President Donald Trump

That's not the origin of the slogan. The origin is way older than Nazis and KKK. And it has been used by dozens of mainstreamers in both the Democrats and Republicans. It also has a meaning all by itself. It's a basic idea

You weren't informing anything, you were presenting the biased, propagandized view of someone who sees Nazis under the bed and has no perspective left.

That you boil down America First to Nazi revival shows how rotten you are in the head on this stuff. Really.

Ok buddy, you sure sound like the reasonable, level-headed one here and I'm the one whipped into a frenzy and seeing ghosts under the bed.

Also, I edited this in after you responded:

Nevertheless, it is a fact that the Trump campaign has used Nazi iconography and Trump himself has used Nazi rhetoric in the past, and it would be rather charitable to ascribe this to a simple accident or oversight.

Peace out.

I scoffed at it because I have serious doubts about 'calculating' something that is not subject to quantification in any straightforward way (if at all). Jeremy Benthem gave it a good shot, though. I mean, how many doughnuts would you have to eat (if you enjoyed donuts) to equal the happiness of seeing your newborn child for the first time? Benthem thought there was a way to figure that out with his Hedonic Calculus (TM Pending).

That said, I suspect folks in Germany were far and away 'happier' in 1936 under Nazism than they were ten years before that.

took less than a fortnight for Braincell to out himself as a nazi

you have to be sad for at least eight years after losing a world war

I know it was a typo, but 'absuridity' should absolutely be a word.

Yes I know why you scoffed at it. I was just amazed you did so without even looking at how it was calculated.

And what exactly do you think your vague suspicion about Germans in the 1930s with no supporting evidence at all has to do with this topic? Do you also believe that ranking was done on evidence-less suspicions? If not, then so what?

I mean, once you're whipped into the frenzy, it's near impossible to escape it. The socially reinforced confirmation bias does the rest. It's happened with hundreds of things throughout history.

And yes. The Trump = Nazi thing is pure hysteria. I watched the Elon Nazi salute furor with amazement from Europe, I couldn't believe what i was seeing. You guys have gone full weirdo over there, whipped into a frenzy by hysterical news anchors and online froth.

And it's not a left/right thing. I watch the right's capture by Russian propaganda and its moral failure around that with equal amazement for what it's worth. American media really does breed a nation of hyped up weirdos.

foot,

have you read Julius Evola?

It's actually fun to say. But hey cut me a break, my phone literally hates me, or at least actively tries to sabotage my typing.

As I say bud, you're the only sane one, it's the rest of us that are crazy. Story checks out.

Russia exploits the same Nazi messaging by the way. Most of Russia is convinced Ukraine is full of Nazis, despite Ukraine having the least Nazi support in all of Europe. It's easy to do - once you put the idea in people's heads, confirmation bias does the rest, and little details like the president being an out and proud Jew, or the lowest far right vote in all of Europe, makes no difference. They'll see a tattoo on one soldier, or hand gesture from Zelensky, and go Aha! Nazis!

Seeing American captured by the same propaganda and hysteria is pretty weird.

That's the norm for most lefties in this forum. You'll have to get used to it to survive here.

Right. Any coverage calling any administration fascist or authoritarian is always propaganda, regardless of the source or the target of the coverage. Russian coverage of fascists in Ukraine is propaganda, ergo any coverage calling Trump fascist or authoritarian is also propaganda. Solid logic, bruh.

And Trump essentially revived it from two-time Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan.

Fun watching you help prove pokerfooty correct in his view that lefties get their panties in a wad at the drop of a hat. (If you'll pardon the mixed metaphors)

This is worse than anything this poker foot lover guy has posted

I will never, ever care whether you guys think me being upset at fascists taking over my country is somehow bad. You're damn right I'm pissed and I stopped putting up with it a long time ago. Spoiler: I'm going to be pretty pissy until this administration is out and forgotten. If you don't like it, you got exactly one option. And if you think you're somehow scoring internet points because I'm pissed, then charge the scoreboard batteries baby.

both sartorial metaphors, it works for me

yes

he hasn’t posted all his views yet

True. When you've been given full blame for the The Great War it took a while to Make Germany Happy Again.

What was their Happiness Score?

I saw the rating system on their website. But their system doesn't obviate the problems with such a survey that I pointed out.

So, is Israel REALLY the eighth happiest country? I thought sure it was only tenth. Or maybe seventh? I dunno, and I suspect nobody else does either.

Anyhoo, since you're the one who brought the Happiness Index into the conversation, could you please explain to us why we should believe anything it says? Thanks!

Probably closer 0 than 100. But who knows?

[strike]Hard[/strike] Impossible to quantify the unquantifiable. At the very least it would assume an agreed upon definition of happiness, which itself is almost certainly elusive.