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Bobby. wrote on Feb 17^th, 2025 at 2:31pm:


Yeah, a bit unfair.

Hitler wasn't an adjudicated rapist.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 17^th, 2025 at 5:15pm:


Oh yeah, Hitler was bad alright.

They don't come much worse.

But to liken him to Trump is a bit unfair, as Adolph wasn't an adjudicated rapist.

Apart from that though, I guess they're pretty similar.



Although, I'm guessing Trump can't grow facial hair.

Frank wrote on Feb 17^th, 2025 at 9:14pm:


Which part do you have an issue with - the facial hair?

Bobby. wrote on Feb 18^th, 2025 at 11:17am:


How easy to create Project 2025?

Bobby. wrote on Feb 17^th, 2025 at 2:31pm:


Hitler did some good things, Bobi. DL said.

White Protection League 101, innit.

KangAnon wrote on Feb 18^th, 2025 at 1:52pm:


You pompous ass!

While there is no evidence that Napoleon ever spoke these words, different versions of the quote have been attributed to the French leader many times over the last century and a half. It is sort of a folklore distillation of Napoleon’s claim to legitimacy.

The idea that a leader who acts to save his country should not be considered a criminal has deep roots in political philosophy, stretching back to Cicero, the Roman statesman and orator. In his work De Legibus (On the Laws), Cicero argued that salus populi suprema lex esto—”the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.”  Trump’s invocation of the Waterloo quote plays on this same theme—suggesting that, far from being a usurper, he represents the will of the people against a corrupt elite.

For Trump’s critics, the post was proof of their worst fears, confirmation that he sees himself as a leader who transcends legal constraints.

The modern concept of Bonapartism was shaped primarily by Karl Marx’s study of Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Marx saw Bonapartism as a phenomenon that emerges when the political class is too weak or fragmented to govern effectively, creating an opening for a leader who appeals directly to the people, often by casting himself as a national savior above party politics.

This characterization of Bonapartism has also been scrutinized by conservative thinkers, who have typically viewed it with skepticism. In 19th-century Prussia, King Frederick William IV and his advisor Leopold von Gerlach saw Bonapartism as a destabilizing force that combined mass politics with executive absolutism, undermining the role of traditional institutions like the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the church. Gerlach famously described Bonapartism as “the dangerous and great power… this child of the vile marriage of absolutism and liberalism,” highlighting the way it fused state control with popular mobilization.

French historian René Rémond later expanded on this by identifying Bonapartism as one of the three major traditions of the French right, alongside Legitimism and Orléanism. Where Legitimists favored the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and Orléanists championed a constitutional, business-friendly monarchy, Bonapartists represented a strong, centralized executive power that operated outside traditional party structures. Rémond saw figures like General Georges Boulanger, who nearly overthrew the Third Republic in the 1880s, as inheritors of this tradition. Some elements of Bonapartism even carried into Charles de Gaulle’s leadership style, though he maintained democratic legitimacy.

But if Bonapartism is defined by centralizing executive power beyond traditional constraints, then the comparison to Trump quickly falls apart. Unlike Napoleon, who established an imperial regime, expanded state control, and restructured France’s governing institutions to concentrate power in himself, Trump is doing the opposite—dismantling entrenched bureaucracies and pushing power out of Washington. His presidency has been about firing, not hiring, career officials; cutting, not growing, federal agencies; and withdrawing, not expanding, military commitments abroad. The irony is that his critics accuse him of hoarding power while simultaneously demanding that power remain with the very institutions that resist democratic oversight.

Perhaps a better paradigm to compare Trump and Napoleon is the perspective of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the German philosopher. Hegel held Napoleon Bonaparte in high regard, viewing him as a pivotal figure in world history. Hegel saw Napoleon as the embodiment of the “World Spirit”—a personification of the historical force driving humanity toward greater freedom and self-awareness. This admiration is evident in a letter Hegel wrote to his friend Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer on October 13, 1806, during the Battle of Jena, where he described witnessing Napoleon:

“I saw the Emperor—this world-soul—riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.”

Hegel argued that certain individuals, like Napoleon, played crucial roles in actualizing the progression of history. These “world-historical figures” emerge when existing societal structures become obsolete, acting as agents of change who, through their actions, advance the development of human freedom and consciousness. In Napoleon’s case, Hegel saw the consolidation of the revolutionary ideals of liberty and equality into a new political order, marking a significant transformation in the historical landscape.

Friedrich Nietzsche saw Napoleon Bonaparte as a figure who illustrated the tensions within the noble ideal, a man who reshaped history through sheer force of will but whose career exposed the limits of power and greatness. In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche described Napoleon as “this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman,” admiring his ability to transcend conventional morality and impose his vision upon the world. Napoleon was, for Nietzsche, not simply a conqueror, but a living challenge to the mediocrity and complacency of his time—someone who seized destiny rather than submitting to it.



Trump is a MARXIST!!!!