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Stillrafael's avatar

Please don’t correct your grammar. I believe it act as a deterrent against midwits. If the argument is good, legible, why do you give a shit? Hallmark sign of people who think they’re smart.

This is a online free blog being written by a purported catgirl. Some of you need to get ahold of yourselves 😉

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It seems a little odd to claim no difference between Mussolini’s economic policy and Roosevelt’s, and jump from there to asserting no difference between the “systems” of 1930s America and European fascism. Let’s say you’re right about the economics -- I don’t know, really, and it doesn’t really matter -- there is more to a system than an economic policy, as the tenants of countless unmarked graves across Europe could tell you. To your point about people’s sense of what they were fighting for, maybe it was different for Americans, but I’d refer you to eg Evelyn Waugh’s Sword Of Honour Trilogy, or Tolkein’s letters to his son at the front, for a sense of the highly exalted, idealistic, non-nationalistic motives that animated at least some British. Very much a sense of totalitarianism (not Germany) as a monstrous behemoth that had to be stopped. Still not as simple as “protecting minorities,” I’d agree; but your framing of it as anti-German bigotry seems simplistic too.

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