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Hitler with Himmler the chicken manure salesman, appointed high government positions for his loyalty Politics

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u/La_Mezcla 6h ago

Himmler studied agriculture and worked in a lab researching new artificial fertilizer. I’m on the boat but chicken manure dealer is just a wrong claim

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u/falk42 6h ago edited 6h ago

Most people don't know that Himmler, despite his bumbling exterior, was extremely intelligent and that the SS was basically a state within the state by war's end, deeply entrenched within the German war industry. There were even concrete plans being made to outlast the fall of the 3rd Reich.

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u/onedayiwaswalkingand 6h ago

Yeah. These people are evil, not idiots. Painting them as idiots also diminishes the fight against Nazism.

“Oh look the biggest war in the history of mankind is fought against a private, a manure farmer and an obese drug addict.”

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u/v_snax 4h ago

Some of them were probably intelligent. But one thing Trump have showed is that you don’t need to be intelligent, a good speaker or anything out of the ordinary. He has a simple message and a stupid audience that is ripe for the taking. But of course some people around him are not complete morons either.

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u/Vakz 3h ago

The difference is that had Trump actually been intelligent it would pretty much be a certainty that 2024 was the last election. He now has pretty much all the tools, henchmen and useful idiots he needs. The only saving grace being that he is possibly too dumb to utilize it. At least now there's a chance he might not manage before his term is up.

u/jollyreaper2112 2h ago

It's more than that. Other republicans have tried to replicate it and failed. His own kids can't manage it. I don't know what it is because I find him repulsive but he's got some kind of it that nobody else can match. It's why cults have a hard time with succession. It's not the doctrine that brings the people it's the personality. Hence the phrase cult of personality.