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1. Doodley, I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering this.

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Thu Feb 5, 2026, 04:33 PM

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Many people assume the holocaust could never happen again. How do we know it hasn't started already? [View all] Doodley Feb 5 OP

Doodley, I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering this. Scrivener7 Feb 5 #1

Been posting this here for a while Johnny2X2X Feb 5 #2

And some people think we can't compare to 1930s Germany. The hate among the far right is a tinderbox ready to ignite. Doodley Feb 5 #19

Thought the same! In Nazi Germany citizens thought Jews were just being deported. kerry-is-my-prez Feb 5 #3

Historians doubt that Germans didn't know EdmondDantes_ Feb 5 #13

Nobody in the Trump regime needs to know or care about what happens when, what they see as vermin, is removed. Doodley Feb 5 #20

I see a lot of 'vermin' in the White House just now, Jack Valentino Feb 5 #25

Some didn't know LostOne4Ever Feb 5 #26

By the time that many of them did know, there wasn't much they could do about it. They would have been just shot or raccoon Friday #30

so much cheaper to bury them. mopinko Feb 5 #4

Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan, the Kurds, etc., etc Kaleva Feb 5 #5

What have they done with the homeless. Blue Full Moon Feb 5 #6

'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'" rampartd Friday #28

The Nazi's started with 200 murders in 1934 of political opponents WarGamer Feb 5 #7

i think we are in the tens of thousands by including Tetrachloride Feb 5 #8

I agree that the OP is hyperbolic from where we sit now TheProle Feb 5 #11

You're right, of course... WarGamer Feb 5 #12

Why does there have to be a contest? choie Friday #31

With all due respect, I'm asking a question. That isn't hyperbole. Doodley Feb 5 #16

With all due respect, I'm asking a question. That isn't hyperbole. Doodley Feb 5 #17

Who is comparing Trump to the holocaust? I've not seen that. Is he a fascist? Yes. An authoritarian? Yes. Is he Doodley Feb 5 #14

As far as the ADL is concerned, everything trivializes the Holocaust. iemanja Feb 5 #21

I don't understand how choie Friday #32

Yeah you'd think... purr-rat beauty Friday #33

Just remember - the Holocaust didn't start with the gas chambers. Initech Feb 5 #9

Thank you. Yes, we should not keep saying it will never happen, even as it comes closer and closer to that possibility. Doodley Feb 5 #18

Frank Zappa predicted it back in 1966: Initech Feb 5 #23

Umm, how could we not know it hasn't started already? ananda Feb 5 #10

True we have no idea what they Tree Lady Feb 5 #15

I watched a short doc on YouTube over the weekend about Vichy France rounding up Jews for deportation to Germany. Iggo Feb 5 #22

I keep saying on Here... Takket Feb 5 #24

The fact that the camps need to be liberated is a huge clue as to what's going on. Iggo Friday #34

What do you think the empty warehouses are for pnwest Friday #27

Warehousing. That's what. Iggo Friday #37

Unfortunately, all TOO familiar. pnwest Friday #38

It's been happening all over the world ever since the end of WWII Kaleva Friday #29

History can repeat itself LetMyPeopleVote Friday #35

I'm not sure it ever stopped, seems like it just went on a world tour 0rganism Friday #36