>now it’s essentially a “fact” that Social Security has been paying 150 year olds From yesterdays submission "The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitle

>now it’s essentially a “fact” that Social Security has been paying 150 year olds From yesterdays submission "The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oli... : > To this end, Hugenberg practiced what he called Katastrophenpolitk, “the politics of catastrophe,” by which he sought to polarize public opinion and the political parties with incendiary news stories, some of them Fabrikationen—entirely fabricated articles intended to cause confusion and outrage. According to one such story, the government was enslaving German teenagers and selling them to its allies in order to service its war debt. Hugenberg calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse. mmm sounds familiar