• @Daxtron2
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    736 months ago

    I’ve been saying it since 2015 so if you haven’t noticed, that’s on you.

    • @burliman@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s so crazy how obvious it was in 2015 too.

      It had me wondering one day after hearing the umpteenth Trump supporter sing his praises… Do you think an appreciable number of people like you saw the same obvious things about Mussolini and Hitler before their rises? Do we have some advantage now having seen these people before in the last 100 years? Do we have more casual access to information and history, so it’s more obvious to us now?

      Or is it this: They, like us, had simply not done enough to prevent their rise? Is it really “on you” or is it on all of us?

      • @Daxtron2
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        206 months ago

        I had history classes on both the rise of fascism and propaganda so it was definitely fresh in my mind while watching it happen. Many places don’t teach these things though so it’s not surprising to me really. I don’t really see how there’s anything we can do to prevent stupid people from being exploited, except through education. Can’t teach someone who isn’t willing to learn though.