Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Anyone who hasn't watched Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and wanted to impress him by trying to one-up him at every occasion.
This is totally what Trump is trying to do with Putin right now. Trump is a Putin simp desperate to get his attention.
Just for the historical record, here's Mussolini's last public appearance:
Just Hanging Out (nsfw)
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is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby
Yes.
Literally Hitler.
'My New Order', a collection of Hitler's speeches up through 1939.
Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.
Did people not know about this or forget this?
Trump literally routinely read Hitler's speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.
Lefties who were politically active during Trump's 2015 campaign were... fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed 'You're just calling him a fascist because everything you don't like is fascist' at us.
Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn't know this?
Or are you just younger and/or weren't so politically involved a decade ago?
thanks i didnt know this. i kinda got the cibes that this was the case, but had never heard of that until now. not something they taught us in school. im not necessarily "younger" but i was very disconnected for a long time between no phone, couch surfing punk houses, hobo life, then just living in rural New Mexico until like 7 years ago.
I know you’re being facetious and asking this from their side, but from our non-Nazi side I highly recommend “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Shirer which is a great telling of how Hitler rise to power and a study of him and his crew. I’m sure Trump types read these histories to learn and try to pick up where Hitler failed.
My reading of history is that Hitler failed because he was Hitler.
He was a powerful orator, and also a narcissistic man baby, high on his own self importance long before he was high on meth/cocaine/heroin/etc.
He was too paranoid to trust anyone more competent than he was, and he was fucking incompetent.
I could go on, but in short, Hitler was a conman who tapped into that special hatred that some people have in place of their hearts.
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DOGE: “Sounds good to me”
“Make sure to march in lockstep, boys. And can you kick the feet up a bit higher”
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My mom voted for and still defends this piece of shit. I blocked her number.
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The draft dodger Private Bonespurs
Fuck this guy. I'd risk my career in protest of I were in the military. No way I'm going to dance like a trained monkey for some PoS like drumpf...
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Other unnamed officials told the paper that a big military parade will require a huge amount of coordination between the six branches of the armed forces, along with several federal agencies and regional officials.
If it happens it'll be a shit show...
To quote Henry Zebrowski:
I have a bad idea, and I'm gonna execute it poorly
IIRC our asphalt roads are not built to handle tank tracks and you know little king shits in pants will insist he has tanks going vroom vroom for his big boy parade.
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Let's make a four mile parade of people holding "fuck you, fascist" signs, instead.
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American taxpayers funding a parade for a felon rapist traitor who's destroying our economy and nuking the middle class.
What a wonderful country we have.
Home of the brave my fucking ass.
Where was he when the dead soldiers were returning last week?
Pooping his nappy on the fairway
I know it was a rhetorical question and you probably knew the answer, but he was playing golf
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-skips-dover-soldiers-golf_n_67effa46e4b0bb67eb7acc1a
Opportunity is knocking again
Definitely not a dictator
4 miles? Just have a 1/2 mile parade that goes in a circle. He'll think it is a 10 mile parade.
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The USA is extremely lucky that Trump is 79 years old. Imagine if he were 40. By the time he turned 79, they would be living in a totalitarian dictatorship. The luck is that they will suffer for another 6-7 years. Yes, Trump will have a third term, in three years there will be no free media or independent judiciary. The public administration will be turned into mindless voters. All critics will suffer the fate of the oppositionists in Russia and will become "allergic to windows". Forget about democracy. Land of the bigots and the home of the bully.
He can (and has) done plenty of permanent damage. I don’t think age is doing us as many favors as you think. He can put us in the exact same position in 4 years a younger dictator would.
The only difference is whether or not the US can recover some actual semblance of the democracy it once was. The world is already turning away from us and I sincerely doubt we’ll be welcomed back should trump no longer be president. They forgave us his first term, but the second term with him openly threatening other countries is a line that cannot be uncrossed. With us being held at arm’s length it will be all but impossible to recover our position in the world as well as mend our democracy.
The reputation that America lost is gone for good. It will take a colossal effort and time, and these people who caused the problems are not going anywhere. They will continue to cause problems and oppose any solution no matter what.
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someone on lemmy mentioned that Trump's economic policies are north korea's juche and it is all shaping up that was
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It would be cool if no one went. Just him, Musk, and some right wing drifters on empty streets.
It be cool if the protests were so big they had to cancel the parade route
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FUCK THIS IDIOT.
Disgraceful.
They're going to try to scramble it together last minute so newspapers can't blast out the several hundred million dollar price tag before it goes down.
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all dictators like to parade, nothing new. wake up us. time to impeach that orange shit!
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Nearly 90 million people didn’t vote in the 2024 USA election. If you don’t want to become an American, don’t act like onel
🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 GET OUT AND VOTE! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
no excuses: https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx/
hope he rides in that ol 1961 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible "X-100"
ik the cia prolly still has one in storage.
edit:1*961
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Where’s that meme of Obama being given a medal by none other than… Obama?
I remember him wanting a big military parade during his first term too. Somehow he didn't get it.
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Absolute clown show
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