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snoodog  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Basket of Deplorables: 5. Steve Bannon, Financial Crusader

Probably not Hitler although I'm sure lots of Germans though Hitler was doing good things for them until he wasn't. I seem to remember that at some point in American history there was even a movement in the US to emulate what Hitler was doing.





b_b  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you talking about the Nazi rallies that they held at MSG a few times and those such things?

snoodog  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes but also sympathy and support from the so called captains of industry

b_b  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah. I work at a joint called Henry Ford Hospital. Am familiar...

kleinbl00  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What you "seem to remember" and what can be easily verified via Google are not the same thing.

snoodog  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·  
kleinbl00  ·  3036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you seriously going to do this? Or are you going to be a civil, thinking human being? Because here's what you said:

    I seem to remember that at some point in American history there was even a movement in the US to emulate what Hitler was doing.

So for starters, what does "emulate what Hitler was doing" mean to you? Because primarily what Hitler did was nationalize all industries, force ethnic minorities into ghettos and require them to wear identification and violate the Treaty of Versailles. That was before the invasion of Poland, of course. After that all sorts of fun started.

Were there Nazi sympathizers in the US? Yeah. Did they offer full-throated support for all aspects of the Third Reich?

See, this is the part where you could google some shit. You could even find out that the captains of industry who tried to overthrow the government had no real designs on aligning with Germany and that our most outspoken anti-semites were plenty troubling enough without you having to resort to "emulate what Hitler was doing."

Because we didn't.

At all.

And if you thought about it, instead of slinging bullshit LMGTFY links at me to prove your ignorance, you might have learned something.

I'll block you again.

Happily.

All you have to do is continue acting flippantly and insultingly in discussions in which we all deserve better.