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user-inactivated  ·  3730 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Do the Super-Rich Keep Comparing Obama to Hitler? - Matthew O'Brien - The Atlantic

Why aren't the 99% comparing him to Hitler?

Public payment of private finance industry loss.

Use of public act of terror as constant motivation.

Constant use of military with "moral righteousness"

The security detail is that of a sovereign. Accordingly, ludicrous amounts of national pageantry for any event related to the executive.

Gun running to cartels.

Constant government spying of the citizens.

Cabal killings.

Hidden prison camps.

He blames Bush like Bush was the physical manifestation of Treaty of Versailles.

Are we waiting for him to invade Poland?





Meriadoc  ·  3730 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know what you're going for here, but comparing the (absolutely abominable) things that Obama has done to mass genocide and destruction of entire countries and cultures is insensitive or at least ignorant at best and part of a large, systematic problem of over-vilification of politicians and creating a deepening divide in our country at worst.

cgod  ·  3730 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, he has killed many many brown people and helped sow the seeds of radical Islam which is a culture killer (especially if you are a female or like music or question anything you are told). He has had a chilling effect on journalism and on the transparent conduct of his own allegedly democratic nation.

He has, upon his request, had a law passed that allows him to imprison any American without due process indefinitely. Viper task forces manned by federal officers check Americans papers for no cause on federal highways. Immigration officers check Americans papers miles and miles away from any boarder with no cause. The government has the right to seize any electronic device within 100 miles of any boarder with no warrant or cause. Just a small sample of the ways he has degraded our nations constitution.

I'll agree that he doesn't rank with Hitler in body count or Stalin in destruction of religious institutions or Mao in destruction of cultural institutions but he is no saint.

I'm no rabid partisan. I voted for the guy the first time he ran. He is at least the worst American president in modern history.

JakobVirgil  ·  3730 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hey Hitler only did like half of those things. and Hitler was popular.