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But making this distinction doesn’t guarantee clicks, so let’s keep the headline from being too clear about it.
It's a distinction without a difference. "Trump wasn't injured by a bullet, he was injured by shrapnel from the bullet" doesn't let the FBI or the SS off the hook for missing this kid before he started shooting.
Nah, implying the US is a nazi regime is good.
They killed Clippy on the operating table.
Goddamit. Always this same shit
Thats really white washing the Nazis. I get you hate America, but the Nazis were an evil in their own league
Didn’t Hitler idolize the American genocide of native Americans? I don’t think the Nazis ever got to dropping a nuclear bomb on civilians either. I mean 2 nuclear bombs. Sorry, all the cruelty and murder gets you confused sometimes.
Nazis: 17,000,000
European Colonists in America: 55,000,000
Americans eradicated Buffalo because of the cultural and spiritual significance to the natives.
American slavery.
The 14th amendment allowing for slavery as a punishment while we have the most prisoners per capita in the world.
We were the framework.
Criticising something doesn't mean you hate it.
The Nazis copied a lot shit directly from America. Hitler admired the US and their racial segregation policies.
Don't you think it kinda ironic the US was fighting against Nazis with segregated troops?
The amount of illegal searches, cops planting evidence, killing black people with the flimsiest of excuses?
Not to mention actual literal nazis marching in the street because "It'd be against the freedom of expression to prohibit nazis"
You're whitewashing 'Murica.
The Nazis committed the Holocaust. They killed 11 million people. Did you forget that part, or do you honestly think illegal searches are on the same level?
Compared to Americas victim count?
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
Germany actually took responsibility for what they did. The US is still pretending it does nothing but good. Several decades after WWII, the US still had official segregation.
But you just won't be able to admit a single flaw in the US or that it's in an way comparable and/or worse than Nazi Germany was.
Thats called a war. War is ugly, but its not comparable to the Holocaust
You know, when I was a kid, I used to wonder how Nazi Germany ever became a thing. How could it be that such unjust, illogical violence and hatred could ever manage to become the political norm.
After a few decades of talking to Americans like you, I now found it very obvious.
Do you think the Germans said "let's commit atrocities" or do you think they also had excuses for theirs?
"The war on terror" isn't a traditional or indeed even an actual war.
In 1924, Adolf Hitler wrote that propaganda’s
“task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda
Remind you of anything? Like screams of "America first! AMERICA FIRST"
If you genuinely don't see the similarities in 2020 America and 1920 Germany, you're either ignorant or willfully ignorant.
You know what? Im just going to start blocking nazis, starting with you.
Even better than I thought.
Just like I said, you're literally unable to recognise reality for what it is.
Yeah it's a stupidly thin hair to split, to the point where it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter if the bullet hit him or the shrapnel caused by the bullet hit him. The fact is there was a guy with a rifle within pissing distance. The government really fucked up.
Not that I'm either surprised nor disappointed by that fact. I personally suspect that the secret service treats the Trump detail as the dump assignment for all of the shittiest, bottom 1% of their security personnel.
Idk a lot of law enforcement is pro trump, they might have wanted the detail.
Yeah, and the ones that did are probably the bottom of the barrel.
I think the FBI is saying they know where each round ends up and it's not in a trajectory that could have injured Trump. But they can't just say that to the Republican Congressman asking the question.