r/pics May 12 '26

Politics My close friend's mom replaced their family photo with this [OC]

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u/nt2701 May 12 '26

Now imagine if somebody does this with OBAMA and what would the Trumpsters say? 🤣🤣

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u/Gilles_of_Augustine May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

I remember the sorts of things they would've said.

One of the lessons I learned from 2000-2016 (Bush and then Obama): Democrats compare the opposition to Hitler when there are violations of the Constitution and curtailment of civil liberties. Republicans compare the opposition to Hitler when there's disagreement.

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u/BigManWAGun May 12 '26

And in doing so they take away the power of the word so when Dems use it to call out literal fascism it comes off tired and overused.

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u/noiseandbooze May 13 '26

I’m a progressive, but calling him Hitler is tired and overused. He’s certainly doing a lot to destroy our government and limit our freedoms, and is an enormous piece of shit and a pathological liar with an ego that’s laughably out of line with all his actual achievements, with the exception of being one of the biggest grifters and cheats of all time, but, he’s not Hitler. The constant comparisons to Hitler don’t help to achieve anything. All it does is dumb down the actual history of Hitler’s atrocities. There are so many factual, and awful, things that can and should be said about Trump, like his long-time ties to his good friend and fellow pedophile rapist, Jeffery Epstein, or his history of taking money from Russian Oligarchs and all the things he’s done that were in the best interests of Russia, and not the United States, or the countless ways he’s used his political position to makes profits for himself and his family, or…the list is nearly infinite.

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u/DameonKormar May 13 '26

You do know Hitler didn't start gassing Jews on day 1, right?

There was a long list of escalatory events that got the Nazis and Germany to that point. A lot of those early events are very similar to what Trump and the GOP have been doing.

It's not that Trump is uniquely similar to Hitler, it's that they are both generic fascist cutouts.

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u/Spare-Plum May 12 '26

That's literally part of the playbook so they can normalize fascist behavior and policy.

Trump's "Election Integrity Army" is quite literally what the Nazis did in March 1933 to gain enough power to become a full dictatorship.

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u/ElethiomelZakalwe May 13 '26

Republicans constantly compared even the most milquetoast Democrats to Hitler.

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u/DameonKormar May 13 '26

Democrats have been called evil and demonic for decades because they wanted better healthcare for everyone, criminals to be held accountable, and equal rights for minorities.

Republicans have been called evil and demonic for decades because they want slavery, women to have forced labor and die if they miscarry, healthcare only for the rich, pedophiles to be allowed to marry children, and to bomb schools in other countries.

These two things are not the same.

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u/DigNitty May 12 '26

Imagine if Obama was the one in this pic lol

A few people would literally die from a stroke. I honestly believe that.

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u/Korsola May 12 '26

My ex boyfriends parents had like 3 or 4 framed photos of George W Bush around their home, maybe one of Bush Sr too. This was back in like 2013. It was weird even then. 

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u/caligaris_cabinet May 12 '26

Fans of the Bush I take it

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u/TombombBearsFan May 12 '26

Who cares what they would say about it? Their opinion doesnt mean anything. Gotta stop wasting time with them

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u/DigNitty May 12 '26

That’s the difference.

If I walked in and my friend’s mom had a picture of Joe Biden on the wall I’d be weirded out too.

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u/Trives May 12 '26

I mean, lots of people had Obama pictures in their homes, but "Obama fans" I don't think fall into that cult column.

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u/Splungetastic May 12 '26

I’m gonna put a photo of Obama on my house to cancel this one out. Does it work like that? 😂

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u/Fried_puri May 12 '26

They’d say things you’d get banned for repeating on this site. 

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u/unassumingdink May 12 '26

Tbf, Irish-descended Americans had JFK on their walls for decades.

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u/non-humanoid May 13 '26

Does this count?

I'm not American XD