Comparing Trump to Hitler
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 14:33 last edited by
So there is a new op-ed on WaPo that argues that comparing Trump to Hitler is apt:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/24/trump-hitler-rhetoric-comparison/
Just a little-known op-ed writer being a bit provocative, no big deal, right? Then she referenced Mike Godwin and cited an older op-ed by Godwin that says that "Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-law-trump-hitler-comparisons/
:man-shrugging:
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 14:45 last edited by
They want to charge me $40 a year to read this shit. I think I'll pass.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 15:12 last edited by
Did the author quote Vance?
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 15:12 last edited by
Other than Ax, maybe Jon is the only other poster here with a sub to WaPo. And yet Ax continues to blithely post links to WaPo articles.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 15:13 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
Did the author quote Vance?
I bet you couldn't paraphrase accurately the context in which he made those circa 2015 remarks.
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Other than Ax, maybe Jon is the only other poster here with a sub to WaPo. And yet Ax continues to blithely post links to WaPo articles.
wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 15:25 last edited by@Horace said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
Other than Ax, maybe Jon is the only other poster here with a sub to WaPo. And yet Ax continues to blithely post links to WaPo articles.
Mik will use the MSN/WaPo stuff, which is fine.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 15:28 last edited by
Actually I was able to read that one for free. I guess WaPo allows a certain number of free looks per month, much like the sister of a certain forum member.
It's peak rhetorical vacuousness to cite Mike Godwin as a political commentator we should respect, as an expert on comparisons to Hitler.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 16:18 last edited by
I think Hitler was a national populist who really did not have any policies other than "blame it on someone else".
I dont think that President Trump is unique of US politicians in this. But, you could find things from VP Harris that compare to Hitler also.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 16:25 last edited by
Hitler had a German Shepherd. Biden has a German Shepherd.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 16:59 last edited by
@kluurs said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
Hitler had a German Shepherd. Biden has a German Shepherd.
I think he has rehomed them.
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Other than Ax, maybe Jon is the only other poster here with a sub to WaPo. And yet Ax continues to blithely post links to WaPo articles.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 17:13 last edited by
You know who else used to rinse, lather and repeat?
Hitler.
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You know who else used to rinse, lather and repeat?
Hitler.
wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 20:18 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
You know who else used to rinse, lather and repeat?
Hitler.
Cite, please.
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 21:07 last edited by
Trump Promises Immigrants He Wants to Deport Will Get Serial Numbers
Speaking with Full Measure’s Sharyl Attkisson, Trump argued that the United States—which was founded by and has historically been a nation of immigrants—shouldn’t be a “dumping ground” for newcomers.
“But we’re getting the criminals out, and we’re going to do that fast, and we know who they are, and the local police know their names, and they know their serial numbers,” Trump said. “They know everything about them.”
Trump has regularly mimicked Adolf Hitler during his campaign. But the mention of serial numbers—a terrifying echo of the identification numbers forcibly tattooed on concentration camp prisoners—is one of his most chilling references yet.
Umm....
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wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 21:38 last edited by
The "Alien Number" thing was instituted not long after 9/11 under the G. W. Bush administration.
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The "Alien Number" thing was instituted not long after 9/11 under the G. W. Bush administration.
wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 21:55 last edited by@Axtremus said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
The "Alien Number" thing was instituted not long after 9/11 under the G. W. Bush administration.
So, with 12 years of Democrat presidents since then, why hasn't it been repealed? We all knew that W was Hitler, back in the day. Why are his acolytes continuing the process.
Next thing you know, they'll be putting them in cages.
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@Axtremus said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
The "Alien Number" thing was instituted not long after 9/11 under the G. W. Bush administration.
So, with 12 years of Democrat presidents since then, why hasn't it been repealed? We all knew that W was Hitler, back in the day. Why are his acolytes continuing the process.
Next thing you know, they'll be putting them in cages.
wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 22:31 last edited by@George-K said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
So, with 12 years of Democrat presidents since then, why hasn't it been repealed?
Why do you want it repealed?
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@George-K said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
So, with 12 years of Democrat presidents since then, why hasn't it been repealed?
Why do you want it repealed?
wrote on 24 Sept 2024, 22:37 last edited by@Axtremus said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
@George-K said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
So, with 12 years of Democrat presidents since then, why hasn't it been repealed?
Why do you want it repealed?
Did I say that?
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wrote on 25 Sept 2024, 00:13 last edited by
Actually, I like that whatever new administration comes in doesn't fully reverse every "bad idea" of the previous one. Some of those ideas sound bad - but are good. A little hierocracy helps us all feel better about ourselves.
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The "Alien Number" thing was instituted not long after 9/11 under the G. W. Bush administration.
wrote on 25 Sept 2024, 00:25 last edited by@Axtremus said in Comparing Trump to Hitler:
The "Alien Number" thing was instituted not long after 9/11 under the G. W. Bush administration.
Not so.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") started issuing each noncitizen a unique A-Number in 1940 as part of the Alien Registration Program (see Alien Registration Forms). On April 1, 1944, INS started using A-Numbers to create individual files, called A-Files.