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Do you think the world will see another Hitler? With the rise in nationalism I think it's very possible.

Kojaksmom 8 July 19
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I'm surprised that we have not seen Drumpf in full military uniform already. This idea surely must tempt him very much. Agolf Twitler in the flesh.

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I don’t think it’s likely that we will see a maniacal anti Semite again

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We are past the point of no return.

JacarC Level 8 July 21, 2018
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I doubt it will be in Germany. But Russia has a penchant for strong leaders, who knows what will happen there. And you could argue that Trump already is an American equivalent, a strongly nationalistic leader who is going to “make America great again”.

Denker Level 7 July 20, 2018

And there it is! I'm sure he'd LOVE to be another dictator.

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IMHO humans are, when things are too stressful, self destructive in that we're cyclical and yes there are many variations of Hitler, always have been, always will be.
People are inherently sick with herdthink, hivemind. All it takes to get one of these to fruition is the cocktail of stretched resources and too many people with the din of a repetitive msg.

Qualia Level 8 July 20, 2018
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If you look at history properly Hitler was just a beginner there's been rulers who have slaughtered far more than he . But even in the last 100 years we have had rulers who have slughtered indescriminatly . History is just doomed to repeat itself

Simon1 Level 7 July 20, 2018
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I am more concerned about the state of our divided country.
I enjoy target shooting with a light caliber rifle and am quite good at it, I wonder if I might want to step up in caliber. I don't want to sound paranoid, I experienced that my entire life from my Dad, in fact I fear sounding paranoid. With so many conservative ex-soldiers and the Oath Keepers and such, anyone care to guess how many ex-soldiers side with the more liberal interpretation of the constitution? How many would fight to keep it from being subjugated to a more conservative document (more than it is now)?
Don't get me wrong, I do not want a physical fight and I do want the politicians to work together by comprimise to find a balance. But, at times I am afraid. Please tell me I'm being foolish.
Would I fight against another Hitler? Short answer: yes.

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Of course , just look at Israel for instance. Netanyahu and his ilk has said that Palestinians are animals and should be treated as such

@PalacinkyPDX I actually do not have anything against jewish people, but I certainly do hate to see what is happening to the Palestinian people by in Israel perpetrated by jews, and that is happening on a huge scale. Not some little incidences here and there.

@PalacinkyPDX, @Matias Hitler probably had some good points too. I seen pictures of him being kind to German children and dogs. Perhaps you have not see or heard that now there are laws that Israel is only for jews and everybody else should either leave or die.

@PalacinkyPDX, @Matias So what is this then. "The Israeli Knesset has approved the 'nation-state bill' that promotes Jewish-only settlements, downgrades Arab language status and limits the right to self-determination to Jews. Arab MPs chided the law as racist.

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Of course , just look at Israel for instance. Netanyahu and his ilk has said that Palestinians are animals and should be treated as such

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Quite possibly. We do not learn from history, and so are doomed to repeat it.

With Trump spouting that the press is the "enemy of the people", he's not even got the originality to come up with new slogans. He's just recycling old Soviet phraseology.

Trump probably isn't Hitler material because while he's nationalistic and xenophobic he's also dysfunctionally narcissistic, incompetent and so furiously decompensating these days that I don't think he's functioning in the same reality as us. Someone more disciplined, intelligent and charming would be required.

At the same time ... he would qualify as a typical banana republic dictator, so there's plenty of human suffering that can come of that. And, in fact, already is.

@Matias but he is Putin's puppet, so that could be very dangerous

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Look at the pattern of economics , social crisis and major war every 80 years. We are in one now with Trump ready to break out.

About 80 years before that World war 2,
Before that the civil war
Before that the American Revolution
and etc....

@Matias
President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. Depression and world 2 are related.

Every Presidents has gotten worst since Kennedy GDP growth of 5.5 to Obama's 1.8 GDP. In order for US to pay back the continuous national debt of 21trillion dollars. US GDP must be at least at 4.00 . America is screwed because the BRICS will get rid US toliet paper dollar. They have already triple their GDP growth and bypass US sanction and going in the right direction trading oil and goal rather than the US petro dollar. China will surpass US in a few years will be the superpower of the 21 century.

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History re-cycles. With this movement towards nativist and uber nstionalism, it's quite possible. The scarry part is that I never thought it could hapoen in the US. I'm not so sure now.

t1nick Level 8 July 19, 2018
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What is this fascination with Hitler, etc etc????

Nazism is popularized by the media while beasts like Stalin (who was just as bad if not worse than Hitler) is rarely mentioned.

@MacTavish either one is just a bad choice to compare with our present. Those were different times, different conditions.

@IamNobody Just want to give Stalin his due since he ranks up there with Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao and others...

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I wouldn’t have ..until late November of 2016 … and the deeper I get into ‘the rise and fall of the third reich,’ the more concerned I am..

Varn Level 8 July 19, 2018
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You're seeing him already. His name is Trump. He's taken so many plays out of Hitler's playbook already its like he's following a script. Calling immigrants an "infestation" is just one of many copycat moves.

Trump’s no hitler … though he’d like to be..

@archer5691 We already have interment camps, the polite term for concentration camps. Look up the definition. You don't have to be gassing people for the terms to apply. That comes later.

@archer5691 Yep. I said it with all seriousness. We're frogs in a pot of warmer and warmer water. Eventually it boils, and it's too late. That's how these things work. Will there be gas chambers? Not necessarily precisely that. But as more and more moral outrages are normalized, as we become inured to small evils, bigger ones follow, just as night follows day. Like I said above -- we are condemned to repeat history because we don't learn from it.

People object that this isn't America, that we're better than this. Well no actually. This IS America; it's what we've become and what we're becoming.

So today it's children separated from their parents; tomorrow, if what Trump is asking the military for plays out, it will be larger interment camps full of parents AND children; then we'll get used to indefinite imprisonment, get used to secrecy, get used to looking the other way, and then when these people are fully dehumanized and people are tired of standing up to it, other shoes drop. And one day we're like ordinary Germans after WW2, shocked at what we didn't know was going on under our noses.

@archer5691 I understand that you don't have a counterargument and that there are things you don't want to think about. It's okay. Shh. Back to sleep now.

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