[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its secret is to deal with the people not as individuals but as crowds. The message to the crowd is a series of simple, basic, memorable words — nation, people, blood, family, comrade, friend, home, soil, bread, work, strength, hope, life, fight, victory, birth, death, honor, beauty. The Party is set up as having a monopoly on giving the people these virtues and good things. To a people whose immediate past has been hard, muddled and apparently irremediable, simple emotional words have an immense, reverberating authority. But most of all the little man who is lost and friendless in a complex, lonely modern society is treated as important, if only in the mass.

-Life magazine 1938 on  "the real effectiveness of Nazi demagogy"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    By her own account, she's exactly the type of person she wants to see deported. What sort of mental disorder does she have that she thinks she'll be released? The leopard is literally gnawing on her face right now and she's acting like it's not going to finish its meal.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    The title seems like a cover-up for a kid who almost died while "ensnared" (quoting the article). Barbed wire isn't as terrifying as people think. It's often confused with razor wire. Barbed wire is for animals; razor wire is generally for humans. All that being said, I do not think I would survive being ensnared by barbed wire during a flood. Fencing laws are a deceptively interesting rabbit hole. I've never thought about this consequence.

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