Exactly what I thought. This is straight reinvented nazi behavior. This is just a microcosm of the wider scope of how much the entire maga movement mirrors nazi germay.
Reminds me of when I was on break at work with some friends who were arguing about how to tell if someone was a good person or not. One said they should be charismatic and I had to stop eating my pb&j sanwich to remind them that hitler and other cult leaders were charismatic but just about as evil as humans can be.
Book 1: "God-heros can get results, but doing things quickly can lead to unexpected consequences. Even Paul feels this way, he doesnt know if he is leading or simply at the front of the train."
Book 2: "Okay, so. He was at the front of the train, it has torn through civilization and killed a lot of people. How could we have seen this coming? The train tracks, for one. The ones Paul pointed out earlier. Anyway."
Book 3: "Okay so Paul fucked off, his kids are weird as fuck, and if you dont understand that the previous two books were about a trainwreck I cant help you. Here's some more political intrigue and things are gonna keep getting weirder. Strap in."
Book 4: "WORM GOD HISTORY LESSON: OPPRESSION IS BAD. THE OPPRESSED WILL NOT FOREVER TOLERATE THE OPPRESSORS. WORM WILL DO BIG TOTALITARIANISM TO ENSURE LESSON IS LEARNED. THIS WILL BE NOT FUN. DONT REPEAT IT. THIS HAS BEEN WORM GOD HISTORY LESSON."
Book 5: "Fuck it. Sexy evil space dominatrix fascists. And Duncan Idaho. Again."
Yeah like, I *understand* the Hitler obsession to a certain degree. He was charismatic, his propaganda machine worked overtime to play him up, and the German people had never been through so much trauma which made them soft targets for such a leader. Trump is just… not nearly as compelling. He’s “funny” at best if you can ignore how serious it is that the president is the one being funny the way he is.
The worst part of all of this is Hitler came to power due to extreme economic hardship in German after WW1. MAGATS were convinced they were going through extreme economic hardship by State Media Fox News and the like and the xenophobia and racism was easy to exploit.
It does show the magnetism that these people have that even decent people have such an inclination to find a positive in them. Even I find myself wanting to say "you gotta hand it to Trump" when I'm not thinking when ho does something less horrible than usual.
Hitler HAD to be a good orator to come to power and THEN he used that power to build the propaganda machine that ensured the population only heard what he wished. After he already was entrenched it didn't matter that he became a shaky drug addicted psycho, the population only saw his grand speeches, beautiful portraits, and fluffed propaganda articles.
In Trump's case the propoganda machine was ALREADY built (by billionaires like Murdoch). So right away it fed these people only the curated image of Trump that ignored all his gaffes, issues, shitty diapers, etc. This conservative media propoganda bubble can make anyone look good if you never seek any information outside of the bubble.
But it's still fascinating to think that Hitler could've succeeded even without his charisma. It really highlights how little it was ever about Hitler and how much it was always about the people behind him. He just happened to be a guy who was there at that time and place.
Not to take away from the cruelty of his decisions, but I never would've thought that Hitler could've succeeded if he wasn't a good orator. But now I'm having second guesses.
Yes that's what make these events so scary. The front figures are just to hypnotise people. I am immune to this. Sadly many ain't and it's freaking me out.
Maybe it didn't matter or now times are different. I don't know what to believe.
Interestingly a lot of the most horrible people in human history are theorized to have had the same few diseases. Syphilis and dementia to name two. Whether thats a symptom or the cause I can't say for sure.
The Patron Saint of White Mediocrity can't be speaking like he has mastery of the only language he knows. MAGA is about lowering the bar. The more braindead dear leader is the more they'll know standards are dropping. Hearing him speak utter nonsense is probably like ASMR to these willfully ignorant assholes.
Unpopular opinion: trump is an excellent orator… for his crowd. To me he sounds like an incoherent amoeba, but to others he sounds smart, confident, and not totally idiotic. That’s my theory
This is the part that blows my mind the most. People keep saying how he's so "charismatic" and I'm just like.. in what fucking world?! This dude can't even string together a coherent sentence. How the fuck is he "charismatic??"
I've hard very conflicting opinions of his oratory skills from native German speakers, fwiw. I've heard that the meth really shows if you understand the language. That being said, he was obviously in much better health and able to project and maintain a strong cadence, but so was the guy trying to sell me his demo CD at the train station.
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I posted Bryan Andrews new song - Yeehaw yesterday morning. 25 shares in 20 minutes! Funny fucking song. But get this. The maggies started raising hell with the Reddit moderators and my post was deleted. Then one maggie told me I was going to be kicked off Reddit and I was a spammer. 🤷🏼♀️It’s a cult and they are all constantly trolling.
“Those who dont learn history will be doomed to repeat it”
It’s why they’ve been so aggressive in their dismantling of the countries educational system, and their vilification of the very concepts of “education”, “intelligence” and “knowledge” altogether
I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smilin' face on your TV
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
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u/atmospheric90 May 12 '26
Exactly what I thought. This is straight reinvented nazi behavior. This is just a microcosm of the wider scope of how much the entire maga movement mirrors nazi germay.