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      Setting aside their creepy praise for Hitler for a minute, the rest of that message is still pretty telling. They seem to think that any protest by educated people is a protest against the United States. They don’t understand that it’s possible to love your country and recognize when something is unjust and needs to change.

      Police kill a black man and people protest? They must hate America.

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    Me reading the title: oh it’s probably out of context, looking at it objectively he definitely wasn’t stupid if he knew how to manipulate people that well, he was just evil

    Me reading the text: ok it really is that bad

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    It doesn’t take intelligence to be a fascist dictator, quite the opposite that’s the draw for idiots like Trump and Leon. Organized crime, grifting, threats of violence and intimidation don’t require elaborate planning or prediction. Al Capone was well known to not be very bright.

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    He was reasonably smart, and hella charismatic. They just left out the mental illness part that drove him to utilize his player stats to do all the evil he accomplished. They could also say he was an extremely influential man because of his massive and lasting impact on the world. It’s just lipstick on a pig. We know the whole story.

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      He was dumber than a box of rocks, and utterly incompetent.

      Comparisons to trump are rather apt in all respects.

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        This is the part that I find oddly infuriating even though its already hitler. The guy was an awful leader, the allies even stopped assasination attempts once they realised how much of a hinderance he was to the German war effort.

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        The main difference is he did more social programs at first to distract the general population from what was happening. Trump administration is too dumb to even have a token policy benefit some subset of the population.