• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Them in 2016: “He’s not LITERALLY a fascist”

    Them in 2024: “Okay he’s openly announcing his intent to be a dictator and get rid of the ‘others’ who are ‘poisoning our blood’, but unless it’s from the Bavarian area of Germany, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism. Besides, Biden is just as bad!”

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      4 months ago

      The Bavarian area of Germany?

      Hitler was Austrian and at least in Germany people use this saying with Italian Mussolini style fascism or even just German

      I know it started in Munich but calling it Bavarian in origin is a bit unusual

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    I remember once of my coworkers saying, “I hear what you’re saying about Trump having issues, but I feel like we need to try something different, and the president doesn’t really have that much power anyway, so there’s not much he can do.”

    Now he passionately hates Trump and tries to avoid any conversation about Trump voters because he was one.

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      Eight years of Obama telling everyone his hands were tied because of Congress and the Courts and the states and public opinion and the need to win the next election cycle.

      Trump comes in like a wrecking ball, giving his goon squad cover to do anything they pleased. And after four years of that, we were convinced Presidents are powerful after all.

      Then Biden steps into office and the President can’t do anything again.