Kamala Harris Asks Americans: Are You Really Going to Elect a Guy Who Has Good Things to Say About Hitler?

Yeah, but he also killed the guy who killed Hitler.

honestly can't fault him for it.

That's what happens with cults.

As Cady Heron once famously said, "The limit does not exist." Nothing, absolutely nothing, will cause him to lose support. The people who support him love him more than anything, and they will do whatever it takes to support him. They will break their own moral code, they will bend over backwards to make his rhetoric fit their morals, they will turn their back on everything they've ever known or loved if that's what it takes to continue to support him. Because he is the most important thing in their lives.

Idk how old you are but there used to be discussions about how we can beat terrorists, a group of people who willingly kill themselves to inflict damage. How do you beat an enemy in war who views their own death as a victory?

That's what we're up against with trump. There is no inroad, there is no common ground, there is no logic. It's a cult, plain and simple. How do you stop someone who wants to die for their cause? Maybe trump supporters don't want to literally die for him, but they damn sure would give up everything else for him.

What if he shot a supporter though?

I disagree my good sir. If Trump shoots someone, there might be a possibility he gets an increase in votes.

If Harris shot someone in Times Square right now, would she lose your vote?

We still revere Henry Ford

I wonder how many Americans know about Ford's quest to reignite antisemitism in Europe by foisting "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" books at every one of his overseas car dealerships.

I wonder if we'll shove all Elon Musk's reactionary bullshit down the rabbit hole when his legacy think tank full of right wing psychos is sponsoring the next generation of History Channel and TLC episodes.

Reagan: "If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism"

The politically literate: "But, Ronny, you're a (neo)liberal!"

Didn't Hitler's generals try to assassinate Hitler?

He sleeps with Mein Kampf next to his bed.

Not Mein Kampf, but rather My New Order, which is a collection of Hitler's speeches. Trump is a fan of Hitler's propaganda and rhetoric specifically.

But her emails, I mean but his son's laptop, I mean....

Never did I suspect this Stephen Lynch song to not feel completely outlandish.

there is a 100% chance of Harris winning the popular vote. Unfortunately billions of dollars spent on like 100,000 people in 7 states will be what decides the election and there's a 1% chance of a tie which will throw it to the house of reps for some reason.

The need to reform the electoral college and ban gerrymandering has never been greater

I'm worried cause I see the Democrats doing the "smart" thing of finding the exact counties they need to win. And aggressively pushing and trying to play to them alone.

And that doesn't seem like a smart strategy. In fact it feels like Hillary or Disney's failings where playing it safe and doing "smart" math doesn't work to do something productive and barely scrapes them by.
I don't see this being a landslide. And I'm worried their math will mean nothing in the real world.

“It’s a close race…” is code for

Nothing so auspicious. It's more "we never actually have a clue, because our job is to sell ads not tell you useful information".

News media had Obama in a tight race when it was a blowout. They had Hilary in a blowout when it was a nail biter. They called Florida for Al Gore early on election night. They aren't honest or useful or knowledgeable in any way that makes them a valuable source of information.

Hopefully it's that and not "we rigged the polls to give some credibility to whatever bs Trump is planning".

It's sad how true that is. I was talking with a conservative about the "enemy within" shit and with a straight face he said that's how half the country feels. Ok dog, see you on the other side of the civil war I guess.

It also reinforces who he is to less hard core supporters which may have a positive effect over time.

Americans only hate Hitler because he's a loser. If he'd won in Europe, we'd lionize him the same way we celebrate reactionaries like Churchill, Reagan, and Shinzo Abe or despots like MBS, Duterte, and Modi.

The brown shirts loved Adolph.

I really don't understand why neither the Harris or Biden campaign just roiled out footage of the Covid-19 lockdown in a short film titled "Literally the last time this motherfucker was in charge"

Cause ya know, that would work...

The direct Hitler praise hadn't come out before 2016. There were certainly many other serious red flags though.

"the best highway system in the world"

😐

He just completed the already planned roads...

I'm voting for harris but I had no clue about lemmy or what i was doing when I signed up lol, at least it wasn't hexbear. I'm probably just going to stop using this website though due to the amount of people who are hostile towards me just because of something next to my name, literally some lame reddit shit, but that makes sense when you realize this website is just snobby redditors who got too snobby for reddit

Edit: you guys are actually dumber than redditors, im off this shit platform that's never gonna succeed anyway, you are all the worst embodiment of a "redditor" adios I'll just talk to my real life friends more often lmao

Cool but since you're such a smarty, you know that Harris is not the head of the current regime, so only a fucking idiot would think that voting for her is tacitly giving a pass to genocide, and only a colossal idiot would think Trump is a better choice, and only a titanic idiot would abstain from voting in such a consequential election.

Since you didn't bother even to gloss over the basics I assume you agree. On account of how very very smart and clever you are.

And you think Trump will be better? No, Jill Stein isn't going to win.

So... Do you honestly believe that Trump would do anything to stop Israel? They're killing Muslims, the only thing the GOP loves more than demonizing the Jewish.

You must have failed history class.

I would argue that Trump would be way worse for Gaza, he seems to be of the mindset of "kill the weak and be done" so for him to "fix" the middle east, would probably just be to bomb the shit out of everyone until they stop fighting.

He doesn't strike me as a great peace maker, more like a

dictator on day one

Yes, surely donald "finish the job" trump will broker peace.

America tends to elect someone representing the interests of those who have money and power. And those who have money and power seem to accept that brown foreign people have to die so they can make money selling arms.

This is terrible, but it is also normal, and also people like making money. So people will, far too often, let it slide. And when you let something like that slide, you rationalise how you're not a bad person, so you victim blame.

This is one more reason why I am not completely unhappy about the possibility of humans ending their own existence through economic activity. Sadly, they will take many other species with them.

To use your analogy of the holocaust, we are Japan in this situation. While we can do something its so little as to be borderline fuck all. Best we could do is arrange an accident with Netanyahu, but yet again that could make it worse.