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Trump and Hilter similarities (Original Post) Kennah Sep 2015 OP
The article should be retweeted from original link which I have done underthematrix Sep 2015 #1
*Everybody* compares *everyone* to Hitler. . . Journeyman Sep 2015 #2

Journeyman

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2. *Everybody* compares *everyone* to Hitler. . .
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 11:50 PM
Sep 2015

Without Hitler, political hyperbole in America would be nigh impossible.

It seems, at times, as if Hitler were the only historical name some people know, the Holocaust the only crime with which they're familiar.

What this nation needs is fresh, original hyperbole, some more nuanced stupidity.

How about some outrageous comments comparing politicians we don't like to tyrants and despots of the distant past, so we can at least enlarge the public's ignorance to include false comparisons to lesser known and even more misconceived analogies.

How about Tigleth Pilesar III? Or perhaps Yang Guang? Two especially fertile tyrants from which we could all draw some wickedly stupid comparisons to all sorts of people.

I grow tired of Hitler. I'm bored with Stalin. Castro and Chavez and such were never more than a regional distraction. Let us seek out new fields of ignorance, and boldly go where our stupidity beckons.

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