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0 pointsben_w5y ago0 comments

I wish I could share your confidence about him being as dead politically as he is physically.

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practically no one takes hitler seriously and the handful of counter-examples are marginalized, mentally ill, and socially outcast. but more importantly, hitler's thought is not influential among anyone except to see how he got so far making so many mistakes. hitler's thought is not even influential among self-identified neo-nazis except as a sort of figurehead. I wouldn't expect you to agree with me until you see this for yourself.

readflaggedcomm5y ago

It may seem so if the epithet frequently misses its mark, which is inevitable when it's so casually abused.

ben_wOP5y ago

> hitler's thought is not even influential among self-identified neo-nazis except as a sort of figurehead. I wouldn't expect you to agree with me until you see this for yourself.

Then allow me to surprise you: My first draft was trying to compare the use of Nazi iconography to Che Guevara T-Shirts, I deleted that paragraph because I wasn’t entirely sure what point I was trying to make with the comparison.

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chordalkeyboard5y ago

readflaggedcomm5y ago

It may seem so if the epithet frequently misses its mark, which is inevitable when it's so casually abused.

ben_wOP5y ago

> hitler's thought is not even influential among self-identified neo-nazis except as a sort of figurehead. I wouldn't expect you to agree with me until you see this for yourself.

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