• @[email protected]
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      231 year ago

      I highly recommend actually reading “Mein Kampf”. After the opening paragraph we should talk again about Hitlers intelligence.

      That man was an absolute buffoon, but he was highly intelligent in a social sense of the word. Not entirely unlike Trump.

      • @AlternatePersonMan
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        151 year ago

        You make a good point.

        Trump is one of the dumbest men on the planet. However, he has clearly stumbled onto a disturbing social skill…Just like Hitler (who was also known to be an idiot).

        I actually read the full article on this one. There are a lot of good points and similarities. Did he study Hitler’s speeches? I doubt Mr. “Nuke the storm” or “inject bleach” is capable of studying. I think it’s much more likely that he either blindly stumbled into the same success or learned a few tidbits from what he heard.

        I differentiate ‘learn’ and ‘study’, the same way I might pick up a few words words from vacation abroad, vs cracking open a text book. “Fake news” probably comes up in a Hitler speech as much as bano and cerveza do on a vacation in Mexico.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        61 year ago

        The translators do him some seriously unearned favors.

        • @RobertOwnageJunior
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          21 year ago

          No, it’s not really any better in German. The man wasn’t very smart, he hit a nerve.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Hitler im Original ist grausam. Allein seine seitenlange Tiervergleiche. Ich kann Serdar Somuncus Lesung von Mein Kampf sehr empfehlen.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            11 year ago

            I was saying that the German original is even dumber than the translation. It’s my understanding that the translation is in properly written English, while the original is in poorly edited hick German.

    • EnderWi99in
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      1 year ago

      I think a dangerous trap we fall into is assuming that Trump is the mastermind at all. Hitler didn’t rise to his position without a lot of things falling into place by a lot of people whose best interest it was in that he ascend. Stopping Trump sets this process back, but the whole organization of politicans, journalists, and business leaders who support him need to be held accountable as well.

      • keeb420
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        21 year ago

        of course. i say lets start in congress and the pentagon. mtg and felonious mike flynns brother would be two great people to start with.

    • @CitizenKong
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      131 year ago

      Hitler was ridiculed for his incoherent speeches back then, too. And he was far from the brilliant military strategist he was built up to be by propaganda. His economic ideas were terrible as well and would have ruined Germany in record time even without the war.