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[–] 173 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

The specific quote:

“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”

From the article:

Laura Barrón-López, White House correspondent for PBS, told viewers last night, “I checked with a historian, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and she said that language that he’s using ... echoes language used in Nazi propaganda by Adolf Hitler when Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were ‘causing a blood poisoning’ of Germany.

Additional site reporting the same (in an interview):

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-amplifies-violent-rhetoric-against-his-perceived-enemies-as-civil-fraud-trial-begins

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  • [–] 107 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from…

    …and we know they come from…

    Ok, logically, at least one of these is guaranteed to be a lie.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you think of a trump speech like a LLM talking, you realize that he frequently doesn't know where a sentence will go when he opens his mouth because he's just stringing words and concepts together in a freeform flashy propaganda wordsalad.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    LLMs nowadays have more long range structure than a Trump speech. Trump is more like an attention-free Markov chain.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Markov chains occasionally produce something clever or unexpected though. For example King James Programming (a Markov chain generator fed with KJV, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond's writings) sometimes wrote some amusing things. Later Why's Poignant Guide was added as an additional source, and still later started mixing in posts from a second generator fed the works of Lovecraft and Isabelle/HOL documentation.

    Investigate the shell’s here documents and Python’s triple-quote construct to find out the Almighty unto perfection

    they smote the city with the edge of the sword. 22:20 And one of his main motivations was the high cost of proprietary software houses.

    I know not why I went thither unless to pray, or gibber out insane pleas and apologies to the calm white thing that lay within; but, whatever my reason, I attacked the half-frozen sod with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a bounded natural functor (BNF)—a well-behaved type constructor for which nested (co)recursion is supported.

    2:4 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more like a controlled use of shared memory.

    Using Lisp we restrict or limit not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us.

    It even produced more coherent political notions than Trump:

    But the right to bear arms—you don’t want to edit

    All of those quotes are in the first 3 pages, out of 94.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let's play everyone's favorite game show - Trump or Hitler!

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I....I don't like this game....

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  • [–] 149 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Just now? THIS is pushing the envelope? Lmao

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  • [–] [S] 47 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yes, using an almost exact Hitler quote is pushing the envelope because it's a new level for him.

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  • [+] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, he is pushing the envelope now. And in the past. And in the future. Asking Donald Trump to not be a trash fire is like asking gravity to suddenly reverse. It ain't happening.

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    [–] 94 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were ‘causing a blood poisoning’ of Germany.”

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  • [–] 81 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Alternate headline: "Racist racists racistly"

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    [–] 76 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Only a matter of time before he starts talking about a "Final Solution" to the immigrant problem...

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Donald Trump, second generation German immigrant, who has lived within sight of Lady Liberty most of his life, what an embarrassment, not only to Americans, but specifically New Yorkers, one of the most mixed melting pots of a city in the entire world. What a racist idiot, especially when you consider the fact that south and central Americans were here before white people, so if anybody is diluting America's blood line, it's white motherfuckers like myself and Donald Trump.

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    They’ve been using regular whistles instead of dog whistles since about 2016. Good job, journalism. You finally figured out what we all knew.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Msnbc with the soft-pedal. Corporate news continuing to fail us at almost every turn.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I can't really comprehend how evangelical Christians find this man to be at all acceptable. In fact, he's treated as some sort of savior. Major disconnect.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's easy when you understand that their moral framework is actually completely hollow, and their independent moral intuition is completely atrophied to the point that they are unable to conduct even basic moral synthesis.

    Religion, as we know it, has always been a framework for social control and cooperation. The morality bits have always served this end, so it's not really surprising that in our modern context they just dispense with any moral pretenses as soon as they are in obvious conflict with their power aspirations.

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    [+] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    it's just gonna get more and more shrill as he swirls farther down that shitter bowl

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago*

    When a reporter asked how his five children were doing, the former president loudly exclaimed:

    “Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Will the fucking "liberal media" wake up if he starts using the original German?

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    This azzclown is becoming more of a NPC from Wolfenstein every freaking day. He won’t spill blood himself but trust and believe he’ll be furthest in the rear slopping it all up.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Mark my words, this mother bugger getting arrested before these trials even over.

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