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USA isn't Poland. Trump says dumb things, some BS, and is boorish but isn't Hitler nor anywhere close to it. "The press and journalists" should realize when yo
by bruceb 8y ago
USA isn't Poland. Trump says dumb things, some BS, and is boorish but isn't Hitler nor anywhere close to it.
"The press and journalists" should realize when you push click bait then you give room for Trump and others like him to call you fake news, because sometimes you are
Enough of these scare mongering articles.
- richk449 8y agoYou must not have read the article.
- forapurpose 8y agoI encourage you to read a book on the lead-up to WWII. The similarities are amazing. When Hitler was in power in the 1930s, his propaganda was that he was a man of peace, he only wanted to help Germans (they needed "breathing room" at one point), etc. To the wonder of many contemporaries, much of Europe and the U.S. took him at his word and did nothing - the alternative apparently was too terrible to contemplate. Neville Chamberlain famously negotiated "peace in our time" with Hitler. I recently read a story of someone at the time who talked about everyone acting as if nothing abnormal was happening, a story I've heard many times. In real life, the bad guy doesn't wear a black hat and doesn't stand up and say "I'm evil". You are never going to see stronger signals than what you see now. If what you see isn't enough, nothing ever will be.
- mercer 8y agoGot any good recommendations for such a book?
- forapurpose 8y agoAny serious history of the subject (WWII, Hitler, etc) that covers that time period would include it. It was integral to Hitler's foreign policy. Remember that the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade people as much as to create enough uncertainty and confusion that there is inaction - like FUD in the computer industry.
- vixen99 8y agoAnd would you like to suggest what's precipitated the scenario you see?
- andrewclunn 8y agoYou're trying to reason with an echo chamber. Leave them to their insanity. They only know the pseudo intellectual dribble of the propaganda on which they feed. Wasting your breathe will only grant you condemnation.
- int_19h 8y agoOrban isn't Hitler either, and PiS isn't NSDAP. But they're precursors, in which that sort of thing incubates, until it's ready to hatch. It's all just talk, until it's normalized to the point where it isn't anymore.