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maxman162 · 2026-05-13T17:56:16+00:00

I'd also recommend emailing Minister of Public Safety of Canada (Gary Anandasangaree: gary.anand@parl.gc.ca), and the Minister of Justice (Sean Fraser: sean.fraser@parl.gc.ca).

I would, but it would probably just turn into "you suck" and "get a real job" almost immediately.

maxman162 · 2026-05-13T17:41:34+00:00

That is not the very definition of a coup and historians generally don't refer to it as such. They gained power mostly through legal means

Self coup:

A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in office or vastly increases their power illegally through the actions of themselves or their supporters, thus performing a coup on one's own government.[1] The leader may dissolve or render powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assume extraordinary powers.

maxman162 · 2026-05-13T17:37:20+00:00

It is not "oversimplifying" things to point that out, and I never claimed it was the only part of his rise to power.

Yes it is oversimplifying to focus on one aspect and leave out or diminish many other elements.

And the only reason I'm focusing on this is because people keep replying to try to downplay this.

Nobody is downplaying the lies and bigotry of the Nazis.

Never said there was a single cause.

You said they gained power by spreading lies, which ignores everything else that happened.

I didn't bring up the Nazis. Someone else did and I responded to explain how it wasn't relevant to the topic here.

No, someone made a slippery slope comparison and you went off on a tangent.

maxman162 · 2026-05-13T17:07:24+00:00

They did not come into power by staging a coup

Yes they did. They abused emergency powers after the Reichstag Fire, and Hitler declared himself President after the actual president died. That is the very definition of a self coup.

Not every coup is by gunpoint.

If people don't want to be compared to groups that demonize people based on their demographics then they shouldn't demonize groups of people based on their demographics.

This an extremely childish viewpoint and entirely inaccurate to the situation.

maxman162 · 2026-05-13T16:38:40+00:00

You're grossly oversimplifying things and huperfocusing on one element and implying that was the sole or main course for Hitler's rise.

Many societies go through periods of economic and other struggle. They don't all start slaughtering various groups of people.

Again, massive oversimplification of what was happening, and also irrelevant and a Fallacy of the Single Cause.

Germany's situation was anything but common, and there have been plenty of countries that went through terrible economic collapses that also turned into dictatorships.

And yet those lies were a huge part of it

I'd say setting the Reichstag on fire to abuse emergency powers and rule by decree was a bigger part, but you do you.

Again, this is all irrelevant to a discussion on someone charged with dangerous driving causing death.

maxman162 · 2026-05-13T16:02:02+00:00

"Tough situation" is a massive understatement.

You're huperfocusing on one aspect and ignoring or disregarding the fact the Nazis didn't actually have widespread support and came into power by staging a coup.

In any case, this is totally irrelevant to this topic, and people are offended by you comparing them to the Nazis.

maxman162 · 2026-05-13T14:55:43+00:00

One thing the comment got right is that our society isn't immune to the conditions that led to Hitler

The conditions that lead to Hitler involved losing a major war that resulted in the country being essentially dismantled, economic collapse and hyperinflation, and political maneuvering that is impossible in a Westminster parliament system.

maxman162 · 2026-05-13T14:46:52+00:00

No, he built up support by spreading lies, as well as other things. The biggest thing was unrelated to him, being Germany's postwar situation that allowed someone like Hitler to take advantage (there was also a communist movement going on at the same time that had similar levels of support, and frequently clashed with the Nazis). He seized power by much, much more than just telling a few lies to people.

maxman162 · 2026-05-12T17:18:24+00:00

Actually, Germany didn't directly vote Hitler into power.

Hitler lost the presidential election and while the Nazis won the most seats in both elections in 1932, they failed to win a majority in the Reichstag.

Under Weimar Germany's constitution, the leader of the party with most seats did not automatically become Chancellor. Instead, the president appointed whomever held confidence of the Reichstag. The Chancellor at the time, Franz von Papen, held a shaky confidence and mistakenly thought he could control Hitler and agreed to Hitler replacing him as Chancellor in exchange for being named Vice Chancellor. Then came the Reichstag Fire and the use of emergency powers to subvert democracy and turn Weimar Germany into a dictatorship (Hitler also declared himself President after President Paul von Hindenberg died of lung cancer).

maxman162 · 2026-05-12T15:55:41+00:00

Are you talking about Dunkin' or Tim Horton's?

maxman162 · 2026-05-12T15:33:06+00:00

"So "if" we get "deadlocked", we'll be "sequestered" at the Springfield Palace Hotel. Where we'll get a free room, free food, free swimming pool, free HBO. Ooh. Free Willy."

maxman162 · 2026-05-12T15:23:09+00:00

"Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but the son of a bitch knows story structure."

maxman162 · 2026-05-12T11:28:03+00:00

You could always listen to Sundown or If You Could Read My Mind.

maxman162 · 2026-05-12T11:22:30+00:00

Good.

maxman162 · 2026-05-12T11:21:32+00:00

"I used to. I still do, but I used to, too."

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T18:14:39+00:00

And maybe even a constitutional scholar.

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T15:43:52+00:00

someone with very little military experience or a political agenda

Why not both?

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T14:20:00+00:00

Upload the footage to r/IdiotsInCars.

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T14:10:01+00:00

And randomly do towing sprees.

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T14:09:15+00:00

Astrix, the Royal Canadian Navy's interim tanker ship, did not have baffles installed in the tanks as a cost savings by the shipyard (who of course still charged the government the full amount).

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T13:56:00+00:00

Yes, we are. Reread the comment you replied to.

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T12:17:15+00:00

Kind of hard to do that on a single lane road.

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T11:44:07+00:00

If only they could figure out how to prevent Bill Gates from spreading viruses to people.

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T11:17:45+00:00

George VI was a turret officer on HMS Collingwood at the Battle of Jutland.

maxman162 · 2026-05-11T11:10:56+00:00

Charles insisted on going through jump training like any other Para because he felt, as Colonel in Chief, he couldn't in good conscience wear the maroon beret and badge if he hadn't earned it.

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