• glorkon@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    That slogan “Make America great again” made us Germans very uneasy from the start, cause we remember the last guy who promised us (very literally) to make Germany great again.

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        Of course he got it from Hitler, who got the idea from America’s “Manifest Destiny” philosophy. It’s fascist turtles all the way down …

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        I know that Trump secretly admires moustache guy. But I honestly don’t think he is well-read or intelligent enough to realize it’s exactly the same slogan moustache guy used. With Trump, willful ignorance is always the most likely option because malicious intent requires a degree of intellect he does not possess.

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        I’d assume it was Ronald Reagan since it was also his slogan in the 1980’s.

        It’s pretty clear that Trump is a fascist piece of shit but this game he is playing has been going on a lot longer than people think.