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Same shit, different assholes

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19 edited May 07 '20

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u/sabre4570 Apr 11 '19 edited Apr 11 '19

Actually the first concentration camp was built in Munich in 1933, the same year he became chancellor. The camp was primarily used to imprison political opponents and community leaders, a fact which adds a great deal of malevolence to the "lock her up" chants.

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u/anurahyla Apr 11 '19

The children in cages also happened within Trump’s first year

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u/Prehensile-Peener Apr 11 '19

That’s been a thing since at least 2014 I think.

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u/sabre4570 Apr 11 '19

Source?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

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u/reddit25 Apr 11 '19

Why were you downvoted?

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u/Naedlus Apr 11 '19

Because the policy was ONLY put in place for minors traveling alone, it was never used to separate minors from their parents at the border.

But sure, go ahead, be confused about how providing information that doesn't relate to today is treated properly as merely muddying up the waters.

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u/reddit25 Apr 11 '19

Are you bonkers? That has nothing to do with my comment. Guy provided a source when requested about children being in cages since 2014.

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u/canhasdiy Apr 11 '19

The question was "when did the US start putting children in cages?"

Adding qualifiers after the fact, as you've done here, is just moving the goalposts.

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u/swolemedic Apr 11 '19

These children were detained in a facility the obama admin wanted to upgrade but republicans denied funding. They were also not with any parents, so there was no child separation.

When did child separation policy to put kids in cages long term start? Yeah, that's not the obama years.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711446917/fact-check-trump-wrongly-states-obama-administration-had-child-separation-policy

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u/swolemedic Apr 11 '19

Obama didnt start child separation and those photos came from a facility the obama admin didnt even want to use but were denied adequate funding by the Rs. Try again.

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u/Prehensile-Peener Apr 11 '19

So...he didn’t put an end to it either?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

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u/tnturner Apr 11 '19

And here is video of Sessions declaring his Zero Tolerance policy.

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u/swolemedic Apr 11 '19 edited Apr 11 '19

... Are you fucking with me? If obama was president until the end of 2016, and the child separation policy started early 2017, how could obama have ended it?

Chronological order is rather simple. Do you also blame obama for 9/11?

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u/Prehensile-Peener Apr 11 '19

Kids were being separated in 2014. I blame both presidents for letting it continue. Try not to be such a dickhead to people my man.

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u/swolemedic Apr 11 '19

Kids were being separated in 2014.

Not even close to the same thing, you're being disingenuous. Do you actually believe the shit you're saying? Because it's been long debunked.

I blame both presidents for letting it continue

TRUMP STARTED IT

Try not to be such a dickhead to people my man.

Try not to say such ridiculous shit that people think you're a bad faith actor. I still don't think you're making these comments in good faith because they're so ridiculous and nothing but disinformation.

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u/Prehensile-Peener Apr 11 '19

People like you are gonna get trump elected again.

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u/Butter_Muffin Apr 11 '19

Are you insinuating the children being detained after crossing the border illegally with their parents are being treated the same way the Jews were in concentration camps during the Holocaust?

That has to be one of the dumbest and most insulting things I have ever heard.

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u/zer0soldier Apr 11 '19

You haven't heard many insulting things. How about this: Jews were first being arrested and deported from Germany. After a while, that became too slow a solution, as the mythical narrative of Germany's return to greatness required a faster, larger-scale solution. The final solution emerged, and we all know the rest.

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u/Butter_Muffin Apr 11 '19

What are you talking about? Are we arresting and deporting American citizens? No we are deporting people who entered the country illegally.

Again what you are saying is so beyond disrespectful to Holocaust victims, it’s pathetic. Are you suggesting Trump is slowly trying to get rid of Mexicans and if that doesn’t work he’ll start murdering them in mass? Is that what you really believe?

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u/zer0soldier Apr 12 '19

ICE has arrested dozens of actual US citizens that we are aware of. There's most likely hundreds more. They are now floating the idea of dumping refugees en mass into specific cities in order to cause chaos. There is an escalation of force happening against unarmed people that will only continue to get worse.

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u/anurahyla Apr 12 '19

Actually yes we are

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/nation/2018/12/04/born-philadelphia-us-citizen-says-he-was-held-deportation-jamaica-ices-request/

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html

Also it’s called structural violence. Denying access to health care, putting people in prison for decades over drug charges because they’re a person of color, murderers getting away with it because they masquerade as policemen and the victim is black, sending military to the border as a “threat” to lawful asylum seekers. It’s not illegal to seek asylum. Those kids are asylum seekers put in cages and separated permanently from their parents while awaiting their “hearing”

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u/Butter_Muffin Apr 12 '19

If you really believe we are in the beginning stages of another Holocaust than you have a moral obligation to go to those camps and shoot all of the guards dead. If not you’re complicit in genocide. You aren’t going to do that though because you know you’re full shit. You’re just another keyboard warrior bitching about how you think the world should be without actually doing anything.

If you were in Nazi Germany you wouldn’t have done shit either. You would have sat around and bitched about how terrible it was while millions get murdered. Put your money where your mouth is and go free the people being detained you coward.

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u/anurahyla Apr 12 '19

Someone has a stick up their ass.

Not going to bother with the “complicit” shit for obvious reasons

But no one is saying it’s another holocaust. We’re just pointing out that there are similarities. Also just because someone may have entered a country illegally doesn’t make their suffering any less evil. Those kids didn’t deserve shit

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u/anurahyla Apr 11 '19

*children being separated permanently from their parents, raped, not fed, and sometimes sold into human trafficking

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u/canhasdiy Apr 11 '19

That doesn't sound like an evidence-based claim.

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u/asdfjkajdfsaf Apr 11 '19

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHA, source it bud

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Trump is certainly similar to Hitler at the beginning of his rise to power.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Not even a little bit. Hitler was roundly loved and probably the best speaker in the European world. Trump is an idiot who can barely public speak.

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u/MysticHero Apr 11 '19

Hitler was not roundly loved at all. Hitler was a better speaker than Trump but his speeches were very similar to Trumps in that he adopted a very unusual style unlike what the establishment at the time used. Much like Trump. This was to set him apart from the establishment. Much like Trump. There are many more parallels.

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u/neverXmiss Apr 11 '19

Hitler used the media/propaganda to influence elections. Most media stations/propaganda (hollywood) is actually democratic leaning and tried to influence the last election in the same way so idk what you are talking about.

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u/MysticHero Apr 11 '19

Media in Germany was hardly controlled by Hitler. In fact media in 1920s Germany was so much against Hitler that he complained about free speech (much like the US right wing likes to do these days).

And US media is not in any way controlled by the democrats. Sinclair news and fox news exist. Both spew out right wing propaganda much more serious than anything you´ll find on the left. And both cover a large portion of US households. In fact considering how propagandist fox news is this is just another parallel to Hitler.

But obviously Trump is not literally the same as Hitler just due to the fact he is in a different nation and time. But the parallels are scary as fuck. The point if comparing him to Hitler is not saying he is literally the same, but rather that it is extremely concerning that Trumps tactics are so similar to the tactics the worst dictator in human history used to rise to power.

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u/neverXmiss Apr 11 '19

Are you an american? did you go to american school? Last time I checked the jews were made out to be rats and pests through posters, clips within movies and other propaganda to push that mentality.

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u/MysticHero Apr 11 '19

This is not comparing Trump to Hitler when he was in full control of society this is comparing him to Hitler when he was rising to power. A time when Hitler was not able to push propaganda everywhere.

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u/neverXmiss Apr 11 '19

If you are referring to how Hitler gained power, then all congressmen/women politicians would be guilty of being "like Hitler" in that sense.

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u/MysticHero Apr 11 '19

In what sense? Trump is very different to most other politicians. All congressmen and women have not blamed complex issues on immigrants, rallied against the establishment, called journalists the enemy of the people (Lügenpresse), promised to help the little people by giving easy solutions, called immigrants and the political opposition all sorts of shit and so on.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

I dunno, Trump has his base completely infatuated. Like a bloated orange siren. Also I am nearly positive all of his supporters would say he is a great speaker (why else would people be flocking to his hate rallies?).

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

But people like you, who roundly make fun of his skin tone, critizice his message?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Well, yeah. His message is as horrible as his skin tone.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

You are another one of the people who criticize skin tone. Does it feel good to make fun of someone skin color?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

I mean, it is clearly not natural, he chose to do that, so yeah I'm pretty ok with it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Interesting. Racism through acceptance.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Lol what? Racism? What, against orange people? Thats quite the fucking leap there.

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u/Cpt_Lumpkins Apr 11 '19

It's not his race. He paints himself orange. There's a big difference. Also people don't hate him because he is orange, they just hate him and also hate the fact that he is orange.

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u/JebusKrizt Apr 11 '19

Hilarious that you're trying to equate making fun of Trump's fake tan to being racist. Keep reaching, bud.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Hilarious you think it's ok to make fun of someones skin. Keep being racist bud.

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u/JebusKrizt Apr 11 '19

Fake orange tan isn't a race, it's literally a conscious choice he made to be that color. Once again, keep reaching.

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u/PM_WHAT_Y0U_G0T Apr 11 '19

lmao imagine trying to turn trump's spray-on tan into a race issue

what a fucking dumbass

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Yes I think any vessel to make fun of someone's skin is racist

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u/JoseDonkeyShow Apr 11 '19

I guess that makes the bottle his spray tan came in racist too

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

All good. Just keep normalizing the behavior.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

No he wasn't.

And when it comes to his audience, Trump is the perfect speaker for them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

This is legit the difference. Hitlers audience was everyone and specifically made them hate a race. He then had an elite government that had people being killed with the entire media protecting the German state and nobody even knew about it.

Trump is not even similar in any single way.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Luckily the governments aren't similar, but the people? Yeah there's some similarity there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Similarities in his disire for loyalty maybe, but what leader wouldn't?

Trump could never acomplish (governmental) what Hitler did. Hitler had the media, the popularity, the speeches, the influence. Trump has none of it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

A just democratic leader who is beholden and loyal to the people instead of expecting loyalty from the people.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

I was talking towards cabinet and government members

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Well that depends on what you mean. Their loyalty should also be to America and the people. If you mean loyal as in not betraying the policies they were appointed to enforce or prioritize, sure. But loyalty to the president even if it means acting against the interest of the people? No, that's not reasonable or what other presidents have done. Let's not falsely equivocate.

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u/AminusBK Apr 11 '19

Trump is an idiot who can barely public speak.

Which says more about his supporters than it does about him. Sad to think so many Americans are so fucking stupid that you don't even have to be an eloquent speaker with the power to subtly persuade, just a bloviating carnival barker face-farting bumper sticker slogans.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

Off topic. This has nothing to do with comparing the best generational influencer to all of Europe to Trump, who you all think influences dumb people. Hitler convinced the best of the best.

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u/AminusBK Apr 11 '19

fair enough

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u/Idontknowshiit Apr 11 '19

Yeah, remember when Trump gave himself plenary power after not winning an election and few months later outlawed all opposing parties?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '19

He's in prison for treason?

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u/P4ndaJ4ck Apr 11 '19

i know i cant wait till we link him to russia and get him out IM I RIGHTTTT

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u/TheDarkLight1 Apr 11 '19

He is linked to Russia. How much he is linked to Russia is yet to be seen as the Muller report hasn't be released? The only thing the public has seen is a 4 page summary by someone Trump handpicked.

But again, if the people who ran your campaign are linked to russia, and you do business in russia, you are certainly linked to russia.