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Parroted Hitler again.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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TBF, it's not hard to parrot Hitler. When they put emphasis on him being a former corporal, that's because he behaved like a pretty mundane former corporal. Was a born orator, though, which is hard to attribute to Trump.
Now Goebbels himself was more dramatic and original and just as good an orator as Hitler. Which means he's being regularly revisited by modern politicians for his efficiency, and not because of just being mundane.
I say this as someone who opposes him utterly: Trump used to actually be a decent orator. It's... kinda sad, and kinda scary, in a way. I watched an interview he did from... sometime in the 80s, I want to say. I didn't agree with everything he said, but he seemed well composed and he made his points coherently.
Compare that to how he is nowadays and it's like it's not even the same man. Not just the raging psychopathy and egomania, but how he wanders off mid sentence and such. The cognitive decline is painfully obvious. When you figure this is a guy who had access to the best possible modern medicine his entire life, it's scary to see.
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From Mein Kampf:
‘All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.’
Another passage:
‘All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.’
Oddly enough, it seems that most great cultures of the past flourished when they had the most visitors and the most mixing of ideas from all over.
That’s why reading most of the stuff from Hitler is sooo backwards and upside down. The dude had no grasp on history or anything frankly. Such a flipped and frankly ignorant spoutings all the time. Almost really directly relatable to the orange one himself when you get down to brass tacks.
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Thanks now I have to go take a shower
Damn, he was spot-on about lying, as Trump has amply demonstrated. Although the first time I can remember thinking "they'd never lie about something that big" was when they were trying to sell the Iraq war. I was pretty naive back then.
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The scariest part? This guy is polling above Biden
Biden being their best chance of defeating Trump is scary enough.
Not the best, just the only one, because nobody else is being considered
I think that may be a distinction without a difference.
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polls said the same about Hillary. Biden will win again
no he won't, not if American voters keep apathetically stumbling towards fascism like they have been the last few years. The only way this is going to work is if everybody Taylor Swift's the fuck out of this election, no more pussy footing around
Trump has actually never won the popular vote. Unfortunately, majorities don't really matter in the American election system.
It is possible to out-vote the inherent inequities of the electoral college system and the decades of gerrymandering, but it will take a concerted effort to get out the vote from the demographicswho have been targeted by those voter supression efforts, especially in places like Florida and Texas.
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Just like every time before them, the polls accurately predicted the popular vote which is all they ever claimed to do. Read a book. And don't get complacent.
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We know.
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