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  • Yeah, the schedule is not identical, he might be a few years ahead of schedule for the deportations, but then again his predecessors have already laid the groundwork for that.

    But it’s not a specific schedule that he has to follow.

    I just really don’t like the line of argument that comes up far to often that Trump can’t be the new Hitler because Trump hasn’t transformed the USA into 1945 Nazi Germany on the inauguration day. Neither did Hitler. It took him 5-6 years to start the holocaust and WW2, and even then the biggest atrocities still took a few more years on top of that.


  • Of course it’s not a 1:1. It’s a counter to people thinking that the holocaust started five minutes after Hitler was in office.

    Things take time, even horribly atrocities.

    And saying “So far people haven’t been gassed, so it’s not an issue and the comparison to Hitler is invalid” doesn’t really make much sense if you take into consideration how long it took for the Nazis to get to the point of Holocaust and WW2.






  • First, define what you are asking for.

    Do you want someone to send you a cardboard box full of RAM? Then forget it. Nobody would be stupid enough to lend that much expensive hardware to someone on the internet.

    Or are you asking for someone to let you run random code on their PC for a few hours? Then forget it. Nobody would be stupid enough to open “a single SSH port” to someone on the internet to run potential malware on their PC.

    That’s exactly what cloud platforms are there for, and if you don’t like google, get any other cloud provider.









  • Yeah, absolutely. And to her follow-up question about whether the American Dream and capitalism aren’t intertwined:

    No, actually not. In fact, the American Dream and capitalism are actually two very opposing concepts.

    In free-market capitalism (and anything that gets close to it), having capital increases your chances to gain more capital. It’s an inherently unstable system that favours people having money over people not having money.

    The American Dream on the other hand says “if you work hard enough, you will become rich”. That’s literally opposing the core capitalist concept, because it means “Even if you don’t start out with money and connections, just working hard will make you successful”.

    Capitalism is a system where hard work alone (and it really doesn’t matter how hard the work is) will not let you break out of your social caste, because you are up against people who work just as hard but have money, education and connections, and you can’t compete against that, even if you work 24h a day.

    The American Dream is not capitalistic, because it doesn’t include the concept of capital at all.