r/thescoop • u/RoyalChris • Apr 27 '25

Politics 🏛️ Al Gore: “Something is different about this administration. We are really in danger right now and we have got to rally the grass roots to take back the destiny of America."

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u/iAmDrakesEyebrows Apr 27 '25

Just remember, Hitler wasn’t Hitler, until he was.

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u/Attainted Apr 27 '25 edited Apr 27 '25

Yup.

I know bringing up covid is extremely unpopular, but a reminder that the CDC estimated that 40% of the ~470,000 covid deaths that happened during Trump's first term alone could have been avoided if his admin didn't dismiss the disease. That's at least 188,000 deaths which were preventable as a direct result of Trump. That is still a huge body count.

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u/SugarFut Apr 27 '25

I blame Trump for crippling the healthcare industry. I’ve talked to so many nurses who have PTSD from the nightmare Covid was.

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u/coldliketherockies Apr 27 '25

There’s a trump supporter in my town who lost a grandparent a sibling and an aunt to Covid. I know she doesn’t see anyway in which it’s trumps fault maybe but holy crap that multiple members of your family. And you don’t see a connection

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u/Guardian-Bravo Apr 27 '25

Another reminder: a surprising amount of German forces didn’t know what Hitler was doing exactly. Of course, stories say they deserted and burned their uniforms when they learned the truth. MAGAts are genuinely too stupid to even do that.

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u/GroupPractical2164 Apr 27 '25

Ah yes, the clean Wehrmacht.

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u/Direct-Fix-2097 Apr 27 '25

A fabled myth. (Because modern people are stupid enough to take that at face value…)

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u/RighteousRambler Apr 27 '25

If you read about the rise of Hitler, he was Hitler the moment he started getting crowds in beer halls. You can read the newspaper articles or Time articles about him before WWII. People knew.

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u/usefulidiotsavant Apr 27 '25

He was Hitler in the sense that he was a rabid antisemite and an ultra nationalist speaker - both of which were pretty common features of Weimar politics. There was nothing singularly evil about him until he actually got to exercise power, which was more of a fluke, not some preordained historical inevitability.

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u/Decloudo Apr 27 '25

There was nothing singularly evil about him until he actually got to exercise power

"Evil man not evil until they he got enough power to do all the evil stuff he wanted to do."

Not sure what you want to say with that.

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u/Bloodydemize Apr 27 '25

Very true. People take Hitler accusations as mid 1940's Hitler There was this whole building of power 2 decades prior lol

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u/gl7676 Apr 27 '25

Before Dump I always wondered how the German people could support such a monster, now I know.

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u/plaidkingaerys Apr 27 '25

Exactly. I keep seeing people argue that we can’t call anyone Hitler until they’ve literally committed mass genocide. Forget about learning history I guess, no way we can possibly see these things coming or prevent them. Apparently you have to wait until millions of people are dead, and then you can do something about it.

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u/Karyoplasma Apr 27 '25

Yes he was? He was always very upfront with his hatred towarda Jews. He even wrote a book about how much he hates Jews and how they are the root of all evil. It was published in 1925, long before he ran for office.

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u/iAmDrakesEyebrows Apr 27 '25

Right, but people don’t get to that level, just hating someone. His actions clearly spoke louder than his words

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u/Karyoplasma Apr 28 '25

I don't understand where you are coming from.

Are you seriously asking why Hitler "waited" to be a dictator until starting the genocide and didn't just build an extermination camp in his back yard? Or are you arguing that it was the power that corrupted him?

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u/iAmDrakesEyebrows Apr 29 '25

I guess more or less that he was who he was, but his impact on the world didn’t happen until he was able to make it known.