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Ignoring the issue and calling everyone nazi or fascist is precisely why the democrats lost today. Hey, at least you have 4 years to learn your lesson

Calling out people who invoke Nazi themes doesn't make them more Nazi, nor does giving them a pass make them less so.

> ...are poisoning the blood of this country

Isn't that Nazi rhetoric? "Blood of the country" seems like exactly the sort of thing the Nazis would have been focused on. Are you going for irony?

> Are you going for irony?

Obviously yes: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-im...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-im...

Congratulations on discovering the punchline.

Yes.

They're poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in New Hampshire.

"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning," Hitler wrote.

Devil's advocate.. if Hilter once remarked that broccoli is good for you, would people throw that back at someone saying the same?

Hitler was vegetarian back when that was very unusual, and post-war the vegetarian movement in the UK was set back significantly as a result.

If Hitler then used that line to try and justify murdering millions of brussels sprout eaters, then yes. Otherwise you've missed the point by an almost impressive margin.

There is nothing inherently "Nazi" about being anti-illegal immigration. 30 years ago the left stood for a lot of anti immigration rhetoric.

Sure, but invoking Hitler's language while denigrating people from other countries is pretty Nazi though.

And when told that it sounded like something out of "Mein Kampf" Trump's response was that he had never read "Mein Kampf".

On the one hand, it's sort of believable that he would not engage with literature of any kind. On the other, he kept saying it after being informed that the phrase came from Hitler.

Yeah, it is astounding.

When any reasonable person says something that might seem close to something Hitler says and is told about it, their reaction is to figure out how to re-express what they said more clearly so that it cannot be mistaken for agreeing with Hitler.

Trump's reaction apparently is to want to make sure you know he didn't steal the idea from Hitler.

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