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    The lines between Hitler and Trump are becoming less and less blurred

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      I think you mean more blurred, not less.

      A less blurred line would be more distinct, providing a stronger, more obvious separation between the two.

      A more blurred line is fuzzier, making it more difficult to tell where one ends and the other starts.

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      If the man was still alive, he would be salivating for what it is being done right now. It’s the original agenda, on steroids, revised, fine tuned and turbo charged.

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        When he was elected I was very scared that my son would be old enough to be conscripted and die in a pointless war based on the time line compared to original Hilter.

        Good news though! Looks like he won’t even get to live to see 10 years old! 👍

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          We’ll live to be old and so will our offspring. How the world will be by then is the great question.

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        “You cannot beat the master of genocide and racial segregation” (Hitler, if he were alive today)

        Hitler’s agenda borrowed heavily from US policies. The US experimenting on his own citizens went on for decades after Auschwitz was closed.

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      I get what you’re saying from the context, but the way you phrases it makes it sound like it’s becoming more clearly defined that Trump is not Hitler. Generally, more “blurring of the lines” equates to a thing becoming less clearly distinguishable from another thing.

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        If one circles is blurry, it can look like a Venn diagram.

        As it gets more focused, it looks like the Venn just overlaps more than it did originally.

        Then one day, everyone’s like “wait a minute, it’s been a single blurry circle the whole time” and everyone can see it.

        It’s not common usage now, but has before. So maybe they switched it up on accident, but if it was intentuonal then it wasn’t necessarily wrong. They just meant as the differences get more defined, we realize they aren’t really differences.

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      It’s very easy to tell them apart.

      One dresses like an American clown. The other had good uniforms.

      But yeah, both suck.

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      Much like Argentina was a safe haven for Nazi’s, Trump is making Venezuela a safe haven for him and his mob.

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    If he’s the president of Venezuela then let’s open up the border to them. Let them come in they’re American now.

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      This is actually a good argument .

      The president of the USA can not be head of state of a different country. So they are either Americans or Donald trump accidentally abdicated the presidency.

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        Is there anything explicitly forbidding it? I can’t say I recall anything specific about it, but I admit I could be just forgetting a constitutional clause or something.

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          No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

          He cannot “accept … [an] Office … from any … foreign State.” I suppose he might argue that “accepting” and “seizing by force” are not the same thing.

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            Argue? Why would he argue? He says it, it happens, nobody has a choice but to accept it, the legal system is defunct. We are living in upside down clown world now. The clown has his own Gestapo and nukes. Fucker needs to be taken out like week old fish in the bin.

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            LOL the emoluments clause means nothing to Trump et al. He’s so bribed. It’s beyond fathom.

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    Text of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8. “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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        Or that the other branches of government haven’t abdicated their obligations for checks and balances. They’ve given him carte blanche to be a king in this country.

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      Thankfully his presidency over Venezuela is entirely self declared, so this is clearly not illegal then /s

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        You say /s but it is absolutely a not /s. If this goes to the SCOUS that’ll absolutely be their decision.

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      We should bring him and every elected official that takes money from Israel up on charges

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    When this era of terror is over, I hope we have Nuremberg style trials for all these wastes of humans. From the white house to the lawmakers who sat idly by and let this country falter, to the ice agents “just following orders”. And I hope we dismantle everything trump. No courts. No mercy. Globally. Cancel every contract they have given themselves and their friends. Corrupt judges out. End this Christian fascism. Every Trump aligned son of a bitch and bitch delta with

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      You are dreaming. USA did this TWICE. There is no turning back from this. The People of the USA seems to forget a lot in 4 years. So who will the next trump be, once the egg prices goes up again? USA will never be trusted again. They are in catagory with Russia and china.

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        The USA will be treated as even less trustworthy than Russia and China. Russia and China are of course untrustworthy but at least they are consistently untrustworthy. Everyone knows to give them a wide birth.

        But the USA, they insinuated themselves into high-level defence pacts and international military cooperation. Then they decided to turn fascist and destroy everything for no readily apparent reason.

        If there is going to be any repairing of fences, it’s going to have to start off with the US paying for all the damage they have done to the world order and all of the renegotiating of contracts that has had to be done because they didn’t feel like fulfilling their international obligations. And also justice, if the Trump admin don’t end up in prison then the rest of the world is going to see that for what it is. An attempt to defend the indefensible, and therefore an indication that they have not truly changed.

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      Like we did for all the wars in middle east? Childrens’ hospitals were directly bombed and civilians were tortured “to extract information.”

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      There had to be a World War for Nuremberg to happen. What my fear is instead of World War there will be a World Civil war.

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        You can’t have a World Civil War?

        A civil war is between factions inside of the same country

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        What is a “world civil war” and how is that different from a world war?

        My understanding is that a “civil war” is a war within a country, for the dominance and rulership of that country, usually over ideals or laws or something. And a world war is just… a worldwide war. I wish my grandparents were still around to seek real advice on this, I truly miss them and their experience and wisdom.

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          They will be factions within countries fighting amongst each other. There maybe alliances amongst those factions but no nations against each other. The end an apocalyptic fragments of Nations

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            You could say that some of the national borders as they exist right now are needlessly artificial.

            Take Spain and Catalonia for example. The only reason that Catalonia is not an independent country is because Spain won’t let them be. There’s no real reason other than Spanish national pride and if there was a war between the two you could classify it as a civil war or you could classify it as a war between two countries, it’s entirely a matter of opinion.

            But I don’t think that US politics has any real bearing on whether or not that happens. Political instability in the United States doesn’t really lead to any obvious change in internal politics for other countries. External policies obviously would change but not internal ones.

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              Right wing nationalism is spilling into Europe, Aisa along with bad actors like Israel, China, Russia it will lead to factions and if we are truly unlucky civil war.

              There is unrest in France, Germany, many of the Baltic nations, UK.

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        I just thought about ww2, and I just realized how egregious it is that the Japanese and Italians sided with Nazis.

        They thought “yes, mhm, we are on that side”.

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          Don’t sell Italy and Japan short.

          Mussolini invented fascism, and did population-scale deployment of chemical weapons in Ethopia… Imperial Japan are absolutely an all-time G.O.A.T of horrific war crimes.

          Their behavior was egregious, and that’s why they sided with the nazis.

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          Italy was more of a trapped situation

          Japan pre-nukes however were extremely fascist, look up some of the stuff they did just before WWII, such as the “Rape of Nanjing”

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          A slight nitpick but Japan didn’t side with the Nazis. They had their own thing going on with China and simply saw the Nazis as an opportunity for some payback. It wasn’t like they really bought into the Nazi ideology as didn’t really apply to them. The Italians were all in on it though.

          Had the war turned out differently there would have been a radical cultural difference between Nazi controlled Europe and Japanese controlled Asia. In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.

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            In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.

            Like a cold war.

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    We better do NOTHING AT ALL about This! Not even a SLIGHTLY Stern Letter!

    -World Leaders Apparently! And Democrats!

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    It is often said that to truly be president of a place you must walk among the people unguarded to show that you’re in charge and not a big wuss

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    MAGA: Trump kindapping Maduro was justified because he was acting like a dictator and was a net negative to the people of Venezuela!

    MAGA after another world leader Kindaps Trump for doing the same thing: 😮

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      No, he needed to go to prison on January 7th, 2021 with his trial starting the next day, and immediately barred from running for office under the 14th amendment of the US constitution regardless of the outcome of his trial or any pardons.

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    He’s spiraling into a singularity of narcissistic terror over [Jeffrey] Epstein, and decompensating with performative dictatoring

    Couldn’t have said it better.

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      I’m not convinced he cares that much about Epstein. As far as not liking anything that makes him look bad, sure. But he’s sending out armed thugs to murder Americans and getting away with it. Why should he care about being outed as a pedophile?

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        There must be something that he considers embarrassing, so obviously not pedophilia.

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            He doesn’t feel embarrassment, but he hates when other people don’t constantly sing his praises. Being a pedo subtracts from the cheering throngs.

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              I think it needs to be something like him getting a blowjob from a man (or boy). That is something much of his base might consider unforgivable.

              But also maybe something like being peed or shat or cummed on.

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                Nah, getting head from a man or a boy would still put him in a position of power, it’s been like this since time immemorial

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          I heard something about his involvement in the case of a “disappeared” associate in Moscow, with that being Putins kompromat on him.

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        It’s the only thing that actually threatens his base of support.

        Epstein files is the only thing that shuts the chuds up. They’re cheering about Venezuela and getting off to ICE murders. But they, for whatever reason, only draw the line at pedophilic elitism.

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          I don’t think it would shut them up. A few would be peeled off, sure, but in the end they’d just make excuses for it like they always do. They draw the line when it’s not the Dear Leader they worship that’s the subject.

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        Of course he doesn’t care. But his base does care about Epstein and he knows he (for now still) needs their support.

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      He’s over Epstein. He decided fuck it, he’s going for total power so that whatever is said about Epstein he can just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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    It makes me feel really sad to see the USA go from 80s / 90s Era golden times into false wars, the murder of millions and now we just putting the building blocks in place to have a new form of the Nazi party.

    The problem is that everyone is so Tribal now and fixed into their positions I can only see it escalating. I’m worried for my children.

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      That supposed golden age was a time of massive deregulation, which is still wreaking havoc on the country.

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      In the 80s and 90s, America was massively involved in destabilising Central America and the Middle East.

      Iran Contra, Panama, first Gulf war…