• vordalack@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    “I voted for the guy that I think is like Hitler to end conflicts and keep us out of wars.”

    Did he not read the part where Hitler genocided Jews, Europeans, and the disabled?

    Did he not read the part in history where Hitler caused a war so large that it wiped out entire European families, literally tens of millions of Europeans?

    The white working class in this country is going to get everything they voted for. I hope Trump floods their neighborhoods with immigrants, LEGALLY.

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      16 days ago

      The thing to keep in mind about idiocy is that idiots make mistakes, a lot. At the same time, those mistakes are usually small-stakes affairs (it’s hard to make big mistakes with no money and/or resources) and are usually recoverable. The idea that their mistake could affect so many others simply does not happen, because that’s not how things typically work.

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      16 days ago

      Did he not read the part where Hitler genocided Jews, Europeans, and the disabled?

      That’s the thing though — Hitler didn’t run on a platform of genociding people, he ran on a platform of economic improvement. Weimar Germany was economically depressed and many average people and families were suffering from unemployment and financial hardship while the rich were relatively unaffected and enjoying themselves. Hitler promised to change that (and in all fairness, he did). The genociding Jews part came much later.

      Hitler was in charge of Germany for 11 years (1934-1945) — the war didn’t start until 1938, and the holocaust only began in 1942, so the voters DID end up getting at least 4 years of relative peace and prosperity. Also, keep in mind that Hitler was 45 years old when he became chancellor, meanwhile Trump is 78, meaning even if he manages to finish his second tenure successfully, he’ll very likely simply be too old by the end of it in order to continue, which makes it somewhat unlikely that he’ll attempt to stage another coup in order to remain dictator for life.

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          16 days ago

          Possible, but Vance doesn’t exactly strike me as Hitler 2.0. I watched his Joe Rogan interview and he came off as a pretty reasonable guy.

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            15 days ago

            Vance is an opportunist, and dangerously smart and eloquent. That’s actually a huge positive over Trump, I really hate we have such an actual gullible idiot in office.

            Problem is I don’t really understand what is actual political beliefs are. It feels like he’s just a sycophant in interviews, given his history.

            He’s hitched himself to the MAGA train, but if, say, he was president with basically no opposition and Trump dead, what would he do?