Quote (Leevee @ 11 Nov 2020 12:57)
Yup.
And on top of that, those usual suspects will continue to look down upon those who support the likes of Berlusconi, Erdogan, Hitler, Stalin, etc. People have been saying "this is how all dictators get started" about Trump's actions for years, and Republicans have always downplayed it, exactly like the oppressed are supposed to.
These are some of the most important weeks in the USA's history. Let's all hope that democracy will prevail.
the appeaser's / cultist's approach to those comparisons is usually to strawman them, saying
"every leftist claims trump is literally hitler, and america is nazi germany, but if that were the case, you wouldn't be allowed to say it and we'd have people in concentration camps living under inhumane conditions and cruelty - everything is working as intended", completely disregarding the fact that those dictators didn't just implement all their extreme policies and ideas right away, that it was a process, including attacking and delegitimising free and critical press, riling people up against experts, elites, and minorities, undermining critical democratic institutions, cult of personality, isolationism, jingoism, militarism, and all the other obvious parallels...
This post was edited by fender on Nov 11 2020 06:13am