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One difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler didn't kill ethnic Germans, German-speaking people.Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate. pic.twitter.com/fMr9dTZipF— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) March 12, 2022

HOW IS THIS REAL. Hey, at least Hitler didn't kill any Germans! Because we agree with Hitler that Communist Germans weren't really Germans. And German Jews weren't Germans.

Now they are looking at victims of the Holocaust the same way that they already view victims of US imperialism in order to "own" Putin. Its going great.

[edit] this seems to be a new talking point that someone sent out?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNoFpgvVgAEKJwq?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNoFpsoVcAApJCW?format=jpg&name=large

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Accepting the Nazi framing that German Jews weren't German to own the Russians.

  • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "You're like Hitler but even Hitler cared about Germany or something"

    But unironically.

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Flows nicely from what liberals already actually believe: "We're the good guys because we don't do it to our own people". This is just libs being open to exciting new ideas that are slightly outside of that first premise, but closely related.

      • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "we don't do it to our own people."

        PoC, LGBTQ, immogrants, etc.: Exist

        Libs: :blob-no-thoughts:

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Hitler didn't kill any Germans... except the ones that he did, especially German Jews and German communists and German trade unionists and his own brownshirts during the Night of the Long Knives, and then he ordered all Germans loyal to him to go die when he threw a manbaby tantrum in his bunker. He wanted his Third Reich to murder-suicide with himself.

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It's been funny and alarming at the same time watching Rachel Maddow slip slowly into insanity. This person should not be on television

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Who decided to clip this and post it online WTF. At least this shit could be contained within the bubble of Maddow's BlueMAGA audience.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Damn, big "Stalin did nothing wrong and shouldn't have stopped at Berlin" gamer moment :chad-stalin:

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "First they came for some weird crazy lizard mutants from outer space, claiming to be Germans. But our Führer knew the truth!"

  • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Also, remember when Maddow called Trump Hitler and then condemned people for being happy when Trump caught covid?

    This tweet tracks.

  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    this takes me back to 2003 "saddam gassed his own people"

    as if gassing someone elses people would be a-okay (and also as if america wasnt actively and knowingly helping him as he gassed his own people)

    but its really difficult to convey now how big of a moral atrocity the his own people part was considered back then by the mainstream media and therefore the general public, far bigger than the gassing itself

    reading from a very old playbook here, and i think the sense of "atrocity against your own people" as the worst of all crimes has really stuck in western memory since then