While I agree with the sentiment of the post, I was surprised by some of the examples provided, because they are what the press said and not what Trump said. With that said, it's surprising what choices for President the most powerful country in the world has.
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#32I thought "pure politics" posts weren't allowed/were discouraged on HN? >dang 47 days ago >It isn't that it's pro-Trump, it's that it's pure politics. Such posts always get heavily flagged, and it's hard to disagree with that, since they're typically not posted to gratify intellectual curiosity. >Basic Income stories are political, but they aren't purely political. There's an intellectual interest in thinking about a…
Sam A. and Paul G. should be allowed to post whatever they like.
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#33> To anyone familiar with the history of Germany in the 1930s, it's chilling to watch Trump in action. [...]
Demagogic hate-mongers lead down terrible paths. It would be particularly embarrassing for us to fall for this—we are a nation of immigrants, and we know that immigrants built this country (and Trump, of course, is the grandson of immigrants and married to an immigrant).
As Hitler was Austrian, technically speaking, he was an immigrant too.
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#34I still wonder if any large tech companies (Google, Apple, etc) will endorse against Trump before November. They did on Prop 8, and Trump will similarly have an immediate negative impact on many of their employees.
Apple has already abandoned the RNC [1]. I'm disappointed that no other large companies have so far. [1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/18/trump-remark...
Several large companies have sharply withdrawn support from the RNC without abandoning it completely. Microsoft used to make monetary donations to them every election cycle, this year they are donating technical support to the convention but no money. YMMV on whether that's good/bad/enough.
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#35While I think Trump is a bad choice, I think comparing him to Hitler is overzealous and irresponsible. There are no doubt similarities between the two but Hitler wrote an entire book about the "Jewish Peril" and how it was destroying society and needed to be dealt with. It was clear that Hitler had an agenda that was anti-semetic, and the charisma/ability to execute on it. Trump is a racist and a bigot, but he is far…
> Trump is a racist and a bigot, but he is far from someone that would be able to implement a "Final Solution".
Why? Hitler didn't implement it himself either, he had staff for that. He just told them to get cracking.
(That doesn't mean Trump will, but dismissing the possibility for grounds of incompetency seems a too easy way out.)
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#36While I think Trump is a bad choice, I think comparing him to Hitler is overzealous and irresponsible. There are no doubt similarities between the two but Hitler wrote an entire book about the "Jewish Peril" and how it was destroying society and needed to be dealt with. It was clear that Hitler had an agenda that was anti-semetic, and the charisma/ability to execute on it. Trump is a racist and a bigot, but he is far…
You should take a look at how Hitler looked like in the early 30s as he was beginning his ascension toward Chancellorship.
There are a lot more resemblances with Trump than you think.
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#37What's the point of writing this article now, after all of the legitimate candidates have fallen? What do you want us to do?
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#38This certainly doesn't match what I've seen. All the people who think Trump is unfit seem perfectly willing to say so. All of the people who support him seem to be completely sincere in their belief that Trump would make a good president. I don't see anyone giving any indication that they think Trump shouldn't be president, but that they're afraid to say so. There is no "charade," as the author puts it.
It's possible that certain Republican leaders fit the description. But plenty of high-ranking Republicans have been willing to speak out against Trump, and those who endorse him mostly seem to be sincere about it. And of course everybody on the opposing side takes pretty much every opportunity to trash him (IMO rightfully so).
What's scary about Trump isn't that people are unwilling to speak out against him. What's scary is that so many people actually want him to win. Trump isn't the problem, Trump is the most visible and frightening symptom of a massive wave of ignorance and insecurity among the American electorate. He's the blood in the stool. Speaking out about how bad the blood is won't really help, you need to go in and kill the cancer that's causing it.
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#39Good post, Sam. It's much better that we break down the issues at hand and move beyond the name=good/bad binary discussion.
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#40Get this political crap off of HN