On: US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

[titaphraz]

"... he's America's Hitler"

-- JD Vance, Vice president of USA on Trump, President of USA.

(Before JD became VP)

[ta1243 → titaphraz]

The full quote:

> I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a*hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?

[blueflow → titaphraz]

Do you think it is appropiate to compare Trump with Hitler? I think industrial-scale genocide is a bit of a different league than Trump.

[Braxton1980 → blueflow]

Please forward this question to the current vice-president

[morkalork → blueflow]

Well, his VP thought it was appropriate so it ought to be fair for the rest of to talk about it.

[monkeyfun → blueflow]

1. It's a quote, not an expression of the poster's opinions directly.

2. We wouldn't even be talking about that industrial scale genocide this early on Hitler's term, which I don't say to suggest he's going to be Hitler 2 but rather to point out how it can be quite valid to be concerned before someone's getting into full swing with atrocities.

[UncleMeat → blueflow]

Hitler was still Hitler in 1933.

And yes, I believe that we are at substantial risk for mass death at a scale resembling the holocaust within the next decade.

[insane_dreamer → blueflow]

> compare Trump with Hitler?

not with 1939 Hitler, but with 1933 Hitler after the Nazi party won the elections? that's not farfetched

[inverted_flag → blueflow]

Give it time.

[ta1243 → blueflow]

Do you understand it was a quote from JD Vance?