> As the Boston Globe reported on Wednesday, brothers Scott and Steve Leader, two men with long criminal records from South Boston, were returning home from a Red Sox game when they a found a 58-year-old man — not named in reports — sleeping outside a subway station. In what Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Andrew Kettlewell called a “vicious and unprovoked” attack, police said the Leaders brutally attacked the man, breaking his nose and urinating on him.
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> Trump was asked about the alleged assault at a news conference on Wednesday.
> “I haven’t heard about that,” Trump said. “It would be a shame, but I haven’t heard about that.”
> He then added: “I will say that people who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate. I will say that, and everybody here has reported it.”
He does not want order. He wants "passion". He wants it for the same reason marketing wants it for the same reasons the Nazis wanted it.
> Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is."
"The theory that he is is propaganda" is wrong? That doesn't make any sense, and it's not reiterated or elaborated on.
I did read books about the period, from people who lived through that time, from people who survived concentration camps. One theme is commoon in all of them, how the Nazis despised rational thought or any accountability, loved being "dynamic" and chauvinistic and brutal in all sorts of ways, and were attracting those who felt resentful and uprooted, who could not feel strong without degrading others and/or identifying with those who did with others as they pleased. I see that in Trump, and I see that in the identity politics mob, too.
The error is to think there is just one instance, as if "Hitler" was some kind of phantom that went around to only ever inhabit one person or school of thought, so that when you spotted it elsewhere, you can just assume it's nowhere except where you spotted it.
I'm certainly not impressed by the "testimony" of someone born in 1940, who doesn't mention any authors, and who, as far as I know, knows nothing about the Nazis. Try someone like Sebastian Haffner. That would require actually reading books though, not just talking about the idea of reading books.
Of course Trump isn't Hitler, he is way too low energy for that. He just wants to get through his day with his big ego and fugly mug, not caring about the damage he caues, but he doesn't want to tear the world asunder like Hitler essentially did. And it was Bush was the one who paved the way for mass surveillance and excusing everything with "war on terrorism", who started a war of aggression, it was Obama who didn't really undo the important things that were the reason people cried over the "hope & change" they expected when he won. The hysteria about Trump is just something to keep the "other side" from, you know, talking about Bernie Sanders, and generally where to go from here. They're frozen in place by "OMG TRUMP!!1".
That, too, is circus; and generally a lot, not just the US, is way over the "too Nazi" line, if you actually read some books w...
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 12.2 ms ] threadTrump wants anything but. He doesn't even want the corset of having to form coherent thoughts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/2...
> As the Boston Globe reported on Wednesday, brothers Scott and Steve Leader, two men with long criminal records from South Boston, were returning home from a Red Sox game when they a found a 58-year-old man — not named in reports — sleeping outside a subway station. In what Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Andrew Kettlewell called a “vicious and unprovoked” attack, police said the Leaders brutally attacked the man, breaking his nose and urinating on him.
[..]
> Trump was asked about the alleged assault at a news conference on Wednesday.
> “I haven’t heard about that,” Trump said. “It would be a shame, but I haven’t heard about that.”
> He then added: “I will say that people who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate. I will say that, and everybody here has reported it.”
He does not want order. He wants "passion". He wants it for the same reason marketing wants it for the same reasons the Nazis wanted it.
> Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is."
"The theory that he is is propaganda" is wrong? That doesn't make any sense, and it's not reiterated or elaborated on.
I did read books about the period, from people who lived through that time, from people who survived concentration camps. One theme is commoon in all of them, how the Nazis despised rational thought or any accountability, loved being "dynamic" and chauvinistic and brutal in all sorts of ways, and were attracting those who felt resentful and uprooted, who could not feel strong without degrading others and/or identifying with those who did with others as they pleased. I see that in Trump, and I see that in the identity politics mob, too.
The error is to think there is just one instance, as if "Hitler" was some kind of phantom that went around to only ever inhabit one person or school of thought, so that when you spotted it elsewhere, you can just assume it's nowhere except where you spotted it.
I'm certainly not impressed by the "testimony" of someone born in 1940, who doesn't mention any authors, and who, as far as I know, knows nothing about the Nazis. Try someone like Sebastian Haffner. That would require actually reading books though, not just talking about the idea of reading books.
Of course Trump isn't Hitler, he is way too low energy for that. He just wants to get through his day with his big ego and fugly mug, not caring about the damage he caues, but he doesn't want to tear the world asunder like Hitler essentially did. And it was Bush was the one who paved the way for mass surveillance and excusing everything with "war on terrorism", who started a war of aggression, it was Obama who didn't really undo the important things that were the reason people cried over the "hope & change" they expected when he won. The hysteria about Trump is just something to keep the "other side" from, you know, talking about Bernie Sanders, and generally where to go from here. They're frozen in place by "OMG TRUMP!!1".
That, too, is circus; and generally a lot, not just the US, is way over the "too Nazi" line, if you actually read some books w...