• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    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

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      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.

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        “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

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    4 months ago

    Uhh who wrote this? No source… do u expect me to just take it as fact? why do u insult me?

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      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.

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        Lol… 🤣 no , my intelligence is insulted because no source/ citation…

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            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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      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.

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        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

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      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…

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      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.

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        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.