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Hitler had over 20 assassination attempts. Real ones. Compared to Trump, Hitler was on the battlefield in a WW and not a draft dodger. Hitler didn't just built a cult, he built the entire ideology on actual values and not gaslighting everything and everyone. While on the surface all of this is comparable to the Nazis, MAGA is so gullible, a squirrel could do what Trump does.

So yeah - Vance will probably do exactly that. And it may actually work

LOL, I wish. We'd run circles around everyone now and probably float the idea of buying the U.S. for real...

If we're lucky. If we're not, there is nothing to clean up...

Semantics.

The NSDAP relied on the appeal of Adolf Hitler and advertised with the effective slogan “Work and bread”. It announced an immediate economic program and job creation measures. The SPD demanded a fundamental restructuring of the economy through nationalization and neglected the demand for job creation.

Hitler was the face of the NSDAP, most Voters believed him and specifically voted for the NSDAP.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstagswahl_Juli_1932

According to Goldberg’s account of Baker and Glasser’s reporting, Kelly responded by explaining to Trump that the German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off,” but Trump reportedly was not swayed by the correction.

Hitler "fended" off 23 assassination attempts. And with all his gutting of utterly everything, i highly doubt the Secret Service will be competent enough to actually fend off any serious attempts, let alone various other ~~things~~ threats.

Specifically as a German, i can only tell you: Trump is as far away from Hitler as Washington from Berlin. Sure, Trumps clearly fascist, but at best he's Temus Version of Hitler. Remember, Hitler was quite competent in various things and actually listened to his staff in the beginning. Not only that, Göring, the Gestapo and various other members were intelligent and had some serious education. There were many, many People you probably never heard of that helped Hitler in many ways. While some of us question the necessity of learning this stuff, it is still taught in schools and while i have to admit to have forgotten the Details, Himmler, Göring, Heidrich, Heß and Wiedemann are just 5 people in the spotlight. Trump's MAGAts are dangerous no doubt and they are going to wreck basically everything. But let's be honest...they aren't competent, they don't know shit except "destroying" stuff. But they will go down with the destruction.

Hitler actually did stuff for the People, that's why most Germans did go along and you have to remember, Germany was basically on it's knees and grasped for straws. The issue(s) in the U.S. right now are very different - but most people still do very well, especially since Biden did one hell of an impossible job. However, the gap between the "well off" and the "fucked" is going to grow wider and Trump and his incompetent bunch can still use it to basically tear down any and all civil rights because there are not enough people paying any attention. Germans did pay attention back then and they desperately wanted change. Not to mention, Hitler had a lot of help from inside the Weimarer Republic.

I don't want to downplay this, but the parallels are currently still limited to politics and some unpleasant side effects that restrict the freedom of individuals, but do not have many effects on the whole. So if Trump declares Martial Law, i think he's not going to last long after that - because by that point, things will have deteriorated far enough, that enough people will care and take action. Unfortunately this will have very ugly side effects for all of you and probably the rest of the world and may even be civilization ending...

Get a Mazda, they arent perfect (they dmca'd the Homeassistant integration), but at least they have immediately started to help Californias and as far as I was able to find out, they didn't crawl in to Trump's pocket...at least, until now... Only downside is, the CX-50 is made in the same plant as the Toyota Corolla Cross.

JD Vance enacting Article 2, Section 4...

Heads up on this, 9 Months in if anyone finds this post... playing it on Linux, Proton 9.0-4, Ryzen 7, 5800X3D, 7900XTX, 5120x1440@120 and Freesync 2, maxed out settings, but with RT off. I had a single stutter, the rest of the way was smooth sailing. Most of the time with 120 FPS, some dips in the low 90s, but overall it ran incredibly good and it is an unbelievably beautiful game. World Building is insane and i utterly adore the Story. Cal's path is amazing and what i hoped, all three Disney Movies could have been. Incredibly detailed and great puzzles - honestly, it may be the best game i have played in the last 5 years.

I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.

The crux is, i have learned it, told myself "Oh yeah, that's on Wikipedia" and only remember where to find what information. I'm utterly useless without Wikipedia, as many family quiz losses around Christmas turned out.. Hell, even sources i use for discussions on the internet i get often from Wikipedia articles, they sometimes link the actual studies...my google foo is pretty good, but some things i'm simply unable to find, except in the Wikipedia source lists...

Yeah, that's like saying "This man killed that man", "Water is wet" or "The sky is blue". A single fact isn't worth a damn without context.

Hence Synthetic Fuels made from renewable energy and "steering" the market. Making old cars still able to run, but just changing the fuel and making them at least carbon neutral and maybe even net negative in the long run? There is nothing better for the environment - heck, with all the pollution Lithium production does, one could argue we're changing one evil for another evil, just on a different scale. It's like switching the old NiMH battery for a LiFePo. (The scaling doesn't work that well for the energy densities needed in bigger applications though...)