• TunaCowboy@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I think we agree that it is important to consider parallels in history, but the US is not 1930s Germany.

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        7 hours ago

        Germany is roughly 138,000 square miles in size, while the USA is approximately 4,000,000 square miles.

        The population of Germany in the 1930’s was roughly 60,000,000, the population of the US today, closer to 400,000,000.

        The US does not share an international border with 10 different countries.

        That’s just for starters. So while I agree there are parallels, there are a lot more differences that you’re not accounting for.

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          4 hours ago

          I don’t think you’re stupid and I think you’re able to read context, so why you’re pretending I wasn’t talking about the political atmosphere and playing this “well actually” game, I don’t know.

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            58 minutes ago

            I really don’t want to argue, and my original comment was a direct response to your assertion that armed resistance in the US (if warranted) is essentially futile.

            Again, yes there are parallels, which I continue to acknowledge, but the US is not Germany in a ton of relevant ways. Subsequently, a direct comparison between 1930’s Germany and 2025 US is inherently flawed, in regard to armed resistance - the main topic of your own original comment.

            Is it possible that while you were busy erroneously ad homineming me with an accusation of '‘well actually(ing)’ you, that it was you who missed context? Or are you pretending I wasn’t talking about the topic of the comment I replied to and playing a ‘well actually’ game?

            My reply to you was not hostile, why default to treating me adversarially? Why instead of discussing the topic that you brought up would you force me into this exhausting position? I believe you can do better than reddit tier.