Francis Foster

Hyperinflation.

jazz age, you've got this in your mind now, right?

We've all seen the miniseries.

The Social Democratic Party, which SPD, still in German, a major force in German politics today, it was the ruling party throughout most of the 1920s.

And it was worried about the Nazi Party, its main rival, and it had increasing amounts of censorship, banning books, banning magazines, banning public gatherings, and all of it

drove actual support for these dangerous, evil lunatics, the Nazis.

And then in 1933, through a series of unfortunate events, Hitler ends up as chancellor of Germany and takes all those censorship laws and applies them to the people who put them in place in the first place, the Social Democrats.

And there's a famous incident in the fall of 1933 where they cry out in the Reichstag and say,

this is wrong, you're violating our rights, you're censoring us.

And Hitler said, in a very cold voice, I would have much more sympathy for you and your free speech rights if you hadn't been taken hours away for the previous 10 years.

And the Hitler supporters and others applaud Hitler's cold, calculating voice.

So this is where censorship leads.

It's ultimately used indiscriminately against everyone.

It's a very dangerous game.

What we're seeing in this Trump hatred today is

my gosh you're you're using the laws against me but i'm one of the good people and there are those of us who believe in limited government who say be very very careful of the laws you write because they're you're not going to be in charge forever and those laws will still be there write rules that you can live with when you're not in charge

and people will go to the the execs at youtube and going well this is your fault how did you allow this to happen yes um look there are people the the audience for censorship is quite large and well educated and well placed

And they will not just say what you're saying, because that's kind of reasonable.

Like, can we really push people to commit violent acts and destroy property?

Is that like a good thing?