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Trump plan for Madison Square Garden rally compared to infamous Nazi event (www.theguardian.com)

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Republicans denounce comparison of 27 October event to notorious 1939 rally made by Democrats and Jewish leaders

Donald Trump’s decision to hold a rally in the heart of Manhattan on 27 October, nine days before election day, has been slammed by New York Democrats, with one comparing the booking to an infamous Nazi rally held at the same venue in the lead-up to the second world war.

But it has also triggered a backlash to such sentiments, with Republicans saying such rhetoric heightens tensions even more in a presidential election campaign which has already seen two attempts on Trump’s life.

The Democratic state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose district includes much of the west side of Manhattan where a date on Trump’s “arena tour” rally has been booked at Madison Square Garden, called on venue owners to cancel the event.

"Let's be clear," Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X. "Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939."

Hoylman-Sigal was referring to a pro-Hitler rally, organized by the German American Bund, that was attended by more than 20,000 people and featured a portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. Many attendees came from Yaphank, Long Island, where the Bund was headquartered and had a summer camp teaching Nazi ideology.

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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 4 points 2 months ago

So you're saying we should give the fascists a chance because maybe they aren't going to do exactly what their 900 page manifesto says they plan on doing? Do you think the world was too hard on Hitler too? I honestly don't see how you can "both sides" a fascist in good faith, so I have to assume you have already chosen your side as the one being attacked here. And I'm going to use my brain to say I'm 100% not with fascists because it is that black and white.

[-] Ithorian@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago

Just where did i say they deserve a chance? You are consumed in your on brain. I just said that too much negavity can have the wrong effect and you already call me a Nazi, you just proved that i am right. Im not gonna keep answering to you, good luck

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

"I'm not saying you should tolerate them. I'm also not saying you should criticize them."

So what are you saying?

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 points 2 months ago

If you are that polarized you need a brain brother, things are not black and white as you try to put them. But i got you, its the easy way “with me or against me”, that’s the kind of thinking of a true dictator

How is one supposed to read that and not see it as a call to stop picking on the fascists because things "are not black and white"? And that calling out a fascist trying to destroy American democracy as taking the easy way of "with me or against me". And you stated that you think calling out a wanna be dictator is "thinking like a true dictator" because we apparently aren't just giving him a free pass. And I didn't say you were a Nazi, you did. I just said you seem to see yourself on the side of the fascists, and a call out of them is somehow a call out of you.

Also seeing this want to be fascist doing things absolutely should be called out every single time, because when people stop calling them out they become normalized. And when they become normalized, suddenly things like tracking women's period cycles and charting their travel isn't "out of the ordinary". Things like banning porn and running weird apps on all family devices so that everyone gets an alert when someone watches porn so they can be turned in seems common. With the end result being we are living under a full-on Christofascist dictator very much resembling the Handmaid's Tale. And if this were to happen, 0% chance is stays contained to the US, and that the US wouldn't allow the Dictators of the world free reign on everything outside our borders. All they need do is give Trump compliments and he'll sell out everyone.

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