Two fascist mugshots from history, same gaze & not by accident.

[ImNotGod]

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[GeoWilliam750]

1. Except that Hermann Goering was not a coward

[ImNotGod]

3. But he was, he committed suicide instead of facing justice. nt

[Disaffected]

7. That's not cowardly.

Choosing a pill rather than an immanent "short-drop" hanging.

[Journeyman]

16. Goering wanted a soldiers death

Goering wanted to be shot, a soldier’s death, and not hung as a criminal. He chose suicide when his request was rejected.

[ImNotGod]

18. He had grandiose delusions just like tRump, he figured he would be welcomed by the allies as a

fellow worrier who now wanted peace but was soon brought back to reality, stripped of his medals, imprisoned. He couldn't stand being treated as a common mass murderer.

[NowISeetheLight]

23. Uniforms & Narcissistic Personality

I remember watching a documentary on YouTube about Goering. It mentioned he had custom designed flamboyant uniforms he designed himself. A real narcissistic type. Kind of reminds me of Trump wanting a Medal of Honor. He claimed it was a joke, but knowing his personality, I can totally believe it.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/21/donald-trump-give-himself-medal-of-honor-1470950

[malaise]

2. Uncanny

Two faces of evil

[ImNotGod]

5. I was watching a short youtube vid showing mugshots of WWII nazis and when Goering showed

it clicked immediately with tRumps so had to screenshot.

[malaise]

11. Great job

[Celerity]

12. This too

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Amazing graphic!

[keithbvadu2]

4. There could have been some Trump relatives fighting in Normandy on D Day.

They would have been on the cliffs above the beaches.

[ImNotGod]

6. Trump's grandfather was kicked out of his native Germany for failing to do his mandatory military

service

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree

[WarGamer]

8. More Trump vs Nazis stuff...

Some people need to pick up a damn book.

Former head of the ADL, Abraham Foxman says comparing Trump to Nazis trivializes the Holocaust.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Only if the next coup attempt fails.

[WarGamer]

14. Just a short story...

I apologize if it's not 100% accurate and perfect because it's from memory, a book called "Between Giants" a story of the Baltic nations in WW2.


When the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the invasion of Russia... on day 2-3 the Germans captured The capital of Lithuania, Vilna was captured by the Nazis as the Russian occupiers fled in haste.

One of their first actions in Vilna was to coordinate with Lithuanian Nazi sympathizing groups and enlist their labor in hunting down the local Jewish population.

The Germans didn't trust the Lithuanians so instead of giving them rifles... they ordered 5 ton trucks full of farm implements, shovels, axes and hoes to drop off the supplies as killing tools.

The Lithuanians and their Einsatzgruppen overlords wandered home to home and village to village seeking out Jewish inhabitants.

After the onset of WW2, 15,000 Jews from Poland escaped to Vilna as the Nazis ransacked and murdered their way through Poland. There were 50,000 Lithuanian Jews in Vilna.

Local men assisted the invaders by showing them WHERE the Jewish families lived and assisted in butchering Jews by the thousands by hacking them to pieces with farm implements and throwing the bodies in shallow graves.






And that's a single story from the Holocaust.

Poopy face, orange man bad, lying, criming despicable traitor Donald J Trump leader of the Meal Team Six half ass coup attempt, half ass mafia wanna-be.... as disgusting as he is...

Is no closer to an actual NAZI than my cat is to an amoeba.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Yeah. More than one holocaust survivor said they're scared. I believe them.

Bin Laden didn't fly the planes. Hitler didn't break the glass.

[no_hypocrisy]

25. My great-grandparents and grandfather and his siblings left Lithuania 50 years before

The Holocaust. I have no doubt if they had stayed, they would have been slaughtered.

[TygrBright]

26. Do you really believe [Redacted]'s true believers would NOT...

...joyfully hack all the transfolk they could corral to pieces with farm implements, etc., if they were given the chance and sanctioned to do so by a supportive government?

I have no such trust.

The fascism of the 21st Century is a holocaust in the egg. Should it hatch out, we WILL see mass death on a scale Pol Pot, Hitler and Stalin would have envied.

A partial (to say the least) list of those at risk of extermination should their power grab succeed:

LGBTQ people
Brown people (except for some "useful" ones, perhaps)
"Liberal activists"
Muslims, Pagans, Parsi, B'hai, possibly Buddhists
and, oh, yes... Jewish people.

They're plenty antisemitic.

There is some legitimacy to claim comparing any single incident to the Holocaust thus trivializes it, but to compare the period PRIOR to the Holocaust with contemporary politico-cultural events not only does NOT "trivialize" the Holocaust, it HONORS the lesson of that horrific episode in human history.

Those who do not learn therefrom, are doomed to repeat.

somberly,
Bright

[demosincebirth]

10. you have to know how to read, first.

[First Speaker]

21. Maybe. Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler"...

...and one of the great books of our time, thinks the Trump/Hitler analogy is very apt. If Trump should win the 2024 election, God help this country and the world.

[WarGamer]

24. Here's a quote from the ADL

The President-Elect’s use of Nazi Germany to make a political analogy is not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust. … ADL always has maintained that glib comparisons to Nazi Germany are offensive and a trivialization of the Holocaust. We have a long record of speaking out when both Democrats and Republicans engage in such overheated rhetoric. It would be helpful for the President-Elect to explain his intentions or apologize for the remark.

This was aimed at Trump but it also outlines their generalized disapproval of calling people "Nazis" in a political context.

[Aussie105]

13. It's the glare of hate.

That covers internal fear.

It says . . . the end is near.

It usually precedes some imminent disaster for he who does the glare.

Most actors are good at it.

Ghostbusters 2, 'Vigo the Carpathian' (Actor Norbert Grupe)

[usonian]

17. Thanks. Saved me a post.

A REAL man would have one of those studded collars.

Maybe.

I argue that the judge should issue him a shock collar.

Run by a bunch kids.

With phones or game consoles.

Heee heeee.

Follow the bouncing orange.

[captain queeg]

15. I kinda hope one of the similarities doesn't happen but there might be something like that.

Apparently Goering could be very charming and made nice with his jailers. That’s how he got the cyanide passed to him. Can’t remember th details but some brought him a pen with cyanide inside and the jailers gave it to him. I don’t think they knew there was poison in it. But TFG is kind of famous for unduly ingratiating himself to his SS guards.

[barbtries]

22. if trump was a girl.