The Nazis praised the US’s “scientific” approach to racism and eugenics.

Measuring people’s heads; IQ tests served in a person’s non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people “dangerous”, “criminals” with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)

Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic “we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion”.

A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they’re coming right back around.

This is an educated meme.

Pretty much what’s been happening in the US government recently

Boomer humour

I disagree. Most of the people Trump has pardoned, helped or gotten along with are libertarians.

They’re millionaires / billionaires who hate taxation and regulations because it gets in the way of their ruthless means of making money.

Trump is more than happy to help them to do that. He runs the government like a quid-pro-quo crime syndicate where you can buy yourself favours, including getting out of jail.

His authoritarianism only targets the poor; whatever scapegoat-du-jour the far-right hate today (trans, LGBT, minorities, immigrants); and anyone that tries to protect them.

He needs votes to stay in power, and since he can’t appeal to the left because everything he does is diametrically opposed with them (regulation, social spending, taxation of the rich) he has to pander to the far-right to keep a majority. Even if he is likely more right than far-right himself.

The requirements to get pardoned under the current administration are:

• Be white
• Be rich or high profile
• Be generally aligned with the right
• Claim your incarceration was politically motivated (it almost never is)

Your crime does not matter. Trump will accuse foreign refugees of being drug dealers and violent criminals, then pardon drug dealers and violent criminals if they were white and high profile enough (Google Ross Ulbricht as an example).

So, all things considered, SBF seems to qualify!