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Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to world
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The lines between Hitler and Trump are becoming less and less blurred
It is almost like he told everyone that he was going to be a dictator on day one.
Technically he claimed that it would be ONLY on day one, but nobody ever actually believed that.
“Day one” was Groundhog Day.
Be a dictator on day one,
Use that day to remove all the barriers to remaining a dictator and also change the definition of dictator,
Profit!
Keep licking those boots.
Ah, you are this idiot:
“Dude I'm South Asian. As long as a Black man, South Asian man or a white man behaves and follows orders, it will be fine.”
Must be a troll, nobody is this dumb. I have no time for trolls, blocked.
In other comments they revealed themselves to be a full-blown Nazi just trolling.
They are now banned from Lemmy.ca
Ya, looked at their comment history and modlog. Getting banned left right and center. Mostly right though. Ha ha
Dunno about you buddy, but I don't particularly like following orders eh
It's not like he's invading countries and throwing minorities into camps....
Or celebrating his jackbooted thugs murdering people.
Or hanging out in sex rings or taking drugs....
Did Hitler hang out in sex rings? I wasn’t aware of that. I think he was into water sports, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
No he was a better person like that.
Or shooting women in the face
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.
Well, 160 upvotes can't be wrong
This is lemmy, everyone is always wrong
But he did a 360 so he same'd his changeness. J/k.
It's very easy to tell them apart.
One dresses like an American clown. The other had good uniforms.
But yeah, both suck.
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.
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! 👍
We'll live to be old and so will our offspring. How the world will be by then is the great question.
"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.
It's no longer a Venn Diagram, it's just a circle.
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.
The venn diagram is becoming a circle.
Ya I maybe didn't wrong. Y'all know what I mean. 😜🤣
If one circle 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.
Much like Argentina was a safe haven for Nazi’s, Trump is making Venezuela a safe haven for him and his mob.