Bill Maher had to be so happy somebody was talking about him at all, it’s surprising that’s the best he could come up with.
hey fuck you, bill.
That’s uhh… exactly the point dipshit.
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I mean, give him time. Hitler didn’t start sending people to camps right from the get go, that was decades down the line. The kind of rhetoric that Trump and his ilk use is the same kind that Hitler and his ilk used. Trying to put Hitler on some sort of unreachable pedestal, even an evil one, is a fucking fantastic way of underestimating those who are doing their best to imitate him.
Do we just ignore that because he’s not that bad yet? Should we wait until there’s actually death camps before we start criticizing his peoples actions and motives?
Just because you want Trump to be a doddering old fool doesn’t mean his actions are meaningless, or that they’re not indicative of a very real threat. His actions are absolutely having very real consequences for lots of innocent people, and trying to downplay that so you can feel superior is far more insulting to all those dead Jews than Larry David making jokes.
Decades?
He didn’t just pop up as a fully formed dictator once he invaded Poland, he’d been cooking since after the first world war. He took full power in the early thirties, and the holocaust didn’t officially get started til the forties.
So, yeah, decades.
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Larry David is specifically illustrating how insulting it is (to dead Jews and all decent people) to meet with a dictator and then say nice things about them. It’s called satire. He’s pointing out the insult, not making it.
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Trump isn’t a dictator though, he was literally elected by the people of America in a clear majority
Exactly. It’s not like dictators are ever elected or anything. Oh wait…
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and not a fucking chance he’s anywhere near as bad as hitler go watch some ww2 documentaries ffs
You know who else was nowhere near as bad as Hitler in WWII? Hitler before WWII. The whole point of learning from history is recognizing early signs, so you can interrupt a plot before it gets to the Holocaust level. Trump is already sending people to concentration camps with no due process. He’s already attacking political dissenters, and plotting an unconstitutional 3rd term.
If you wait for the Night of Long Knives, you ensure that it’ll be too late to actually do anything about it. Those of us who have watched WWII documentaries can see the parallels clear as crystal.
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let me know when The Night of the Long Knives arrives and he starts executing democrats until then if the guy can be voted out like the first time…not a dictator…
I’d rather nip it in the bud before we get to that point, thanks.
you’re right, the guy who was voted in 5 months ago and is doing exactly what he said he would do is a dictator 🙄
Dictators often do exactly what they say they will do.
let me know when The Night of the Long Knives arrives and he starts executing democrats
Every dictator in history has executed their political rivals? Are you sure about that? I can provide many examples to the contrary if you promise not to move the goalposts.
until then if the guy can be voted out like the first time…not a dictator…
This remains to be seen. He had his people attack Congress and threaten to lynch the VP last time he lost.
and not a fucking chance he’s anywhere near as bad as hitler go watch some ww2 documentaries ffs
Not all dictators will mirror Hitler on a 1:1 scale.
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Good thing Bill Maher is a piece of shit and his opinion doesn’t matter (to me).
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April 21, 2025 A crow perched at the end of dining table with a rumpled tablecloth and several glasses with unfinished drinks. Credit…Lia Darjes, “Plate VII”
Larry David
Mr. David is a comedian and writer who created “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and was a co-creator of “Seinfeld.”
Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go. “He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.” But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.
Two weeks later, I found myself on the front steps of the Old Chancellery and was led into an opulent living room, where a few of the Führer’s most vocal supporters had gathered: Himmler, Göring, Leni Riefenstahl and the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. We talked about some of the beautiful art on the walls that had been taken from the homes of Jews. But our conversation ended abruptly when we heard loud footsteps coming down the hallway. Everyone stiffened as Hitler entered the room.
He was wearing a tan suit with a swastika armband and gave me an enthusiastic greeting that caught me off guard. Frankly, it was a warmer greeting than I normally get from my parents, and it was accompanied by a slap on my back. I found the whole thing quite disarming. I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.
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He said he was starving and led us into the dining room, where he gestured for me to sit next to him. Göring immediately grabbed a slice of pumpernickel, whereupon Hitler turned to me, gave me an eye roll, then whispered, “Watch. He’ll be done with his entire meal before you’ve taken two bites.” That one really got me. Göring, with his mouth full, asked what was so funny, and Hitler said, “I was just telling him about the time my dog had diarrhea in the Reichstag.” Göring remembered. How could he forget? He loved that story, especially the part where Hitler shot the dog before it got back into the car. Then a beaming Hitler said, “Hey, if I can kill Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals, I can certainly kill a dog!” That perhaps got the biggest laugh of the night — and believe me, there were plenty.
But it wasn’t just a one-way street, with the Führer dominating the conversation. He was quite inquisitive and asked me a lot of questions about myself. I told him I had just gone through a brutal breakup with my girlfriend because every time I went someplace without her, she was always insistent that I tell her everything I talked about. I can’t stand having to remember every detail of every conversation. Hitler said he could relate — he hated that, too. “What am I, a secretary?” He advised me it was best not to have any more contact with her or else I’d be right back where I started and eventually I’d have to go through the whole thing all over again. I said it must be easy for a dictator to go through a breakup. He said, “You’d be surprised. There are still feelings.” Hmm … there are still feelings. That really resonated with me. We’re not that different, after all. I thought that if only the world could see this side of him, people might have a completely different opinion.
