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Hitler famously dismantled the German democracy in 53 days. We're now 54 days into Trump's presidency, and while he's very close to achieving the same thing with the US republic, he hasn't quite done it yet.

Hitler 1, Trump 0.

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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost 50% of the way there - even if he fails, who knows how much damage he's done and how long it would take to repair....

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use this metric and it's more like 72% of the way there.

Full-blow fascism can be achieved well before the whole of Project 2025 is put in place, apparently.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a really neat dashboard - seems to be sentiment analysis?

I would say Pronect 2025 is more structure based, while that seems more national psyche based - but extremely important (probably can't have one without the other... 😞)

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not sentimental: it attempts to measure the percentage of each of the 14 characteristics of fascism the United States meets, then combines them into a single "fascism completion" score.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it not using sentiment analysis to measure the percentage of each article?

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Yes of course, an article is subjective to a large degree. What I meant was that the site tries to itemize all the issues so as to minimize the subjectivity.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's never been a graceful loser; don't let your guard down

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yeah but in this case, I doubt he'd dare publicly defend his track record against that of Hitler.
...or would he?

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I'm sure if Hitler had a famous horse cock he sure would

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hitler did have big hands so...

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

....the biggest, some say

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Musk probably will, though.

[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Weimar Germany had lost its colonies and much of its foreign influence in a way the USA hasn't. Biden's regime was actively participating in a foreign genocide while continuing Trump's border policies and continuing the decade plus war against factions in Yemen. Trump is trying to preserve that stuff (and the expand the prison industrial complex and stuff) so they aren't able to choatically collapse everything quite as hard as they want to.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Run's over, time to restart.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Paywall bypass of The Atlantic article OP linked to:

https://archive.md/IcrVT