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    16 hours ago

    How do you think it rose to such prominence in the first place?

    Displaying naivety to this, suggests higher susceptibility to it.

    Ed Bernays’ “Crystallising Public Opinion” inspired Hitler and generations of advertisers alike.

    [Edit: PS, and no, I’m not going to do what you command.]

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      15 hours ago

      I think that’s intellectually dishonest actually.

      Nazism is only really appealing to people who are already predisposed to think along those sort of lines. I.e. hard right wing voters.

      I find it hard to imagine that you could convince a tree hugging hippie of the benefits of Nazism let alone joe public off the street.