Argumentative Penguin
2 min readJun 16, 2020

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Right. Let's unpick this a little at a time.

Nazism (or National Socialism; German: Nationalsozialismus) is a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. It started in the 1920s. Party gained power in 1933, starting the Third Reich. They lasted in Germany until 1945, at the end of World War II.

So if Trump is going to be anything. He will be a Neo-Nazi. That's not blather, that's just fact. You can't have Nazis outside of Nazi-Germany. You can have Naziism, but you're more likely to have fascism - which doesn't apply in a democratically elected governent. Once again... not blather, facts.

Right. Covid-19 is deadly, they might be hiding how dangerous it is... but if Trump didn't realise the virus, then it wouldn't be murder, it would be manslaughter. So yeah, Trump is culpable for a lot of the death by his inability to react and come up with a workable strategy. That's true - but inaction is not the same as murder. It's negligence, but as I stated before... the man is an idiot and what else were people expecting? In my country, the crisis has also been mishandled, that doesn't mean it was state sanctioned genocide, it means we voted in an idiot.

The lynching of black men is abhorrent and reflective of a racist and deeply divided psychology in America. One that Trump plays into quite readily because it suits his purpose and his bombastic demagoguery. I don't think he cares whose world goes on fire as long as he can maintain power.

I can already tell that this conversation is rapidly reaching the end of a useful level of discussion, because you have failed to engage in any meaningful way on the points raised. So let me just throw a final word of caution your way...... do you want to live in a world where you can call people out for being 'a sympathizer' without any real evidence for doing so? History has been down this path before, both on the political right and the political left.

Never again isn't now, I don't believe that to be true for a second.... but identity politics isn't giving human beings the space to think in a rational, individual or intelligent way. It's just much easier to label people you don't agree with as Nazis, or fascists and that's enough. So now what? Everyone you disagree with should be banned from speaking in public? Everyone you disagree with should be put out of a job? Everyone you disagee with should be....what? You should know where groupthink leads, we've both read our Jewish history.

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Argumentative Penguin
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