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>Then don't.

And I didn't: I voted for Trump and Republicans who at least waste less of my time.

>as for saying Trump is Hitler, or Republicans are Nazis ... mainstream Democrats (meaning the ones actually running or office) do not, and you simply will not be able to find any instances of them doing so.

Excuse me?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8R4S4S8jhA

I'm not going to bother finding more because my Youtube recommendations are fucked up enough as it is.

>As for Biden's remark -- it was obviously stupid, but the guy is just as obviously in the early stages of clinical dementia.

He is the incumbent POTUS and Harris's direct superior, that makes it even worse than when Clinton called Americans a basket of deplorables.

>Of course it isn't

There is a very sharp difference between Trump and Obama/Biden/Harris regarding border control, and as far as I'm concerned I want whatever Trump was doing back. We are the only country on the planet where proper border security is argued as a crime against humanity, and I'm sick of that.



Excuse me?

You may want to look at the definition of the f-word, and how it differs from the N-word, at some point.


Citing Godwin's Law[1], the meaning of "Nazi", "Hitler", "facist", "racist", "sexist", and all the other "-ists" today is:

"Someone or something which I do not like."

[1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodwinsLaw

>A real invocation of Godwin's Law is really an accusation of poor debating, as it amounts to accusing your opponent of comparing you to an atrocity so evil as to be non-debatable, which is not only very rarely a fair comparison, but also is very insensitive to real-life victims and their descendants. Usually, it's seen as an act of desperation, in the sense that you've run out of better arguments.


Except that's not the definition of either of those words, and has nothing to do with what they actually mean.

It's just an internet meme - designed to be, you know, cute and funny.

Try your local library instead.


Godwin's Law actually predates the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

Whatever the law might be called, the result is the same: The vapid use of words as fallback insults leads to the words inevitably losing any valuable meaning.

Kelly called Trump fascist invoking Hitler, Harris called Trump fascist in kind, Democrats called Trump and Republicans racists/sexists/rapists/fascists.

As a reasonable man, all I can take away is that you guys don't like Trump and Republicans and everyone who sides with them. If that's your mojo then that's fine, but those words are otherwise worthless as far as I'm concerned. Please stop violating Godwin's Law and make an argument worth discussing instead.


Reductio ad Hitlerum doesn't have anything to do with what those words mean, either.

Or have any bearing otherwise on what Harris said in that context.


Trump is a textbook Fascist who expouses an ultranationalist, authoritarian political philosophy.

That's why by the book Genenerals who worked with him in his first term described him as a Fascist.

These are the shiny boots polished brass types who tie their shoelaces consistantly and don't stray into chiral knot variations.

They didn't call him a Nazi nor Hitler as he is neither a Nazi (although his father was an American Nazi supporter) nor Hitler .. but he is a Fascist.




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