763
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2026
763 points (98.5% liked)
Not The Onion
22472 readers
1022 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
I do not. Wtf
The how would you call letting millions die of hunger and sickness willingly? According you your logic Hitler was also not responsible for mass murder, he let others do the work for him. This is fucking bullshit.
Is that a baseline to let it count?
So that is worse. That makes Trump good? He did help kill ~80% of all Palestinians in Gaza, of which ~30% are children, plus ~21% of children in westbank and an unknown percentage of civilians there. Does that count?
What is your point here? Communism also increased poverty, so? Trump is good? Trump does not increase poverty? Me: "This is an apple." You: "But that is also an apple." yes it is mate. Both are apples. What is your point? Both Trump and the communist regimes China and Soviet union, but also North Korea, are bad.
Maybe ask those in ICE concentration camps if they would like some junk food instead of forced hunger. Again, what is your point? You make no sense. Also ask ICE for real reports of deaths in there while you're at it.
Dude, defending Trump works on Twitter, you're on the wrong platform here mate. You make no sense with your arguments. The more I read the worse it gets. I'm not going to continue arguing with this nonsense.
Just because the ratios of deaths are not exactly the same among amount of deaths doesn't make Trump less evil. He treats other humans as non-human, he's responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, which is going into millions of deaths over the years. He opened concentration camps, he endorses crimes against humanity and war crimes including famine, genocide and torture, he supports fascists, he kidnapped a nation's leader, started a war, bombed 7 countries in his second term alone, broke ties with his allies, fucked the economy, raised world tension. Oh and he's corrupt AF and a serial child sexual abuser. The guy is evil AF. Hitler was evil AF. But yeah, he's not an exact copy. Hitler his ugly paintings look better than Trump his drawings, and Hitler wasn't known to sexually abuse kids. So maybe Trump is worse than Hitler, maybe it's comparing apples with pears.
good to know. 😁 🙂
One might be able to say the same about the leader of any developed country with a GDP of over $1 trillion, or maybe one of our alleged "trillionaires" such as Musk.
If you're going to compare Trump, or anyone else, with Hitler, I'd say so.
How many Gazans are there?
WP says about 2 million.
80% of that is 1.6 million.
I don't think that Trump or the Israeli leaders combined killed that number.
IIUC, we're arguing quantity more than quality.
This is an apple, and this is 10 apples: which would you rather have?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it's Nayib Bukele intention is to exterminate a population with a disproportionately large number, if not a majority of, gangsters and other criminals. I'm sure he's content to keep them there for decades, if necessary; though I get the feeling that most will be released in several years or a few decades. (Also, Jews and other concentration camp victims didn't cause Germany to have a murder rate of about 100:100 000 a year).
I'm no more defending Trump than you're defending Hitler.
Trump is a bad man, but Hitler was worse; and that, to some here, it seems, is a controversial statement.
Now what if I re-wrote that:
Just because the ratios of deaths are not exactly the same among amount of deaths doesn’t make Hitler more evil.
Where? Do they have gas chambers?
and before you cite the US prison-industrial-complex, that existed long before Trump. Indeed, before that, they had slavery. In fact a few Presidents owned slaves. Jefferson, cited by many in a positive way, owned slaves and probably fucked, i.e. in his case raped, a few of them.
a lot of people endorsed it, including Dubya Bush, who seems to be becoming an ally-of-sorts with a few anti-Trumpers.
a bad leader at that, but Papa Bush got Noriega.
FWIW,
Sally Hemings: the woman Jefferson kept as a slave, as well, IIUC, a few hundred other people.
I'd say an apple and a pear to 10 apples and 10 pears.