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there's a really huge issue acting based on historical precedents for "this is the extreme bad", practically every president that has existed since i was old enough to really start comprehending discussions was called hitler by somebody, and yes all presidents resemble hitler in terms of the sheer privilege to inflict damage on other people...yet they are very different at the same time. The whole anti-fascist cause is predicated on the belief that right wingers are totally horrible in comparison to people on the left. Overall, I'm convinced that a lot of the older crime thinc writings (more specifically that manual they wrote) were correct in stating that far right nazis etc. have a particularly traumatizing form of violence, but there's all this horrible stuff that goes on behind the curtains every single day in the united states. Are rapes any worse than what the FBI classifies as "a hate crime"? Uh, we have no evidence whatsoever to believe this. Is child abuse EVER classified as a hate crime? What about the little stressors of daily life which people often believe we have no right to complain about because we can compare it to some worse situation. Americans love hitler, they talk so much about the horrible things he did when there are abundent examples that the american empire may be even more damaging in the long run.

"The plethora is idiocies rampant in the US are stupid enough on their own terms without requiring metaphorical parallels with phenomena from somewhere else where people know to be outraged."

i think you would be shocked to discover that the stupidities and iron-fists that exist in other countries aren't dramatically different from what goes on in other countries. Are there really any axiomatic truths?? You probably will conclude i'm stupid but in the end what's obvious and what isn't is entirely subjective.