r/JewsOfConscience • u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '24

Discussion Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide

It's really disturbing to me that dementia is disqualifying for Joe Biden, but him doing a genocide is not. That shows how Palestinians are viewed in America by the political class.

If only Hitler had dementia, maybe we could've gotten rid of him sooner, since the Holocaust wouldn't have been a problem for him with his domestic constituency.

What do others think?

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u/Jche98 Jewish Anti-Zionist Jul 22 '24

Hitler actually had Parkinson's which affected his decision making in the last years of the war. It's not clear if this was the primary factor but there were actually many assassination attempts on Hitler by high-ranking Nazis who worried his poor decisions were losing the war.

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u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist Jul 22 '24

Interesting, thanks. It's been said that they could've won the war if they didn't launch the catastrophic Operation Barbarossa and open that new Eastern front against the Soviet Union.

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u/BadFurDay Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24

Definitely not. Nazis lost the war before it even started, by the mid 1930s it was already done.

Pure fascism has no long term plan. Hitler made the whole German economy a purely war economy, which gave an impression of growth, wealth, and sustainability… as long as there was land to conquer. But what happens once a fascist economy stops conquering, stealing, enslaving? The third reich was going to crumble no matter what.

In any case, Hitler always intended to attack the USSR no matter what, so there's no possible alternative history where he doesn't. Barbarossa was doomed in every parallel timeline, with the german logistical issues, allies supplying the USSR, and Japanese never intending to help.

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u/suaveponcho Jewish Anti-Zionist Jul 22 '24

You’re 100% right. Hitler literally financed the German war economy by accruing debts that were intended to be paid by looting the gold reserves of countries they occupied… which was itself a pipe dream that was totally insufficient for their debts.