And the cafe and lounge is back!

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   BooMan on March 8, 2025 at 6:30 am

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcOimOqDVM

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     MikeInOhio on March 12, 2025 at 8:31 pm

     This video (which is pretty damn good, IMO) eventually led me to a speech by Hitler in 1933, some of which is paraphrased in the song. I think the additional context is very relevant to the current times. We are not at the end game right now, but we are getting close. History is rhyming more every day. The only question is, will Mark Twain be proved wrong, and we do actually see history repeat itself?

     “And so, I established in 1919 a programme and tendency that was a conscious slap in the face of the democratic-pacifist world. [We knew] it might take five or ten or twenty years, yet gradually an authoritarian state arose within the democratic state, and a nucleus of fanatical devotion and ruthless determination formed in a wretched world that lacked basic convictions.

     Only one danger could have jeopardised this development — if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.

     Neither was done. The times were such that our adversaries were no longer capable of accomplishing our annihilation, nor did they have the nerve. Arguably, they furthermore lacked the understanding to assume a wholly appropriate attitude. Instead, they began to tyrannise our young movement by bourgeois means, and, by doing so, they assisted the process of natural selection in a very fortunate manner. From there on, it was only a question of time until the leadership of the nation would fall to our hardened human material.

     The more our adversaries believe they can obstruct our development by employing a degree of terror that is characteristic of their nature, the more they encourage it. Nietzsche said that a blow which does not kill a strong man only makes him stronger, and his words are confirmed a thousand times. Every blow strengthens our defiance, every persecution reinforces our single-minded determination, and the elements that do fall are good riddance to the movement.”

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