His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will **believe a big lie **sooner than a little one; and **if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. **
https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm
I never understood how normal, kind Germans in the 1920s could be so brainwashed that they’d turn into monsters just a few years later.
Now I’ve lived through it and seen the same transformation within my own family. It’s incredibly sad.
And scary!
It’s very much like how people have created cults, slowly pushing the boundaries people will accept, while also claiming to be the authority of everything and accept no blame. And people crave a sense of belonging, and community. By the time people find out they are following a monster they are so far down the wrong path they feel trapped and it’s the path of least resistance to just go with it. Also an example is made of anyone trying to rock the boat.
Was an episode of The Dollop (podcast) about a teacher that created a cult of his students to show them this exact scenario (how everyday Germans got behind Hitler). I’ll look it up later if nobody beats me to it before then.
Edit - nevermind found it faster than I thought I would.
It’s not just like how people created cults, it’s the exact same recipe. They are cults. I have a friend who is obsessed with true crime podcasts about cults, like, listened to the final recordings of the Jonestown massacre where you can hear people dying from cyanide poisoning in the background obsessed, and he was recently telling me how both Trump and Hitler’s speeches sound exactly like Jim Jones.
Can confirm. I’m currently listening to Transmissions From Jonestown and had this very same thought the other day. I haven’t heard many Hitler speeches but the rambling cadence of Jones and Trump are eerily similar.
crave a sense of belonging, and community
this goes for brand fanbois too-- i’m in another thread full of people frothing at the mouth because i had the gall to point out how some report the company published didn’t make them particularly special within the industry. it’s sad seeing grown ass adults whiteknighting for a corporation, of all things
And i still don’t understand it, even if I’m seeing it happen live with my own two eyes
There really is something wrong
Patriotism is one helluva drug. Also: the socdems and the liberals helped.
I’m not sure it’s accurate to call it patriotism. It’s fine to love your country.
This is nationalism, in other words “my country is better than yours”, or “I’m better than you because I live in a better country than you do”.
It’s fine to love your country.
Agree to disagree.
Care to expand because this seems like a pretty extreme position?
I don’t really see the difference between what you call patriotism and nationalism. It’s both identity politics in favour of the powerful. If I focus on “loving” my country, I might get distracted that both I as well as my siblings from other countries get exploited by the ruling class.
I thought I explained it already. You can love one thing without it automatically meaning you must hate something else.
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.” - Naomi Shulman
So just like any extreme narcissist?
There’s one in specific I think you know is being referred to. And not the one in the photo, one that is, unfortunately, alive today.
I actually thought of Musk first but Trump or Putin or any other dictator probably also fits. Generally most high level politicians are probably like this, but maybe to varying degrees of severity.
Is Putin considered petty?
You could certainly make that argument, even though this meme wasn’t talking about Putin.
This is my answer to that question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable_Russians_(2022–2024)
Putin really likes windows for his “suicides” apparently.
Also the wording of “special military operation” is the peak of pettiness.
Mocking others he disliked
This video exists And honestly that should have been the end of the campaign.
The only time Trump ever told the truth was when he said “I could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any supporters” all he would have to do is say they were a pedo Democrat and he’d gain support…
Uhh who wrote this? No source… do u expect me to just take it as fact? why do u insult me?
You seem to think everything I post is a personal attack against you. First you thought a post about Elon Musk was about you, now you think a post about Donald Trump is about you. I don’t even know you.
Lol… 🤣 no , my intelligence is insulted because no source/ citation…
It’s a memes community.
Wow you didn’t write a fully sourced dissertation on this meme?! Shame on you.
I was going to, but I could decide on MLA or APA citation format, so I just dropped the whole thing.
The real controversy is always in the comments!
1- Why did you post a historical/ journalist piece in the memes community?
2- What is your end goal posting this bit in the meme community?
3- So the first mistake is posting in the wrong sub, the second one is refusing to cite, passing it as a legitimate source for the young naive unsuspecting generation … Even though i am no Sherlock, my confident bet is that your intentions aren’t good… Whatever your replies may be, you already did and the damage is done , this is your contribution to the Lemmy community…
4- Taking account all of the above, even if your intentions aren’t malicious (which I doubt) , you have no actual excuses … except that you are lazy.
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Figure it out for yourself.
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Figure it out for yourself.
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Fuck off.
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See above.
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Hilarious!
I completely agree with you. However, anyone can write anything and as long as it is what people want to hear it will be spoken of as truth. No source required. But if you write something that people do not want to hear, even with sources, many people will not listen and will attack you. Tis a crazy thing about us humans with our biases. Some studies in this human trait would be interesting and beneficial.
Well, u get my upvote because i like promoting intellectual individuals… As a side note , as a person living in an actual third world country, i warn that perhaps a few first world countries have their status hanging by a thread, if it isn’t for a few intellectual and selfless persons carrying the burden of the rest… #RIP #AndrewBreitbart
