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@65dBnoise
Man, I think about WWII Germany a lot these days.
Five years ago, I took a graduate class on the Weimar era, with a partial focus on how culture slowly crept in.

I still don't understand a lot of it. The terrible thing is that I went into that class determined NOT to see any parallelsin modern American/Western culture, and now it's terrifyingly all around me.

It blows my mind even more how churches become breeding grounds for extremist ideologies. 😓

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65dBnoise

@RL_Dane
In Mein Kampf, published in 1925–26, he [Hitler] explained that “the masses … more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a little one,” and that even a propaganda claim “so impudent that people thought it insane” could ultimately prevail.

This seems to be a huge problem in the era of the internet, exploiting what appears to be a human (mammal?) trait (emotionally follow the leader) to spread misinformation.

Re: the US and Nazi Germany: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

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