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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by flashback2199 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:39PM (#38674618)
I think feel isn't precise enough, maybe compassion is better? In the speech, Chaplain opposes the Nazis, yet the main tool the Nazis used to gain and hold power in Germany was by emotion, distributed thru speeches on the radio especially. Hitler was a highly emotional speaker. WWII didn't occur due to a lack of feeling.
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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by bsdpufferfish on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:49PM (#38674708)
Was there more emotional rhetoric than is otherwise used in politics?

Personally the “hitler mind controlled everyone with his speach” theory that I was told in the 90s just isn’t convincing. Facism was in the zeitgeist around the world.

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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by flashback2199 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:06PM (#38674861)
No mind control, he said what people wanted to hear after losing WWI

Mind control was how Yuri helped the USSR win the Cold war in Red Alert 2 (joke ;)

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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by bsdpufferfish on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:46PM (#38675220)
> he said what people wanted to hear after losing WWI

In other words, they believed it. It wasn’t a false manipulation.

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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by PoignardAzur on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:20AM (#38681527)
They believed the "stabbed in the back" narrative like the US establishment believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Irak.

It was a motivated belief, thoroughly uninformed by rational thought, and maintaining and spreading that belief took no small amount of blatant lies and cynicism.

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Re:The Final Speech from The Great Dictator by bsdpufferfish on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:34PM (#38687808)
Stabbed in the back, doesn't explain why facism was a popular world view across Europe and Japan.
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