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		Spooky23 on July 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coup attempt underway in Turkey Before Hitler was Hitler he was just another demagogue. That said, Hitler is about as close to the personification of pure evil as you get in secular society. So it's an inept analogy.

tamana on July 16, 2016 [–]

Hitler was a bog standard 19th-20th century genocidist who had the efficiency of German engineering as a force multiplier. He wasn't so different from Andrew Jackson who conquered North America or Stalin who slaughtered his own Russia

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