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He's continually trying to bait people who hate him into making themselves look worse, this is possibly based on direct advice from Trump, who has decades of experience inflaming specific enemies. While I've been using reddit less and less over the years, the core site /r/all became entirely worthless for a week due to the latest round of screeching that he passively instigated. My daily time here, on twitter/x and just doing stuff irl has increased by a few hours.
I'm inclined to think he really did mean a nice heart goes out to you gesture, but it was passive instigation insofar as it doesn't take long to type something like "Hitler was a particularly evil mass murderer, in addition to being cruel and stupid. He was not only a bad leader in policy and war, he was a shitty artist and his conduct from 1942 on suggests he was a psychopath who didn't even care about Germany. Fuck that loser, he deserves hell, fuck the rest of the Nazis too, God bless the memory of their millions of innocent victims and the memory of the millions of heroes who fought, bled and died to stop them." This line doesn't contain an apology or even acknowledge the arm issue, but would chill most of the freakout crowd, and wasn't made precisely because he considers the freakout a net positive for him.
The halo effect (reversed) means that even if Hitler was a good artist, nobody would think he was.
Eh, yes and no. https://www.wikiart.org/en/adolf-hitler/halaman-rumah-tua-di-munchen https://www.wikiart.org/en/winston-churchill/racecourse-nice-1921 https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-franco/still-life-with-eagle
Franco has more technical skill, Churchill has more charm. I guess we'd need some art teachers who personally hate Churchill and at least don't dislike Hitler if we were talking about a more objective analysis. Maybe from Bangladesh or other Indian subcontinent Muslims ?
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