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Tennessee State Senator tells inspiring story of a man who lived in squalor, but pulled himself up by his bootstraps and into the history books
- Thread starter DrForester
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In Vienna, Hitler continued the same lazy lifestyle he had enjoyed in Linz after dropping out of school. Kubizek described Hitler as a night owl who slept till noon, would go out for walks taking in all the sights, then stay up late discussing his ideas on everything from social reform to city planning. Hitler made no effort to get a regular job, considering himself far above that. He dressed like an artist and at night dressed like a young gentleman of leisure and often attended the opera.
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Lol, what the fuck. "Homeless scamps." Also it feels like he got to the end of his little lesson forgot that people don't actually like Hitler and tried to sneak in there that Hitler was bad actually.
I feel like this also describes, like, Ben Shapiro's target audience.
Hitler didn't pull himself up by his bootstraps, he pulled himself up by his comically long socks.
Poor, homeless, beaten down? You too could become modern history's greatest monster, all you have to do is embrace the conservative agenda and put in the work.
Like what the fuck?
Like what the fuck?
Today I learned. The part about considering himself above work makes me think of the attitudes of people like Madison Cawthorne, yikes. I mean, I know he idolizes Hitler, but damn.
It is getting close to Hitler's birthday and they all like to honor him in their own special way.
tennessee is in the news often lately and it's never good
what kind of hellscape allows a dude to pop off like this and not immediately bury his entire career
what a nightmare, that state is fucked
what kind of hellscape allows a dude to pop off like this and not immediately bury his entire career
what a nightmare, that state is fucked
Ok, I expected something terrible, but I wasn't prepared for Hitler. What in the actual fuck goes through these people's heads.
This might legitimately be one of the most nonsensical things I've ever heard. In order to illustrate the myth of the bootstrap success story, he chooses fucking Adolf Hitler, misrepresents his history as a youth, highlights how even someone who's living on the streets, which Hitler wasn't, can go on to have a productive life, then realizing far too late you probably shouldn't use Adolph fucking Hitler as your example of positive determination, course corrects that Hitler's life was actually unproductive (???) thereby undermining his entire stupid fucking point to begin with.
He could've just made up a story.
He could've just made up a story.
Republicans admiring Hitler is nothing new. These fucks are just more comfortable admitting it now.
The soundbite is worse.
Good thing Hitler had a productive life, am I right? Fucking Christ.
Good thing Hitler had a productive life, am I right? Fucking Christ.
Came in expecting some weirdo rightwing 'bootstraps' logic about 'I was homeless, all I had was a dream (and five million bucks from my folks)" wasn't prepared for exactly how far right it was going to go
Waiting for it to load I was just thinking to myself "There's a 50/50 chance the man he's talking about is either going to be himself or Hitler."
Good to see the GOP are still incapable of disappointing on that front…
Good to see the GOP are still incapable of disappointing on that front…
I don't even think Hitler came from squalor or anything, I think he had a pretty normal upbringing for the time as the son of a white collar worker at the time. Certainly weren't beggars on the streets and probably more well off than like a factory worker or something.
He's also seemingly conflating this myth that a whole lot of people just want to live off welfare or not get a job with being homeless, when in reality a lot of people who become homeless may have started out in stable careers or had good jobs before a variety of factors including economic distress or mental health leads them down to a situation where they become homeless.
I mean Republicans are by and large narrow minded and heartless people when it comes to understanding any kind of depth or nuance to social issues so it's not like that's surprising, but it's always difficult to see that type of idiocy perpetuated.
Well to be fair he has two lessons in one statement- Hitler made something of himself, oh wait never mind no he didn't you probably shouldn't aspire to be like one of the greatest genocidal dictators who picked a fight with the entire world.