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Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday (www.thedailybeast.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27899425

Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.

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[–] 224 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.

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  • [–] 119 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

    Anyone who hasn't watched Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and wanted to impress him by trying to one-up him at every occasion.

    This is totally what Trump is trying to do with Putin right now. Trump is a Putin simp desperate to get his attention.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Just for the historical record, here's Mussolini's last public appearance:

    Just Hanging Out (nsfw)

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?op=1

    Yes.

    Literally Hitler.

    'My New Order', a collection of Hitler's speeches up through 1939.

    Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.

    Did people not know about this or forget this?

    Trump literally routinely read Hitler's speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.

    Lefties who were politically active during Trump's 2015 campaign were... fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed 'You're just calling him a fascist because everything you don't like is fascist' at us.

    Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn't know this?

    Or are you just younger and/or weren't so politically involved a decade ago?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    thanks i didnt know this. i kinda got the cibes that this was the case, but had never heard of that until now. not something they taught us in school. im not necessarily "younger" but i was very disconnected for a long time between no phone, couch surfing punk houses, hobo life, then just living in rural New Mexico until like 7 years ago.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I know you’re being facetious and asking this from their side, but from our non-Nazi side I highly recommend “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Shirer which is a great telling of how Hitler rise to power and a study of him and his crew. I’m sure Trump types read these histories to learn and try to pick up where Hitler failed.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My reading of history is that Hitler failed because he was Hitler.

    He was a powerful orator, and also a narcissistic man baby, high on his own self importance long before he was high on meth/cocaine/heroin/etc.

    He was too paranoid to trust anyone more competent than he was, and he was fucking incompetent.

    I could go on, but in short, Hitler was a conman who tapped into that special hatred that some people have in place of their hearts.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oooo oooo now do tRump!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Pretty much the exact same except that Hitler was a hardened war veteran, and Trump has been a conman all his life. Most of Trump's cons were stupid and failed, but never quite hard enough for him to ever see consequences.

    Hitler also went to prison for his coup attempt. It was a daycare style prison, but he still went.

    Other than that, the similarities are striking. Likely because the only book that Trump in known to have read, is a copy of all of Hitler's speeches.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Yeah there's a bunch of history books. My mom had a collection of history books on the second world war with accounts of what happened and the atrocities committed.

    You just have to take notes in a notebook and call it Project 2025.

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