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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Thank God we got dumb Nazis this time around.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Smart enough to have infiltrated a huge part of our government... Including the presidency...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the Nazis we have today are kind of dumb. Problem is, so are the people who keep electing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The Nazi's were always dumb. Their economy was heavily based on stealing from the people they killed, and invading countries. It's quite literally the shortest term planning in history. They invaded what, a dozen countries in six years? (Including their former ally Italy.)

The same people who elected the Nazi's elect these guys. Opportunists, and boot-lickers who think they'll get to be the boot now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Lying, hiding and lying some more doesn’t take smarts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They've also had psyop assistance from abroad and upper levels domestically.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

It's an ideology characterized by hate, bigotry, and nationalism. They're all dumb by default. Doesn't mean they can't do an enormous amount of harm anyway...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I mean, they were kind of dumb the first time around too. That's why they try to go for people's base emotions and fears, to drag people down to their level of idiocy then beat the population with experience

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They're the only kind.

One of the reasons Hitler was never assassinated was that the allies wanted him alive so he could continue making terrible, self-defeating decisions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've had people argue to me that Hitler wasn't a dumbass and was quite smart. Like, no, he was a fucking moron, Trump being dumber is actually an accomplishment

The Nazis were succeeding in spite of their figure head

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Hogan’s Heroes was a secret psyops program to equate Nazis with bumbling idiots in case the boomers (the youth at the time) ever lost it. That and lead poisoning.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Use the forward from "The Handmaid's Tale."
Same difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ain't no foolin'

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

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