Donald Trump’s campaign spokesman defended Trump using “vermin” to describe his enemies, while historians compared his language to Hitler, Mousselini.

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      No no that’s only the rule for us.

      My fucking uncle, who is normally a really nice person, had in his retirement party a big poster of Trump with “If you cant respect the president then get out of America.”

      Now it’s “fuck Biden.” Rules for thee and not for me is the Republican way.

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        One of my neighbors had a wifi network named “Donald Trump is your President!!!”

        After the 2020 election I created one named “Joe Biden is your President!!!” and put it on my external access point and boosted the power to maximum.

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    Interesting that people only now realise that he’s copying Hitler. MAGA already was a Nazi slogan.

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      My 80+ year old Grandma who lives in conservative land has been calling the Trump flags around ‘Nazi flags’ since 2016 ahah. The media constantly acts like this is all shocking instead of completely expected, I guess to justify their moniker of ‘news’.

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        She’s a smart woman it seems.

        It was always pretty blatant with the rage against antifacists. Hitler loved to discredit the press by calling them liers as well and did make ‘intellectuals’ the enemy. I think ‘woke’ is just another word for it.

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    I’m so tired of this POS getting attention again. And I’m not even American. The amount of stress he causes me… Please let this end…

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      I completely agree. He like a toddler, maybe we just suck it up for 4 more years to give him what he wants and then he can disappear forever.

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        No! I don’t agree with Biden’s policy about Gaza and I want to punish him by pushing people not to vote for him or Trump. But it’s so wrong when this buffoon comes into power again. So I’ll bite my tongue and say the other party is worse. Even if that’s NOT the way to vote and it really diminishes minorities and representation.

        His fascism blew over to some/most European countries and that’s soooo bad. I even read some posts in Belgium about putting Muslims in camps ‘for their own safety’ because this POC made it normal for all the basement racists to come out of hiding. Just no…

        I just want him to die or disappear. Just vote him out so we can get back to real politics and what’s really important instead of this shit show. After you vote him out, THEN put pressure on Biden/Democrats to do better. It will be too late for Gazan children that are dying and dead tough…

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        I completely agree. He like a toddler, maybe we just suck it up for 4 more years to give him what he wants and then he can disappear forever.

        Lol, the new repub strategy, folks. “Just let the illiterate brats have what they want”.

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      The difference is that Trump has an (increasingly literal) army of thugs ready and raring to inflict violence on us “vermin,” and you don’t. Trump is not just “calling [people] names;” he’s making credible threats.

      Anybody who tries to minimize this with false equivalences is either dangerously naive or spreading disinformation.

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          Hah. Somebody on Reddit called mine “the most uninformed comment I’ve ever seen” for drawing that comparison. I haven’t logged in over there since June 30th, otherwise I’d go back and rub their face in it. Oh, also, I hate being right about this one.

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      especially lately I havnt even seen a picture he doesn’t look like a hateful angry maniac. how can someone like that be.considered for leadership. insane

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      I know this is not really the point of the thought experiment, but I would like to point out that if time travel did exist, our current timeline as we have already experienced it, would be the result of time travel. Our timeline would in fact be, the best version that could be produced by such technology and/or we have particularly inept time travelers.

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        *Will have had already happened.

        The timeline still needs to run up to the point of time travel being invented. We could be in the first run.

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          Right, but presumably from a hypothetical time travelers perspective, it already has been invented. But yeah, we could be in theory. =p

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        Time travel can only create branching timelines by changing the past without creating a paradox. So the time travellers who killed Hitler may have succeeded, just not in this timeline (if this timeline is even one where time travel will be invented one day).

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          If time travel did exist, it seems unlikely that we would be in the ‘prime universe’ with no time travelers. That would be one out of 2^n timelines where n is the number of time travelers. Assuming each time travel splits all parallel timelines and not just the original.

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      If you could travel back in time would you have killed the 1996 Telecommunications Act?

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    How does he even have a campaign? Who are these shit stains willing to work for him?

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    Of course they did would anyone expect different? He’s a fascist and knows he can get away with it. Backing down would be worse PR for him he isn’t trying to please the kind of people who take offense to dehumanizing minorities.

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    Wow, straight to “And if I did, you deserved it.”

    We’re on the fast track now, boys.