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It's amusing that you've somehow attached Trump to a bunch of positions that range from things he's never said to things he's said the exact opposite of. Looks

It's amusing that you've somehow attached Trump to a bunch of positions that range from things he's never said to things he's said the exact opposite of. Looks like he's the boogeyman of the year.

tarikjn 10y ago
If you judge Trump by what he says, you're in for a big surprise. It is true he claim to be non-interventionist, but on the other hand he nurtures antagonization, so what good does it do if he ends up forcing interventions through provocations? He has also openly proposed creating systems/actions on trade that correspond to (2) (e.g. comments on Ford).
Turing_Machine 10y ago
It's pretty much a given that any Republican candidate is going to be HITLER!!! in the eyes of the opposition. Reagan was HITLER!!!, Bush I was HITLER!!!, Bush II was HITLER!!!, heck, even a mild-mannered nebbish like Mitt Romney got the HITLER!!! treatment. Given that, as far as I know, none of the above ever launched a global war of domination, nor murdered millions of people for belonging to a specific ethnicity, I'm pretty sure that none of those guys were Hitler. The problem is that the opposition has cried Hitler so many times that no one (other than their fellow rabid partisans) pays the slightest bit of attention any more. Certainly I don't. Nor does Donald Trump. A nice guy like Mitt Romney gets upset when people call him a Nazi and tries to prove that he isn't one. Trump doesn't give a shit. He's the honey badger of candidates. That's going to suck pretty bad if an actual Hitler ever comes along. I think there's some kind of old fable about that, isn't there? Note: I do not like Donald Trump and am not planning on voting for him. I expect him to win handily, though, so we'd better hope he's not, you know, actually Hitler.
- krapp 10y ago
  >A nice guy like Mitt Romney gets upset when people call him a Nazi and tries to prove that he isn't one. You took it a bridge too far - I don't recall many people actually calling Mitt Romney anything like a Nazi. He was accused of being a wealthy elitist and vicious corporate capitalist who openly despised the poor and was so out of touch with humanity that he had his emotions simulated by an algorithm. But not "Literally Hitler."
  - Turing_Machine 10y ago
    "I don't recall many people actually calling Mitt Romney anything like a Nazi. " Your memory is selective. Romney was called a Nazi (or compared to one) by actual Democrat Party officials. Ryan was compared to Goebbels. Nikki Haley was compared to Eva Braun. Romney wasted a bunch of time demanding apologies, etc. It doesn't matter -- as I said, no one pays attention to it anymore, really, and Trump, at least, understands that.
  - Crito 10y ago
    I remember calling Mitt Romney a Nazi. I've unjustly called many people Nazis, not because anything they said resembled National Socialism, but merely because it's an easy way to pull on peoples' emotional strings.
    - krapp 10y ago
      Fair enough I guess.
- fennecfoxen 10y ago
  > Note: I do not like Donald Trump and am not planning on voting for him. I expect him to win handily, though, so we'd better hope he's not, you know, actually Hitler. Trump is more of a William Jennings Bryan or (at worst) an Andrew Jackson. And likewise, it'd be best if Hillary proved not to be an Evita Peron.

It's amusing that you've somehow attached Trump to a bunch of positions that range from things he's never said to things he's said the exact opposite of. Looks like he's the boogeyman of the year.

tarikjn 10y ago

If you judge Trump by what he says, you're in for a big surprise. It is true he claim to be non-interventionist, but on the other hand he nurtures antagonization, so what good does it do if he ends up forcing interventions through provocations? He has also openly proposed creating systems/actions on trade that correspond to (2) (e.g. comments on Ford).

Turing_Machine 10y ago

It's pretty much a given that any Republican candidate is going to be HITLER!!! in the eyes of the opposition. Reagan was HITLER!!!, Bush I was HITLER!!!, Bush II was HITLER!!!, heck, even a mild-mannered nebbish like Mitt Romney got the HITLER!!! treatment. Given that, as far as I know, none of the above ever launched a global war of domination, nor murdered millions of people for belonging to a specific ethnicity, I'm pretty sure that none of those guys were Hitler. The problem is that the opposition has cried Hitler so many times that no one (other than their fellow rabid partisans) pays the slightest bit of attention any more. Certainly I don't. Nor does Donald Trump. A nice guy like Mitt Romney gets upset when people call him a Nazi and tries to prove that he isn't one. Trump doesn't give a shit. He's the honey badger of candidates. That's going to suck pretty bad if an actual Hitler ever comes along. I think there's some kind of old fable about that, isn't there? Note: I do not like Donald Trump and am not planning on voting for him. I expect him to win handily, though, so we'd better hope he's not, you know, actually Hitler.

krapp 10y ago
>A nice guy like Mitt Romney gets upset when people call him a Nazi and tries to prove that he isn't one. You took it a bridge too far - I don't recall many people actually calling Mitt Romney anything like a Nazi. He was accused of being a wealthy elitist and vicious corporate capitalist who openly despised the poor and was so out of touch with humanity that he had his emotions simulated by an algorithm. But not "Literally Hitler."
- Turing_Machine 10y ago
  "I don't recall many people actually calling Mitt Romney anything like a Nazi. " Your memory is selective. Romney was called a Nazi (or compared to one) by actual Democrat Party officials. Ryan was compared to Goebbels. Nikki Haley was compared to Eva Braun. Romney wasted a bunch of time demanding apologies, etc. It doesn't matter -- as I said, no one pays attention to it anymore, really, and Trump, at least, understands that.
- Crito 10y ago
  I remember calling Mitt Romney a Nazi. I've unjustly called many people Nazis, not because anything they said resembled National Socialism, but merely because it's an easy way to pull on peoples' emotional strings.
  - krapp 10y ago
    Fair enough I guess.
fennecfoxen 10y ago
> Note: I do not like Donald Trump and am not planning on voting for him. I expect him to win handily, though, so we'd better hope he's not, you know, actually Hitler. Trump is more of a William Jennings Bryan or (at worst) an Andrew Jackson. And likewise, it'd be best if Hillary proved not to be an Evita Peron.