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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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