• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    The most appropriate comparison is not the USSR.

    The most appropriate comparison is Germany in 1932, when the Nazi Party finally gained control of the German parlaiment, culminating in Hitler’s appointment as Reichchancellor on 30 January the following year.

    The fact that the article ignores the obvious and most pertinent historical parallel kind of ruins any rhetorical points it’s trying to make for me.

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      And the leader who preceded Hitler, and whose blunders helped Hitler gain power, was Paul von Hindenburg.

      Von Hindenburg, running for his second term at 84, was widely regarded as being too old and incompetent. For the centrists and center-left parties, he was their only hope in defeating Hitler.

      After Von Hindenburg’s defeat, Hitler passed the Enabling Act to assume full power.

      History may not repeat, but it rhymes.

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      4 months ago

      You mean Joe Biden who is supporting Genocide in a concentration camp should be compared to Hitler?

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        4 months ago

        Oh fuck off dude. I detest his support for the Israeli government, but you and I both know Trump would be ordering B-52s to carpet bomb Gaza, and then would strike a deal with Bibi to build a new beachfront Trump Tower.

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          If only you cared as much about Biden killing Palestinians as you do for Trump.

          But if you accept what Biden does I doubt you’ll have a problem with what you believe Trump would do.

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            Fuck off with this bullshit. Biden isn’t killing a single fucking Palestinian. Netanyahu is. And Netanyahu is bitching that we’re not giving him the arms fast enough for his liking, so obviously there’s something Biden’s trying to do to stop this bullshit. Trump has said he’s good with every last Palestinian being killed, and he wants to bring Netanyahu’s authoritarianism here to the States so he can lock up Leftists like me and presumably you. Those are our choices – Biden, who is slowing down the flow of arms to Israel, and Trump who wants to bring Israel’s treatment of minorities over to the USA. Who do you support?

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            4 months ago

            Holy fuck, guy. I don’t like Biden. He’s simply the lesser of two evils, and there is most definitely going to be a choice between a greater and lesser evil in November.