• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    You know, I just realized I don’t think I’d ever seen a picture of Hitler smiling.

    So I looked it up. And there are plenty of them. And he looks…nice. Like, it’s weird. He looks like the fun uncle. He looks like there should be a mockumentary of him where he’s played by Steve Carell.

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      4 months ago

      One of the big things they taught us in history lessons was how he came across very charismatic and that he was good at winning people over.

      It’s really important for people to understand and learn in order to not repeat the mistakes of populism, evil people don’t generally go around shouting about how evil they are.

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        4 months ago

        Looking at the past 4000 years of human history, starting with the Egyptian Pharaohs:

        Nope. People dont care, people dont learn. Especially when the make a whole display of how much they learned, like Germany does, you should be worried. Behind the facade lies the fascism, like it is currently furthered by most German political parties.

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        4 months ago

        I’m pretty sure that he kept his relationship with his wife a secret, so that women in the country would be interested in him

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        4 months ago

        Populism isn’t a bad term. People think that they’re exceptional try to portray it that way. These people are usually fascists of one sort or another.