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Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
8. Yeah, actually Hitler was kind of a fucking dumbass
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 05:55 PM
Mar 2015

Ignoring your (relatively bright) advisers in order to start a second front in a stalemated war by invading an ally who happens to be Russia is not the mark of a brainy man.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
13. Also, deporting and imprisoning your best and brightest Jewish scientists,
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 06:45 PM
Mar 2015

who might actually have helped turn the war in your favor, because you are so blinded by bigotry and hatred of them.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
14. Well, there's a silver lining...
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 06:47 PM
Mar 2015

His antipathy of "Jewish science" guaranteed that he not only exiled the brains, but also discarded the research that could have led to a nuclear weapon in German hands.

So. There's that.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
3. No not too soon
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 05:45 PM
Mar 2015

I don't like Hitler analogies though, even if they are true. Some people think the game is lost when you bring up dictators and mass murderers. I don't sometimes you just call em as you see em. However, most people think that extremists are as rare as unicorns thus the comparison is ridiculous. I hope we never see a President Cruz to be able to say I told you so.

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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
5. I don't like Cruz, but drawing a parallel between Nazi persecution of the Jews
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 05:46 PM
Mar 2015

and Cruz's opposition to Obamacare is stupid and offensive. Cruz is an example of the worst kind of obnoxious, wrongheaded Republican, but we don't have to try to turn everyone we dislike into Adolf Hitler.

awake

(3,226 posts)
6. Not only too soon not approbate for this site
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 05:47 PM
Mar 2015

we do not need to go as low as right wingers here. Cruz may be a clown but Hitler was a mass murderer.

Ms. Toad

(34,123 posts)
16. Too offensive.
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 08:54 AM
Mar 2015

As it trivializes Hitler and the Holocaust. Cruz is bad, but he has not tortured and sent millions to the gas chambers.

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