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Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by krapp on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:37PM (#12108654)
>A nice guy like Mitt Romney gets upset when people call him a Nazi and tries to prove that he isn't one.

You took it a bridge too far - I don't recall many people actually calling Mitt Romney anything like a Nazi. He was accused of being a wealthy elitist and vicious corporate capitalist who openly despised the poor and was so out of touch with humanity that he had his emotions simulated by an algorithm. But not "Literally Hitler."

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Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by Crito on Saturday July 16, 2016 @10:37PM (#12108805)
I remember calling Mitt Romney a Nazi. I've unjustly called many people Nazis, not because anything they said resembled National Socialism, but merely because it's an easy way to pull on peoples' emotional strings.
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Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by krapp on Sunday July 17, 2016 @06:32AM (#12109674)
Fair enough I guess.
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Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by Turing_Machine on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:48PM (#12108677)
"I don't recall many people actually calling Mitt Romney anything like a Nazi. "

Your memory is selective. Romney was called a Nazi (or compared to one) by actual Democrat Party officials. Ryan was compared to Goebbels. Nikki Haley was compared to Eva Braun. Romney wasted a bunch of time demanding apologies, etc.

It doesn't matter -- as I said, no one pays attention to it anymore, really, and Trump, at least, understands that.

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