{"id":36658,"date":"2016-12-16T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36658"},"modified":"2018-09-18T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:34:05","slug":"esr-on-the-trump-is-hitler-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/esr-on-the-trump-is-hitler-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"ESR on the &#8220;Trump is Hitler!&#8221; meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He posted this the other day on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+EricRaymond\/posts\/HckYg8NGxMi?sfc=true\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reading this [<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/mtracey\/how-to-violently-prevent-trump-from-taking-power-77f30a7f399f#.192igfdo7\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>] put me in mind of a slightly different scenario. So I&#8217;m throwing this gauntlet down to anyone who has ever said the &#8220;Trump is Hitler&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>One is that you believe what you&#8217;re saying. in which case you have a moral duty to <em>find Trump and kill him<\/em>. With a scoped rifle. With a suicide vest. With hands and teeth. With <em>anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The other is that you don&#8217;t actually believe Trump is Hitler, but find it advantageous to say so, posturing for demagogic political gain.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not a liar and a demagogue, why are you not strapping on weapons <em>right now?<\/em> Put the fuck up or <em>shut the fuck up<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He posted this the other day on Google+: Reading this [link] put me in mind of a slightly different scenario. So I&#8217;m throwing this gauntlet down to anyone who has ever said the &#8220;Trump is Hitler&#8221; thing. There are only two possibilities. One is that you believe what you&#8217;re saying. in which case you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[173,1037,1235,969,480,424,720],"class_list":["post-36658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-assassin","tag-donaldtrump","tag-esr","tag-hitler","tag-hypocrisy","tag-morality","tag-protest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9xg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36659,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36658\/revisions\/36659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}