• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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      Exactly, sure ones that just don’t let him do dumb shit would be nicer but its nice to know that if he does somehow succeed in becoming a dictator he’s going to speedrun his way to the coked up hitler making terrible micromanaging decisions stage. Should be enough to balance out the brute force of the US armed forces when the rest of the world is trying to defend itself.

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    As long as they are like von Stauffenberg I would be okay with it.

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    Isn’t he up to destroy the USA? And rebuild it brand new like he wants it to be? ‘All hail the emperor King Donald, 1st’?

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      Pretty sure he would consider murdering millions of Mexicans as a win, even if it ends with a bullet to his temple.

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        Ya know I realise this is complete conspiracy theory.

        However, I’m still willing to give a 2-5% chance that if Trump gets back into power, within the last 12-18 months of his presidency he’ll declare a special operation into North Mexico to ‘secure the border’, ‘stop the illegal immigrants’ and ‘remove the drug cartels’.

        Then he’ll claim it’s too dangerous to hold the election, or not appropriate, or whatever excuse because of the special operation. And then he’ll postpone the election with the approval of the SC as a presidential duty and therefore not illegal.

        And I know this is insane but every time I ask myself “would trump attempt something like this?” The answer is always “yes”

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      I expect he is a slow reader. He may not have gotten to that part of the book yet.

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          Maybe he has good associations with that word because when he said lo mein at a Chinese restaurant a plate of greasy noodles arrived

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            Reminds me of the theory explaining why he say other countries are emptying their “insane asylums”.

            He was told immigrants are seeking asylum, has zero clue what that means, and determined that it meant countries are emptying mental hospitals and sending their patients to the US.

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      Germany mainly lost by losing the economics and resources games. A secondary factor was when Hitler started taking over strategic and tactical planning from the generals.

      My take on the generals themselves is that they were at least not terrible.

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        Dont understand why you get downvoted, as I assume you mean that the generals wrwe not strategical and tactical terrible. Think most historians will agree that Hitlers direct involvement in the war was a growing issue in conducting the war. Also Hitler stayed in power by making sure that the levels below him were at each others throats and not able to challenge him directly. Nazi Germany was not technically on a war economy until Speer took over, and the amount of corruption was immens.

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          Think most historians will agree that Hitlers direct involvement in the war was a growing issue in conducting the war.

          This part has been revisited in the decades since the end of the Cold War. The problem was that most western sources were either written by the Allies or were from German generals who survived. In a repudiation of “history is written by the victors” (a phrase that should be expunged in general), almost everything known about the eastern front came from the German side of the story.

          Those generals tended to point fingers at Hitler. Everything would have been dandy if they were the ones in charge.

          Then the Cold War ends, and there’s a flood of new information from the Russian side of things. Western historians start going over the new information, and some new conclusions start to come out. Hitler did fuck a lot of things up personally, but those German generals were full of shit in other ways.

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        Economic and resources problems are part in parcel with a despot with a desire for absolute loyalty.

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        Well they were probably too loyal to their idiot Fuhrer. Methinks it’s the loyalty part that Trump wants.

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          The generals tried to overthrow or assassinate him on multiple occasions. The most famous one is the plot for the movie “Valkyrie”.

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            Some generals tried this. Other generals just kind of tried to survive and fight for their country. Still other generals were ideologically Nazis and they fought for the cause.

            Like anything in the real world, it’s a mixed bag.

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          Blitzkrieg was like the American football play of the same name. If you don’t win real fast, you tend to find out that your motorized units are beyond reach of your supply lines. Then they get cut off, and the whole thing can collapse rapidly.

          The Ardennes offensive was pulled off in 72 hours by using the powers of methamphetamine. Seriously, the German army issued a lot of meth to the troops. Imagine what would happen to the combat effectiveness if they had to keep fighting at that pace for a while.

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          By then, the Battle of Moscow already had winter blizzards setting in, and Germany would be pushed back within a month and start losing from then on. The British had already tossed the Luftwaffe into a wood chipper through the Battle of Britain. The Bismark had been sunk, and that signaled that Plan Z, a plan for building a German surface fleet that could challenge the Royal Navy, was crumpled up and thrown in the toilet.

          It may not have been obvious at the time, but in hindsight, Germany was already set to lose. The only question was how and when. Maybe Russia overruns all of Germany and then effectively controls France. Maybe there’s a negotiated peace before that happens. In any case, Germany was going to come out worse than it went in.

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          This was a serious mistake, yes. And Barbarossa was another serious mistake.

          But I think that Germany was still destined to lose the war anyway, because they were running out of oil and getting out manufactured. And the United States was going to find a way to enter the European theater one way or another.

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    His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

    https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm

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      It’s Cluster B. Alternative reality. Never to blame. They almost need enemies to work on to be themselves. Gaslight or verbally abuse those in disagreement lest your private reality break. No empathy. Chases power over scenarios.

      We’re living inside the reality of a mental illness. And because it goes to the highest office, the fuckery is exponentially more.

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      This literally the “israeli” government. Yet we see the Democrats administration, willing to defend that. If the US government in principle is happy supporting a Nazi government; i feel that it reflects well having 2/3 of the population being happy with a Nazi government themselves.

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        The Israeli government is being fascist, and has been for a long time. Thank you for calling it out. Sad to see the down votes because Palestinians have been locked in Israel’s cage with no freedom for decades, and Lebanon is next. Hopefully society starts to shift in its outlook and complicity.

        You hit the nail on the head too. So many people cannot support Democrats during this election because although they call for freedom and justice, they also call for arms transfers and no repurcussions for Netanyahu countlessly dissolving freedom and justice for Palestinians.

        Voting for Democrats, unfortunately, boils down to “rights for me, not for thee”, and the only difference between that sentiment and what you might find in Conservatives is that Democrats hold that distinction between all Americans and those from other countries. Conservatives hold that between different groups of Americans.

        Really sours any hope I had for Kamala overtaking Biden

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          Israel gov is apartheid and fascist. Still, we exist in the world, and someone will be elected president of the United States. A person here can either vote strategically, or they can abstain and potentially help the worst option win.

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        Wow so edgy and original!

        Never heard a Hamas propagandist say “actually Israel is nazi” before!

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    Read the whole and thing and, wow. It’s just unbelievable to me that people can support this man so fervently.

    I guess it’s what happens when you give people permission to be completely selfish and devoid of empathy. He’s a fucking psychopath.

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      It’s what happens when you get your news in parts of the country where Fox and Sinclair own the airwaves. They make immigrants and democrats seem terrifying.

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      Not psychopathy. But narcissistic personality disorder. If you know anyone who has lived with one, they can tell you it’s on the verge of psychopathy.

      It’s crazy behavior and crazy talk because it’s mental illness, probably somewhere around 60 years untreated mental illness. And hallmarks of NPD are maintaining a personal alternative reality, mentally tearing apart anyone disagreeing with that alternative reality, and no empathy.

      I’m sick to death of no one talking about it and calling it what it is. We can talk about Biden’s dementia but not this?

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      Its just standard brainwashing. It’s not even complicated. It’s all right out in the open.

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    Goddamn. And he’s potentially president a second time.

    Trump has already caused significant damage. If he wins, we can expect things to get really bad.

    But even if he loses, look at what he’s done. He truly believes personal gain is the only thing someone should ever value. There is no justice for someone like that, other than taking it all away. Forcing him to realize that humanity has only survived because we can work together for collective gain.

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    I read this entire article, and it made me sad. Because the guy’s probably going to win. The people who need to read this article simply won’t, and they will continue to believe what he tells them.

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      I maybe be crazy and just have a little to much 'MERICA running through my veins, but I honestly think of the US was to go all out against absolute everybody right now it wouldn’t be one sided either way