The Nazis were incompetent criminals whose mythical reputation in warfare is wholly unearned, and whose utter incompetence was on display constantly. You should mock their drug-addled stupidity at every turn.
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The Nazis were incompetent criminals whose mythical reputation in warfare is wholly unearned, and whose utter incompetence was on display constantly. You should mock their drug-addled stupidity at every turn.
It's not that they made the trains run on time, it's that they said the trains were running on time, and if you disagreed with them, they would make you regret it.
the sick thing to realize is we live in an age where many powerful and influential figures do not understand the difference between the two
you look at the situation with genAI, where "progress" is measured entirely in ego-stroking terms rather than actual factuality and utility, and you can draw a direct line from there to the kind of mindset that argues "but the Nazis had some good points; they were efficient!"
look at Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who cannot understand there is a difference between "what they want" and "what they actually have"; they assume anything they might actually want is theirs already, the "getting" is just details they can elide by shouting loud enough