Nothing surprising given how terrible Trump is, but nonetheless.
He also was present at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in 1927.
TIL Fred Trump, who was Donald Trump's father, wore a Hitler moustache.
Nothing surprising given how terrible Trump is, but nonetheless.
He also was present at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in 1927.
54 Comments
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · 81 pts · 113d
It’s a toothbrush mustache, and more than one historical person wore them, Charlie Chaplin who Hitler likely copied was one of them.
gramie@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 112d
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).
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 112d
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?
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 112d
The difference is that one of them wore it before it got labeled as a Hitler moustache and the other did it after
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social · -5 pts · 112d
and? Things can get tainted by millions dying in tacit relationship. Just like the swastika has been a symbol for centuries before.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 112d
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
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social · 1 pts · 112d
I know zero Adolfs, and would question their parents.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 112d
I know one. He's 104.
Fun fact: in many countries outside the Western world, Hitler is treated as just some dictator.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social · 1 pts · 112d
I would also question people naming their kids after any dictator or famous terrible person, especially one directly responsible for the Holocaust.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 112d
A toothbrush mustache, anything else shows prejudice.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 111d
ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 112d
Oliver Hardy (from the Laurel and Hardy series) also wore one. Without it he looked like a giant baby.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 111d
No Hitler did not likely copy Chaplin, he much more likely kept the "toothbrush" from his WWI army days, when it was common because it fit under a gas mask.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 111d
He was known to be a Charlie Chaplin fan, there’s not proof to either side. It’s not like we can ask him or he let us know for sure. We can speculate though.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 111d
And that's what social media is all about - opinions in a vacuum based on minimal information and defended as if it were a matter of life and death.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 111d
In my original comment I never stated it as a fact, I said likely, since we can’t know for sure.
And are you trying to mock me for just defending my point when you attacked it? That’s… quite the interesting tactic.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 52 pts · 113d
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.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 113d
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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 112d
The chuds stole Pepe from us
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 112d
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.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 112d
Wish I could double-check. It's on the other side of the country from where I live these days!
otacon239@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 112d
I always hated that I’ve found the swatstika frustrating appealing as a shape. Why’d they have to ruin such an interesting geometric symmetry?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 112d
Right? It's such a great design, dead simple yet evocative.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 112d
Are you the gay kid from Curb Your Enthusiasm?
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 112d
That’s not entirely true, they created plenty of unique sigils too, the SS bolts for one.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 112d
Gotta admit, them nazis had pizzazz
frisbird@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 112d
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.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 112d
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.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 113d
And the Trump family business wasn’t originally real estate, no. Fred Trump made his fortune with brothels.
shitbirds of a feather.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 112d
So your comparing owning a brothel is the same as what Hitler did. OK.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 112d
Not in the sex worker empowerment sense, but yes, in the way he subjugated those deemed lesser, I am.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 15 pts · 113d
In Fred Trump's defense, there were a lot of famous people with toothbrush mustaches back then, and Fred Trump simply wore a toothbrush mustache because he was a huge fan of Adolph Hitler.
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 112d
In Germany we like to call it a "Rotzbremse," which translates to snot brake.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 111d
omg, that is brilliant. 😂
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 113d
I heard it was a WWI response to the necessities of gas masks, following a period of artistic facial hair
I’ve no doubt that this guy isn’t one of humanity’s greatest, but it’s not indicative of anything - well, beyond the war at least.
Greg@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 112d
TIL people think Hitler invented the toothbrush moustache
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 112d
He didn’t invent the name Adolf either, but definitely killed it.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social · -4 pts · 112d
Np, just ruined its iconography. Why are you so dense as to fail to understand that? Want to defend it?
Greg@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 112d
lol, I can think Hitler and Trump are awful people AND point out stupid arguments. Stop making stupid arguments.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social · -2 pts · 112d
So dense it is. Sad.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 112d
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?
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 113d
Shit apples don't fall far from the shit tree
lobut@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 112d
I like it when John Oliver was talking about how shit Ivanka is and said something like, "it looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the orange"
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 112d
I really wish we'd stop planting those on this planet.
fonix232@fedia.io · 3 pts · 113d
I'd say it's very on the nose, but this time it's arguably under it, not on.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
Also evicted Woody Guthrie from his house, and got a diss track from him.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
Pre-war soul patch.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 113d
Just a moustache.
Mistress_Metal@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 10d
Well that explains quite a lot, actually...