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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did he not read the part where Hitler genocided Jews, Europeans, and the disabled?

That's the thing though — Hitler didn't run on a platform of genociding people, he ran on a platform of economic improvement. Weimar Germany was economically depressed and many average people and families were suffering from unemployment and financial hardship while the rich were relatively unaffected and enjoying themselves. Hitler promised to change that (and in all fairness, he did). The genociding Jews part came much later.

Hitler was in charge of Germany for 11 years (1934-1945) — the war didn't start until 1938, and the holocaust only began in 1942, so the voters DID end up getting at least 4 years of relative peace and prosperity. Also, keep in mind that Hitler was 45 years old when he became chancellor, meanwhile Trump is 78, meaning even if he manages to finish his second tenure successfully, he'll very likely simply be too old by the end of it in order to continue, which makes it somewhat unlikely that he'll attempt to stage another coup in order to remain dictator for life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Though he could put Vance or another one of his cronies on that platform.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Possible, but Vance doesn't exactly strike me as Hitler 2.0. I watched his Joe Rogan interview and he came off as a pretty reasonable guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Vance is an opportunist, and dangerously smart and eloquent. That's actually a huge positive over Trump, I really hate we have such an actual gullible idiot in office.

Problem is I don't really understand what is actual political beliefs are. It feels like he's just a sycophant in interviews, given his history.

He's hitched himself to the MAGA train, but if, say, he was president with basically no opposition and Trump dead, what would he do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well, we're probably going to find out.