• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Yes, using an almost exact Hitler quote is pushing the envelope because it’s a new level for him.

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      It isn’t. He’s started his campaign with fascist rhetoric. He’s just saying with the emotion of a deranged fool and not the balanced charisma he had before.

      Edit: Nvm. I watched the actual video. He’s still got that contemplative attitude. He was being interviewed, after all.

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          American carnage!

          What a perfect kickoff to a never-ending clownwreck of hypocritical idiot crooks.

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        He had balanced charisma? When?

        I’ve been around about the same amount of time he has and I’ve never seen it.

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          Did you know that Trump is extremely popular among Republicans? He throws these rallies and hypes up crowds of supporters. He’s also really big on social media and at one point had a super popular Twitter account.

          I’m surprised you’ve been around the entire time and haven’t seen any evidence of his charisma!

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        Because accusing the media of dishonesty is a perfectly defensible thing to do. The way Trump did it was indefensible, and reminiscent of lugenpresse, but this is a far more specific use of Nazi language and concept.

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          Ok, fair point. “Lying press” is a phrase harkening from the 19th C and questioning the integrity of the media in general is fine but for a president to do it as often as Trump did and for the obvious purpose of deflection and personal gain and whatever is, as you say, indefensible. Taken alone, “lying press” would be one thing but in context of everything else it’s hard to imagine he got the phrase from studying about its use prior to the 1930s.

          But I agree the blood thing is more unique to Nazi language and worldview. Trump continues to make it clearer and clearer what he is about.

          Hopefully anyone who cares to stop fascism isn’t waiting for him to start exterminating people en masse to be sure.

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      You’d have to be dense to think this is new for him. Quit being naive