Nothing surprising given how terrible Trump is, but nonetheless.
He also was present at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in 1927.
It’s a toothbrush mustache, and more than one historical person wore them, Charlie Chaplin who Hitler likely copied was one of them.
The toothbrush mustache became popular because it was the only kind that would fit under the gas mask. I believe that’s why Hitler had one, he was a corporal in WWI (and was temporarily blinded by a gas attack).
Yeah. That’s all true. But would you say that Micheal Jordan briefly had a Charlie Chaplin mustache? Or would you say Micheal Jordan briefly had a hitler mustache?
The difference is that one of them wore it before it got labeled as a Hitler moustache and the other did it after
and? Things can get tainted by millions dying in tacit relationship. Just like the swastika has been a symbol for centuries before.
The mustache for sure can and has, same thing with names, how many Adolfs yall know?
Chaplin is obviously blameless unless he had future sight, but the thing about the Jordan attempt was that anyone that has even kinda followed Michael Jordan knows that he only did it because he thought he was a big enough icon to overcome the stigma of a Hitlerstache
Clearly his ego had grown too large
I know zero Adolfs, and would question their parents.
I know one. He’s 104.
Fun fact: in many countries outside the Western world, Hitler is treated as just some dictator.
I would also question people naming their kids after any dictator or famous terrible person, especially one directly responsible for the Holocaust.
Well that explains quite a lot, actually…
So did Hardy from the comedy duo Laurel & Hardy, or Charlie Chaplin.
It was a style of moustache that was very popular for a time until Adolf Hitler came along.
Just like the swastika was fucking everywhere for decades before Hitler usurped it. I’ve got an early 1900s Sears catalog with swastika watches, pins, clocks. All when Hitler was basically a tween.
Point being: Fascists always steal culture, they never create it.
Was it the swastika? Or was it a mirrored swastika?
The mirrored one WAS a sign of peace and inclusiveness.
Then one asshole changed everything.
How early? 1920s was when the fascists officially adopted the swastika. Prior to that the Ayran supremacists were using it in Austria.
The fact that it was in the Sears catalog in the early 1900s says more about how much fascism was popular in the US than it does about how innocuous the symbol was at that time.
I believe the catalog is from 1906. So not sure if early Austrian fascism had made it over by steam ship and spread thousands of kilometers across the country before the automobile.
But it was less than 10 years before the resurrection of the Klan, so that was certainly brewing.
I mean this is unfair what time was this photo taken. Since he was alive before WWII. And then you have the point did people of that time call it Hitler mustache like did everyone just shave it off after WWII. Or was it newer generations who called it that?
And the Trump family business wasn’t originally real estate, no. Fred Trump made his fortune with brothels.
shitbirds of a feather.
So your comparing owning a brothel is the same as what Hitler did. OK.
Not in the sex worker empowerment sense, but yes, in the way he subjugated those deemed lesser, I am.
I’d say it’s very on the nose, but this time it’s arguably under it, not on.
In Germany we like to call it a “Rotzbremse,” which translates to snot brake.
Just a moustache.
