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0 pointsQwertious2y ago0 comments

Fascists weren't efficient, broadly speaking. They presented the aesthetic of efficiency and disappeared anyone who called them out on their bullshit. For example, Mussolini's trains didn't run on time, apart from one or two showpony lines.

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baobabKoodaa2y ago· 3 in thread

Ok so maybe the trains didn't run on time, but they invaded a lot of neighboring countries really fast. Something that Russia doesn't seem capably of doing, as was pointed out upthread.

It's not a good idea to broadly think "nazis are stupid, they won't get anything done". Sometimes they get things done and then we're fucked.

jacquesm2y ago

Germany was the 1930's equivalent of the USA in roughly comparable industrial output, the difference is that instead of creating a nicer society they gambled that they could overrun all of Europe by redirecting that output towards a war machine. The scary thing: their gamble almost worked.

philwelch2y ago

> Germany was the 1930's equivalent of the USA in roughly comparable industrial output

Not even close. US had many times Germany’s industrial output in the 1930’s.

reactordev2y ago

And committing genocide in the process. Let’s not forget that part.

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