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Unfortunately, people outside of the USA think that the people there are very much like Germans in the 1930s/40s. Some of them might be okay, but the rest are s
by ndsipa_pomu 9mo ago
Unfortunately, people outside of the USA think that the people there are very much like Germans in the 1930s/40s. Some of them might be okay, but the rest are swept along with cheering on evil leaders and hate of their own countrymen.
As I see it, the USA is a country of racists.
- IAmBroom 9mo agoTrump can only dream of the support Hitler had. Thousands turned out to salute Hitler. Trump can't fill a small stadium anymore, and he knows it. AT MOST, he might have had 50% support; AFAICT Hitler was adored by a vast majority of Germans (at one point). Hell, Austria VOLUNTEERED to be absorbed by Germany. Trump absolutely would set up ovens for his public targets today if he thought he could. He doesn't have a shred of moral fiber. His followers are openly supporting evil. But his demagogue skills are third-rate; he didn't even win a majority of the popular vote (49.8%) amongst the minority that bothered to vote. And his followers? They don't even have the courage to pull off a successful peaceful public protest. They aren't going to enlist and invade anything further than their local snack-mart. -- > the USA is a country of racists. Everyone is racist to some degree; good people try to rise above it. I guarantee your country is full of them, too. Racism is most definitely not the black-and-white distinction people pretend it is (no pun intended). It's a biological Original Sin.
- ndsipa_pomu 9mo ago> Everyone is racist to some degree Possibly, but it's not socially acceptable in most places. Meanwhile the USA has ICE agents acting as an armed, unaccountable, private army that are specifically rounding up people who aren't white or have different accents etc. And you have people cheering that. It's clearly different to a huge degree.
- SanjayMehta 9mo agoICE are Trump's brown shirts. At least one Minnesota sheriff has called them out for targeting his off duty officers, specifically the non-white staff.
- SanjayMehta 9mo agoYou sound like a Hitler fanboi.
- defrost 9mo agoSounds like, yes. Actually is, unlikely - a very shallow comment history dive suggests not ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684376 ). It's a common way in native English speaking countries to disparage someone, to compare them as a small failed version of something worse. It's also confusing to non native english speakers, and even to people from "mismatched" english speaking cultures (an Englishman, a Scotsman, an Australian, and a central North American enter a bar; Oscar Wilde tells them they're separated by a common language). The HN guidelines suggest people refrain from hyperbole, sarcasm, idiomatic metaphors, and generally having fun with language :( <- sad face They have a point.
- SanjayMehta 9mo agoHe's just another hypocrite, called me a Putin bot just a couple of days ago. Beneath contemptible. As for the HN guidelines, they're a form of the infamous "rules based order," different strokes for different folks.
- defrost 9mo ago> Beneath contemptible. Which? Implying they are a Hitler fanboi, or them implying you're a Putin bot? > different strokes for different folks. Each with one leg both the same - I find it hard to slide a feeler guage twixt either of the two behaviours. As for the HN guidelines, they're hardly international, just this forum specific. I've no doubt you can play nice should you choose.
- SanjayMehta 9mo agoPlaying nice is for hypocrites.