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minus-squareTunaCowboy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoI think we agree that it is important to consider parallels in history, but the US is not 1930s Germany.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 days agoThe U.S. is almost exactly like 1930s Germany in 1932. It’s not 1933 yet.
minus-squareTunaCowboy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-222 days agoGermany is roughly 138,000 square miles in size, while the USA is approximately 4,000,000 square miles. The population of Germany in the 1930’s was roughly 60,000,000, the population of the US today, closer to 400,000,000. The US does not share an international border with 10 different countries. That’s just for starters. So while I agree there are parallels, there are a lot more differences that you’re not accounting for.
I think we agree that it is important to consider parallels in history, but the US is not 1930s Germany.
The U.S. is almost exactly like 1930s Germany in 1932. It’s not 1933 yet.
Germany is roughly 138,000 square miles in size, while the USA is approximately 4,000,000 square miles.
The population of Germany in the 1930’s was roughly 60,000,000, the population of the US today, closer to 400,000,000.
The US does not share an international border with 10 different countries.
That’s just for starters. So while I agree there are parallels, there are a lot more differences that you’re not accounting for.