Except for that Little Detail...

[paft]

Via Raw Story

Colin Heaton, 1/16/12 speaking to the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, on how to finance building a secure wall between Mexico and the United States: You take all these incarcerated illegal aliens, even some of the guys who are US citizens in the prison system who make about 27 cents a day doing ridiculous work, kick

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[fizzyland]

I'm Senator McLaughlin and I approve this message.

[montecristo]

Yes, and tomorrow it will still be you advocating giving governments more power over the lives and property of people, because, ya know, "we're the good guys" and the bad guys have no chance of ever getting hold of all this power... Lennin thought the same thing.

[telemann]

[kardashev]

"Lennin liked cats, I do too."

Even when they shove their buttholes in your face? That just annoys the fuck out of me.

[telemann]

What about dogs licking your face after they've tongue bathed their dood-dads?

[kardashev]

"So after advocating setting up a massive forced-labor camp near our border, Heaton has the crust to compare the President to Hitler.

Except for that little detail about Obama not being a genocidal racist."

And this is how Godwin's Law works. See?

"He’s talking at a meeting of a movement that presumably represents the base of the Republican party."

Define "base", plz. Are we talking about the 20% who will vote Republican even if the GOP decides to run an alcoholic mall santa or a much broader part of the Republican Party?

Also, this labor camp idea is dumb. What we really need is to do away with things like amnesties and laws that allow for anchor babies.

[paft]

Yep, that's how it works. You denounce even valid comparisons with Hitler to clear the way for completely invalid comparisons to Hitler. That way you can advocate forced labor camps while denouncing a moderate liberal president as an incipient Adolph.

Aren't you a fan of Hitler by the way, and Stalin? After all, they killed so very many of those icky humans you dislike so much.

[kardashev]

"You denounce even valid comparisons with Hitler to clear the way for completely invalid comparisons to Hitler."

The only valid comparisons to Hitler are when both sides of the comparison either advocate or are committing mass murder with race as a basis. It's how underlankers is able to logically draw parallels between what happened to native americans during the settling of this continent with what happened to the Jews in Germany.

"Aren't you a fan of Hitler by the way, and Stalin? After all, they killed so very many of those icky humans you dislike so much."

Hitler almost robbed the world of Einstein. Since Einstein was far superior to the average human pseudo-chimp(I revere Einstein), this is enough reason for me to hate Hitler.

As for both Hitler and Stalin, they were both moralists and conformists who viewed themselves as the "good guys". Since I'm a moral nihilist and an individualist, both of them would've had me rounded up and eventually either brainwashed or tortured and then killed. This is reason enough for me to hate

[paft]

k: The only valid comparisons to Hitler are when both sides of the comparison either advocate or are committing mass murder with race as a basis

[underlankers]

Nitpick-the Soviets had camps just like what you describe. What Hitler had that nobody else did were the death camps. Of course the biggest, most glaring flaw in the "Obahitler" analysis is that Hitler wanted to turn Russia into his India/Wild West and anyone who advocates something different is of course not a Nazi. But expecting people to actually care what the real Nazis thought seems a bit of a lost cause.

Though to be honest I've never understood the whole "Everyone Is Hitler Who We Dislike" thing anyway. It's like he's the only dictator people can name.

[paft]

Hitler fascinates because unlike Stalin or Mao, his dictatorship was not the result of a violent takeover. The German people threw freedom away with their own hands.

[paedraggaidin]

Eh, maybe not on the scale of the Russian Revolution, but the 1932 and 1933 Reichstag elections were beset with violence by the Communists and Nazis both. In the run-up to the '33 elections, Hindenburg gave Hitler a free hand to literally beat his opponents into submission, to say nothing of the Reichstag fire that resulted in violent suppression of the Communists (who might well have prevented Hitler's ascension if freely allowed to run). The Nazi victories were therefore hardly democratic.

[paft]

Undemocratic it might have been, but it was not a violent overthrow, no matter how much fighting took place on the street level.

[kylinrouge]

Apparently Hitler was all about socialism! Someone tell Stalin!