• thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
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    11 days ago

    German president Paul von Hindenburg thought that he could “control” Hitler, and that he wouldn’t do the extreme things he promised in his election speeches, and thus brokered his move into the Chancellor’s position in a minority govt. I think we all know how that turned out.

    Almost a century later the barons of Wall Street have just had the same “oh shit” moment the German conservatives had in 1933