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'Wow': Observers horrified by 'scary' Trump brag showing he's following 'Putin's playbook'
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We wonder the same about Germans in the 30's, but I think I can better understand why they did. I have no idea why we did.
Its almost like the same parasite that infected the germans has slowly taken root in the usa.
The real mindfuck is that the current US governement makes the Nazis look efficient and people minded by comparison. These guys are so blatantly corrupt that they don't even pretend to be for the people anymore.
They're only for rich fucks
Have a black man as president broke the national brain. It would be like a Uyghur chairman in China. See how fast the Han chin se would break... Further.
Eh the US had cancer long before Obama. Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, W (or Chaney if you like) were all slow walking things to where the US is now.
It's narcissism. Enough of the population became so self absorbed and lacking in empathy that they could be rallied by an enabler. Same case in Germany. Obviously 70 million Americans don't have NPD, but he has a way of amplifying the narcissism in the common person by convincing them it's righteous, as Hitler did.
The nazis fully admitted they were inspired by the US and how we treated slaves and genocided indigenous populations. And the US learned that garbage from their colonizer forefathers. Even now it's a bunch of jackholes in America copying nazis. Xerox of a xerox style, which is why they all look so cartoonishly stupid in their evil machinations. It's a circlejerk of one group of white assholes all duplicating each other because they think their skin and their money (never forget the money is a BIG FUCKING PART OF IT) makes them god's special asshats.
Well alas we've seen it all before Knights in armour, days of yore The same old fears and the same old crimes We haven't changed since ancient times
When the death certificate on American empire is written, the cause of death will read: “Opulence, ignorance, corruption”, or simply “capitalism”.