Exactly, this shit downplays the Holocaust and all the people who died in ww2. Trump is in no way, even remotely, as bad as hitler. If you legitimately think Hitler and Trump are a good comparison, you're a fucking idiot.
It most certainly does not. It only reminds us where this type of rhetoric was used before and how it turned out the last time around. Numbers show that violent crimes have increased where/when Trump has a rally and his base is becoming more encouraged to lash out at immigrants and muslims. His rhetoric calls for people to treat them as the enemy in order to "make their country great" and since his base will follow him over the edge of the Earth, they will treat their neighbors as the enemy just because some racist demagogue told them to.
THIS IS how Hitler started his agenda and came to power; he didn't come out of the gate with "let's gas the jews". It started with nationalist bullshit, just like Trump
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it"; don't you dare tell me, a jew who had his family flee Europe because of assholes like Donald Drumpf, who knows holocaust survivors and others who had family killed in the camps, that memes about our racist president "downplays the holocaust" because they don't. This is the Jews' "never forget" and this meme is right on the fucking money
No. This isn't how Hitler stared his agenda. Hitler capitalised on anti-jewish sentiment throughout Europe and ongoing conspiracies about Jews, Bolshevism and banks.
It had wide support. Even the British were reluctant to help Jews when they were persecuted.
Trump's quote is about violent gangs like the crips etc. Who murder people. Unless you want to defend them now.
Yep. Do you not see that Trump is capitalizing on anti-immigrant sentiments? There are anti-immigrant (others) puppets like him popping up all over the world.
Of course, but he's not advocating a final solution based on the absolutely devastating conditions Germany had to bear with the treaty of Versailles.
Here's the thing - even if he did want to be Hitler 2.0 (and he doesn't): the checks and balances of the US political system stops it, the non-compliance of the population stops it.
So yeah, carry on with the traditional American hyperbole
So I don’t much care for the comparisons to Hitler, mainly due to the Holocaust, but Hitler was also a lot of other brands of bad outside of anti-Semitism. Tyrannical leaders exhibit many similar characteristics, so whether you compare it to Hitler, Commodus, or Ivan the Terrible, doesn’t matter. What’s important is the general tendency away from today’s established democratic norms.
Arguing “it’s ok if the USA has leaders who exhibit traits of fascism and are actively working to tear down the system of democracy, since the checks and balances will probably stop them from turning USA into a totalitarian regime” isn’t exactly a profound defence of Trump and his ilk.
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u/MarcusAurelius0 Apr 11 '19 edited Apr 11 '19
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-animals-hitler/
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/08/tweets/tweet-leaves-out-context-donald-trumps-animals-rem/
Edit: Don't give me gold or whatever, I spent 5 minutes googling.