So just like any extreme narcissist?
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There's one in specific I think you know is being referred to. And not the one in the photo, one that is, unfortunately, alive today.
I actually thought of Musk first but Trump or Putin or any other dictator probably also fits. Generally most high level politicians are probably like this, but maybe to varying degrees of severity.
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His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will **believe a big lie **sooner than a little one; and **if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. **
https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm
I never understood how normal, kind Germans in the 1920s could be so brainwashed that they'd turn into monsters just a few years later.
Now I've lived through it and seen the same transformation within my own family. It's incredibly sad.
Patriotism is one helluva drug. Also: the socdems and the liberals helped.
I'm not sure it's accurate to call it patriotism. It's fine to love your country.
This is nationalism, in other words "my country is better than yours", or "I'm better than you because I live in a better country than you do".
It's fine to love your country.
Agree to disagree.
Care to expand because this seems like a pretty extreme position?
I don't really see the difference between what you call patriotism and nationalism. It's both identity politics in favour of the powerful. If I focus on "loving" my country, I might get distracted that both I as well as my siblings from other countries get exploited by the ruling class.
I thought I explained it already. You can love one thing without it automatically meaning you must hate something else.
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It's very much like how people have created cults, slowly pushing the boundaries people will accept, while also claiming to be the authority of everything and accept no blame. And people crave a sense of belonging, and community. By the time people find out they are following a monster they are so far down the wrong path they feel trapped and it's the path of least resistance to just go with it. Also an example is made of anyone trying to rock the boat.
Was an episode of The Dollop (podcast) about a teacher that created a cult of his students to show them this exact scenario (how everyday Germans got behind Hitler). I'll look it up later if nobody beats me to it before then.
Edit - nevermind found it faster than I thought I would.
crave a sense of belonging, and community
this goes for brand fanbois too-- i'm in another thread full of people frothing at the mouth because i had the gall to point out how some report the company published didn't make them particularly special within the industry. it's sad seeing grown ass adults whiteknighting for a corporation, of all things
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And i still don't understand it, even if I'm seeing it happen live with my own two eyes
There really is something wrong
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And scary!
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