# Republicans are basically Nazis, exhibit 14H **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 22, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341 "2019-05-22T08:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/21 "2019-05-22T14:49:59Z")
So what do you think about the dead kids and the cages? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/22 "2019-05-22T14:57:41Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Are we France, Nazis, or Jews in this analogy? France. Bad France. Hitler’s in Guatemala. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/23 "2019-05-22T15:35:55Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Stop trying to shoehorn everything into your favorite comic book. Well that’s the problem isn’t it. I have a general rule of thumb when it comes to ethics. When what you are doing matches the sort of over the top villainy that comic book and action movie writers use to identify how evil their antagonist is, be it Ming the Merciless, the Red Skull, Ernst Blofeld, or Cersei Lannister. Then you are probably doing something wrong. More and more our country seems to resemble the evil empire that the plucky heroes manage to overcome, rather than the beacon of truth and justice. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/24 "2019-05-22T16:11:40Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > The republican party isn’t the 1942 Nazis. But then, the 1933 Nazis weren’t the 1942 Nazis. Dachau started as a small prison for political opposition - as the regime became more and more extreme, it grew. > > **What’s already happening is shocking and disgusting. We should stop it _before_ it gets worse.** I couldn’t agree with you more. If it were up to _me_ Trump and EVERYbody associated with him, related to him, or who voted for him would be sent on a one-way trip to the Sun. Unfortunately, that’s not how things work. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/25 "2019-05-22T16:47:41Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > I couldn’t agree with you more. If it were up to _me_ Trump and EVERYbody associated with him, related to him, or who voted for him would be sent on a one-way trip to the Sun. Unfortunately, that’s not how things work. Seems strange that in a thread complaining about inhumane conditions, you openly advocate for the immediate death of over 60 million people. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/26 "2019-05-22T16:50:16Z")
One is real, the other isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/27 "2019-05-22T17:00:36Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > One is real, the other isn’t. I see. So he’s just joking about killing 60 million people? That’s okay then. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/28 "2019-05-22T17:22:29Z")
So what do you think about the dead kids and the cages? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/29 "2019-05-22T17:31:13Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > So what do you think about the dead kids and the cages? I’m against it. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/30 "2019-05-22T17:37:05Z")
That’s cool, we’re on the same page there. But it’s not funny, like sending 60 million people into the sun. I mean, can you imagine how big the ship would have to be, or how finely diced the people would have to be? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/31 "2019-05-22T17:49:14Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > That’s cool, we’re on the same page there. But it’s not funny, like sending 60 million people into the sun. I mean, can you imagine how big the ship would have to be, or how finely diced the people would have to be? I’m sure the ship would need to be YUGE! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/32 "2019-05-22T18:17:46Z")
Nazis had better uniforms. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/33 "2019-05-22T18:33:12Z")
I think it’s important in the public discourse (which includes discussion of politics on forums) to get away from always invoking the Nazis. Evil things should be condemned because they’re evil. Always introducing Nazis into the discussion only sets the stage for more equivocation, comparisons, analogies, metaphors, and generally turning everything into a mess. It’s just asking for people to say “well it may be bad but it’s not NAZI level bad” and then it just degenerates into arguing over semantics. Condemn immoral policies because they’re immoral. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/34 "2019-05-22T18:43:21Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Now, I’m not going to say that this makes ICE and the repiblicans supporting these policies. I don’t believe that Republicans are torturing folks, I believe that “mean people” who would otherwise have job bullying someone else somewhere are doing this. If a were wealthy, I would probably vote Republican to keep more of my money, although I don’t see how anyone could vote for Trump again, save for the above mentioned mean people. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/35 "2019-05-22T19:04:36Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I see. So he’s just joking about killing 60 million people? That’s okay then. :rolleyes: Who said I was joking? If I had the power, that’s what I would do. And I wouldn’t regret it for even one millisecond. Why not? Because those lizard brains are making everything worse for each and every one of us (even if THEY don’t understand that in the least). It’s called “addition by subtraction,” see? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/36 "2019-05-22T22:55:52Z")
Man, talk about a plan for wealth re-distribution! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/37 "2019-05-22T23:23:42Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > I think it’s important in the public discourse (which includes discussion of politics on forums) to get away from always invoking the Nazis. Evil things should be condemned because they’re evil. Always introducing Nazis into the discussion only sets the stage for more equivocation, comparisons, analogies, metaphors, and generally turning everything into a mess. > > It’s just asking for people to say “well it may be bad but it’s not NAZI level bad” and then it just degenerates into arguing over semantics. Condemn immoral policies because they’re immoral. But it really is NAZI level bad. White supremacists have the government’s blessing, they’re separating families and sequestering those they separate in camps, the head of the government is blaming his base’s woes on The Other and promising to take care of that Other because only he can, he’s threatening to incarcerate his political opponents, he sneers at the law and views the levers of power as his to do with as he will. The parallels between pre-war Germany and the United States today are chilling. I don’t understand why people don’t see that. Maybe it’s easier to recognize the shape of the fireball from the outside. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/38 "2019-05-23T01:04:22Z")
\ Puts on sunglasses 🆒 Because this thread sure has aged well. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=867721&highlight=republican+animals](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=867721&highlight=republican+animals) I mean a lot of yous are a LOT angrier at Republitards than I am, and I’m still pretty damned angry. But some of you all who were telling me to chill have lost your fucking shit, screaming for impeachment. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/39 "2019-05-23T01:14:37Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > But it really is NAZI level bad. White supremacists have the government’s blessing, they’re separating families and sequestering those they separate in camps, the head of the government is blaming his base’s woes on The Other and promising to take care of that Other because only he can, he’s threatening to incarcerate his political opponents, he sneers at the law and views the levers of power as his to do with as he will. The parallels between pre-war Germany and the United States today are chilling. > > I don’t understand why people don’t see that. Maybe it’s easier to recognize the shape of the fireball from the outside. If people _really believed_ that, more of them would be fleeing the country. I just don’t think it’s an accurate comparison, and I absolutely think it’s something that’s pervaded everyone’s headspace and poisoned debates and further increased the relentless polarization in this country. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341/40 "2019-05-23T01:16:06Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I mean a lot of yous are a LOT angrier at Republitards than I am, and I’m still pretty damned angry. But some of you all who were telling me to chill have lost your fucking shit, screaming for impeachment. At least they’ve been screaming for _legal_, non-insane solutions. Unlike certain posters here. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-are-basically-nazis-exhibit-14h/834341.md?page=3)