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TBF, Hitler got a lot of his ideas from the US. Germany was just a smaller and less ethnically diverse country than the US, so there was less resistance to fascism.
Letting the South off easy after the Civil war was the big mistake.
we also had nazi parties and sympathesizers in the us, that was really not dealt with, plus the OG, racist party KKK.
it was. it got us the nazis. letting a single confederate officer (who wasn't a double agent or something) avoid the noose was such a huge mistake. not dispossessing everyone who claimed to own another human completely was also a mistake.
Exactly. The government should have seized the land of every plantation owner that made a living from slave labor, and distributed it to former slaves as reparations.
every fucking inch, and a bag of each of their blood too, just for the symbolism. or filtered them through that loophole in the 13th amendment for a decade or so, men women and children.