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On 6/1/2025 at 7:03 AM, BillsFanNC said:
And they're proud of it.
On the front page of the Seattle Times sports section there was an above the fold picture and article about how brave this person is.
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On 6/1/2025 at 5:22 AM, K D said:
Nationalization of Industry: The Nazi Party platform included calls for the nationalization of certain industries and profit-sharing.
State Control of Welfare: They expanded social welfare programs, although these benefits were primarily directed towards "Aryan" Germans.
Anti-Capitalist Rhetoric: Nazi propaganda frequently criticized "capitalists," particularly those associated with Jewish people or international finance.
Their overall goal was a one world government just like what the Dems push for today.
Maybe they did have some socialism cross over just as the US does (SS/MediCare/Medicaid/Student Loan forgiveness/SNAP/WiC/Space program/etc) but that doesn't make us socialist I wouldn't think. You're mileage may vary.
The reason this caught my eye is I'm currently reading The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard Evans. All of this talk about Hitler and Nazis made me interested in studying up a little on the subject. Richard makes the case the Nazis weren't socialists. It was all about racism and the Aryan race and power. Also the total and utter disfunction of Germany and it's governments after WWI and played a huge factor as well.
Anyway, I suppose we can all have opinions on it. I'm gonna lend a little more credence to Richard who researched and wrote a 3 volume account of the Nazis over some guy on the internet.
QuoteHitler as the Scourge of Socialism
Richard Evans, in his magisterial three-volume history of Nazi Germany, is quite clear on whether Hitler was a socialist: “…it would be wrong to see Nazism as a form of, or an outgrowth of, socialism.” (The Coming of the Third Reich, Evans, p. 173). Not only was Hitler not a socialist himself, nor a communist, but he actually hated these ideologies and did his utmost to eradicate them. At first this involved organizing bands of thugs to attack socialists in the street, but grew into invading Russia, in part to enslave the population and earn ‘living‘ room for Germans, and in part to wipe out communism and ‘Bolshevism’.
The key element here is what Hitler did, believed and tried to create. Nazism, confused as it was, was fundamentally an ideology built around race, while socialism was entirely different: built around class. Hitler aimed to unite the right and left, including workers and their bosses, into a new German nation based on the racial identity of those in it. Socialism, in contrast, was a class struggle, aiming to build a workers state, whatever race the worker was from. Nazism drew on a range of pan-German theories, which wanted to blend Aryan workers and Aryan magnates into a super Aryan state, which would involve the eradication of class focused socialism, as well as Judaism and other ideas deemed non-German.
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20 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Saw this and thought “ the richest man in the world is a miserable junkie”. Reminds me of seeing the Eastman mansion in Rochester as a kid. My dad told me he committed suicide and I just couldn’t understand why.
I would really Love to see/hear someone play that pipe organ sometime. They have rolls like a player piano for it which are cool but would rather see someone actually play it.
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1 hour ago, K D said:
Democrats are the actual party of Nazis. The Nazis in Germany were socialists. And today's Nazis accuse other people of being Nazis while doing Nazi things like funding Planned Parenthood (whose stated goal is killing as many black babies as possible), protesting on campuses and calling for death to Jews, running socialist welfare programs to keep black people controlled by the system, mandating experimental vaccines and treatments and locking down anyone who disobeys, and supporting senseless wars all over the globe. Pure evil!
Hitler would be proud of the Democrat party.
I don't think this is true. Their name had "socialist" in it but that was spin and marketing hype.
QuoteWere the Nazis socialists?
No, not in any meaningful way, and certainly not after 1934. But to address this canard fully, one must begin with the birth of the party.
QuoteTo say that Hitler understood the value of language would be an enormous understatement. Propaganda played a significant role in his rise to power. To that end, he paid lip service to the tenets suggested by a name like National Socialist German Workers’ Party, but his primary—indeed, sole—focus was on achieving power whatever the cost and advancing his racist, anti-Semitic agenda.
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31 minutes ago, Doc said:
So more of the “he’s going to start WWIII, trust me.” OK, we’ll wait and see.
No I never said that and wouldn't. One of the things I do like about President Trump is he is.anti war.
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28 minutes ago, Doc said:
Which part? I assume you have proof of this or is this "I bet..."
I'm going to say both and I don't have any proof ... yet. Just as you don't have any proof (beyond his word LOL) that he won't. Time will tell ...
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2 hours ago, Homelander said:
Why is this in a tax bill?
As we used to say, we have to pass it to find out what's in it.
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On 5/22/2025 at 12:35 PM, Roundybout said:
Raise taxes on the wealthy and stop giving ICE goons raisesHow wealthy is wealthy? Raise it how much?
We have a $1.8 trillion deficit in 2025 according to the budget office. We have 735 billionaires in the US. Even if each one paid a billion in taxes we'd still be a trillion short.
Sounds good, but how do you see this penciling out?
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59946
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21 hours ago, Doc said:
He doesn't get to "keep" it and there is no bribe.
Oh, OK 😎
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On 5/27/2025 at 7:40 AM, BillsFanNC said:
When this whole 2020/campaign started in 2019 I told my wife and daughter Joe was not all there. It was obvious even then.
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2 hours ago, Homelander said:
Happy Memorial Day!
I was at the VA Hospital yesterday for an appointment. While I did receive my usual excellent treatment there, I did notice a couple of things.
1. They had in the hall in the past pictures of LGB veterans or people that work there. They took them down. I was expecting that and whatever but it looks as if they were just ripped from the wall. The scars are definitely visible. I guess fixing it would be a waste. We probably need that money to fix up old airplanes or build a dance floor in the Rose Garden.
2. As I was walking down the hall I saw a group of employees chit chatting. One said (not an exact quote but really close) "whenever we try to do anything we have to go through DOGE and it's a real pain in the neck. Now maybe if you have an inside connection to Uncle Donald you can get it." This is the first time I've ever heard employees bitching there.
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5 hours ago, Niagara Bill said:
Yes, repubs are ex dems...ie trump
Dems once we're the party of unions
Etc
Dems needed a candidate close to the middle, neither party took that ground.
Woulda had a better chance to win with Dean Phillips than with VP Harris.
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5 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
😂 The point, which clearly sailed over your head, is that Comey inspired copy cats that FBI agents as part of their job now must address.
And my point sailed over yours evidently. For a cop I'm sure it would be nice if people didn't do things he has to investigate. That way he could hang around the office and eat doughnuts like Andy and Barn did.
If it's too much trouble for him to investigate things maybe he should go back to his radio show. Dumb move by Stretch, but I don't feel sorry for Dan.
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19 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
I'm expecting a presidential proclamation outlawing NFL players from wearing 86 or 47.
And to Dan, it's your freaking' job. If you don't wanna do it quit and go back to your radio show.
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57 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
An absolute tool.
Maybe talk to your wife on the beach instead of having your head up your cell phone?
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34 minutes ago, sherpa said:
Either way, they don't need to build in air to air refueling. that's a simple waste we've never used nor needed.
I believe the thinking is in case of a nuclear attack or some other catastrophic event they can put the Prez and his team on it and fly it around indefinitely until it's safe to land. Obviously if the can't refuel in the air they would have to land to refuel.
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10 hours ago, Doc said:
I keep hearing this. From where is this coming? Is this just a number someone threw out there and it became the "truth," like Vance having sex with a couch?
QuoteTurning the 747 into the plane reserved for use by America's leader, essentially a flying White House, could cost about $1 billion and take up to three years, an analyst said.
“If this goes ahead, what we’re looking at is a fit-out cost somewhere between $800 million and $1.2 billion to bring the Qatari royal family’s 747 up to the level of Air Force One,” Dean Mikkelsen, an independent security, aviation, maritime and energy analyst, told The National.
That includes stripping out the gold-plated luxury interiors and replacing them with a secure communications systems, EMP shielding, missile defence, and even aerial refuelling capability.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/aviation/2025/05/15/qatar-air-force-one-747-retrofit/
QuoteConverting a Qatari-owned 747 jet into a new Air Force One for President Donald Trump would involve installing multiple top-secret systems, cost over $1 billion and take years to complete, three aviation experts told NBC News.
They said that accepting the 13-year-old jet would likely cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over time, noting that refurbishing the commercial plane would exceed its current value of $400 million. The project might also not be completed by the end of Trump’s term in 2028.
Richard Aboulafia, an analyst and consultant on commercial and military aviation, said he thought turning the Qatari jetliner into Air Force One would cost billions and take years.
“You’re taking a 747, disassembling it, reassembling it, and then jacking it up to a very high level,” said Aboulafia, a managing director at AeroDynamic Advisory, a consulting firm.
Quote“It’s all based on an embarrassing misunderstanding of what Air Force One is meant to do,” Aboulafia said. “If it’s a gold-plated palace in the sky and noth
HSuch airplanes have been upgraded with capabilities including secure communications systems, military-grade power systems and classified self-defense systems to protect the president against a hostile attack, as well as a medical facility.
Air Force One aircraft have “one of the most exquisite comms suites on the planet,” said Doug Birkey, executive director of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “It functions as a command and control center under some of the most trying conditions [imaginable]. Even just day-to-day, that thing is hyper connected.”
Past Air Force Ones have also been built with redundancies to ensure critical systems can continue operating if something fails, Aboulafia said, as well as survive and keep operating during a nuclear war.
“If [Trump] wants all the capabilities and features of Air Force One, this would be a step backwards,” Aboulafia said. “They’d have to start over again with what they’ve been working on with the other 747-8” under the VC-25B program.
Upgrading a 747 from scratch with those capabilities could take into the 2030s, Aboulafia said, and cost “billions and billions” of dollars.
“Even the ability to manage and communicate with military forces all over the globe with encrypted comms — that’s a tremendously expensive undertaking,” Aboulafia said. “It is underway in the other 747-8s [slated for the VC-25B program], has been for years. Starting over again with the same plane would take a lot longer.”
And then add in the cost to remove all this stuff before it is put into the fantastic greatest library in the history of the world.
As we used to say,nothing in life is free.
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3 hours ago, Homelander said:
President Trump is on a roll with these tweets first with the no talent Bruce Springsteen with bad skin and now this.
But you're gonna have to explain how accepting this beautiful "gift" from an amazing country is going to save us taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
We're still on the hook for the 2 Boeing 747s. We'll have to spend a billion dollars getting the gift up to spec for AF1 over a year's time. Then we'll fly it for a year or 2 and then give it away. How does that save money?
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25 minutes ago, Doc said:
Still waiting for that bridge from when you guys told us he was gonna start World War III in his first term…Who is "you guys"?
I don't like President Trump and I didn't like President Biden either. It's not a black and white world. I can dislike both if I want to.
And please quote me when I posted President Trump will start WW III. That's one of the things I like about him, he hates war like I do.
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6 hours ago, Doc said:
The Constitution talks about personal gifts. Not gifts to the US.
Yeah and President Trump is gonna park it in his "library" (let me know when the break ground) and never fly it LOL. need a new bridge @Doc? I got one.
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2 minutes ago, Andy1 said:
Ok here is the quote: “Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
Take things out of context much?
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It's this week's re open Alcatraz.
It's just silly. Boeing will deliver in 2 years. Even if we take the airplane it will be months before we get it. Then we'll have to have the whole thing rebuilt and gone over with a fine tooth comb to bring it up to Air force 1 spec. That will take over a year according to accounts from military types I've seen. And will no doubt cost hundreds of millions of dollars. ( thought we were trying to save money to pay down the debt.) Is Qatar gonna pay for that too? For what? So Presidents Musk and Trump can fly on fancier airplane than the taxpayers provide for 6 months?
We made a great deal LOL.
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13 hours ago, K D said:
I've never watched Fox news in my life. I don't have TV,.waste of time. I work 12 hrs almost every day. If I'm replying it's probably because I'm taking a break (aka in the restroom)
TMI
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12 hours ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
This echo chamber is really sad.
It certainly is LOL
Terror attacker in Boulder, Colorado an illegal - Mohamad Soliman, 45, yelled "FREE PALESTINE"
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Nobody that lives in the region (Palestine/Isreal) wants a 2 state solution. They both want a 1 state solution. The only ones that want a 2 state solution are you and other western do gooders.