Originally published at: Tennesse GOP senator praises Hitler for overcoming homelessness | Boing Boing
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Other ridiculousness aside, if being unhoused is something you decided to do rather than a lifestyle that was thrust upon you then you may not be a representative sample of the homeless population.
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Except that many conservatives fundamentally believe that the homeless are doing this because they are lazy. So, it’s a choice.
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Up next, how slavery was good for Black people.
For my encore, I’ll be sharing the fact that women really want to quit their jobs, stay at home and be baby factories.
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If Hitler were alive today, he would make your commute run much smoother. With lower gas prices.
Seriously, when I saw the headline I assumed it was Blackburn. Much less surprised to see it was a state senator. OK, not all that much surprised.
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Even his fig leaf doesn’t really work. You can say a lot about Hitler’s later life, but unproductive it wasn’t.
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Of ALL the other people who were homeless at one point and went on to do something… he picks this guy…
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It’s probably the only one of those people whose autobiography he’s read
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Yeah I was thinking “the Bible that those people pretend to care so much about is full of stories about folks who were homeless at one time or another and he decides to go with Hitler?”
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Say what you want about Hitler, at least he killed Hitler
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How about “counterproductive?”
Unless your metric was boosting German military supply contracts.
But seriously, how dismal is this? I’d think this is the most basic rule in public life: “When making inspirational stories, try something other than Hitler.”
If his opponents don’t consistently hammer hard on this as evidence of his pro-Hitler leanings, they’re guilty of political malpractice.
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Well, a lot of the other famous ones went on to preach compassion, advocate for social justice, or push for change to address homelessness and its causes. In the GOP book, that makes them worse than Hitler.
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Here’s a case where a good dose of shame would really come in handy.
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so what i’m hearing is that Hitler (in addition to all his OTHER things) was also lazy, or something.
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I mean, Jonah was so unappreciative.
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That’ll be why he was so keen on making most of the people of the East End of London (just to mention one place) homeless by destroying their houses by bombing. He was encouraging them to make more of themselves. Many of them did and he may have later regretted it.
(Do I need a /s?)
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Imagine being this dumb and not knowing how dumb you were.
Imagine thinking Hitler, in later years, led a “productive” life.
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