• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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          Nietzsches sister was a fascist and claimed her brother was too. A cursory glance from the Nazis showed them the concept of the Übermensch so they ran with it, but there’s not actually much there to support fascism. Nietzsche was a dick and there are all sorts of horrible things he wrote about non white men, but he wasn’t really a Nazi.

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            If I’ve got my Nietzsche right, then wouldn’t the idea of Ubermensch as something you can become rather than something you are not really line up with fascism anyway? Seems like they just took a word that sounded cool if anything.

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      Nazis literally looked to some of America’s founding fathers and the Confederacy for inspiration.