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the dang cheeto is just like freakin star wars and transformers mixed into one!!!!

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

American villains, like their heroes, are all fictional because they've never been in the position of being the victim. Hitler is the closest to holding that position but in the American mind he's an abstract concept that happened far away (even that's more out of obligation/a sense that it's the right thing to do because Hitler was evil. You lay out his ideas but replace Germany with America and chuds lap it up). Bin Laden was up there too since at least 9/11 happened on American soil, but beyond using him/terrorism as an excuse to invade/bomb half a dozen countries he hasn't stuck in the American mind as a long term boogieman. Same with Saddam, you have american media of the time making him out to be this Hitler level threat (including SouthPark making him worse than Satan) but ultimately they found him saddam-hussein and every American memory holed him (except to point out Barack HUSSEIN Obama) because they know Saddam was never a threat to them personally or the United States as a whole.

Also they don't even get the movies right, if they really thought Trump = Palpatine+Hitler+Megatron then the obvious course of action supported by both the movies themselves and real fucking history is illegal-to-say but that would violate "norms". You gotta just sigh and say "this is how democracy dies" and hope you can oppose Palitlertron legally (until he makes your existence illegal oopsie)