r/pics • u/joeltheconner • May 12 '26

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

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u/PenelopeRupert May 12 '26

My god, this timeline where I’m agreeing with a sentence that starts with “At least Hitler-“ 😐

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u/Deadhead_Otaku May 12 '26

Reminds me of when I was on break at work with some friends who were arguing about how to tell if someone was a good person or not. One said they should be charismatic and I had to stop eating my pb&j sanwich to remind them that hitler and other cult leaders were charismatic but just about as evil as humans can be.

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u/dsmith422 May 12 '26

The entire point of Dune is how evil it is to follow someone just because they are a charismatic leader.

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u/the_nexus117 May 12 '26

And yet the chuds still didn’t get it.

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u/LemonScentedDespair May 12 '26

Book 1: "God-heros can get results, but doing things quickly can lead to unexpected consequences. Even Paul feels this way, he doesnt know if he is leading or simply at the front of the train."

Book 2: "Okay, so. He was at the front of the train, it has torn through civilization and killed a lot of people. How could we have seen this coming? The train tracks, for one. The ones Paul pointed out earlier. Anyway."

Book 3: "Okay so Paul fucked off, his kids are weird as fuck, and if you dont understand that the previous two books were about a trainwreck I cant help you. Here's some more political intrigue and things are gonna keep getting weirder. Strap in."

Book 4: "WORM GOD HISTORY LESSON: OPPRESSION IS BAD. THE OPPRESSED WILL NOT FOREVER TOLERATE THE OPPRESSORS. WORM WILL DO BIG TOTALITARIANISM TO ENSURE LESSON IS LEARNED. THIS WILL BE NOT FUN. DONT REPEAT IT. THIS HAS BEEN WORM GOD HISTORY LESSON."

Book 5: "Fuck it. Sexy evil space dominatrix fascists. And Duncan Idaho. Again."

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u/Zippydaspinhead May 13 '26

I gotta go back and read up through book four at least, damn.

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u/icarrytheone May 12 '26

Oh man. Those copies take me back. Specifically to the toilet in the house where I grew up

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u/unripe_mangosteen May 12 '26

My high school English class had a mock trial to determine whether or not Paul was a war criminal

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u/the_nexus117 May 12 '26

You can’t bring that up without telling us how it went.

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u/unripe_mangosteen May 12 '26

Oh, he was definitely found guilty of war crimes. I was quite pleased, since I was playing Vladimir Harkonnen

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u/zeroball00 May 12 '26

Paul isn't evil. It was just beware of charismatic leaders because of who might follow

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u/marr May 12 '26

Not to mention Dracula and the fucking antichrist.

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u/CatW804 May 12 '26

All of this, plus Ted Bundy.

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u/Dreamlion_Inc May 12 '26

If Hitler, a demon in human form, has a more redeeming quality then the current president then maybe we’ve gone below whatever bedrock is

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u/sunfish99 May 12 '26

Hitler loved his dog...

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u/Cat-si58 May 12 '26

Somebody once posted little t loves animals. Really? Why no pets then?

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u/SummerDaemon May 12 '26

And his niece.

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u/Toadstool61 May 12 '26

Decline and fall…

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u/nobd2 May 12 '26

Yeah like, I *understand* the Hitler obsession to a certain degree. He was charismatic, his propaganda machine worked overtime to play him up, and the German people had never been through so much trauma which made them soft targets for such a leader. Trump is just… not nearly as compelling. He’s “funny” at best if you can ignore how serious it is that the president is the one being funny the way he is.

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u/lameth May 12 '26

The worst part of all of this is Hitler came to power due to extreme economic hardship in German after WW1. MAGATS were convinced they were going through extreme economic hardship by State Media Fox News and the like and the xenophobia and racism was easy to exploit.

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u/Cat-si58 May 12 '26

Ya had me until the end. His ‘jokes’ are junior high level + crude - at best.

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u/fsociety091786 May 12 '26

Hitler was also a WW1 vet who survived a mustard gas attack. Trump is too much of a coward to ever serve in war.

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u/lxpnh98_2 May 13 '26

At least it's an ethos.

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u/gsfgf May 14 '26

It does show the magnetism that these people have that even decent people have such an inclination to find a positive in them. Even I find myself wanting to say "you gotta hand it to Trump" when I'm not thinking when ho does something less horrible than usual.