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Nor was Hitler doing any of that during the time he was ascending to the leadership of the Third Reich. Agreed. And he is using many of the strategies to gain power that Hitler did. We can learn from that. As always, the problem is not Trump (or Hitler.) The problem are the people who support authoritarian leaders who promise to take away freedoms from those they dislike, in return for retribution and a promise of priviledge. So what is common between the German people of the 1930's and the Trump supporters today? What drives them to do that? How are such people exploited by strongmen? How do captive media organizations play into this? How is misinformation propagated to benefit those anti-freedom despots? Those are questions worth answering IMO. Exactly. The outcome will not be the same. There won't be concentration camps where people are killed and Trump's regime will not be called a Nazi regime. But from all indications it will be similar, and that's a problem. So am I. But it's coming from him, not me. Over and over and over again.

Seriously? Hitler didn't start off exterminating people. Or even putting them in camps. He started with the 'blaming' rhetoric. Calling certain groups 'vermin' and saying they should be controlled. He rallied people to his hateful verbiage and called for them to follow him. He got himself elected, and then had his minions keep him in power. Any of this sound at all familiar? Last but not least was 'Kristallnacht'. When the SA, SS, Hitler Youth and 'interested onlookers' trashed Jewish property. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht I had a really bad feeling that the 'Unite the Right' crap in Charlottesville was supposed to be something very similar. All the Nazi & KKK thugs rampaging around the town, destroying black or Jewish (or Muslim or Latino) owned property. Fortunately, the Governor of Virginia saw the potential for trouble and shut it down the second day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally You say you are 'exhausted with the Nazi bullshit'. I agree, but from a slightly different perspective. You seem to be tired of the comparisons between Trumpty Dumpty and Hitler. I'm scared to death of the similarities. The MAGA morons are following Hitler's playbook page by page. There seems to be a real chance they're going to pull it off. The 2025 project and some of the statements from CPAC are deeply disturbing and very frightening. The apparent fact that 2 of the 9 Supreme Court justices are bought and paid for MAGA stooges is worse. As long as Trump, the MAGA morons and the Alt Right people continue to act like Hitler, I'm going to keep calling them Nazis.

Of course. This is all just interesting conversation. Disagreement just adds more pieces to the thought puzzle. If there is anything personal in it, for me it is the camaraderie of the shared interest. --- Apparently I read it wrong, but... ...sounded like 'I am choosing to accept this as fact'. --- Personally, I would put 'proving' before 'knowing'. --- I would think that those insights would differ depending on whether or not it was real. --- It's just part of the curiosity, but... ...as something cool to say, I like the 'dirty thief' line better!

congrats, you managed to ignore the entirety of the post except six words.

Personally, I would put 'proving' before 'knowing'. Thinking, Believing, Knowing, Proving - Acceptance - Denial This is a handy tool for an across the board categorizing of what someone is presenting to you. Is this someone giving me a thought, belief, known or proof and do I accept or deny these. Within a thought hierarchy Knowing proceeds Proof. Knowing is personal, its the I know. The engineers at NASA, they knew, they could place a man on the moon long before we saw the proof. You know what you had for breakfast and only you know this, here this is your Known. You can tell us what you ate, but can you prove it? Such a trivial thing but only 10 hours later do you actually have any proof to offer beyond your own testimonial? Probably not. This is where acceptance and denial comes in. If I trust you, I'll cross the perception bridge you are presenting and agree with the testimonial of your Known. But if I accept your testimonial as truth I can only myself ever hold a Belief in the testimonial of your Known. I can not posses a Knowing myself - of - your - Known. Neither can I prove what you ate. If we ate breakfast together this experience would be our shared known. But 10 hour later could either of us offer proof of what we ate to someone else other than our testimonial.

Never mind, the password doesnt work for me. Im so happy. Y`all better be nice tonight Wendy P.

It's not a Nazi campaign..... no one is being exterminated. we are not building concentration camps nor are we invading other countries. Trump wants to be authoritarian - that should be all we need to not elect him.... it's unamerican and unconstitutional. Yes authoritarian could lead to 'nazi' but not likely. Hence the title of the thread. I cannot stand trump and will be celebrating when that fat cunt dies, but I am exhausted with the nazi bullshit.

Sexual immorality is just a construct. The only immorality would be if someone is taking advantage of a child or a person otherwise not able to give informed consent. Homosexual sex is not immoral. Men entering the priesthood then using the posistion of trust to take advantage of children is immoral. Likewise it is not immoral for a boy or a girl to feel they don't fit your expectations of their sexuality. It is a struggle, and it may be very difficult for them, but it is not immoral.