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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by serge2k on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:04PM (#13438523)
> It's a demonstration of how powerful a good propaganda campaign can be. 80 years later and still swastikas=bad.

Yes, 60 million dead is powerful propaganda.

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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by swayvil on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:44PM (#13440510)
Mao Zedong killed 65 million, Stalin killed 23 million and Hitler killed 17 million.

But it's Hitler that we remember. It's Hitler that gets cited by right-thinking fellows on the internet. It's Hitler's logo that gets banned from the tshirt stores. Why?

Hitler's crew had strong propaganda, that's why.

Propaganda is what rolls around in the media, and the public mind, for centuries. Not reality.

I guess "marketing" is the more common term.

Marketing can turn black into white and day into night. It is powerful.

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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:45PM (#13440519)
Who has forgotten Stalin? Or Mao?
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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by swayvil on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:56PM (#13440573)
Think of it as as meme. The Hitler meme is big, the Stalin and Mao memes are not so big. You can look them all up on google but it's Hitler that gets cited in convo.
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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 19, 2017 @07:31PM (#13440776)
Ok but to be fair, Hitler is a 'western' meme. Stalin and Mao didn't kill westerners.
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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by serge2k on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:18PM (#13441286)
> Mao Zedong killed 65 million, Stalin killed 23 million

In their countries.

> and Hitler killed 17 million.

You have to include the WW2 deaths.

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