• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    It’s going to be Germany 1933-1945 all over again, except the leader is considered even more of a clown than the first time.

    • Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      30 days ago

      Yeah, the way the history books painted Hitler was like he was a supervillain with the power of convincing people to do what he wants against their will. Now I know that’s probably not true and that the Germans were probably just dumb as fuck pieces of shit that would’ve hammered their own faces if they were told to.

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        30 days ago

        There were already plenty of examples to show that making people viscerally hate an arbitrary group of people is incredibly easy. The Stanford prison experiment is so well-known because it perfectly outlines our own innate desire to fit in, even when it means becoming evil, despite how much we want to convince ourselves that we’re above it.

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      28 days ago

      worse, with modern regulation evidence is erased as it’s created… so much survived WW2 as record keeping was easy to smuggle out and was leaked via word of mouth…

      England nearly gave in to Germany long before the bombs hit english soil, when they were invading France… we can see parallels to that now and our leaders are in lockstep as unlike Germany who’s economic power was in the toilet before the war, the countries in question now based the world’s systems of trade and economy off of them to ensure it would destabilize everyone if something happened…