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Here's my most optimistic take for Americans. This guy is not as bad as Hitler. He's out to scam the world, not conquer it militarily. So that's a plus, for now. If his successor is Vance then the invasion of Canada and Mexico might actually happen.
Yeah, at least he aint sending anyone he doesn't like to labour and death camps, replacing everyone with loyalists and doesn't talk of invading random neighbours
Yeah ok so he's not as bad as late Hitler.
This guy is not as bad as Hitler.
The jury is still out on that, but it's not looking good. Hitler took power in 1933, and didn't start his first euthanasia program until 1936, and it didn't really get going until after the establishment of the first death facility in Chelmno in 1941. Between those years, Hitler consolidated his power, reconfigured the government, and began rounding up his enemies.
HitlerPig took power in 2024, and is already making the exact same moves as Hitler. If he sticks with a similar timeline, he starts murdering his enemies in 2027.
Hitler's first victims were the mentally and physically handicapped. HitlerPig's henchman RFK, Jr., has already announced that they're starting a database of Autistic people, which they want to pretend doesn't really exist. We've already seen that these scientific Neanderthals think that the best way to improve concerning statistics is to get rid of the statistics (Remember how HitlerPig didn't want a Covid testing program because that would increase the numbers?), and so the most efficient way to win the "war" on autism, is to get rid of all the aughties, and prohibit anyone else to be diagnosed with it. Hurray! MAGA cured autism!
Hitler ordered the construction of Dachau in his first year in power (1933). HitlerPig has already started building his first American concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay to hold 30,000 people. To provide context, the average maximum security prison in America hold 800-1200 prisoners, with the largest being the prison in Angola, LA, which holds 8300. That means the new concentration camp is almost 4x larger than our largest max security prison, which is already several times larger than the average. They are already sending people to El Salvador, and are negotiating a deal with Rwanda as well. Clearly, they intend to lock up a lot of people.
It needs to be stressed that HitlerPig's closest advisor, Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller, is an avowed Nazi. In his mind, the only thing the Nazis did wrong is that they weren't decisively harsh enough. He has said that he wants to reduce the population of America from 335 million to 100 million white people. That's 235 million people, about 70% of our current population, far more than the paltry 6 million deaths is assigned to Hitler.
I think your statement should be amended to read:
This guy is not as bad as Hitler...
...YET
if you've heard about Alfred Hugenberg you would know that this is currently going exactly the same as Nazi Germany, down the exactly how Musk is influencing the media. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-alfred-hugenberg-the-elon-271993970/
like it's almost to the letter the nazi playbook. saying this isn't as bad as Hitler is just ignoring history.
“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion. Would-be autocrats often use economic crises, natural disasters, and especially security threats—wars, armed insurgencies, or terrorist attacks—to justify antidemocratic measures.”
“Because there is no single moment—no coup, declaration of martial law, or suspension of the constitution—in which the regime obviously “crosses the line” into dictatorship, nothing may set off society’s alarm bells. Those who denounce government abuse may be dismissed as exaggerating or crying wolf. Democracy’s erosion is, for many, almost imperceptible.” ― Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
So many people have scoffed at my comparisons to the Nazis, saying: "The Nazis killed 6 million people, [HitlerPig] hasn't done that, you're out of your mind."
Well, 100+ days into Hitler's administration, and he wasn't killing either, YET.
What are we supposed to do? Wait until he has all the physical and political infrastructure in place, and is operating a wholesale killing machine bigger than Nazi Germany's, and THEN start to make a plan to defeat it? Then we'll be hearing whiners complaining that somebody should have done something about this BEFORE things got really bad.
We see what they are doing, and they are CLEARLY following the Nazi playbook. We KNOW where that leads. Americans don't like to jump the gun and fight preemptively, they like to respond to concrete situations that justify retaliation. Generally, it's a good policy, especially for the largest, most lethal nation the world has ever seen.
But in this case, we have literal traitors taking control of our nations wealth and firepower, just so they can leverage it for their own nefarious agenda. We don't have to wait until the worst-case scenario unfolds, they have already committed crimes far beyond redemption, and we should already be responding with merciless, unforgiving resistance.
Fully agree there. This administration has to be removed from office. While there's still a congress to do this. What I'm worried about now is a Reichstag fire event that will allow them to enact emergency legislation that will put the Patriot Act to shame. I watched the USA collectively lose its mind in 2001; it wouldn't take much to do that again.
I only have one minor pushback. I read The Art of the Deal back in 2016. And having not read Mein Kampf, I can safely say it is no Mein Kampf. When it's not totally incoherent it reads like a puff piece in a tabloid rag. So I guess I'm just less afraid of Trump than I am of a Hitler-class demagogue, but that says nothing about the MAGA movement as a whole. You don't need intelligence to be a figurehead for a fascist coup.
I think it's time for a general strike. There are rumblings of a reinvigorated labor movement, so for the first time since the 1970s I think it's within the realm of possibility.
But the people manipulating him are as bad as Hitler.
Exactly.
I said it for many years. Trump only cares about Trump and no one and nothing else. He doesn't believe in anything other than having his ego stoked and being enriched. The leaders of the world are absolutely laughing at him, but they also want him in power because he is so fucking easy to manipulate.
Don't forget the heritage foundation wonks and oligarch-adjacent folks that debrief him and write all the orders for him to sign. I see the people directly in his administration having much more influential power than any foreign diplomat.
What's nuts about the executive orders is that he also signed more of them in one month than he did in the whole of the first year of his first term. This is unprecedented.
What a world we live in, where calling someone not as bad as Hitler is an optimistic take
not as bad as Hitler
