-pu</span><span class="invisible">rge-of-1933-9f0</span></a></p>
David Zappelli<p>"So instead of saying <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NonCitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonCitizen</span></a> or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrant</span></a>, they're supposed to say <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/alien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alien</span></a>. Instead of saying <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/integration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>integration</span></a>, they're supposed to say <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/assimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assimilation</span></a>, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a>" </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Fahrenheit451" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fahrenheit451</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RayBradbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RayBradbury</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NeoMarcarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoMarcarthyism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideology</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newspeak</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ThoughtControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtControl</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wiping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wiping</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digital</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NineteenEightyFour</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BrainRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrainRot</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhatNext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatNext</span></a> | "Why <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> ’s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DataPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataPurge</span></a> is a Digital Book Burning"</p><p><a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/podcasts/what-next-t</span><span class="invisible">bd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code</span></a></p>