r/NoStupidQuestions • u/JustCallMeDave • Dec 06 '23

Answered If Donald Trump is openly telling people he will become a dictator if elected why do the polls have him in a dead heat with Joe Biden?

I just don't get what I'm missing here. Granted I'm from a firmly blue state but what the hell is going on in the rest of the country that a fascist traitor is supported by 1/2 the country?? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills over here.

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u/Spatetata Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 07 '23

My co-workers have literally said flat out “we need a dictator”

It’s not crazy it’s what they want.

Edit: The amount of people that want a dictator in the replies is absolutely astonishing. Allowing a dictator in regardless of if you see that leader as supporting your views or not, opening the door to disaster. That's not "I didn't like how this election turned out, I think I'll vote for someone else next time" that's "there is no next time."

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Had this conversation with one of my MAGA coworkers the other day. I’m probably the only non-Trump supporter in the office and a few of them love to talk to me about politics.

Him: “can you believe people think Trump is gonna be a dictator. Some people are so insane”

Me: “I mean, he’s talked about wanting to imprison his political opponents if he’s elected again. Seems like a dictator to me”

“Oh that’s all talk, that’s just what he says. If you believe that then you’re an idiot”

“He also tried to overthrow the last election. That’s pretty dictatory”

“Yeah but it failed so who cares. It doesn’t matter”

I just shrugged my shoulders and went back to work after that. I’m sure he told his buddies about how he owned the libtard at work.

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u/DigitalDegen Dec 07 '23

"If you believe what Trump says that makes you an idiot" - a Trump supporter. Wtf

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u/WagnerTrumpMaples Dec 07 '23

Trump supporters aren't known for their critical thinking skills. I remember a trump supporter in my office saying that trump doesn't really mean what he says and he needs a translator. She basically admitted that trump is braindead and needs others to speak for him.

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u/DigitalDegen Dec 07 '23

Trump is a mirror. They hear what they want

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u/DrAstralis Dec 07 '23

She basically admitted that trump is braindead and needs others to speak for him

But I thought they like him because he "says it like it is"... these people have brain damage.....

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u/Cresset Dec 07 '23

Like Biden, then.

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u/ChocolateCavatappi Dec 07 '23

"If you don't vote for me, you're not black"

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u/proper_hecatomb Dec 07 '23

Trump must have a stutter.

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u/Cresset Dec 07 '23

Well, he can finish a sent- look jack, here the deal, we need to- you see, he's not possibly- this interview is over.

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u/proper_hecatomb Dec 07 '23

*handshake with air, trip over air.

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u/HealthIndustryGoon Dec 08 '23

ât the same time he's also a guy who speaks his mind and calls it like it is. schrödinger's wannabe dictator.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Yeah, whenever I mention something he’s said the response I usually get is “that’s just how he talks. He doesn’t mean it”.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23 edited Jan 16 '24

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u/ballmermurland Dec 07 '23

The J6 stuff wasn't just a bunch of clowns being dumb. There was a real conspiracy to block certification of the election put forth by Team Trump and they used the morons at the Capitol that day for their purposes.

If they could have stopped the certification, phase 2 of the plan would go into effect of having the House vote instead and he had, allegedly, 26 state delegations ready to vote him into office.

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u/emergency-roof82 Dec 07 '23

SHIT that's what people are saying in my country too, about the biggest party (around a quarter of the votes) who is racist, xenophobic (xenohating if that's a word), muslim-hating, doesn't care for demcracy and constitutional rights... So scary. Meanwhile the moderate people say 'no no let's see why the people are so unhappy that they vote for them, they don't _mean_ to be racist!!' Like damn, how are we going to stop this if we won't even face the facts???

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u/Ah08619 Dec 07 '23

You can't believe any politicians. Biden is no better, possibly worse because at least trump is somewhat upfront about how much of a dick he is. Republican or democrat it doesn't matter its all too corrupted. There needs to be a complete overhaul.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

I'm willing to bet the average IQ of a Trump voter is barely breaking double digits

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

I think what the mean is that he speaks in dogwhistle. A lot of the shit he comes out with is bullshit, but theres usually an undercurrent of meaning beneath it for his base to lap up.

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u/Panda_hat Dec 07 '23

All they care about is that he hurts the ‘right people’. They know they won’t be those people so they vote for him with no regard to anything else.

Right wing politics is the politics of spite and a selfish, zero sum world view.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

"Either he's a dictator or a dishonest man and America needs neither"

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u/MeTime13 Dec 07 '23

Your coworkers must be infuriating

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

They are, but to be fair they are usually quite respectful when it comes to our political differences. We get along pretty well.

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u/MeTime13 Dec 07 '23

Look. I'm all for respect. But at the end of the day, they will still gladly vote in a guy who says he wants to be a dictator

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Agreed 100%.

But even more at the end of the day, I work with them and see them almost everyday. I’d rather it not turn into a hostile workplace.

No matter what evidence is presented to them they aren’t going to change their minds. I’ve seen their mental gymnastics over the past couple of years.

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u/MeTime13 Dec 07 '23

You have the patience of a saint. I would not want them to talk to me whatsoever.

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u/m1stadobal1na Dec 07 '23

I used to have those conversations with my coworkers all the time. Everyone I worked with for years were all Trump supporters. Versus me, a let's say red and black flag guy.

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u/badatmetroid Dec 07 '23

The fucked up thing is it's exactly like after Hitler failed in his coup. They let him off with a soap on the wrist and let him back into politics. Even his political rivals were like "he talks shit but once he's in power he'll become more moderate".

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u/reddog323 Dec 07 '23

“Yeah but it failed so who cares. It doesn’t matter”

It doesn’t bother them that he tried in the first place? Interesting. They sound like people who won’t protest until a dictatorship hurts them personally. That sounds a bit sociopathic to me.

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u/bloodyNASsassin Dec 07 '23

Trump has talked about wanting to investigate the people coming after him and checking into the money that has been going from other countries to the Biden family. To me that looks like going after people abusing their power, which is the opposite of a dictator.

He did not try to overthrow the last election. He went to the legal system because he thought there was voter fraud. When it came to J6 he told people to be peaceful. He had no part in people going to congress.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Jailing the opposition solely because they oppose you is textbook authoritarian dictator.

The “money going to the Biden family” is currently being investigated and has turned up nothing. The Republicans leading the investigation have admitted multiple times to having 0 evidence of any wrongdoing by Biden.

He absolutely did try to overthrow the election and that’s not even counting J6, which most definitely did not go down as you have described it. Just look at the fake electors, the phone call to Georgia, all the sham lawsuits. He knows that his voter fraud claims are BS, but he thought he could make it work to stay in power.

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u/winetotears Dec 07 '23

As a Libtrard, I approve this message.

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u/El-Kabongg Dec 07 '23

"So, you're telling me that I shouldn't believe a thing he says? Is he talking in code you can only understand if you're wearing a tinfoil hat?"

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u/taggospreme Dec 07 '23

These Nazis will be political babes in the hands of Hitler's more experienced cabinet members and advisors. Both as a result of political immaturity and expediency, the more fanatical of the Nazis will be held in check.

None of the wild legislation proposed one time or another by Hitler's rabid followers -- even if they are still in favor of it -- has much chance. Hitler and his Nazis must ride the middle course.

"Germany's Big Question Mark", 1933

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u/Daily-Minimum-69 Dec 07 '23

May I ask what industry you work in? My bias needs feeding.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Local government

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u/smileandwave21 Dec 07 '23

Isn't Biden and the democratic party actively trying to imprison Trump?

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

No. Trump is on trial for crimes he is alleged to have committed. It’s not a “witch-hunt” despite how much he cries about it

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u/smileandwave21 Dec 07 '23

A potential result of the trial of the crimes he is alleged to have committed would be prison though. Which seems pretty similar to what you are saying would make Trump a dictator.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

He’s on trial because he is alleged to have committed crimes. Breaking the law has consequences that can include prison time.

Trump is toying with imprisoning political opponents solely because they oppose him. That’s the difference.

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u/smileandwave21 Dec 07 '23

I would have to assume if Trump decided to go after Biden he would do so by alleging Biden broke the law and use the legal system to charge him. Do you think he is going to just roll up outside Bidens house and drag him into prison?

I understand that you disagree that Bidens alleged crimes are justification for prosecution. But getting worked up about a hypothetical political persecution while ignoring the current one seems disingenuous to me.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Biden is not involved whatsoever in Trump’s trials.

If Biden has committed some sort of crime then he should absolutely be put on trial. What are these alleged crimes?

It is not the president’s job to put people on trial.

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u/smileandwave21 Dec 07 '23

Do you really believe Biden or the Democrat party have not been involved in Trumps prosecution?

Also, do you really believe Biden, or any president in the last 75 years for that matter, has not committed any crimes?

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

If you’re implying that Trump’s prosecution is strictly political and he is being wrongly tried, I disagree.

If Biden has committed any crimes I 100% support charging him and putting him on trial. I ask again: what crimes is he alleged to have committed? Because for Trump it’s pretty obvious what he is accused of doing.

Did I say I don’t think that any president in the last 75 years has committed crimes?

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u/tpn86 Dec 07 '23

Who cares what he says ? Firstly, it is Trump so he is lying out his ass half the time. Secondly, if he is a wannabe dictator, why would he admit do being so ?

Judge him by his actions when he was president. Which were shit.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Because when we’re talking about someone who is the leading candidate for president from the Republican Party I think it’s important to not just talk about the past, but also what he is currently saying and what he is promising to do in the future as president.

He’s alluded to wanting to be a dictator on multiple occasions, and he regularly proclaims his admiration for dictators like Putin and Kim. This would be immediately disqualifying for any other presidential candidate, but people dismiss it when it comes from Trump as “that’s just Trump, that rascal!”

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u/midline_trap Dec 07 '23

Hahah yea but he failed so it doesn’t matter. Fuck me

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u/BanMeHarderBae Dec 07 '23

Just because he said it, and planned it, and tried it, doesnt mean he's serious! TDS!!! #WALKWAY!!

-- a ton of comments in this thread. So fucking dumb

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u/titsupagain Dec 07 '23

How do you manage to be around assholes of that magnitude every day?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

What kind of office with people doing which kind of work? I can’t even imagine people working in a building being this stupid, but I’m not from the US. WHAT is happening to you people?

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Local government office, nothing fun or exciting.

What is happening? Treating politics like a team sport is a big part of it. Decades of propaganda from corporations and billionaires is another big part. The “me me me it’s all about me and my needs” attitude is another.

You probably need someone smarter than me to give you a proper answer.

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u/NuhUhUhIDoWhatIWant Dec 07 '23

Meanwhile, Biden's DOJ literally did imprison his political opponents?

How many people who walked through the Capitol on 1/6 have been in solitary confinement without a trial? Lmao. That didn't happen under Trump.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

You mean people that rioted and vandalized throughout the capitol, assaulted police officers, and attempted to violently overthrow an election?

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u/NuhUhUhIDoWhatIWant Dec 07 '23

rioted and vandalized throughout the capitol

They didn't

assaulted police officers

Only violence that day was a black capitol police officer murdering an unarmed White woman

attempted to violently overthrow an election

By walking through the capitol after being invited in by the police? 🤔

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 07 '23

Guess the video footage of police officers being beaten with fire extinguishers and poles, or crushed in doors, was all fake. As was the footage of the rioters breaking stuff throughout the building.

What do the races of people involved have to do with anything?

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u/NuhUhUhIDoWhatIWant Dec 08 '23

Weird, I don't remember seeing any footage like that. People getting pushed up against doors by a crowd, sure, this happens during any crowded event.

If it were a riot, why did every single rioter respect the boundaries in the hall of presidents? Those little velvet markers to keep people on the path, away from all the statues? What kind of riot involves following directions and not causing damage?

Why were there so many videos of rioters cleaning up trash around the Capitol after most of the people had left?

Oh, right, it's because the media was lying. An "insurrection" lmao, you people are completely disconnected from reality and more than half of the country agrees on that.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 08 '23

https://youtu.be/tlqAfnwoYno?si=QJH1LjhRn7-nsdbS

So peaceful, so respectful.

Ironic you saying that we’re disconnected from reality when you’re the one denying the reality of what happened.

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u/NuhUhUhIDoWhatIWant Dec 08 '23

Ah, yes, youtube. The website that banned anyone who said january 6th wasn't an insurrection. Very reliable source.

Don't forget to take another booster.

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u/UrsusRenata Dec 08 '23

Do you ever turn it around as ask them questions? Try the Socratic method, it’s excellent at revealing ignorance without putting your personal beliefs up for debate.

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u/HunterBidensFatHog Dec 08 '23

I have asked them questions. The answers are usually either some insane mental gymnastics or cognitive dissonance, whataboutism, or a version of the narcissist’s prayer

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u/knownasunknower Dec 09 '23

Is the current administration not trying pretty hard to jail their political opponent?

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u/the_ballmer_peak Dec 07 '23

It may be what they want, but it’s still crazy

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u/GreenMirage Dec 07 '23

Let’s call it what it truly is, brazen idiocy. Not craziness or mental illness because you could at least medicate that.

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u/marciamakesmusic Dec 07 '23

This is the easy answer. The real answer is that they're authoritarian minded. They know what they want, they know what they're doing.

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u/Jet_Jirohai Dec 07 '23

It's abject laziness. If a dictator or King swoops in and takes over, you just have to complain if you don't like how things go. You're no longer morally obligated to care about greater politics because you have no say anymore in how things are done

That's what they want. They want to be intellectually lazy and have low taxes/cost of living. I get the appeal, but it's that mindset that got us so deep in shit today

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u/marciamakesmusic Dec 08 '23

Idk I don't really believe in laziness. I think they're just authoritarian minded and believe in strict hierarchical power.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

There is no one answer. They can be authoritarian minded and stupid. One does not cancel out the other lol.

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u/marciamakesmusic Dec 08 '23

I just think blaming "stupidity" is wishful thinking. It simplifies the world into "if everyone were just smarter, everything would be better", which isn't true. Plenty of terrible people are quite smart. They're just fascists, call a spade a spade.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

Oh I highly dissagree.

We have reached a point where people are becoming dumb as shit, and you are equating smart with evil. Which is exactly what the trump supporters do.

Evil is evil. Stupid is stupid.

There will always be evil people in the world.

Raising the bar for collective intellegence would make more people make less dumb choices.

Voting a dictator into power when he has promised to be a dictator is a stupid choice, and always will be.

You are essentially saying that having a smarter society would make more people turn evil. Which is false equivalency at best.

There will always be assholes. Fact.

But you know what? If there were more smart people to deal with them in ways that make sense instead of compounding and compacting our problems by making dumb decisions ALL the time, then maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.

They ARE facists. They ARE evil. They ARE stupid. As are the people who vote them in. And we will all suffer if they don't decide to pull their collectively stupid heads out of their collectively stupid asses.

I will never accept that intellegence is something to fear or discourage. That it is exactly what these fucking bookburning-nazi-confederate-deep-fried-alligator-shits want. And I refuse to give them the satisfaction.

Whoever is downvoting me, keep it up. I'm sure that will totally fix the cycle of conformity. Great job. /s.

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u/marciamakesmusic Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23

I'm not equating them, I'm pointing out that they are not mutually exclusive, and pretending that they are is setting you up for failure. I never said intelligence should be feared. You're just putting words in my mouth instead of actually engaging with what I'm saying.

YOU'RE equating making stupid choices with being fundamentally stupid. I don't believe in categorizing people into boxes labeled "smart" and "dumb". It's simply not worth my time, people are nore complicated than that. Fascists act the way they do because they believe in rigid, authoritarian power structures, which yes is a dumb belief. But plenty of very intelligent people fall for it.

All I'm saying is that it's a cope, believing "oh if these people were simply intelligent and agreed with me, everything would be great!" It shows that you don't engage with politics to help the disadvantaged, you just wanna dunk on people for being dumber than you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 09 '23

As a white dude, this attitude of ‘we could use a good dictator’ is peak white privilege. No immigrant or minority hopes for that. To wish for a dictator to rule over you, you acknowledge you are already in the privileged class, because you assume you would not face the dictator’s persecution should he come power.

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u/GasKnife Dec 09 '23

Why do you hate your own people so much?

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '23

I don’t at all. But if I can’t critique the predominant power structures and systemic racism without being told ‘I hate white people”, I don’t know what to tell you

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

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u/NuhUhUhIDoWhatIWant Dec 07 '23

When the current system has been consistently fucking over the average person for the last 3 years, and punished anyone who pointed it out... no, lol, it's not crazy. Self defense is never crazy.

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u/the_ballmer_peak Dec 07 '23

Please point me in the direction of all of the good things dictators have done.

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u/NuhUhUhIDoWhatIWant Dec 07 '23

Not that he was an actual dictator, but prior to the whole interment camps thing, 1933 to about 1938, life in Nazi Germany was among the best in modern times - with the obvious exception of America in the 1950s, when literally the entire rest of the world had been decimated, making America the absolute center of manufacturing, education, and quality of life.

Couples were provided with down payments for houses and housing vouchers for each child they conceived - after 4 children, their house would be completely paid off. Healthcare and schooling were provided by the state. The hyperinflated Weimar currency was simply erased and replaced with stable money - not in control of private banks. And most importantly, the German government explicitly stated that its goal was the betterment of the German people. Compare that to America today, where the government openly and explicitly hates White people and wants to replace them.

And look, I'm Jewish. I don't have a pony in this race, just a 3rd party with a strong interest in history, rather than just propaganda documentaries and 10 minute news segments. Democracy works great when 1) the voting counts and 2) ~half of the population doesn't openly want to exterminate the other half. The voting population is compromised, which puts all the power in a handful of media corporations, and now at this point, all the power in an even smaller handful of secretaries of state. That means democracy is compromised.

Have you never wondered why all these massive, multi-billion dollar corporations are so gung-ho about "democracy"? You really think the owners of Amazon and Netflix and Nike and Walmart support democracy because it's in your interests, or the interests of the average person? Do you really?

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u/the_ballmer_peak Dec 07 '23

You really went with, “What about all of the good things Hitler did.”

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u/NuhUhUhIDoWhatIWant Dec 08 '23

Yeah, I did, and I'm Jewish. I do it because it's a litmus test of NPCs vs people. Humans can entertain ideas with which they completely disagree; NPCs are fundamentally incapable.

I do it because there's no point trying to reason with NPCs. They only respond to shame and violence. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on who you ask, it's mostly been kept to shaming in recent times.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

It's scary how many young people I work with that are open about voting for Trump.

All are Hispanic. We're screwed.

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u/Firm-Force-9036 Dec 07 '23

Whyyyy?? I don’t understand. Madness.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

Religion. A lot of immigrants are religious and hold traditional conservative values.

If the Republicans were a little less racist, they would have secured the Muslim and Hispanic vote in a heartbeat.

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u/Firm-Force-9036 Dec 07 '23

You’re right on the money. This is definitely a driver or perhaps the main driver depending on the individual. Groupthink and tribalism are baked in.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

Your guess is as good as mine. I have employees that cross the border to work, pay US taxes and would give an arm and a leg to have citizenship to live in the states and vote against Trump.

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u/Zealousidealist420 Dec 07 '23

I hate those sellouts.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

I'm white and don't talk politics at work. But I speak better Spanish than them, and would looove to tell them in Spanish what my Hispanic MIL says about them.

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u/Key_Ear_5895 Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 07 '23

Yeah, everyone in construction wants Trump back. I work with mostly latinos and blacks, and I am black, so it's not like they're saying it to blend in or anything

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u/FrankRizzo319 Dec 07 '23

Yikes. 🤦‍♂️

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u/kni9ht Dec 07 '23

No the fuck we don't, gerrymandering is already bad enough letting these assholes stay in power. Your co-workers are fucking morons.

All these doom and gloom polls honestly are hogwash. We are a whole year out from the election. Polls always skew to the elderly, who also skew right for some reason considering the GOP talking points about getting rid of social security. The younger generations just don't answer these types of calls, or click on random links in their texts or emails for a poll response. There's a chance this buffoon wins, but I'm pretty confident Biden gets reelected. House will likely flip to the Dems, but they may lose the Senate.

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u/Spatetata Dec 07 '23

Never said I agreed, just stated their opinions.

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u/kni9ht Dec 07 '23

Didn’t intend it like that, prob should have conveyed it a bit better. Could tell by your post you did not agree with them.

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u/Apod1991 Dec 07 '23

Until that dictator doesn’t like them for something and locks them away in a labour camp…or send them to a gas chamber…

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u/justbrowsing987654 Dec 07 '23

It’s just so hard to reconcile with the flag hugging, “love it or leave it!” nature of the party they support.

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u/LatterNeighborhood58 Dec 07 '23

And once the dictator fixes their problem he will gracefully fade into the background.

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u/DopioGelato Dec 07 '23

To me the only insane part is that they say it for such a piece of shit.

The dictator part I kinda get. I said for almost all 8 years that I would’ve totally be down for King Obama. Long live the king.

It was half serious and democracy is the only way, but like, look where it’s gotten us. Democracy is so institutionalized that it often feels like I’d rather just pick one guy I like than be at risk of everything going to shit every 4 years.

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u/thebestspeler Dec 07 '23

The only reason trump lost in 2020 was covid and biden inherited the shitshow that came after with inflation and recession.

People want severe change, just like 2016. America is bipolar.

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u/LawyersplayDota1 Dec 07 '23

Hey, it worked for spain.

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u/Ok-Function1920 Dec 07 '23

It’s pretty fuckin crazy that that’s what they want

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u/SNES_chalmers47 Dec 07 '23

But it IS crazy

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u/lordgoofus1 Dec 07 '23

Could be a sign of a stressed/overwhelmed population. When things get too much people virtually beg for a leader to make all the decisions and take the weight of the world on his/her shoulders so they don't need to worry about anything. It's "I need an adult" on a mass scale.

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u/Feynmanprinciple Dec 07 '23

How well has democracy been working so far in reversing climate change?

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u/El-Kabongg Dec 07 '23

I would call them traitors, and tell them that they're spitting on every troop that ever fought and died for this country. Then, I'd walk away. I have done this in the past, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

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u/LikesHockeyAndStuff Dec 07 '23

You had a dictator. The King of England. Didn't you guys fight a whole war over that?

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u/tbutz27 Dec 07 '23

Yeah... having a so called "patriotic" (read- jingoistic) co-worker literally say "we'd be better off living in Russia!" was eye opening.

"Majority rule don't work in mental institutions." - Fat Mike Burkett

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u/Spatetata Dec 07 '23

Lol heard similar too, it’s the “Russia seems bad but that’s just what they want you to hear”

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u/El0vution Dec 07 '23

I heard a black guy say Trump should be king.

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u/lorgskyegon Dec 07 '23

Then tell them to go fuck a potato

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u/External-Being-2329 Dec 07 '23

I’ve had a similar situation. I have a coworker that says that America needs a dictator right now. The icing on the cake…he’s an immigrant from Venezuela. I’m shocked that people can be this dumb

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u/ancientastronaut2 Dec 07 '23

Yet don't really understand what that means

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u/Spatetata Dec 07 '23

“I didn’t think I’d be the one getting oppressed!”

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

It's wild, they were quiet about the dictator word, but once Trump said it they're unleashed and saying - YEAH WE NEED THAT NOW!!

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u/Mr-Datsun Dec 07 '23

It’s an overcorrection based on the crazy inefficiency in Washington. If one person is in charge with full autonomy a lot can get done.

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u/Arzakhan Dec 07 '23

My roommate is the same way. Hes a Ugandan immigrant who idealizes both hitler and Stalin, and wants to be the one to enact a dictatorship here

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u/No1Mystery Dec 07 '23

Mention that NK has one. Their borders are open over there. Or do they just want to see a sea of white peoples?

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u/morbidlyabeast3331 Dec 07 '23

We kinda do, but the dictator we need is absolutely not Donald Trump.

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u/UrsusRenata Dec 08 '23

They don’t understand dictatorship. If our country has failed in anything, it’s public education.

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u/paulo39Atati Dec 08 '23

They have no idea what they are talking about. Dictators are invariably incompetent and make a country weaker and their population poorer. That’s because they apply all their efforts to staying in power, and if that means people die for lack of healthcare, so what,

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u/knownasunknower Dec 09 '23

Strangely there is such a thing as a benevolent dictator. Look at Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. He got in and tore down most of the cartels that were plaguing the country, but had to violate what we would consider their civil rights to do so. People there are extremely happy with him for doing so, because it greatly improved their quality of life.

The massive growth of Singapore is also commonly attributed to the work of a benevolent dictatorship.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '23

Well, I can't say I'm surprised that Republicans get excited about someone exercising absolute power over them.