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[Stocks are] really not that important in the overall context of things, but I have some money invested, so that 's good for me, I guess." -NC Hispanic man

People voted for Trump because we thought we were going to get lower costs of living, to some degree at least, and everything has just increased in price. -GA Black man

So I have an EBT card, and it's a lot harder to prove certain things in order to qualify for that. So just little things like that, they all add up, and I think they need to focus on us more than other countries. -MI white man

At first him speaking his mind was refreshing and I saw him getting a lot accomplished, but then it just got mean and nasty and very unbecoming. And it just made me cringe and I just didn't like him anymore. -AZ white woman

Deportations were a thing he was talking about, just not to the extreme. I would say yes, I was surprised. -MI Black man

I thought the focus was going to be more on securing the border, focused on hardened criminals, not so much everyday folk. -MI white man

I think the ICE has a place in this country right now because of the influx of illegals, but I also think the ICE officers have not been adequately trained. -ME white woman

All the South Koreans, I believe, that were going to be the instructors and teach Americans how to do that job--we had this whole thing where they refused to come back, and now they're going to let AI and robots do the majority of jobs. -AZ Hispanic man

And I also feel like I liken it to 1936 Germany with the brown coats [sic]. And so, there has to be a better way to do this - ME white woman

I think he should take care of the US first instead of acquiring other countries. -AZ white woman

I couldn't believe that I was complicit in deportations and I felt horribly and cried a lot about it and everything. I guess I kind of knew, but refused to pay attention to it because it just seemed ridiculous in my head to think things could really go that way - MI Hispanic woman

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[–] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Guy: I'm going to kill a million people.

Person: He doesn't really mean that.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago

Same guy weeks later, drenched in blood: I'm going to kill another 500,000 people

Person: How could we have known???

[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago
[–] EveningCicada@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

An NYT 1922 classic:

But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.

A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Also in 1922:

WHY WOULD AUNTIE PHÓ DO THAT? THEY JUST FUCKING SHOT HIM (with a brick fired from their arms to his car window okay nobody was actually hurt but Hitler was just giving a nice speech). SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT!

The left in 1922:

Yeah we just read this guy's book and think nazis are bad.