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Is he unable or does he just rip off Hitler because it seems to be working for him?

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Both, and also he just loves Hitler and everything he stood for.

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Oh, it is working magnificently. Dictator talk has always been big among a poor, desperate, ignorant populace as it makes it sound so comforting to be a select group and to have ridged rules against all others - it never works that way, but never mind that.

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I hope the Americans realise that they will be electing their death certificate if it’s this clown.

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Some of us do. I fear not enough this time.

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I’m sure most of us who are on Lemmy are all too aware of it. But man, you should see what some of our neighbors are like!

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Nothing we can do. We can try to explain to his supporters but they are so brainwashed it’s futile. The only one who can save us are the courts trying to lock him up, and we know how swift the justice system is here.

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Bullshit. You can get out there and VOTE. You can also get everyone else you know to do the same

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Everyone I know? I know a few trumpers. I do vote but as I said we can’t change dumpster supporters minds.

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America can probably dodge fascists for a while yet but wealthy neoliberals have spent millions of hours and billions of dollars trying to ensure that anyone who might genuinely fix things never has the power to do so.

There’s the giant media companies looking to maximise their profits through manipulation and cronyism, rather than anything resembling actual journalism.

The legal system that’s reluctant to investigate, prosecute or punish corporations and the ultra wealthy at the head of them, but enthusiastic about throwing poor people in for profit prisons.

Tech companies that will platform any reprehensible views in exchange for a few dollars of ad impressions, pumping their users for pennies with an elaborate emotional slot machine.

Then of course the open political corruption. Gerrymandering, insider trading, disenfranchised voters, voting machines with no paper trail and a deeply flawed election system where any vote that isn’t for one of the two neoliberal parties is functionally thrown in the bin.

When we can’t stand it any more, we’re fed bullshit non-solutions instead, written and published by the problems themselves and designed to make them even richer.

“The free market will fix it. Buying more guns will fix it. Electing a man with the communication skills and emotional regulation of a toddler will fix it. Murdering people based on the amount of melanin in their body will fix it”.

Each one has already been tried and each one has failed to even dent the issue, because if they had any chance of succeeding then they would have banded together to undermine them in a bipartisan act of class solidarity.

And fuck, that’s just the politics. The same insatiably greedy, neoliberal trash is also responsible for the impending climate breakdown, endless wars and unprecedented levels of unemoloyment and homelessness because no matter how much we give them, they just can’t say “no” to profits.

We need to vote, but we also need so much more than voting. We need the entire world to unite in protest, demanding their governments either acknowledge the rights, freedoms and entitlements of every person on the planet, or be held accountable when they don’t.

So it’s not hard to see why people might get disillusioned when “maybe if we abuse minorities more, we’ll be able to own homes again” still seems to be an idea people want to explore.

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this is just not realistic to the situation of the average non-brainwashed american

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It’s ok, because he’ll get a lot of foreigners killed, too.

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I think he’s just regressing to early childhood. I bet his KKK-associated dad played recordings of Hitler’s speeches

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He apparently reads Hitler’s speeches in bed. Has a book of them on his nightstand.

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I find this highly unlikely as I say Trump is barely literate.

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It’s ok cuz the book was given to him by a Jew. (It wasn’t, but he said it was in an interview and it turns out that the gift-giver’s name has “Gold” in it, so the Nazi-flavored Cheeto assumed he was a Jew)

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Goldie Wilson III?

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I don’t even care if you made that up right now. I believe it lol

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Is there a larger treatment on Fred vs Donald?

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Apologies for the American ignorance, but I don’t understand what you mean by “treatment” in this context

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I just mean like an episode or series on Fred Trump and his influence on Mr. Trump

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Prior to eviction laws, Papa Trump would plan to tear down slum apartment buildings, but allow black families to move in. Then kick them all out the day of demolition, without warning. The Trumps and Kushners have all always been literal psychopaths.

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Can Hitler’s estate sue him for copyright theft?

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You joke but there’s no Hitler’s Estate. His progeny decided not to procreate and essentially all died out after WW2.

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Holy shit so he didn’t go back in time to kill Hitler, he went to the future and killed future Hitler.

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That’s why Trump is taking up the mantle

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That sounds like a fun twist to some hilariously bad WW2 fan-fiction

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Don’t link reddit. There’s no Hitler Estate.

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I do indeed joke.

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Maybe Trump’s family will follow the same lead.

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They legally changed names

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I said there’s no Hitler estate.

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There have been rumors for years that he keeps a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside. He also has spoken glowingly of how various dictators keep their populace in line.

Of course, by himself Trump is too clumsy to install a dictatorship. If it was just him, I’d predict a second Trump term would involve a lot of bad stuff, but no outright dictatorship as he’d get distracted by some Twitter/X/Truth Social feud.

However, once you add in Project 2025 and similar people who would likely have roles in Trump’s second administration, then things get truly scary. They admire dictators too and they are capable of planning and executing the death of democracy.

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You’re right. To add onto that it was Ivana who said he kept this book near his bed, it always been pretty credible.

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Considering her cause of death was “bruise”, that tracks.

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Literal puppet.

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