The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”

“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

Trump on Saturday ratcheted up his already inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

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    From Mein Kampf:

    ‘All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.’

    Another passage:

    ‘All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.’

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      Oddly enough, it seems that most great cultures of the past flourished when they had the most visitors and the most mixing of ideas from all over.

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        That’s why reading most of the stuff from Hitler is sooo backwards and upside down. The dude had no grasp on history or anything frankly. Such a flipped and frankly ignorant spoutings all the time. Almost really directly relatable to the orange one himself when you get down to brass tacks.

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        Globalism in antiquity. Globalism now. Globalism forever!

        Free trade and open borders. No accidents of birth. Gentrify the earth.

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      Damn, he was spot-on about lying, as Trump has amply demonstrated. Although the first time I can remember thinking “they’d never lie about something that big” was when they were trying to sell the Iraq war. I was pretty naive back then.

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      ‘All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.’

      Is this referring to “races” as we see it these days, or to the root races of theosophy as described by Madame Blavatsky?

      Edit: You need to fucking chill guys, 23 downvotes for asking a question

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          There’s a difference. It wasn’t a Tucker question, in my opinion. They were asking for a time reference, because, while bad either way, knowing chronological context makes a huge difference in understanding the whole.

          Knowing and understanding are equally important

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              Uh… Yes?

              Do you really believe you can defeat and enemy you do not understand?

              What kinda new age nativity is this???

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                  Bullshit. Walling off parts of history and the beliefs that informed them as some kind of forbidden knowledge is never going to end well. Bad ideas die in the light of clear-sighted intellectual scrutiny, not in the darkness of an imposed blackout.

                  It’s OK to admit that you are mistaken. There’s no shame in it and in fact, to the contrary, it will redound to your credit.

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              Well kinda yeah. If you know where the hatred comes from you have a better chance to turn it around.

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        You’re getting downvoted, but I’m not picking up the “just asking questions” vibe.

        In context that quote is about race mixing. I had never read the book until I searched for that quote, and the author is, essentially, claiming human achievement is the result of a few hyper capable people, and everyone else is simply benefiting from their ideas.

        Leading up to that quote the author is saying “species” (and I’m assuming in earlier chapters the claim is made that humans are not a single species) shouldn’t interbread because one is always better than the other, and therefore the offspring won’t be as “good” as the better parent.

        So in context this is essentially saying the death of every culture happened because less “quality” humans started breading with the “quality” humans.

        Which is hilarious, because after reading a handful of pages from this book I can only assume Hitler is the dumbest mother fucker whose ever existed.

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          Yes I was asking because there is this supposed connection between Hitlers’ ideas and Occultism, especially Blavatsky’s ideas. Theosophy has this concept of root races, basically superior humans from lost civilizations (like Atlantis), so when I saw the quote I thought it could be interpreted both ways, the normal racist way, that white people are superior, yada yada, or the occultist racist way that these lost races that had basically superpowers were losing them because of mixing with “normal” inferior humans.

          I only know the basics of both of these authors, so I asked because maybe there would be someone more versed in the subject. But apparently just the mere thought of exploring the historical figure of Hitler makes you a nazi.

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            Dumb people say dumb things. My guess is there are a lot less dumb people now than there ever has been. But dumb people will always exist.

            I’ve never read any of those authors. Sociology has never really interested me, but good for you for learning history and studying what interests you.

            Like, if you’re looking to engender yourself to someone common hatred is surprisingly effective. People inherently trust others who agree with them, and shouting loudly you hate Nazis is a cheap and easy way to gain points to the crowd they’re trying to gain favor with.

            My take is if you’re so unconfident in your ability to discuss you resort to shouting you hate Nazis, you’re probably a moron. It’s like saying “I disagree with anyone who even SUGGESTS drinking rat poison.”

            Like yeah, no shit.