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“Then makes weird noises, nothing bad happens, and continues eating faces”.

If there are no consequences, it just reinforces their power.



I'd argue this government has not just experienced no consequences, they've experienced the opposite of no consequences. Somehow the American people saw everything they'd done and were saying they'd do and then the people emphatically voted for it. I'm still gobsmacked.


Just wait. Hitler was very popular too. Until he unequivocally lost, at least.

By then, the country was destroyed along with most of it’s citizens, but boy howdy was it a ride eh?


Hitler apparently had solid 15-20% support even up to a decade after defeat and Nazism generally had 50% support (before and after, as a good idea executed badly) so both your high and low are off.


I was going to write something pithy about "Sure, we screwed up, but we'll get right the next time!", but that really doesn't feel funny right now.


I’m not sure you’re saying what you think you’re saying.


hE's HiTlEr!!

Every time. I lived in Austin in the early 2000s and have no idea how many "BUSH=HITLER" bumper stickers I saw. It was stupid then, it's stupid now.


This has been a definite problem with the rhetoric starting at an intensity of 10/10 and having nowhere to go. The other problem is that everything that's happened has had people actively diminishing it, to make the reaction seem more outrageous, so we're all numb to so much of it. I've thought of it as The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but that's incorrect, because there's always been a wolf.


The problem has been - what happens when the truth is so obvious, bad, and direct that many are unable to see it?


Yeah. How do you point out the truth when people will believe obvious and blatant lies?


Eh, it’s even worse frankly.

Have you heard stories about women (and men) who believe ‘they love me, they’d never cheat on me’ while their spouse is not only clearly cheating on them, but bragging to friends that they are cheating on them?

That’s what is happening. And the more in-your-face it is, the more they’ll double down or even attack the people trying to tell them.


Uh huh. How about we check in in about 5 years eh?

And don’t worry, I don’t think he’s literally Hitler. Hitler actually went to jail when he got convicted, after all.




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