US Election 2020

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Gnarls said:
Lol, the reason is right there in Randhir's post but you're now accusing Trump supporters of being complicit in corruption and then you wonder why the TDS moniker is liberally applied to you.
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I am sure you take the ANC's explanation of these things verbatim as well.
 
rietrot said:
I'm calling it now. Watch it go up and the lefties blaming Trump because the virus is a thing again.

Emotional reasoning. Only one outrage topic at a time. Maybe another week for Floyd/riots to die down completely then it's back to Carona.
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I know. I'm just filled with anticipation for Greg's stadium posts.

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Gnarls said:
I know. I'm just filled with anticipation for Greg's stadium posts.

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Poor baby. Did those posts hurt your fee fees?

We're beyond stadiums now Gnarlio... We already blew past the Michigan Stadium at 107 601 and North Korea's Rungrado 1st of May Stadium at 114 000, and those two are the biggest.

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We're in World War 1 territory now buddy... And when I say 'territory' I mean 215 *more* Americans have died from Covid than were killed in WW1.

encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net

War Losses (USA) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)

American losses in World War I were modest compared to those of other belligerents, with 116,516 deaths and approximately 320,000 sick and wounded of the 4.7 million men who served. The USA lost more personnel to disease (63,114) than to combat (53,402), largely due to the influenza epidemic of...
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Yup, on the scale of deadliest events in American history, Donnie's sailed this ship into fourth place...

So far.

Only the Second World War, the Civil War and the 1918 pandemic left standing... but Donnie's kicking off his no-mask-hate-rallies next week, so cut him some slack and give him more time.

PS. I sure hope you signed your waiver. I know you wouldn't want to exercise any of those pesky legal rights you might otherwise have to sue him if you get sick or die.

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His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day.

There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos—and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country.

Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.

He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea."

He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.

Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.

Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.
 
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Tinfoil hat brigade out in full force today. Must be coincidence.
 
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