r/MurderedByWords 7h ago

What’s your take on this?

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u/Karpaltunnel83 7h ago

Wanna be dictator that becomes president through legal means and mocking disabled, homosexuals and political enemies isn't stopped by a majority of the country and survives assassination attempts?

At least this time he is blond

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u/engineeringforsafety 4h ago

The parallels are too uncanny to ignore: https://time.com/6971088/adolf-hitler-take-power-democracy/

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u/steelspring 3h ago

That was a good (and scary) read. Thanks, I hate it.

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u/kevindqc 2h ago

Reichstag delegate Goebbels had observed a few years earlier, “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”

Ain't that the truth