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A Simple Primer On "War Propaganda" From An Unexpected Source
Stop us when this becomes familiar:
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.
Source: Chapter 6, "War Propaganda" of Adolf Hilter's 1926 "Mein Kampf"
h/t @George_Chen
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Only once you have huge ignorant populations will such propaganda become effective....
...oh crap. Something about insanity in individuals being rare, in crowds however...
Foward!
Yes we can!
Slogans like that??
HOPE and CHANGE!!!
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.
BTFATH
Keep it simple ---> BEHEADINGS and lest they not get the message keep cutting heads off till the public demands you go in there and topple govts...even ones that had nothing to do with it like Syrian govt. Cause the public is mad and wants hell and blood...
Also build a coalition by cutting heads off from different nationalities...
Saudi Arabia governemt cut off about one head a day last month but we didn't get to see the videos.
I saw a comment on FB where the person said as long as 'they' are beheading people we should start killing Gitmo prisoners in retaliation. Sometimes i hate how stoopid my countrymen are.
Hitler was a big fan of Edward Bernays teachings on propaganda and manipulation of the public too.
Affordable Care.
Military Intelligence
Markets are rigged.
Hitler? meh. Collectivist asshole.
Ahhhh.... Is that why they keep on repeating that the Quran doesn't preach violence? That it doesn't say that anybody who is not a believer is evil and must convert or die?
Now I understand, why they keep on repeating it...
/sarc
You don't have to bomb terrorists to neuter them.
Just cut off the funding. Why is that not an option, I wonder? Why were US troops patrolling poppy fields in Afghanistan (as opposed to burning them, and preventing them from being replanted) when it was known the Taliban's main source of revenue was from opium?
+1
It was also a source of revenue for the powers behind the throne of England during the early 19th century (and probably still today).
On a side note, don't be afraid to read Mein Kampf. There are many insightful and salient points. I know one may be skittish of reading Nazi materials, but it's no different than reading texts of non-chrisitan religions to enlighten yourself. You didn't go to hell when you read the Talmud, did you? Not yet anyway ;-)
Funny though... It all works until it doesn't....
Jews... Telling the Christians that it's the Muslims while telling the Muslims that it's the Christians... And both sides dumb as fuck... Guess you can't blame the Jew now can you?
Those Wonderful Freedom Loving Bankers
- Ronald Reagan
An Islamic caliphate in the Middle East cannot be accepted. Do you think they'd have any qualms about unleashing weaponized smallpox? Really? You must be joking.
"That it doesn't say that anybody who is not a believer is evil and must convert or die?" - Really? Which verse does it say ALL non-believers must convert or die? Because that would contradict the Jizyah/poll-tax rule. Furthermore where does it say in the Quran that 'Christians/followers of Jesus' are considered as evil as the Meccan pagans who wish to exterminate Mohammed and his followers? You dumb comment sounds Seppo enough to make me think you a southern trailer trash.
"Nine Eleven was an inside job"
"END the FED"
"Fluoride is Poison"
"Vaccines cause autism"
"Guns save lives"
"Minimum Wage causes unemployment"
"Bring the troops home"
"YES"
"Come and take it"
"Don't Tread on Me"
"Keep on stacking"
"WE are the 99%"
I can tell slogans are very effective!
"Recovery"
"For the children"
"Undocumented workers"
"But George Bush"
"War on Women"
"Living Wage"
"Dats Rayycisss"
"War on Terror"
"War on Poverty"
"Gun violence, Gunman"
"If you like your healthcare"
Catchprases are just as propagandalicious as slogans!
"That's not a legitimate government in that country"...
And don't forget to vote with your lady parts. Loved that one.
Welcome to the Worthless Posters club! I trust you'll find your stay to be pleasant as ZeroHedger's are famous for their uncompromising hospitality to posters of all mental capacities and constitutions.
@toxic8
I've been reading ZH since 2009. I made an account last night to finally comment. It's been hit or miss so far. Some comments I get downvoted, some get upvoted.
That's good, it shows that I'm not a cult follower and can think on my own.
Guess your TARDIS was unavailable for 5 years.
it's working fine, actually last night he popped back to 09, signed up then popped back here and started commenting
he met me in 09 but i haven't met him yet as i'm going to 09 next week - it's a funny old thing time :-)
How that Limp Bizkit song go?
Keep Trollin, trollin, trollin
Keep Trollin, trollin, trollin
Keep Trollin, trollin, trollin
Keep Trollin, trollin, trollin
Moar than 5 years without the TARDIS lol. This parallel universe is weird.
The real universe, JFK did a full 8 years and you humans had lunar colonies in 2001, and you were working on geoengineering Venus and were building Martian colonies in this 2010s decade.
Instead, the Dalek-controlled Federal Reserve is still around, 9/11 happened instead of the Tranquility City Dedication on the Moon on the same day. And you humans spend all of your wealth on surveillance technology instead of space exploration.
The problem is that I have to stick this out linearly because the TARDIS isn't due to materialize until 2101, so I have to get my old gig back at UNIT until I can high tail it out of here.
Let me know when Casca turns up for a friendly chat. I´m sure he will be really interested in finding out where on Earth he was finally buried. Should have been sometime around 52 AD...back in the real universe that is.
Damn, I knew something was wrong with this timeline.
I was kinda bummed that they only had the 9th Doctor for one season.
The fact is that so-called 'positive' slogans work quite well, while those that denote 'negativity' don't fare so well.
EXAMPLE: 'A woman's right to choose' is far more effective than 'Females can murder their unborn children in the womb because they don't want to be bothered with the responsibility of raising a child because they are trained to be selfish cunts'.
SOME slogans, while still negative, are LESS negative than others. The one '9/11 was an inside job' is MORE negative than 'We have to hunt them down over there' or 'We will bring them to justice', or 'Let us never tolerate wild conspiracy theories regarding the attacks of 9/11'.
I think you might have missed the whole point of the article here. That was ADOLPH HITLER talking about the use of 'slogans' in the overall effectiveness of the propaganda war on your mind. 'Dolf didn't get more 'in-depth' because he wasn't the one writing this shit and had no comprehension besides a shallow introduction. it's not the fact that there are 'slogans'; it's the 'slogans' that give off the 'positive vibes' that work better than others.
Running around in the space-time continuum and 'meeting' people doesn't give you any knowledge besides a superficial one. The timeline shows that humans are always the same (but now devolving).
In THE REAL WORLD, Kennedy was shot in '63.
This isn't a GAME.
I thought it was Grogan? Slogan? I am pretty sure Grogan is the name of your CIA handler?
I think its funny my comment got so many downvotes.
Asch conformity at its finest.
I point out the obvious that propaganda and reducing ideas down to slogans is a tool, whether good or bad, and most people on here kneejerked.
Someone who goes against the grain gets downvoted, but sixth grade potty jokes on ZH get upvotes. Go figure.
A lot of Hedgers are no different than the unwashed masses they make fun of so much. But props to the seven upvotes at the time of this post. At least those seven get it.
Try to remember the 'sarc' tag.
I understood your FIRST post completely.
NINE FUCKING DAYS HERE, and you are surprized that you are getting 'downvoted'? You forgot the SARC tag!
Hmmm...
I had a Farmer's Insurance agent (maybe in his mid-twenties) call and make a stop at my place of business this afternoon. it seems that his 1990 BMW 735il has developed a coolant leak, and wanted to find out where it was coming from. He pulled in my only open bay at 5:20 this afternoon, and I found the issue quickly (the 'dual-zone climate control' heater valve was leaking). Fucking BMW decided to make this thing with two electrically-operated solenoids on top, and three hoses. Fucking yuppie puppie was shocked when I gave him the price (suggested list about $400). While he pulled in, I overheard his cellphone conversation where he was telling one of his 'clients' to text him their bank account info and routing numbers so that he could 'take care of' whatever was being discussed. The boy has a goatee and a mustache and looks like he was imported from the East Coast Harvard-type 'business schools'. Definetely not a 'local'. Lots of BMW's here, but most of his vintage have been crushed long ago (as they needed to be). Fucking FARMER'S INSURANCE, Doc! They are the highest-priced sons of bitches on the entire PLANET! He SAID that he would try to raise the money and set up an appointment. I'll be holding my breath.
"A lot of Hedgers are no different than the unwashed masses they make fun of so much. But props to the seven upvotes at the time of this post. At least those seven get it."
I hope you forgive my informality and vulgarity here by stating that you really don't know JACK SHIT, but it IS the truth.
Would you rather that I repeat a sixth-grade potty joke, or regale you with the latest Hollywood Sitcom third-grade potty joke?
WE ARE FARMER'S, DUMB-DE-DUMB-DE-DUMB DAH DUMB! (Current 30-second ending jingle slogan played on MSM radio spots within the CONUS at the end of the cutesy commercial)
The9thDoctor:
Thanks for giving us the establishment point of view. It must be tiring monitoring and commenting day in and day out.. Best to knock of now, get your rest and come back to work tomorrow nice and refreshed.
Save America 1st. You are right and Joseph Goebbels implemented Bernay's ideas with perfection.
Yes, you can draw some interesting parallels to today by brushing up on some of Bernays techniques. ---
One of Bernays's favorite techniques for manipulating public opinion was the indirect use of "third party authorities" to plead his clients' causes. "If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway."
beheadings brought to you by cutco, the knives that never dull.
Just curious. What does being a member of FB say about someone?
lol that you are a happy masses. incurable evidently.
There is the object lesson of the day.
I shall slay myself as i'm now quite certain nobody else on ZH has a FB account
Why would it matter if anyone else has one?
It's your choice to be part of it... or not.
Ah, 'FACEBOOK'!
The AMPERSAND symbol (#) is used quite frequently. In the writing of music the Ampersand is code for taking a musical note up a half-step (or; the key of [whatever] SHARP). In children's games (like Soetoro), it is the playground basic chalkline on the pavement to begin a game of 'tic-tac-toe'. It is ALSO used to symbolize a particular NUMBER to be remembered (like; FOR EXAMPLE, #69; or #867-5309 [Jennie's phone number]). In the CIA-funded operations like those of MARK ZUCKERBERG, this newly-named' 'HASHTAG INSIGNIA' is a computer-generated automated algorythmic program trigger to begin recording every keystroke mof any two-way diigital communication in order to store it for future use.
Of course, since I don't have a 'FACE-BOOK' account (or, WALL' as they like to call it where I stare at a 2-D screen and continue to build a WALL around myself), it is difficult for they/them to identify me and my postings and search the collated data to try to figure out mathematically if I COULD POSSIBLY BE A THREAT SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE to THEM.
How's THAT, 'Hoss'?
Did 'HOSS' ever get laid on the T.V. show 'Bonanza'?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpUd9KecPa4
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This is an Ampersand: &
This is an Octothorpe: #
This is a Tilde: ~
This is a carat: ^
Dadburnitpa: It depends upon how it is used. You can avoid facebook or use it as a weapon against the powers that be to disseminate a message to many people that you couldn't otherwise reach.
The only excuse for being on FB is to check out a prospective hire.
"Sometimes i hate how stoopid my countrymen are."
Americans are kept in a state of constant fear. The emasculation it implies makes some want to compensate with absurd, "supermale" bellicose rhetorics. All safely from their couch, of course. And with a TV remote control for a weapon.
A mere 3 generations ago, being a MAN meant being a provider for your family and head of the household.
Today, being a man means sitting in a recliner, drinking beer and being a savant on fantasy football scores.
Not by chance or just a product of the times. There has been a massive program to Feminize American Males. It is not only BPA, which some of you may already know about. The list includes about a half dozen that I'm aware of. DEHP is one of them and like the others Banned in most all other countries , clip
DEHP - One of the Top 6 Chemical Threats to Humansarticles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/24/... CachedJun 24, 2011 · Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate or DEHP, a gender-bending chemical, has been banned in Europe but not in America
The most recent addition was SUNSCREEN. This is a clip of what it says re: Sunscreen
SUNSCREEN is an Estrogen and anti-Testosterone, Canerous and the skin is the largest and most absorbent organ in the body
They cause early puberty and premature breast development in girls, and small and undescended testicles in boys.
If you google the topic you will likely first gt info from the Education system changes, Social changes and a view via the MSMedia and Commercials depicting the male in a negaive way
That would be on top of the BPA or BPB in every plastic bottle.
NOW:
Are you an example to us, or simply a compliant one who goes 'with the flow' of things and tells everyone what you THINK you remember 'being a REAL man' was?
I'll post odds (in my favor) that your fingernails are MANICURED.
Let's discuss the so-called 'three generations' that you seem to remember.
Tell everyone who your grandfather was, and what he did. Let's start there.
ZH readers who are familiiar with me KNOW what MY grandpa did (retired Lt. Colonel, test pilot, USMC, pilot trainer stationed in Quantico during WWII, and a bunch of other stuff like this). I didn't mention that Grandma netted 3.1 million when she sold the house overlooking St. Thomas, V.I. that she 'hated' when Grandpa bought this lot for about $2,500 back in the 1950's (after he died at the age of 87).
Your relative 'popularity' has nothing to do with the meaning of the Zero Hedge. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to ZERO.
Grandma died at the age of 93; so all the weath accumulated actually meant nothing in the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU
ONE FUCKING SEASON.
I suppose most men these days don't appreciate dry unsoliciated Federal Reserve hand jobs. Masters of their own domain while it lasts.
You have no heroes, you got SUPER heroes in fancy dresses.
Mostly active at night, villain huntin'.
All of them - ex. Hulk, a genuine psychopath - closeted gays, even Batman couldn't get a chick pregnant. And don't ask about superman, this little american piece of freedom. Procreation with humans not his MO - think of a semen blasting through your head.
Ugly.
Americans are children, afraid of all kinds of dangers like their own shadows. And they don't realise how the entire planet is fed up with their bullshit.
Only BULLSHIT comes out of their "nation", uneducated vomit they believe in like "indispensability" or "god's own country". God puked many times, next will be Yellowstone, you fucks. This one goes, the survivors will celebrate the end of the fuckin' empire.
And Hitler was talking about Germans in the 1920s. Compared to the average member of the Free Shit Army today, they were fuking genuises.
Gotta vote you up for that. I've met Germans even in USA in 2nd Grade, they have a great sense of themselves, pride, success, discipline, and a drive to learn.
Michiganders are pretty good too... Even or maybe because of that Union Culture/Industrial Culture.
But I generally think Ameircans must be brain dead... proof is all over the place including free trade, money in politics, no term limits for Congress, No real Financial Policing of Congress despite many scandals & arrests (must be arresting those that don't play along with the MIC).
Try this sometime: pick up any college yearbook from the early 1960s. Look at the pictures of the students then and compare them to the the students of today. It is shocking really. And it is not just way people dressed, but the difference in physical appearance too. It makes me wonder WTF happened to us. I'm almost convinced that Americans have undergone some kind of genetic degeneration in the last 50 or so years. Not sure of the source, be it GM foods, vaccines, spiked drugs, or flouride in the water, but it's obvious that we are turning into buffoons.
Agreed. Many of us feel dazed, tired, malnourished, ... and the corporate culture is present not only on TV & in K-12,... we are taught to cancel out our original & creative thoughts.
I can't explain the damage.
Maybe Cold Showers, Exercise, Study, and being Directed to the right study is a partial antidote.
Keep the Faith. Teach the Young. Spread Info.
"sometimes"
You must be joking.
Maybe there is genius in that stupidity. It might force ISIS aka USSA aka Hollywood to retire the blue screen and the faux Islamic remake of Reservior Dogs probably directed by Tarantino.
Obama ad the See Eye Aye asked the Weinstein brothers to creat a new Wag The Dog or wag the beheaded journalist. These people are such evil liars and Democrats-NeoCons.
You reminded me of "Wag the Dog" movie.
Some say the Beheadings are all filmed at one certain studio. I didn't watch the Beheadings yet, so I can't say if they are fake.
What about the Private who got shot by Al Quada in Iraq and was rescued from the Hospital??? Jessica Lynch?
Its called "CHOP CHOP SQUARE"...that's what the Saudis call it. You can get your head chopped off in Saudi Arabia for practicing "sorcery"... wtf! Harry Potter retards would all be headless.
Nobody cares about the nazi Ukies cutting heads off the rebels and mailing them in wooden boxes to their families.
Must be Russian propaganda.
/s
However, the public is getting immune to eye-cys beheadings and shooting people in the back of the head … and at home, well, we see a murder or two every day in our cities by our very own terrist thugs, so violence is second nature to us. The sheeple need something moar to catch their attention [and rage] … something glamorous, colorful and entertaining Hollywood-style… perhaps a camel dragging a prisoner through the streets in the dust, sort of like in the old cowboy movies.
Or even scarier … something that would strike terror in the very hearts of all red-blooded, deep-in-debt, underwater merikans; how about showing that home values in Mosel have plunged 80% since eye-cys took over.
All that being said, I still wonder how did that group even get started?... come out of "nowhere?"
It's all very fishy.
Brought to you by the CIA baby...yeah!!!!
Nationalize Defense Industry to take the exponential Profit out it...
OR Face USA Bankruptcy.
We face Bankruptcy anyway from MEDICARE/MEDICAID & Social Security anyway if not FACED STRAIGHT ON.
I say keep Social Security, Put Price Controls on MEDICARE/MEDICAID... consider the fix of Funding SS with $500 Billion which is less than the Yearly Budget of DOD.
Then... with Defense Contractors Nationalized we can control the cost Increases.
Currently we spend $1 Trillion on MIC, Military, Intelligence, Security, Prisons, Police Industry in the Federal budget. But we also spend $1 T on SS, and $1 T on MEDICARE/MEDICAID.
Dude, there are many waves that spread out from Watergate.
The whole way of business for the CIA changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Commi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Jewels_%28Central_Intelligence_Agen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedzi_Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_denial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes%E2%80%93Ryan_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes-Ryan_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Assistance_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Amendment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Oversight_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Assistance_Act_of_1974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Church_Amendment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Spitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Factory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCCI_Bank (just used for an era) Funding to criminals and dictators, BCCI handled money for Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, Hussain Mohammad Ershad and Samuel Doe.[9] Other account holders included Medellin Cartel and Abu Nidal.[10]
CIA funding to the Afghan Mujahideen and the Contras
1) CIA uses Proxies
2) CIA Creates Corrupted Banks to launder money, move money, or send fund to dictators
3) No One Is Responsible, there is no person aware of what is going on, the players operate in a cell with no knowledge of the big picture, financial links or communications links are hidden
4) Finance is part of Covert Activities (CIA), you have to have transparency and regulations if covert activities are going to be monitored, tracked, managed, controlled, and legitimized
and at home, well, we see a murder or two every day in our cities by our very own terrist thugs, so violence is second nature to us.
Not to the people living behind big gates. To them this violence is completely terrifying. Remember... Fergouson is just a couple miles over...
-That's all Folks-
I would refer you to "Wag The Dog" for further elucidation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDmDZi05dY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoqlvldPB2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-Samvut-E
They should run all the credits before each beheading with all the various Obama loving Hollywood production studios involved in these productions - Castle Rock, Miramax and the list goes on and on.
So fake.
Or even scarier … something that would strike terror in the very hearts of all red-blooded, deep-in-debt, underwater merikans
To scare Americans, don't threaten to cut off heads of "those" people. Threaten to cut off NFL, Dancing with Stars, apple products, alcohol, cigs or carbs. Cut off any of these and you have a riot on your hands.
The last big war was bathed in beheadings, the Afghan conflict was steeped in atrocity, the Chechen purge was literally awash in neck blood, yet the public did nothing in terms of outrage. These were genuine, showing all details. The press did little to report them.
The current crop are in HD but omit all money shots but one, and without the actual cutting. Yet the press reports on them as fact. To me this simply exposes the press's culpability in starting a new war, and marks a turning point in the global systems of control.
They have us now. There is no place to run.
I'm not going to support the war on ISIS until i see their soldiers pulling babies from incubators and stomping on them.
What you have astutely noted is that all media is controlled by AIPAC supporters. They control the eyes and ears of the nation and can easily lead the sheeple over the cliff while the fiddler plays his magical tune.
And reporters, specifically reporters, they were starting to waver in their iron clad locked hands support of The One and had to be herded back to the shearers pen.
Their parents deserve to know that they were sacraficed on alter of MIC.
Big Brother is watching you.
Yeah? Well we've got a sharp eye on big brother, too.
Arm your opponent
Debt is wealth
"War is peace"
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.
Debts are Assets
Fiat is Real
Boom/Bust is Stability....
HOAX AND CHAINS!
So "Hope and Change" is one idea too many.
"Forward" it is then!
Foreward is too many sylables. Fore! it is then!
Peace, land, bread. An Oldie but a goodie.
This was released before the second world war, people could read it in Germany, and yet they did nothing?
I think I just lost a few pounds of hopium. The only thing at this point that really keeps our "great leaders" from effective propaganda at this point is really the internet I think. If we only had Television and radio still, we would probably have been at war with Russia a long time ago.
People could read it but no one wanted to. Have you ever tried to read it? I have. It's hopelessly boring tripe. I couldn't force myself through it.
At the end of the day, it's not so much necessary to understand what every psychopath has to say (they all believe essentially the same thing), the important thing is to be able to identify the psychopaths.
Not to mention that Hitler didn't come to power until the people were desperate. He ran for office, lost, predicted that Germany was going to be in for hard times due to its reliance on foreign financing, the depression hit, then he got elected. If we get economic collapse instead of mushroom clouds, keep this in mind. Hitler made the right call on the economy, and when shit got bad, he came to power. In the future, pay attention to the rhetoric of people would take the reins of power because events are going to make it so that somebody as vile as Hitler or Stalin could take over right here in the USA. Think our current "leaders" are bad and evil? There are worse possibilities.
He did not even win the elections with such a big margin. But he knew not to let a good crisis go to waste.
El Vaquero;
You speak the Truth and have given us things to think about or remember. Well Done, El Vaquero.
We must see a leader like Cruz or Rand that speaks of the Corruption in the USA...
There will be a time when we face the Truth.
So, Hillary in 2016?
Frankly, Adolph's ideas on propoganda and the gullibility of the public were not particularly new. These two quotations to me accurately reflect about where we are today:
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H.L. Mencken
In a pluralistic society stupid people, indoctrinated people, gullible people, selfish people, evil people and others get to vote along with you, the good guy. Given some degree of pluralism and the necessity even in a dictarorship to rule things like propoganda and techniques of manipulating the public become necessary. Even if I were running for office as the truthful libertarian angel that I am, I would have to find some way to get ideas down to short memorable and emotionallyl powerful phrases. That is no different for the Left. The idea of "propoganda" is that there is some lie hidden or covered up in it.
Yes, people could read in Germany. They almost have a natural ability to make and fix things. Which is far more than you can say about the average Walmart shopper or EBT card user.
That is racist. Please explain that it's only due to watches and BMW's surrounding them since birth.
Meh, it is anti American(USA), and anti Socialism or Welfare. It is anti-Culture or US Culture which is all about Entertainment, Action Movies, Violence, Street Gangs, Street Music... Crap it seems like US doesn't have a real history or culture to me.
Europe used to have identities for each country and you could go and learn about them if you learned about the language or went to University.
Today... the most important Principals are trashed by every sitting US President and unremarked by all of the congress people that sit opposite...
A Constitutional Lawyer sits as President, trashed the Document in a Global War reminiscent of the Germans & Hitler... and the Congress & US Courts don't remark at all.
Wow. So, officially in 2001 we became Fascist.
Clearly.
Question: When did we lose the Moral High Ground in the USA??
- Was it 1947 National Security Act
- Was it JFK Assassination
- Was it 1913 Federal Reserve Act
- Was it Korean War or Vietnam War with Phoenix Program
- Was it Watergate or Nixon Shock
- Was it Ronald Reagan's Presidency & Budget
- Was it Repeal of Glass-Steagal Act
- Was it the Authorization of Unregulated Derivatives & Shadow Banking
Probably it was all of that. Welcome to Military Republic with the Fascist Ap (option).
Have you read it, did you do anything.
@malek
I see that all of the time. I'm not picking on this particular poster, but a lot of people think someone else will do something about it. But if everyone thinks someone else will do something about it, then no one ends up doing something about it.
Evil flourishes because good men do nothing.
All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. Curiously, the world is apparently full of good people, albeit quite stupid.
Conspiracy theorist.....
Conspiracy theorist.....
Conspiracy theorist.....
Conspiracy theorist.....
Conspiracy theorist.....
Cons..........
Sieg Heil!
end the fed, gold standard, fractional reserve lending, war moingering, ...
sounds like ron paul has the proganda schtick down as well.
yes, slogans just like end the fed, gold standard, fractional reserve lending , US war mongering, choickens coming home to roost, ...
' sounds like ron paul has the sloganeering down pretty good himself
Buy war bonds.
Uncle Sam wants you.
Hope and change.
and not long ago, "Hands up, don't shoot".
just STFU and eat your fochin' GMO and take your vaccines Biatch
It took me a year, but I read Mein Kampf about 30 years ago. What a terrible waste of time. Nothing but hate over and over. So yeah, he took his own advice and he knew his audience. Too bad Hitler's art instructor was so hard on him. I've seen some of his work and I thought it pretty good. If that guy had only known, it could have been a whole different kettle of fish.
We need to get rid of the single man view of history. If it wasn't Hitler, make no mistake it would have been someone else to head that particular parade. Society has a velocity and trajectory that is not the will of one man, but the confluence of a million tiny pushes from everywhere. Politicians and powerful people are just a special breed that can diagnose this and position themselves in front. Abe Lincoln is a great example of this in action.
I wish more people understood this. The irony here is that Hitler has succumbed to his own paradigm. Hitler the carpet muncher!, Hitler the man soley responsible for all evils etc etc.
Not so. He's just a great example of what not to be as a human being.
Hitler was a carpet muncher?!
Nothing wrong with that.
He's in good company:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_dlPYMZ6Jw
To wit, Chairman Oba-Mao.
I wish I could give you more than just one "Up" arrow on this. It's something that has taken me a lifetime of studying history to finally understand.
That's a very good, thanks for writing it.
Once there is inertia, only the wall can stop it!
"If it wasn't Hitler, make no mistake it would have been someone else to head that particular parade."
Normally, I never answer posts that contain phrases like "make no mistake", but yours is simply wrong. If it had been "the confluence of a million pushes from everywhere", Hitler wouldn't have needed his Nazi mass-brainwashing and relentless war propaganda.
On the contrary, propaganda's sole reason for existing it to influence the million pushes. However, Hitler's rise wasn't so much about the man but Germany's popular perception of it's treatment after WWI.
Germany's popular perception about WWI was correct, the Victors were trying to destroy them and their country! (They said so themselves!)
Freedom never is the result of a street riot.... democratic republics or a represenative government of any kind never erupt from a street riot.... Just ask Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro..... ask anyone in the Ukraine, Egypt, Lybia, Iraq.... ask us soon....
It's a simple recipe.... make people suffer... and suffer more then have them riot.... then have an organized thing in place able to take power and promise to fix it.
The art academy in Vienna rejected him. Big mistake.
Imagine Hitler hobnobbing with all the celebs at Studio 54 back in the 70s? What a sight.
Reading Mein Kampf was one of the most rewarding things I have done in this life. It, more than any other single event; led to my rejecting the endless river of Jew centric propaganda that the Western media is.
It is truly the "red pill" because you can never go back once you understand the true nature of things. It is also a very humbling experience to know that almost everything I thought I knew about history was bullshit.
Part of the "thinking for yourself" process that will be essential for survival in the not too distant future.
Wow! Here come the flames 3,2,1......
Refreshing
NO NO NO NO!
YOU ARE SUCH A WELL INFORMED AND EDUCATED CITIZEN, THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO READ MEIN KAMPF! CIVILIZED PEOPLE DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
YOU ARE SUCH A WELL INFORMED AND EDUCATED CITIZEN, THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO READ MEIN KAMPF! CIVILIZED PEOPLE DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
YOU ARE SUCH A WELL INFORMED AND EDUCATED CITIZEN, THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO READ MEIN KAMPF! CIVILIZED PEOPLE DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
YOU ARE SUCH A WELL INFORMED AND EDUCATED CITIZEN, THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO READ MEIN KAMPF! CIVILIZED PEOPLE DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
YOU ARE SUCH A WELL INFORMED AND EDUCATED CITIZEN, THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO READ MEIN KAMPF! CIVILIZED PEOPLE DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
I'm stepping back now so the bolt of lightning doesn't hit me by accident.
"It is truly the "red pill" because you can never go back once you understand the true nature of things."
Going on my own experience you'll also spend your spare time relearning all the things you thought you knew.
Because it worked out sooo well for Hitler and Germany. They lost about 1/4 of their population and most of the women in East Germany were raped by Russians. In fact, East Germany is probably only about half German as a result.
it's fortunate that the women in West Germany were not raped but sold themselves for a couple of cigs, otherwise they would have been raped.
There was even a phrase for it, but can't remember right now, something like "would you like a smoke" and the inference was that if you didn't you'd get it anyway.
Perhaps West Germany is half American/British/French?
Only a born slave can blame the one for suffering defeat, after at least he had tried to fight against his enslavers.
@rbg81
I find it interesting that school children hear all about the horrors of the Holocaust, but hear nothing about the rape and pillage of the German people at the hands of the "Allies"
Well, Doctor, the Germans kind of brought it on themselves. While I don't condone rape by any means, it should be no surprise that the Russians were royally PISSED after being invaded by the Germans and losing about 20M people, plus devastating the Western part of their country. The Germans did their share of pillaging, massacres, and rapes. Frankly, I'm surprised that anyone else in Europe is still talking to them.
The Wehrmacht had the strictest military courts of all armies. Raping was always punished by death. German rapings? Not even the former enemy soldiers claimed that.
The commander of KZ Buchenwald, Otto Koch, was sentenced to death by SS-judge Konrad Morgen for murder of three inmates, sexual abuse of a Polish woman and corruption and was executed by the SS on April, 5th, 1945, in front of the prisoners of Buchenwald.
And the Russians did the raping not really on their own. Would have not done. There was an extreme racist propaganda from the Bolsheviks going on and the person behind it was the leading Soviet propagandist, Ilya Ehrenburg, a Jew.
In one leaflet headlined "Kill," Ehrenburg incited Soviet soldiers to treat Germans as sub-human. The final paragraph concludes:
“The Germans are not human beings. From now on the word German means to use the most terrible oath. From now on the word German strikes us to the quick. We shall not speak any more. We shall not get excited. We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day ... If you cannot kill your German with a bullet, kill him with your bayonet. If there is calm on your part of the front, or if you are waiting for the fighting, kill a German in the meantime. If you leave a German alive, the German will hang a Russian and rape a Russian woman. If you kill one German, kill another -- there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses. Do not count days, do not count kilometers. Count only the number of Germans killed by you. Kill the German -- that is your grandmother's request. Kill the German -- that is your child's prayer. Kill the German -- that is your motherland's loud request. Do not miss. Do not let through. Kill.”
Does anyone recognize the same mentality, when at the bombing of Gaza Israelis were watching from hills and applausing every explosion? I see the same character and mentality, when Israeli children are signing bombs as "good" wishes for Palestinians.
Btw, it also was Ehrenburg, who began to use the six million killed jews number already in 1944.
Ehrenburg, a communist arranged to transfer his private archives to Israel while still alive. Not so much a communist than a Jew. The "communist" was in fact a Jewish nationalist. Always the same. And the naive gentiles until these days still believe what these people tell them about their and other nation's history...
By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War. (motto of Mossad)
Yeah, sure. The Germans never raped anyone. They were fuking saints.
And the bigger joke is that you think some Jew forced the Russians to rape all those women. 'Cause they would never have done it on their own. Hell, he probably stood over 'em and pointed a gun at their head until they came. Sounds plausible to me....
Seriously, you are one twisted ass clown Ya better run on home now......I can hear your Auntie Semite calling.
Ditto
"Nothing but hate over and over."
That is a blatant lie. Fuck you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6llaZefJDc
Green shoots
And
The new normal
I always get a rise when I meet someone who is a vegetarian. I point out, with great glee; Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian. I then hastily add that he did not think it right that an animal should die so he could eat. I then ask them why they choose to be a vegetarian and they struggle to not come up with the same reason as Adolf Hitler.
Most people do not know that the Nazis implemented some of the most stingent laws against cruelty to animals.
Yes, I know I can be a shit disturber.
I try to eat as little meat as I can, but cannot yet call myself Vegetarian.
I did not now that very good moral trait about the Nazi's and Hitler..
Thanks for sharing.
Himmler was vegetarian, too.
The first thing the Nazis did when they won a war, they proclaimed barbaric kosher butchering illegal.
While in the plutocracies oil was just disposed into soil, the Nazis created the first national parks.
The throwaway society versus the idea to make things as durable as possible.
It's the logic of biopolitics. If the human species is seen as one among the many others, then we are part of nature and not above it - and we must take care of the environment.
Nationalsocialism can be seen as the first biopolitical system in human history. Probably thousand years too early.
First National Park was in the US. Yosemite, I recall. Late 19th century.
There seems something being lost in translation: the Yosemite park or other national parks are also attractions for humans. But the NS version had more the meaning of a nature protection area, give nature room back, keep humans away, not to guide them into it. A very different task in the densely populated and agriculturally used central Europe, hardly able to feed itself, contrary to a huge newly conquered virgin-like and incredibly rich continent.
When the Nazis took power in 1933, the worldwide strongest laws of animal protection were introduced. The incredibly barbaric kosher butchering was banned immediately.
Also animal experiments were forbidden and could only be granted directly from the ministry of the interior, which draw massive critics of the medical universities.
From 1935 law demanded not only the protection of plants, animals and natural monuments, but also whenever a project was about to change the landscape, the environment's protection aspect had to be considered.
Following the main NS-principle that in the case of a conflict of interest between the community and the individual, that the community's aspect has more weight, the law even allowed the seizure of a property without compensation to protect the environment.
All that long before nature began to show it's suffering from the greedy behaviour of our species, long before water became poisioned or scarce or the air polluted. Just by using the power of human logic over dreams, recognizing and accepting that the human species is only one part of nature and depends on it, and was not placed above nature, like the three primitive desert religions claim. Biopolitics.
How is Central Europe densely populated ? Even today they are uninhabited compared to Western European states
Germany is in central Europe.
Yeah, the Nazis were great. Due to their vegetarianism, we now have millions more cattle that have descended from the 6 million they saved.
http://www.vegetariansareevil.com/hitler.html
Maybe der Fuehrer should have had his doctors beat off a few more bulls to extract moar semen! ;-)
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/hitlers-embarrassing-health-problems
"The first thing the Nazis did when they won a war, they proclaimed barbaric kosher butchering illegal."
Question since you know so much about them: Did the nazis ban the muslem equivalent of Kosher (Halal) in Bosnia or in Africa? Actually, some muslems of Bosnia joined the nazis in their killing spree against Jews, Roma and Serbs on the Balkans.
Along with the Grand Mufti of the Palestinians.
Here is (in my opinion) a pretty fair, even handed treatment of him and the circumstances leading to his involvement with Hitler:
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjk34r7OSkM
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DNWCArqGig
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9TLHvhsNbI
Why is eugenics such a bad thing? For example if the 'hood rats were all encouraged to get sterilized would it not be a much better world within a generation?
Eugenics is a very emotional topic. Just like religion.
But if the human species would use logic, things suddenly look very different:
Inheriting illness is creating suffering. For GENERATIONS.
But avoiding the inheritance of illness affects only one generation, and from then on, the problem is gone for all future generations. With modern genetic screening it's not even necessary that in all cases parents must stay without own children. Pre-selection can remove the worse genetic material.
But another aspect shows how shortsighted the masses are: the 1% will use these methods to have the most healthy and most intelligent descendants. While the 99% are fed with egalitarist propaganda.
The best and most demanding schools as private schools, while they intend to even remove homework for the masses.
Wine for us, garbage for the masses. Neofeudalism.
And the masses applause it because they do not think logical but are loaded emotionally.
As long as our species is so backward, that it prefers to believe in texts written by people, who did not even know at night were the sun was, as long as they believe that our species was above nature, above the laws the creator for all living beings had created, there is not much hope that sanity and logic will prevail.
It's easily possible that the human species is evolutionary a dead end: with incredible logical capabilities, that are used to advance technics and science, increasing our capabilities even more, but on the other hand a species that is ignoring logic completely when it comes to it's future wellbeing, to reflect it's own (un)importance on the planet, when it comes to put sanity and logic over greed and with incredible arrogance and selfrightousness torwards other species and nature.