Peter

Scholar, Thinker, Unifier of Germany.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

So many days I feel like this just about sums up my life...
https://t.co/fs2iQydCkW

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@EvilDrWinter I hear that. It’s easy to convince people to take my Fascism and Nazism class these days and they immediately understand ideas that past students struggled with, but at this rate it’s going to to have to be listed as Current Affairs rather than History.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

Well worth the time. One of the rare times German history is invoked properly and seriously.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

Looks like we decided to celebrate the centennial of the Beer Hall Putsch a few years early.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@franzferdinand2 @HitlerPuncher @ThatWeissGuy @nicknewt @jason1749 Yeah, my first day back in Paris after the conference I remember just sitting outdoors, eating a giant container of yogurt, an apple, and an entire load of whole grain bread. I needed that badly.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

The GM of the Mets being caught on a live feed talking about how the commissioner of baseball is trying to pressure them to play tonight’s game with a token gesture beforehand is somehow peak Mets, peak 2020, and peak corporate America all in one.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@franzferdinand2 @ThatWeissGuy Also, I’m cautiously excited about this news:

https://t.co/Jqh0MLNpy3

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@franzferdinand2 @ThatWeissGuy Oh man. Suikoden 2. I’m not entirely sure if it’s my favorite game of all time, but I’m also not sure it isn’t. There aren’t many games that tell a better story.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@franzferdinand2 @kenlowery It’s definitely an attempt to update the series into the open world format, so the battlefields are larger, and they also focused more on “historical accuracy,” so you can only use characters who were at those events. But it’s still fun. Sometimes virtual peasants need thrashing.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@ProfFrisch Both of them technically still exist, but have both moved buildings since he attended them. Funnily enough, Eichmann went to the same school in Linz a few years later.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@ProfFrisch As for who would want to admit it, it’s really not that big of an issue if you weren’t contemporaries. I mean, it’s not like going to the same high school that Goebbels had attended decades earlier says much about me. I hope.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@ProfFrisch Far as I can tell, he went to two high schools, the Realschule in Linz and then one in Steyr. Funnily enough, he overlapped with Wittgenstein at the school in Linz.

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"Rowling" is a verb, meaning to destroy your legacy in a magnitude previously only available to professional gamers. See also: to Glinner.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

By the way, just so it’s clear, the United States right now is not like Germany in the 1920s. It’s like Germany in the 1930s. At best — at best — it is like Germany in the early 1930s. But it’s getting late early.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@ingdamnit Well, you know, the people involved in the Beer Hall Putsch were “very good people,” who were just angry and needed somebody to listen to their concerns and maybe give a little.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@ingdamnit Yep. Got a five year sentence for literally trying to overthrow the government. Served nine months.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

One of the key contributing factors to the destruction of the Weimar Republic was an overwhelmingly conservative judiciary failing to punish right wing violence, while condemning any left wing activity harshly. Just apropos of nothing.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@franzferdinand2 @BLCowler It’s never to early to learn immediately that I am a weird and disappointing conversation partner.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

@CharlotteBeyond That’s the one. They could just show two hours of people licking boots and it would be less authoritarian.

[Peter @AutobahnBismark]

I am watching the Downton Abbey movie and despite the fact that I just spent the last five months teaching 20th Century European history, it is the single most fascist thing I have seen all year.