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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by UniverseHacker on Monday November 11, 2024 @09:42PM (#42112332)
It’s the “name calling” not the actual points people are downvoting you for
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by defrost on Monday November 11, 2024 @09:47PM (#42112352)
Have you read Stephan Miller's speeches?

They're cut from from the Enoch Powell, Goebbels playbook - it's not name calling when it's simple factual description of the source material in question.

This isn't some US Democratic smear at all, Miller is regarded as a far right extremist and outlier by Republicans (eg: https://www.salon.com/2018/01/21/lindsey-graham-slams-stephe...)

Call a spade a spade.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by UniverseHacker on Monday November 11, 2024 @09:51PM (#42112369)
I was only telling you why people are downvoting you. I was also downvoted in this same discussion for making the point that “fascist” shouldn’t be received as an insult to people that, well, think fascism is good.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by defrost on Monday November 11, 2024 @09:55PM (#42112391)
That's fine, I'm aware that's one reason that some might downvote, I'm happy pointing out the cowardice inherent in silent downvotes but can easily understand why some may prefer to do that and avoid defending Miller or attempting to make a case that my descriptions don't apply.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by UniverseHacker on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:10AM (#42115589)
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by defrost on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @07:41PM (#42121690)
Heh.

"To be fair" wrt Donald Trump, in my opinion the Generals were bang on describing him as a Fascist but he's nowhere near the level of being an actual Nazi that, say, his father actually was.

He's primarily a self serving opportunist and a supremely talented and natural grifter, the people to really worry about will be his his appointments in this coming term - they'll have their own agenda's and will have relatively free reign to pursue them as long as they are loyal to Trump (in his opinion).

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by foobarian on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @10:53AM (#42127102)
So far the announced appointments are not as bad as I expected, i.e. letting a bunch of loonies like MTG or Gaetz run things. This still perhaps feels like a regression but to the level of e.g. Kissinger or McCarthy.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by tzs on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:01PM (#42130562)
Wow...less that 5 hours after you posted that Trump has named Gaetz as his nominee for Attorney General.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by UniverseHacker on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:36PM (#42132238)
The "Save the Children" people have now voted in power the best friend of the worlds most notorious child sex trafficker, who is now building a cabinet of child sex traffickers
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by ihaveajob on Saturday November 16, 2024 @10:33AM (#42156903)
This aged well :)
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by FrustratedMonky on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @07:43AM (#42115067)
Is it “name calling”? OR, a historical comparison?

Wasn't Goebbels the propaganda man, and the things Stephen Miller is tweeting about is extremely inflammatory, he is the Trump extreme Propaganda Man.

And since as stated earlier, mass deportations might not be realistic, the propaganda of caged Mexicans and destroying Mexican Families, is the kind of marketing fodder to make the Republican Base 'think' that real action is happening.

Republican's have been making a lot of reasonable claims about a 'legal path to citizenship'. And what does Stephen Miller just do, he tweeted that they will start looking into revoking citizenship for people that was already granted. To reverse citizenship. Where does that end? With Mexicans only? That seems more in line with Goebbels.