re: #233 Joe Bacon 🌹

Actually, I’m rooting for the Rapture to take them. Think about society once they’ve left: federally funded Reproductive Choice, gay people with rights and are being left alone, religious diversity no problem anymore. A lot of states would turn purple just because the remaining right would just not be enough to hold back progress. Even Christianity would be more moderate just because of no more pressures from the crazy faschist side of the religion. More ritual and better social policies for all, more community.

As for HItler not wanting to kill Jews: he had every opportunity to at least suspend the Holocaust during the war. Any excuse would have done and been believed: we need the extra materials for war, we’ll just work them to death (they tried that to some extent), there’s no rush-lets wait until we could do so at leisure once we win, bigger and better later. The fact that he didn’t even try for a fig leaf here shows his real intentions. Sure, he would have moved them away to somewhere else for a time, but his killing intentions would have just manifested later in some fashion.

I”ve never understood the logic behind Holocaust denial: if you are a Nazi, why not just acknowledge it happened, and somehow come up with some “reformed” version that says we learned our lesson and we won’t go that way again? I know it’s less plausible than BigFoot, but I fear that enough people would have/would buy into it enough to make these guys at least a minor factor.