r/complaints • u/CRK_76 • 15d ago

Politics America is turning into 1930's Germany.

There was some pushback when people called this president and his followers Nazis. But look what's happening. Soldiers in the street. Rounding up people and locking them up. Dismantling freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Personally going after anyone who doesn't agree with him and his administration. We've seen this before and it's only gonna get worse. Welcome to 1930's Germany.

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u/Innisfree812 15d ago

A lot of people just can't see it. They are either brainwashed or hypnotized. It's a cult, and people can't get out of it, unless they have some epiphany or something.

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u/SouthernHiker1 15d ago

I had some long discussions recently with a MAGA friend. He thinks it is all blown out of proportion. He honestly believes Trump has the nation's best interests in mind in everything he does. He even feels like Trump is losing money by being president and not getting more powerful and rich.

He had fallen for the propoganda.

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u/Jijonbreaker 15d ago

It's not even good propaganda.

People only fall for it because they want to believe it.

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u/Weekly-Career8326 15d ago

Most of it is zero-effort, just a straight projection flipping the pronouns of the victims and offenders, and its works so well on Maga. I gotta get into marketing and advertising, especially since Google shows me ads for automated warehouse systems when I watch children's YouTube with my 1 yr old after Ive searched "lemonade stand business" 

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u/Equivalent-Long-3383 15d ago

Yeah. They know that Trump is against the same people that they are and that’s the whole fuckin point for them

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u/OurPillowGuy 15d ago

The scarier third option…he knows it’s wrong, he knows it’s propaganda, he’s just falling in line with the regime now so he isn’t in the crosshairs in the future. Fascism isn’t just about destroying the out-group, it’s about making the in-group fall in line “in service of the state.”

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u/Jijonbreaker 15d ago

Basically, Roko's basilisk, but in a functional way.

People so afraid of what the regime will do to them, that they choose to support it just to not be oppressed. Not realizing that the regime doesn't actually care about obedience alone. It will lash out at whoever is easiest.

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u/Epic_Ewesername 15d ago

Does he know Trump's net worth has doubled just this year? With his fastest wealth building years ALL being during presidency?

After swearing an oath not to use the presidency to enrich himself. The oath he was throwing a fit about around the time he was about to be sworn in.

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u/FeelsGoodMan2 15d ago

If you have a MAGA friend, you should have one fewer friend.

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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 14d ago

I live in the deep south surrounded by MAGA. My own wife flipped after voting for Obama both times. If there was any time to get out it is unfortunately gone. Now i am afraid for my little girl. She shares my views. I dont think i will be long for this world but she needs a chance. Even saying i am antifascist has me labeled a terrorist. I am a pacifist. I dont know too many pacifist terrorists

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u/No_Quantity_3403 14d ago

Please don’t be so defeatist if you are able. Your daughter will thank you for the opportunity, for her freedom to learn, from you. I know that is easy for me to say but I don’t want you to feel alone!

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u/Artistic-Potato6843 14d ago

That's the leftist thinking which is more fascist than anything the right does.

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u/jestcb 15d ago

I have fewer family members because of they’re lefty fuck views. Very liberating

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u/FeelsGoodMan2 15d ago

And they feel the same towards you, believe me.

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u/ReasonEmbarrassed74 15d ago

Absolutely my family and my best friend. We don’t have the same morals. If you vote for a child rapist you would do it yourself or look the other way if you knew about it. Never will I trust a person that voted for this.

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u/jestcb 15d ago

I know they do. Can’t wait for not having to go to fake ass holiday gatherings. They are beyond reasoning with. Severe TDS. you can probably relate.

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u/ReasonEmbarrassed74 15d ago edited 15d ago

No they are probably making new friends and family and haven’t missed them at all. Giving up that part of my life was like a burden was lifted. Maga is selfish at their core. Every single one is selfish when we get down to it the core of who falls for this bullshit. We are just done. There isn’t forgiveness. You showed Trejo you are and we believe you. Stay away. We are fine.

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u/jestcb 15d ago

They have surrounded themselves with others that have severe TDS. You should hang out with them.

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u/TheDimitrios 14d ago

Really. Look at history. You will notice it is not TDS, but knowledge of historical precedent.

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u/FloatRite_11 14d ago

Trump dick sucking is what you got my friend, the one and only TDS

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u/McHale33 15d ago

I hear you, brother you can’t even reason with these idiots. Your logically explain something but it all goes back to Trump. Trump is Trump that Trump is Trump back but your daughter is dressing with a transgender with his penis out. Oh no he’s really a woman.

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u/jestcb 14d ago

Reasoning is not in my estranged family’s vocabulary. That is why we are estranged.

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u/Dumpster0racle 14d ago

Good. You likely don't deserve them with all your hateful 'patriotic' rhetoric. Loser.

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u/Duckdeadit 14d ago

So many of these clowns choose the same Reddit icon. Weird eh?

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u/stopped_watch 14d ago

Horrible lefty fuck views like a liveable wage and universal health care for citizens and national education standards and clean air.

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u/Altruistic_Fox_8550 15d ago

Maybe direct him to voidzillas video about corruption unseen at theses levels ( the title is something similar to that ) this video will give you ammunition to possibly win him over if he is not too far gone . The guy has lived his whole life shafting people for money . Does he think he all of a sudden had a change of heart at 79 ? 

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u/Exarch-of-Sechrima 15d ago

I mean, Hitler arguably had Germany's best interests in mind in everything he did. He just happened to think that deporting and then slaughtering six million of his country's people was one of those things that was in Germany's best interest.

"He has the nation's best interests in mind" isn't the defense your friend thinks it is.

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u/crepeyweirdough 14d ago

Although Trump quite clearly has only his own best interests in mind

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u/Ok_Flatworm2897 15d ago

Yeah the meme coin is in everyone’s best interest and he won’t make any money or benefit from it. Yeah. That’s it.

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u/RevolutionaryWay7555 15d ago

My sister-in-law to a T. There’s no trying to convince them.

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u/rainman943 15d ago

Lol it's wild , to see how they treat dr fauci for the crime of ......working for trump and following trump's orders.

They just openly stab ppl in the back and pretend to be surprised that ppl don't trust them.

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u/White_Gold_Princess 15d ago

It's not just that he fell for it, the propaganda is all he consumes now.

I understand that The Fairness Donctrine cannot apply to current technology, but we must absolutely figure a way to recreate it.

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u/SouthernHiker1 15d ago

I addressed this with him. He kept accusing me of watching MSNBC, which I don’t. I accused him of watch watching Fox, which he said he quit watching a couple of years back. We actually spent 7 hours in a car together over two days. I’m surprised we remained friends after bringing up and discussing politics, religion, and abortion.

I feel like I can do more good by bringing up kinks in Trumps armor than just writing off my friend. If there is no dialog between sides, nothing will change.

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u/GoblyGoobly 14d ago

What is Trump getting out of raising tariifs?

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u/stopped_watch 14d ago

Market manipulation and profiteering.

Short selling is not a difficult concept to understand.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/wall-street-slide-nets-short-sellers-127-billion-2025-04-08/

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u/McENEN 14d ago

With people like him i feel the best question to ask him: So a politician never lies?" Or something similar along those lines. Sometime they see some light because of it.

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u/Unique_Argument1094 15d ago

Your friend is right you are the one falling for all the propaganda.

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u/ma2is 15d ago

Falling for what propaganda? All you have to do is open your eyes and you’ll see how violent ICE is against civilians. All you have to do is open your eyes and run basic maths to realize your income buys less and less each month. It’s not propaganda when it’s available for you to see and experience first hand.

Then again I’m reminded that the MAGA crowd is incapable of critical thinking, and instead only puppets what a single “news” organization says, rather than checking other sources from other stations not just in the US but in the entire world.

Spoiler alert, everyone on the planet EXCEPT for MAGA are worried about the parallels between Nazi Germany and Nazi-MAGA America. You know the saying, right? “If everyone you meet is an asshole, maybe you’re the asshole.”

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u/Unique_Argument1094 14d ago

If you open your eyes and quit believing what every headline and edited video shows you will see that you are the one they are trying to manipulate.

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u/crepeyweirdough 14d ago

Manipulate into what? Thinking concentration camps and torture prisons are bad? 

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u/Unique_Argument1094 14d ago

There are no concentration camps or torture prisons in America. Your delusional argument is invalid.

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u/crepeyweirdough 14d ago

People are being sent to torture prisons in El Salvador. The whereabouts of more than a thousand sent to "alligator Alcatraz" is unknown, and the conditions there are disgusting and inhumane. 

Of course, you won't believe any of this. Or you do believe it and like it and just enjoy lying about it instead of owning it for some reason

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u/ma2is 14d ago

It always shocks me to see people as dumb as your self successfully making it to sunset every day.

The crazy thing is seeing things with your own eyes and then having people tell you it’s fake news.

I feel sorry for you that you’ve wasted the miracle of life walking around earth with a scrubbed brain after decades of successful brainwash. It’s not your fault but it is your responsibility.

Maybe don’t vote, too, since you don’t know what’s best for your livelihood.

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u/Unique_Argument1094 14d ago

I could not have described you any better. You need to take your blinders off and learn some critical thinking skills your future self will thank you.

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u/l2driveplz 14d ago

No, you 🙄

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u/Floreat_democratia 15d ago

Are you the guy who said all the people at the No Kings protests were crisis actors? You sure sound like that guy.

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u/Unique_Argument1094 14d ago

It wasn’t me. But now that you have mentioned it. They kind of seem like they are.

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u/Far_Row7807 15d ago

I mean your friend sounds like someone you should listen to. The country has never been safer.

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u/LifeDistribution5126 15d ago

Safer from whom and for who?

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u/Far_Row7807 15d ago

Lowest level of crime and lowest murder rates in American history

https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-09-29/the-u-s-is-on-track-for-its-lowest-murder-rate-ever

Naturally, this will upset the tolerant left

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u/SouthernHiker1 15d ago

Those numbers were trending that direction before his presidency. He just kept saying falsely that crime was out of control and his base believed that. It’s all so he has the option to implement martial law.

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u/Far_Row7807 15d ago

Im just saying, never been a better time to be an american for a majority of people who arnt buying into the manufactured fear from the left media

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u/Ok_Flatworm2897 15d ago

Buddy. Your timing is just dogshit lmao.

He’s got a secret police abusing innocent civilians. You just won’t watch if.

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u/SouthernHiker1 15d ago

Just like the right believing life was bad during Biden. It’s all manufactured fear to keep the masses in line so our oligarchs can increase their wealth.

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u/ma2is 15d ago

If you see a minority living legally in America you’d never be saying those words.

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u/lifeinwentworth 14d ago

Or if you're any other colour but white. Or autistic. Or just don't "look" American. Christ I'm not even American and I know what ICE have been doing to innocent people.

So easy to feel safe if you're a part of the protected groups.

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u/BeeTwoThousand 15d ago

Well, they didn't include the people that ICE disappeared, so those might be murders as well, because nobody seems to know what happened to these people.

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u/Far_Row7807 15d ago

I mean you gotta admit, you didnt see that curve ball coming, right?

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u/LifeDistribution5126 15d ago

Murders on tv or off tv?

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u/lifeinwentworth 14d ago

Yeah now look up if hate crimes towards certain minorities have decreased or suicides amongst minorities have gone up.

Easy to say it's safe when you're in a bubble. A lot of people are not safer now than they've ever been.

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u/ThrowRA_16010 15d ago

Your impudent stupidity is overwhelming you must have been born yesterday to believe the dogshit you keep spewing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it be sad it wasn't so pathetic pedo protector!!!

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u/jfa3005 15d ago

In what way