• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The debates are going to be hilarious. Biden is diminished, but Trump has completely lost the script. Debates last for an hour or two.

    Biden might fuck up a name or other detail, but Trump is going to vomit insanity all over everyone who didn’t go into the debate already agreeing with his madness.

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      7 months ago

      Shane Gillis’ bit on Trump’s debates was spot on. At the very least they’ll be hilarious

      “Ted, your wife’s ugly as a dog”

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I wish I could say I was surprised. I feel like the brakes are off the fascism train these days. Hopefully I’m wrong.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve come to the same conclusion. I’ve been wrapped up in political bullshit for years but trying to pull myself out because in all that time, no matter who wins, shit gets worse. The system does what the system will do and right now it seems determined to self immolate.

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        7 months ago

        This is what is meant by “late stage capitalism”

        The problem in the system is profit motive. The US has never been a nation of people, it’s a business platform with a bottom line.

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          7 months ago

          Ha, my previous comment was about late stage capitalism. Great minds think alike, huh?

  • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    In their ignorance the Trump campaign delivered a nice own goal: if they love the 2nd Reich of 1871 so much they should adopt a couple of their policies.

    Universal healthcare for example - introduced in 1883 by a conservative chancellor by the name of Bismarck.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    NEW YORK (AP) — A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.

    It was posted and shared on the former president’s Truth Social account while he was on a lunch break from his Manhattan hush money trial.

    Earlier this month, Trump said at a fundraiser that Biden is running a “Gestapo administration,” referring to the secret Nazi police force.

    Trump previously used rhetoric echoing Adolf Hitler when he said immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and called his opponents “vermin.”

    At least one of the headlines flashing in the video appears to be text that is copied verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I: “German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”

    In one image, the headlines “Border Is Closed” and “15 Million Illegal Aliens Deported” appear above smaller text with the start and end dates of World War I.


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