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What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler
- lysace 2y agohttps://archive.is/gjkNq https://archive.is/gjkNq
- lysace 2y agoWe presume that things that have been stable for hundreds of years will continue to be stable by just some sheer force of history. This is a falsehood. See also: the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect > The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's law) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age.
- asplake 2y agoImplying an memoryless distribution (eg exponential) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness In the absence of other information it might be as good a basis as any?
- lysace 2y agoHonestly? Your comment makes me feel like I'm in a Curb your enthusiasm show. Except I'm not and much more clever people are working this brand new world, and I really hope they get it right.
- heavymetalpoizn 2y agohaha give it a few years and you will want a non Earth hacker news :) this planet is rotten to the core if someone figures out space travel try scarcity/hierarchy deconditioning for 1k generations and relocate and try elsewhere maybe? but earth can't be fixed forget HN
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- lysace 2y agoEarth is fine. US is obviously currently not fine.
- billy99k 2y agoHeh. It's ridiculous to believe that this only changed with the new administratoon.
- heavymetalpoizn 2y ago[dead]
- d0mine 2y agoMore likely outcome (at least short-medium term for the next [premature] election) is the return to the status quo. It works as follows: when population is starting to see through your BS, make things much worse so that people will long for how things were before. Much less likely outcome is “little man” becoming the great dictator. Though it is a win-win for people with the real power either way.
- Volundr 2y agoHonestly I'm getting pretty worried. We just had the current administration sell a bunch of young men into slavery in a El Salvador (they will be doing forced hard labor) then openly state in a court filings that they had no evidence of these men committing crimes, and still MAGA seems fine with this. I don't know that there's anything Trump can do at this point that will lose him support.
- impendingchange 2y agoHow did MAGA become so rabid during the last administration???
- tim333 2y agoI'm not American but try to be a neutral observer. Obviously the polarized media didn't help but there were a couple or reasonable issues. One the border - apparently there were more illegals turning up than US citizens being born and the Biden admin seemed determined to let it go on to the extent that you did have gangs of South American criminals taking over. That bunch sent to El Salvador probably were 95% illegal immigrant criminal gang members and it's not that outrageous to kick them out, although more due process would be a good thing. Also the whole trans thing - to the majority of people guys thinking they are girls is a bit weird and doing surgery on kids on that basis probably a bad idea. But the dems not only promoted that but the idea you should be cancelled or lose your job if you spoke what you thought. I mean I would have been tempted to vote them out although I'm not right wing.
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- dom96 2y agoI read this and it offers no lessons at all. Just seems to be a retelling of the history. So the title of this article seems like click bait, unless I missed something.
- abound 2y agoThe title is "What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler", and the majority of the piece is about German and foreign press consistently mocking and underestimating him even as he rose to power. It seems like the title and article are pretty well-aligned here.
- InTheArena 2y agoI read another article by this author recently it wasn’t impressed, but this is a pretty impressive piece. The one thing I wish the author went into is the piece: Why is it that people dismissed Hitler with their stereotype of “the small man“ ? I would argue that it was because of confirmation biases and an overwhelming sense that everyone saw the world the same way that they did, and anyone who did not was not worth taking seriously. They saw the benefits of individual rights, liberalism and socialism. This is especially important because Hitler’s appeal was rooted and rejecting the international order. Rejecting how far Europe in general, and Germany in particular had fallen. He saw how the economic order that was so catastrophic to the Germans and connected with Germans who were already disenchanted with liberal and press elites. The fact that he really did not have any solutions other than scapegoating and war for each of those things didn’t really matter because he saw and tapped into anger that others ignored. That made them adore him. I think the Hitler and Trump comparisons are catastrophic bad and misplaced (you can easily convince me of more parallels to Mussolini) - but in this sense, I think ithe comparison here makes easier to understand why Trump supporters see the bile and disregard that the media and political opponents as badges of honor - they increase, not decrease their adoration of him.
- vunderba 2y agoTrump is a constant reminder that it has almost always been easier to build a fanatical following based on mutual hatred then mutual love. "You hate X? I hate X too".
- heavymetalpoizn 2y ago[dead]
- InTheArena 2y agoWelcome to the last 28 years of American political parties. Hating republicans/democrats has been the single simply rallying cry of our political system since George H Bush left office.
- impendingchange 2y ago
- smrtinsert 2y agoAfter reading this article read up on the constitutional flaws in the Weimar Republic. It is fascinating to see how a country can be ultimately brought down by its own legal structure if it's not designed well.
- lysace 2y agoIt is something else to see it happen in real-time. Like a month ago I was defending e.g. Musk against uninformed attacks online.
- InTheArena 2y agoYes. Constitutional change or emergency decrees are a fundamental threat to democracy. I read an article last week from a fscking dean of law from Berkeley arguing that we should hold a constitutional convention so we could sneak in an abolition of the constitution. I fear we are in a world where we’re are simply going to be rotating dictators every 4-8 years unless power is reclaimed from government.
- jaybrendansmith 2y agoAt what point do we fight or flee?
- cyberlurker 2y agoThe frustrating thing is our elected and appointed officials should have been fighting this furiously. Jan 6th should have resulted in actual consequences.
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- iJohnDoe 2y agoGreat article. One classic lesson here is, “Don’t underestimate your opponent.” A powerful opponent is one where they are aware they are being underestimated. Everyone thought he was a “comical figure”. A lot of people said Trump wouldn’t win. Well, they were a bit surprised. The scary thing this time is that more women voters and more democrats needed to get out and vote for Harrison. Failed opportunity. The second scary thing is we see everything happening in real-time with all the knowledge of the past and those in power aren’t doing enough. Second failed opportunity.