"Current state enemy X is worse than Hitler" was the first step, but the escalation to "Hitler wasn't so bad, really" was very quick. This is already step three - "Yea, we fought with and for Hitler, but we were still the good guys". It will be interesting to see if step 3 gets wider use, so far it has been only used by randos on twitter, not broadly like step 2 so far.
His ideology is slowly but easily absorbed into liberal capitalism but deflected through pointing out our (reluctant) antagonism towards him.
We're not the bad guys. Hitler was. Yes we own the world economy through the dollar, yes we own all media that millions consume, yes we own you through debt, rent, bills etc., yes we terrorise the rest of the world to keep our living standards high, but you're free.
We're all free. Don't you deserve to live a better life than those people? After all, you're a Westerner, you understand morality and democracy better than anyone else.
Tfw I will probably see Hitler rehabilitated in my lifetime :agony-minion:
"Current state enemy X is worse than Hitler" was the first step, but the escalation to "Hitler wasn't so bad, really" was very quick. This is already step three - "Yea, we fought with and for Hitler, but we were still the good guys". It will be interesting to see if step 3 gets wider use, so far it has been only used by randos on twitter, not broadly like step 2 so far.
Step 4 is just actually Hitler did nothing wrong, given the way they are talking about Russians suffering we are heading there already.
He won't be. He'll be the fall guy forever.
His ideology is slowly but easily absorbed into liberal capitalism but deflected through pointing out our (reluctant) antagonism towards him.
We're not the bad guys. Hitler was. Yes we own the world economy through the dollar, yes we own all media that millions consume, yes we own you through debt, rent, bills etc., yes we terrorise the rest of the world to keep our living standards high, but you're free.
We're all free. Don't you deserve to live a better life than those people? After all, you're a Westerner, you understand morality and democracy better than anyone else.
Welcome to the Fourth Reich.
The Nazi's didn't lose the war, only the Germans lost the war.
Look who’s back!
Good movie, scary shit
Seconding good movie, here's an IMDB link for those interested