Dumbass time travelers out here not realising that they’re actually Hitler’s dad until it’s too late.

Or how about raising Hitler to be a well-adjusted human being? Or if that’s too much, how about replacing the director of the art school and then accept Hitler?

Hitler’s biggest problem wasn’t the memetic art school, it’s the trauma he got as a survivor of WWI + the drastic state of the Weimar Republic’s economy post WWI + centuries of antisemitic attitudes being built into the then-contemporary German society + rise of the banks following early globalization, Great Depression and other wacky events while the banks were mainly Jewish-owned due to Christians largely considered banking beneath them.

So does this mean if Hitler didn’t become dictator then someone else would have taken his place given those circumstances?

Yeah, very likely either the NSDAP would’ve formed anyway with another crazy asshole at the helm or communists would’ve won and did genocide and conquering independently.

Jung described Hitler as “Germany’s shadow” and he was, he didn’t have a coherent Ideology when he stepped up and held his beer hall speeches. He spoke and was influenced by how the people there reacted to his words, so he was moulded by the sentiment of the masses into what he later became.

Also fascism and German Fascism formed independent of Hitler. If anything Hitler simply co-opted an already existing movement and to put himself at the head.

As far as antisemitism goes, you must remember that it wasn’t the Nazis who came up with the scape-goating, it was the Prussian aristocracy and Wilhelm II that created and pushed the “stabbed in the back” narrative to shift blame away from their botched handling of WW1 and refusal to end things earlier on much better terms.

A very good addition

WWII and events leading to it are much more complex than people usually think

World War II is the subject of countless movies, documentaries, books, and media, but World War I and its aftermath’s effect on the roots of World War II is generally less publicized.  Which is a crying shame, because you can draw a direct throughline from the Treaty of Versailles to a lot of the chaos of the 20th century and beyond, including World War II, the Middle East, and more.

The weirdest thing I realized in history class was that if France wasn’t such an asshole after ww1, ww2 would have never happened. Because they intentionally went into the treaty demanding that Germany be eternally crippled for the horrible crime of beating them.

Hitler was an incredibly evil person who did incalculable damage to the lives and cultures of humanity… but if it weren’t him, it would have been somebody else. He was a product of the situation, not the other way around. The general population of germany already felt like they were being cheated and oppressed, already blamed Jews and foreigners for all their problems, and was already just about ready to start trying to take back what they felt they deserved by force.

And while it’s possible that a sufficiently dedicated and charismatic hero could have defused that powder keg before it went off, and if there were a few more years before the inciting incident the international community could have done something to fix the situation, I think it’s very unlikely that either of those possibilities would have happened given that nobody was making the slightest move in that direction before the angry mob chose their figurehead.

And that’s the crucial lesson about WWII that everybody tries so very hard to forget. It’s easy to think of Hitler as some sort of supernatural force of evil, or some uniquely brilliant genius strategist, or a totally inhuman monster, because then you can tell yourself that it won’t happen again until another unstoppable supervillain appears out of nowhere. It’s hard to accept that he wasn’t anything special. Rather below average actually, which was fortunate for the rest of the world since a leader who was smarter would have done a lot more damage. And that means that any moron could become the next hitler. All it takes is a population who feels that they’ve been cheated, who wants to engage in violence against The Other to take revenge for perceived oppression.

not only would it have just been somebody else, the somebody else might have been competent.

hitler was a fucking moron, let’s be clear. he made objectively stupid, vapid decisions that ultimately contributed to nazi germany’s downfall (see: starting a land war in asia with army uniforms built for fashion rather than warmth at the same time he’s trying to fight the rest of europe)

if it hadn’t been him in charge, there’s no way to know how much worse things could have gotten, and it was already one of the most horrific series of events in human history. i’ll grant you that hitler’s stupidity contributed to other nations failing to take the threat seriously at first, which is all that kept him alive during his rise to power, but sometimes i think about how much further a craftier head of state could have taken it and come close to upchucking on the spot

i was ranting abt this w my wife last nite like. i think people have forgotten the whole “dont assume stuff about people based on their appearence” thing and that it also applies to people who are “straight-looking” “cis-looking” “normal-looking” etc. ultimately you dont know anything about how someone identifies or what their life is like unless they tell you, especially not at a glance. dont project your ideas onto strangers, its weird.

and like examine what the traits that mark people out as “straight and cis” to you are. is it a physical feature they have no control over? their voice? how old they are? or is the way they present? are they wearing a work uniform that leaves little room for self expression? or are they  just wearing casual clothes you wouldnt consider “gay-coded”? why do you get to choose what certain clothes mean? those clothes could mean something completely different to them. assume that you know nothing.

Having a conversation and hug with a 50+ year old nonbinary butch who just got top surgery and has never had a conversation with another transgender person before, and they told me with tears in their eyes that they waited 50 years for their happiness and never once did they think they would meet someone like them and I just

We've always been here. We've always been here.

Can you imagine? Living over 50 years and never once having a conversation with someone like you? Living over 50 years and it's someone 20 years your junior that you come out to for the first time? That the first time you say "I'm transgender" to someone other than the mirror, it's to a person you've known for maybe a couple months? I said to them, I understand you are closeted, and I won't out you, but when it's just us what do you want me to call you? And they said, the same as you were, but in here (touch chest) I'm [name, pronouns].

And then they said, it is good to know you. I'm glad we met. We have a new bond now.

And I told them, when I was a child, people like you were my heros. I wished I could be butch because that was me, except I never had interest in girls. And they said, I understand, because when I met my first butch, everything made sense in that instant to me too.

Can you imagine? Being more than 50 years old and happening to find someone who sees *you* for the first time?

We've ALWAYS been here. We just couldn't find each other, before.

tucks you in and kisses your forehead then shows you my knuckle tats that say SEEP TITE

what about blorbhov from my complicated russian novel though

blorbeaux from my nilihist french plays

blorbón from my weird latin american magical realist novels

blorbug from my kafkaesque short stories

von blorbow from my german sturm und drang novel

Don Blorbo from my opera

błórbżo from my polish poetry

blorbocles from my ancient greek epics

Mr. Blorby from my Jane Austen novels

Blorbio from my early modern plays

Assembling some more from the notes:

And the kicker:

useless rosetta stone

BL-0R80 from my high concept mech anime

im just someones weird sister

honestly

End the cycle

Ngl, I was a little disappointed that Kokomi couldn't do the swim jump thing but still my new favourite thing in this game

*stabs julius caesar in the back* you're bleeding because you don't floss

do you want to walk into a cave with me

a comic/zine about coyotes

so they finally added a hot dad to genshin am i right

My buddy lives in China so when the sun is setting for him, it’s rising for me. So, naturally, I sent him this