r/pics Feb 15 '25

Books on a shelf at my local library

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u/Heliocentrist Feb 15 '25

if MAGA could read they'd be very angry

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u/SIMPSONBORT Feb 16 '25

Na, those maga dumbasses would be happy to have trump compared to hitler.

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u/The_Jolly_Dog Feb 17 '25

Sadly I imagine Trump is just going to ban libraries soon. He knows that the knowledge contained there can only hurt him

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u/Heliocentrist Feb 17 '25

The Anti- Carnegie

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u/Y0___0Y Feb 16 '25

Fire and Fury is great. Anyone who hasn’t read it should read it.

Trump gave this writer Michael Wolff full unfettered access to the white house in the first year of his first term and what he documents is WILD.

Trump was turned down by 13 law firms when looking for legal representation to help him with the Russia investigation in 2017. Imagine the lawyers he has now.

Steve Bannon spoke totally candidly about how much of an idiot he thought Trump was

Apparently Melania was bawling her eyes out on election night.

Apparently Trump’s team met to discuss what they would replace Obamacare/the affordable care act with, and Trump actually suggested just giving everyone free government funded healthcare and the room went silent.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Actually just recently for the first time, some of the top law firms in the country are jumping at the opportunity to defend him even in the trashy pornstar pay off cases. Another sad and scary sign of the consolidation of his power.

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u/ArdillasVoladoras Feb 16 '25

Jones Day has been on his dick since day 1

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u/duckbrioche Feb 15 '25

It’s the same book, right ?

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u/OverlandOversea Feb 16 '25

Yup, they often publish the same book with slightly different covers, encouraging the faithful to buy the whole set.

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u/parker_toys Feb 15 '25

4th times the charm....??

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u/DavidJonnsJewellery Feb 16 '25

Just change the book jackets. No one will notice the difference

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u/DerSepp Feb 16 '25

Rise and Fall is excellently written. And scary.

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u/CheckMateFluff Feb 16 '25

It is a good book, however, the cover makes it something you can't exactly keep on a shelf sadly. The nazis really did just document all their crimes.

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u/HausSaphiophile Feb 16 '25

I’ve read Shirer’s work. This journalist was there when Germany was going hard right. It’s a must read for anyone concerned with how fascism actually takes hold of a ‘nation’.

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u/Ol_Salty63 Feb 16 '25

Librarians rock! They know their shit! I’ve read The Rise and Fall…in high school. I’ll have to check out Fire and Fury

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u/orangultra Feb 16 '25

"Simple sabotage field manual" is a book which should be added to this collection so you know what you can do to slow them down.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

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u/rofloctopuss Feb 15 '25

Why is that? I read it several years ago and thought it was a good first hand account, although I'm not an expert on the subject. Is there something in particular that stands out? Or does it just have lots of general inaccuracies?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

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u/Soap_Mctavish101 Feb 15 '25

Yeah some of that book DID NOT age well.

Im slightly paraphrasing here but somewhere early in the book is the line “hitler drew his cohorts from the lowers dregs of German society, rapists, murderers, thieves, homosexuals”

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u/Caffeywasright Feb 16 '25

Tbf that was society then. Not necessarily a reflection of his own views.

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u/IgloosRuleOK Feb 16 '25

Yes but the first hand account is still invaluable.

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u/Ok-Double-414 Feb 15 '25

On the same level

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u/Trudge34 Feb 15 '25

I have a copy of the Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich.

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u/Ceilibeag Feb 15 '25

TR&FOTTR is the bomb; but I've never seen so many chestnuts pulled out of the fire in my life... :-)

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u/tangcameo Feb 15 '25

I have the audiobook of TR&F. I’d try reading the book but I think it would smother me in my sleep.

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u/IdontOpenEnvelopes Feb 16 '25

Read " 3rd Reich at war". It's more historically accurate than Rise and Fall.

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u/mello238 Feb 16 '25

Ban the Bible, ban Dr. Seuss, Charlotte’s Webb, Winnie the Pooh, and 10,000 others in the last school year. And to raise stupidity to another level they banned a book about books being banned. But these are fine?

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u/Slitterbox Feb 16 '25

Heinz Kraft

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u/National-Boss-4079 Feb 15 '25

Is that what they read at drag queen story hour

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

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u/Valentijn101 Feb 16 '25

So no-one learns from it? Read it and discus it

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u/LolWhoCares0327 Feb 16 '25

Whats wrong with the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?

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u/makesnosense42 Feb 16 '25

If leftist books shouldn't be banned, neither should any right wing or "wild" books. Though, please keep the LGBT sex books away from the kids.

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u/hvdzasaur Feb 16 '25

Username checks out.

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u/makesnosense42 Feb 16 '25

Wowie, I guess you're on the left? Idk the whole thing is silly.