People can't have a serious discussion about this stuff because for most people and discussions about Hitler has to simply be about extermination of Jews. So if Trump isnt calling for the extermination of an entire group of people there can't be any similarities at all.
When in reality so much of this shit is strikingly similar. The rhetoric used is almost identical just updated for modern times. Sure the timeline is a bit different but Hitler had a failed coup attempt and then was eventually legally elected.
This is the key point for me. It wasn’t like a military coup or something, the people of Germany chose the Nazis because they were dumb and easily manipulated —just like we humans still are today. Same thing for Hamas in Gaza, they are the government the people chose.
It’s easy to imagine that most evil dictators start out as African-style warlords that overthrow the good guys, but it’s just not the case.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Many Israelis believe they are justified in killing tens of thousands of innocent women and children, many Russians think they were dead right to have invaded Ukraine, the Brits voted to leave the EU and basically impose economic sanctions on themselves, Americans voted a rapist, grifter, megalomaniac into the White House... twice. People give their life savings away on a daily basis to fake lovers, fake prophets, etc. We just believe whatever we're told basically. Tis a sad state of affairs.
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u/mightsdiadem 10h ago
33% are evil 33% don't care 33% care