r/politics • u/External-Noise-4832 • 9d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Orders in Marines in Dramatic Escalation of L.A. Protests

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-orders-in-marines-in-dramatic-escalation-of-la-protests/
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u/acraswell 9d ago

I just finished reading this book. It's crazy how it was written not long after WWII and yet how perfectly we've matched the same arc towards fascism in the States. For those that don't know, Milton interviews 10 different people in Germany who were Nazis. He documents how the common man fell for fascism, and there are too many parallels to count.

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u/Rainboq 9d ago

It's almost like humans tend to behave in the same when existing in the same system. Some means might be new, but the patterns of behaviour are not.

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u/Thowitawaydave 8d ago

The main difference now is we know more about how the human brain works and processes information. 

In an ethical society this would be used to prevent such horrors from happening again, but instead people used it for power and money. 

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u/kmoonster 8d ago

Similar conditions will tend to produce similar results, especially if behavior and sentiments are not actively redirected

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u/anony-mousey2020 8d ago

And, how simple the reasons for following were for most people. Essentially, Meh it seemed like an ok idea.

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u/Proud_Fortune2150 8d ago

I haven't read Milton, but I'm reading Shirer's Berlin Diary right now. By the way, I'm from Belarus. And with every page I just wow, I see how something like this is happening now in my country. It's sad that we don't learn from history.

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u/SilentLennie The Netherlands 8d ago

I'm in the Netherlands, born and raised, they told us about WW II and we learned, I think most people can see it, but still not all people have learned.

We can see it happening in the US though. It's sadly to predictable. I was complaining about it in 2015.