Nazis once took over, because people were willing to compromise.
Today, people, even ordinary people, are willing to compromise.
Brave Browser, for example, was founded and currently managed by a Nazi. But people say, "that's different". No, it is not.
When you selectively pick and choose products and services founded, promoted, and sponsored by Nazis, you give them clout, you give them credibility, and you even give them money, power, and influence.
When you associate blue with male and pink with female, you are promoting a concept popularised by Nazis. When you practice Hatha Yoga, you are using a series of exercises originated by Niels Bukh, a gay Nazi gymnastics teacher from Denmark whom Krishnamacharya borrowed from to create his basic set of Yoga asanas. If we had to list the number of elements of popular culture which were originated or inspired by Nazis, or companies who had dealings with Nazis (eg. General Motors, Ford Motor Company, AT&T, Eastman Kodak, Standard Oil, Singer, International Harvester, Gillette, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Westinghouse, United Fruit, Volkswagon, etc) in order to avoid their use, it'd be quite a different world to say the least. To say nothing of the upper echelons of corporate, political and military leadership in Ukraine and Israel, and folks like the Biden family who sponsored and collaborated with them...
@Hoss@Linux_Is_Best@Nudhul@sun@toiletpaper He was a Thelemite, they were pretty fucked up. I want to say another ritual was him scream-fapping incantations with other occultists circling him.
I think he was only one degree of separation from Aleister Crowley, which is generally a bad sign for one's private life.
@Hoss@Linux_Is_Best@Nudhul@sun@toiletpaper Using your status as part of the Manhattan Project to try to find the perfect woman to be your whore of Babylon and sire the next Nebuchadnezzar with is a chad move
It's funny how many of the same people who rightfully mock Bush's bullshit WMD excuse to invade Iraq also believe Assad's chemical weapons were totally real.
Honestly, most of the worst manipulation that used to be the domain of malicious sorcery, is now conducted by social media companies and marketing firms using AI trained on your personal information.
@toiletpaper@Hoss@Linux_Is_Best@mrsaturday@sun the bush admin used suggestion on broadcasted television to manufacture consent from the public to deploy the military in another country completely unrelated to 9/11.
It's been the bread and butter of military intelligence for eons now. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is the tip of the iceberg, but in terms of modern/recent case studies, it's a very good intro. In fact people who point the finger and bleat "Nazi!!" while frothing at the mouth are a good example of what one of the effected parties looks like. They've been hypnotised into a state mindless frenzy by too much repeated exposure to social media algorithms which play on their exaggerated fears and emotions like a musical instrument.
@toiletpaper@Hoss@Linux_Is_Best@mrsaturday@sun iirc there was a study done on people's biological processes when they are focused on TVs and computer monitors and it found that they're basically in a state of hypnotism. every half a minute or so they would take a deep gulp of air because their body has to remind them to breathe.
@Hoss@Linux_Is_Best@Nudhul@mrsaturday@toiletpaper the difference was that republicans used unethically gathered data (they didn't even know it was unethically gathered) and obama used data they knew was stolen directly from the RNC via a security vulnerability.
When you read about Watergate with a mindset that's used to the modern political context, you can't help but think "Nixon resigned over this shit? It doesn't even seem like that big of a deal."
Obama was never given shit for anything he did. "Kids in cages" (aka the sensible policy of separating possibly trafficked children from human traffickers) was started under the Obama administration, and you didn't hear a single complaint from the media about it until Trump was in office.
@feld@Linux_Is_Best@Hoss@Nudhul@mrsaturday@toiletpaper you can't tell, it's just interesting when someone abruptly quits their navy career, gets a job in an extremely prestigious newspaper with no journalism credentials, then breaks the largest journalism story in american history. there is no proof. it is just interesting.
@feld@Hoss the safe bet is just contractor analyst. not putting down her potential skills but most people employed are just analysts that are given chunks of random data to transcribe or execute some human processing of some kind and feed it back into the system