Compared to paying for bread with wheelbarrows full of reichsmarks? Yes. The two scenarios are fundamentally different. The 80s didn’t take place against the backdrop of Versailles, coupled later with the Stock Market Crash.
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The hyperinflation happened 10 years before Hitler rose to power though. His popularity only grew as the economy recovered in the 30s and solidified through propaganda about it. Still seems meaningfully similar to what we've seen over the past 20-40 years, especially if we're talking about trauma.
aug 28, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The same amount of domestic support
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His rise was not instantaneous and took place throughout the 20s, where most of his support came from young men and army veterans fresh off of a catastrophic conflict on their home front. Again, I think you’re working too hard to conflate these as identical situations. Trump doesn’t have nearly
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And Trump wasn't elected for the first time last year... Trump's rise started during the global financial crisis with the Birther movement; when we really were in the throes of true economic pain never said it was identical but that it sounds the same. I think you're working too hard to not see it
aug 28, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think you have any conception of how much worse and desperate conditions in Germany were during the 20s than in contemporary American history.
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Ok, feel free to believe it won't happen here because it's not exactly like the Wiemar republic.
aug 28, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah that’s not what I’m saying, but feel free to keep jerking yourself off about your ingenious conclusion that the dang Cheeto is just Orange Hitler
aug 28, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not the first or only one to point out the parallels between the rise of MAGA and the rise of Nazism. It's been pretty widely discussed, tbh, especially before his first election in 2016 And everyone keeps saying "shh, it's not the same" and it just keeps getting worse and growing more similar.
aug 28, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah that’s why your argument comes off as so painfully condescending
aug 28, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
What's condescending? Did I make fun of your reading comprehension? Did I refer to you masturbating? I'm just speaking my opinion that happens to agree with others who have done analysis of this history.
aug 28, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s not me condescending to you, that’s just me mocking you for being so indignant and insistent on your brilliant, novel comparison of Hitler and Trump (Now I’m condescending to you, by the way)
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