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Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism by speedplane on Saturday December 22, 2018 @02:34AM (#18739478)
The Roman empire collapsed, the Soviet union collapsed, numerous South American, Eastern European countries collapsed, the US economy crashed in the great depression. None of them resulted in anything remotely resembling Hitler's Germany. Hate is an emotion. It can be stoked by class resentment and injustice, but it's quite a different thing. Hitler harnessed hate like few societies have seen before or since.
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Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism by DuskStar on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:14AM (#18739588)
Did any of those have some other country sitting just outside of their borders demanding that they hand over more wealth while they starved? Unlike most other countries in collapse, Germany had a nearby enemy that really was the active, willful cause of their suffering.
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Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism by leereeves on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:35PM (#18741814)
Yes, Germans at that time had a very good reason to hate the French and English.

Which doesn't explain the Nazis' profound hatred of Jews, gays, and the disabled.

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Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism by fringegringe on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:47AM (#18740782)
The roman empire collapsed "outwards" for centurys, hunting slaves, and rampaging through whole medieval countrysides, before collapsing inwards.
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Re:The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism by agapon on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:06PM (#18743341)
The Stalin's Soviet Union, after the collapse of Russian Empire, did resemble the Hitler's Germany (or vice versa) and not too remotely.
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