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“To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair... The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people... Liberty will never perish.” Chaplin’s words are sentimental, maudlin, and naive. I cannot listen to them without wanting to cheer.
— Jan 01, 2019 08:07PM
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After 1948, Czechoslovakia had no room for democrats. In that Kafkaesque environment, the Czechs who had devoted every hour of World War II to fighting Hitler from London were accused of having spent their days instead plotting to enslave the working class.
— Jan 12, 2019 08:49AM
Gaufre
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Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice.
— Jan 12, 2019 08:47AM
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The 1920s, '30s, and early '40s were a time of rising nationalism coupled with technology-driven angst and revulsion at governments that appeared to be both corrupt and relics of an earlier age.
— Dec 25, 2018 09:01AM
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In hindsight, it is tempting to dismiss every Fascist of this era as a thoroughly bad guy or a lunatic, but that is too easy, and by inducing complacency, also dangerous. Fascism is not an exception to humanity, but part of it. Even people who enlisted in such movements out of ambition, greed, or hatred likely either were unaware of, or denied to themselves, their true motives.
— Dec 25, 2018 08:56AM
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When giving a speech, he stood on a small platform (as I do) to appear taller. He sometimes claimed credit (as I do not) for the sun breaking through the clouds just prior to an address.
I like her humor too.
— Dec 12, 2018 07:37PM
I like her humor too.
Gaufre
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Mussolini was not a keen judge of individuals, but he was sure he knew what the mass of people wanted: a show. [...] He posed for pictures in the government-controlled media while driving a sports car, standing sans shirt in a wheat field, riding his white stallion FruFru, and posing in his military uniform, complete with shiny boots and a chest bedecked with medals.
— Dec 12, 2018 07:35PM
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technology has made it possible for extremist organizations to construct echo chambers of support for conspiracy theories, false narratives, and ignorant views on religion and race. This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible.
— Dec 12, 2018 07:29PM
