33 Replies to “Mein Ebay”

  2. It’s quite the rambling word salad. I’m not sure why anyone would think this book is profound.

    2. Agreed. A history prof teaching a continuing ed course I was in asked if anyone in the class had tried to read it. A few of us put up our hands. He then asked how many had finished it: none. It’s an incoherent rant. That Churchill was able to read enough of it to figure out that Hitler meant what he said is a testament to Churchill’s patience and self-discipline. I gave up after a few pages.

    1. Actually, that edition of the Manifesto has an introduction by A. J. P. Taylor which is well worth having. He explains how the book was written, what was the idea, and just how wacky it was; all clear and understandable, and very useful in dealing with Marxists.

    1. But, like, thought? That’s too hard, man.

      Whoa, I mean, like, that’s too hard for anyone to master, man. Even a menstruator that may, sometimes, identify as female. Like, man?

      Like, shutting up now. For reals.

      Whoa! Like, time warp dudes and dudettes. This was, like, an answer to Kate at 7:10.(/s)

      Thanks again for welcoming us into your digital home. I hope this post isn’t peeing on your virtual rug. Hic!

    1. I see, I just went on eBay, and saw lots of the so-called “banned” titles for sale.

    2. You had until I saw the price…;)

      related …there is a vid circulating of Obama touting the wonderfullness of Dr Suess, and his content meeting the anti racist criteria.
      Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

  8. I saw the Wall Street Journal article with the same quote in it, and the fact that Mein Kampf is still available pretty much jumped out at me. They’re not even good at this.

    1. The Arabic edition is the single biggest seller after the Koran.

      Food for thought.

      1. “The Arabic edition is the single biggest seller after the Koran.”
        Which always makes me laugh. Hitler wanted a pure white race. After he got rid of the Jews do they think he would have stopped there?

    1. Kate – When cancel-culture cancels Dr Seuss because it promotes hate and discrimination, and everyone knows that his books were not in any way meant to be offensive, I would suggest that it downplays the toxicity of books like Mein Kampf and Protocols through moral-equivalency.

      1. The Left doesn’t see fiction as a problem. When what you think is fiction is deleted by the Left, that means that that’s where they’re going next (aka will soon be non-fiction).

        1. The left also cancels fiction. Look into the “Sad Puppies” Hugo award fiasco.

  10. Speaking of Sir Winston, as I often do, I think the first volume of his WW2 memoir “The Gathering Storm” should be required reading in history classes. Toss in the first 300 pages of Wm. L. Shirers “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. People who do this may come to understand that book banners/burners and free speech suppressors aren’t the good guys.

    1. I don’t remember specifics but when I read Shirer’s book, I thought it as much a vanity piece as a reporting of history. He reported on the Nazi leadership the same way CNN reports on Trump. The Nazi leadership were not fools nor were they defective humans. They were misguided but from 1933 to 1941 they were geniuses. The Jew thing absolutely escapes me.

    1. Yup.

      I’m considering buying a small oscilloscope. Unfortunately, it seems that best selection for new ones is on Amazon and most of the units for sale are made in you-know-where. It’s not much better on eBay.

      1. Probably lots of the traditional CRT types out there. Some of the later, portable ones are quite petite. I run a forty year old BWD CRT dual trace. Not exactly “pocket-sized”, but it works superbly for analogue audio problem-solving.

        Try serious “surplus” dealers and scientific supply houses. There are a few “pre-loved “multi-trace” compact digital units out there. See also the interfaces that talk to a laptop or “pad”.

  12. When I was young in a socialist country run by communists, we were reading books that were published before WWII and were banned by the communists.
    Books by Mark Twain, Karl May, there were a lot as in a whole lot of western stories, cowboys and such, booklets, looked the size and binding like the comics.

    Keep telling you, little bit by little bit by little bit they will get you, you won’t even notice until too late.

    Tell you a story from the past few days.
    In Edmonton there was a demonstration against the shutdown. People had those torches that look like Polynesian or Hawaiian style
    The media cartel went full propaganda, in print, on radio and on the idiot tube, that there were torches that are ‘linked’ to national socialists. Can you believe the circle back?

    The police said yesterday that there were not racists, national socialists or any such, people just had torches.
    The massive media propaganda was sickening.

    One wonders if some of the protesters, any protesters even the extreme socialists would be classified as national socialists for wearing the same jacket, the same pants, the same shoes, went to the toilet just like the national socialists.

    The mass media cartel propaganda is using tactics of the national socialists and communists. It is relentless, there is little news, everything is hysteria.

    1. Those incorrect souls will soon be forced by “the authorities” to wear coloured cloth patches when they go out in public. Maybe they’ll soon have to carry some sort of “papers” or “passport.” I’m sure there will be nothing to worry about.

  13. I have an English version. Not really an interesting piece of literature. In any event, books like that will never go away.

    My Dad told me an interesting story when I was about 16, back in the 60’s. He told me that one night, in 1942, he was visiting a friend who lived in an apartment block in a town in SW Sask. In the block lived a guy in his 20’s who often bragged about being a Nazi supporter. He claimed his parents were of Austrian origin, and that they were homesteaders somewhere North of Regina. The guy had a copy of Mein Kampf and could read it in German.
    While my Dad and his friend were out on the balcony visiting, two plain military green Ford sedans pulled up to the apartment, and a bunch of plainclothes guys got out. Ten minutes later the Nazi guy was hauled away in handcuffs. The plainclothes guys had a large canvas bag filled with goods they seized, who knows what. No one ever heard from the guy again, and no one ever found out why he was arrested. The local RCMP ordered the landlord to clean the apartment out.

    That’s the way things were done during WWII.

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