Tag: legacy

Adolp Hitler -Monika Aksumit

In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government. He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of the “corrupt” Social Democrats.
Hitler cleverly positioned himself as the voice of the “common man,” railing against the “elites,” cultural “degeneracy,” and the establishment, who he all labeled as “Marxists.” He claimed the education system was indoctrinating children to hate Germany, and promised to return Germany to greatness.

To solidify his base, Hitler masterfully scapegoated minorities for the nation’s problems, exploiting societal divisions with an “us vs. them” narrative. Many Germans took the bait. Hitler’s Nazi Party continued to gain traction, until he became Chancellor in 1933.
Hitler appointed German oligarchs as his economic advisors. He proceeded to privatize government run utilities, solidifying support of the economic elite.

With the working class divided along cultural and ethnic lines, the Nazis shut down workers unions and abolished strikes.
Progressives and trade unionists were imprisoned and sent to concentration camps. Corporate profits skyrocketed while working class Germans lived paycheck to paycheck.

Hitler, who became a billionaire while in office, knew he and his clan of oligarchs could get away with the scam if they constantly had an “enemy within” to blame while the corporatocracy robbed the country blind.

An easy target was one of the smallest minorities. Hitler removed birthright citizenship rights of Jews and started rounding them up for mass deportations for being “illegally” in the country.
The German press under Nazi rule highlighted instances of violence by Jews to convince the public that Jewish immigrants were a danger to the “real Germans.”

Hitler wasted no time dismantling democratic institutions. Loyalty wasn’t just encouraged; it was demanded. Opponents were silenced. Media that dared to questioned[sic] him were vilified as “the enemy” and “Marxists.”

Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, bragged about how the Nazis were able to intimidate the media into giving them favorable coverage, and didn’t need to give direct orders.
The Nazi regime and its followers collected all books they saw as promoting “degeneracy” or what would be considered “woke” today, and burned them in large bonfires. They also burned books that promoted class consciousness.

Berlin had a thriving LGBTQ community in the 1920s, and even had the first transgender clinic. The Nazis burned it to the ground. LGBTQ people were sent to concentration camps and forced to wear triangle badges. Many were killed in the Holocaust.
The Nazis also saw manhood as under threat by independent women who didn’t rely on men. In 1934, Hitler proclaimed, “A women’s world is her her husband, her family, her children, her house.” Laws that had protected women’s rights were repealed and new laws were introduced to restrict women to the home and in their roles as wives and mothers.

Reproductive rights were severely rolled back, and doctors who performed abortions could face the death penalty.
Despite all of this, the German people didn’t have a similar historical parallel to look upon as a warning.
Most Germans never acted like the sky was falling.

Most just went along with their lives as usual, until many of their lives were snuffed out. By the time Hitler’s reign was forced to an end by the Allied Powers, 11 million people were murdered in the Holocaust, and 70-85 million were killed in WW2 .

Monica Aksamit
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Just thought everyone needed a refresher course on this tragic part of world history.

Peeling off the mask

Perhaps one of the hardest things in the world is discovering the true face hidden behind the mask of someone you hold dear—and being unable to accept it. Knowing everything yet pretending to know nothing.

After immense pain, betrayal, and broken trust, not everyone can scream in anger, cry their eyes out, or forgive generously. Nor does everyone possess the extraordinary strength to seek revenge. Some are left with a vague, intense sense of hurt—silent, unspoken, and deeply personal. A cold, bloodless battle fought within oneself.

In this battle, one must endure countless sleepless nights of unbearable agony. There are moments when one feels unbearable even to themselves, exhausted from trying to convince their own heart. The cruel stabs of shattered trust gnaw at the mind. And when you try to walk away from the relationship, stepping over the shards of broken trust to find peace, they shift the entire blame onto you. Their eyes show no remorse. They treat you as if you are the betrayer.

But they never understand the struggle of walking away from a heart where, at one time, you sought refuge in God’s name. They can’t comprehend the mental agony, the powerless days, the pain of sleepless nights, the fire in your tear-dried eyes, or the silent screams tearing through your chest. They don’t realize how a lively person—once someone who tried to spread joy in everyone’s life—becomes an empty shell, alive yet lifeless. They don’t understand, nor do they want to.

Sometimes, you feel like collapsing into someone’s arms and crying your heart out. You long to share your deepest wounds, to find a bit of solace. You yearn for someone to comfort you with oceans of affection, to caress your head and soothe the blazing fire in your heart with tender love. You wish for your sleepless eyelids to finally find rest in a blissful slumber.

Yet, like a fallen star, we never meet those things again—not the stories, not the love, not the relationships, nor the people. All that remains are sighs and an endless emptiness, scattered like fragrant autumn flowers along the path of life.

#sunnylargefollowers

Do not judge pain you do not feel

In life, it is easy to observe from the

outside and believe we understand

what others are going through.

But in reality, every pain is unique,

every burden shaped by the experiences,

wounds, and emotions specific to the one carrying it.

Judging creates a wall between you and others. We sometimes forget that behind the silence, behind a forced smile, lies a story..!

A story we do not fully know,

a pain we have never truly felt…😐

What if, instead of judging, we chose empathy?

What if we extended a helping hand,

a gentle gaze, an unconditional ear?

Because, in the end, it is not our role to fully understand, but to offer a space where others feel seen, heard, and accepted in their uniqueness.

Compassion begins with respect for another’s path, even if that path seems unfamiliar or incomprehensible to us.

Let us be, then, that breath of love that accompanies rather than the gaze that condemns.🙂

Remember: what you do not feel, you cannot judge. But you can choose to honor it with humility and humanity. ! 💕✨🙏

She’s Tired

She’s tired of the psychological mind games and people pretending to be someone they’re not.

She’s tired of the shallow conversations with people that only care about themselves.

She’s tired of attention from men with hidden agendas.

She’s tired of being treated like an option when she should have been treated like a priority from the first conversation.

She’s tired of spending countless nights questioning her own self worth.

She’s tired of people not respecting her boundaries and forcing her to do things she’s not ready to do.

She’s at a point in her life where she wants to be loved correctly or be left alone completely.

~ Cody Bret

DSM turning against itself / Mad in America

This is so authentic!

What if the DSM diagnosed colonialism instead of the individuals suffering under it? A groundbreaking new paper in American Psychologist by Kaori Wada & Karlee Fellner does just that—turning psychiatry’s “diagnostic bible” against itself.

Rather than locating distress inside individuals, the authors apply the DSM’s own clinical language to diagnose the systemic disorders of colonialism and capitalism. Greed? A substance addiction. Land accumulation? Pathological hoarding. Historical amnesia? A dissociative disorder.

They argue that psychiatric diagnosis, rather than simply being a neutral scientific tool, is a colonial technology—one that individualizes suffering while leaving its systemic causes unexamined. This process, which they call psycholonization, allows Western mental health systems to medicalize Indigenous distress while ignoring the historical traumas that produce it.

But Wada & Fellner don’t just critique—they invert. Using satire, they construct a set of “new” DSM disorders that diagnose the core dysfunctions of settler colonialism, including:

🔹 Addictive Disorder (Power, Wealth & Status Dependence) – A compulsive drive to hoard land, money, and resources at the expense of others. Requires increasing dominance to maintain satisfaction.

🔹 Selective Amnesia (Colonial Memory Disorder) – A persistent inability to recall historical injustices, replacing real history with comforting national myths.

🔹 Delusional Disorder: Grandiose & Persecutory Types – Beliefs in Eurosettler supremacy, coupled with extreme defensiveness whenever privilege is questioned.

This isn’t just a thought experiment—it’s a serious challenge to the foundations of Western psychiatry. What if diagnosis weren’t a tool for pathologizing individuals, but a means of exposing and addressing the deeper dysfunctions of empire?

Their article is especially significant because it appears in American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the APA. The fact that a critique this sharp, this radical, made it into such a mainstream venue suggests that the conversation around decolonizing psychology is shifting. The question is: Will the field actually listen?

Read our full research summary on Mad in America:

www.madinamerica.com/2025/02/turning-the-dsm-against-itself-diagnosing-the-disorders-of-power/