• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    How would you say trump is like Hitler? Do you have to describe the Holocaust in few words within a long ass German style word?

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      10 hours ago

      Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons.

      One old way would be: “Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece” which means “They’re cut from the same (bad) fabric”.

      Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such.