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Wed Mar 20, 2024, 09:42 AM Mar 20

From Yale Historian Timothy Snyder: A warning following Trump's Bloodbath statement [View all]

Ordinary people tortured and executed “heretics” in Spain by the thousands.
Ordinary people burned tens of thousands of “witches” in Europe and tried and hung them in New England.
Ordinary people slaughtered several hundred women, children, and elderly Native Americans at Sand Creek, Colo. and committed atrocities against the dead.
Ordinary people deported, executed, and starved a million or so Armenians.
Ordinary people starved millions of Ukrainians.
Ordinary people incinerated prisoners in Third Reich camps we still make movies about.
Ordinary people murdered between 1.5 and 3 million others in Cambodia.
Ordinary people killed close to one million of their neighbors in Rwanda with machetes and rifles.
Ordinary people systematically massacred about 8,000 of their neighbors and Bosnia.
Ordinary people murdered and raped Israeli villagers on Oct. 7, 2023.
Ordinary people responded by leveling cities and starving children.
Ordinary people attend rallies where their leader “confers martyrdom upon criminals who try to overthrow a democracy they associated with subhumans.”
Ordinary people live next door.

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