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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Because you now did it to yourself.

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[-] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean it's quite different. Hitler wasn't elected (at least not prior to seizing power and effectively banning all opposition). Instead the Nazis got a plurality of just 33% in the Reichstag election, which led to failure to form a government. Then Hitler somehow convinced the center right President to grant him powers which he promptly started abusing and the rest is history.

In other words, 1930s Germany can kind of defend itself in ways the US can't.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He got elected democratically. In the German system, one party gaining the absolute majority is very rare and coalition governments are the norm. The cancellor is usually the candidate of the party with the largest percentage in that coalition. In the case of the NSDAP, that was Hitler. The conservatives formed a coaltion with him because they were sure the conservative president would be able to keep Hitler in check. Unfortunately, said president did the opposite and was instrumental in giving Hitler absolute power.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Donald Trump just won with a plurality of around 31% of eligible voters

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Then Hitler somehow convinced the center right President to grant him powers

Class interests are how. Hitler came to power by promising big business interests that he would crush labor unions and socialists and promote the interests of capitalists, which he largely did. The term "privatization" was first used to describe the Nazi economy. Many of these rich Nazi collaborators survived and thrived under the Nazis (so long as they weren't part of a minority), and also survived its fall. The company that manufactured Zyklon B, for example, eventually became part of the company now known as Bayer. The rich accepted fascism as a calculated risk because the country was in crisis and there was a risk of communists coming to power and redistributing their wealth.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Its nothing like Hitler.

Hitler was a vegetarian, who didn't drink and smoke, who was loyal to his partner.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

If you think Hitler was loyal to Eva Braun, we've been reading vastly different books.

No, Hitler was just as much a sex pest as any other dictator, and was pretty bad before gaining power. Like targeting 14 year olds, and his 14 year old niece.

But he also had uncontrollable flatulence that could clear a ballroom. Which goes to show that while time travelers couldn't kill him, they certainly could fuck with him.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Also, that guy killed Hitler.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I mean, how can you say support the guy that killed Hitler.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I support that guy's Hitler killing policy. Just wish he implemented it in 1920 rather than in 1945.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Hitler literally injected meat, let's not put him on any kind of pedestal. These are all myths based on apparently very effective German propaganda.

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