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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://saturation.social/users/clive/statuses/113512592414302498">Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 15:57:14 JST</a><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" title="clive@saturation.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/21777-48-20230219204149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Clive Thompson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Clive Thompson</a></section><article><p>In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...</p><p>... so they wrote one</p><p>and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this</p><p>So they explained how fascism would come to the US</p><p>Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4033633#notice-7882205">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-20T15:57:14+09:00" title="Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 15:57:14 JST">about 2 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/113512592414302498" rel="external" title="Sent from saturation.social via ActivityPub">saturation.social</a></span></span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/113512592414302498">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3527733">A screenshot reading:The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.” And they would use three techniques:First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well- planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.”Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.”Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.” It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/512/590/067/608/680/original/fb96383750d33baa.png" rel="external">https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/512/590/067/608/680/original/fb96383750d33baa.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: substackcdn.com</div><h5><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024">October 26, 2024</a></h5><div> from <span>Heather Cox Richardson</span></div></header><div>Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 15:57:14 JST Clive Thompson
In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...
... so they wrote one
and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this
So they explained how fascism would come to the US
Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024
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1. A screenshot reading: The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.” And they would use three techniques: First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well- planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.” Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.” Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.” It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”
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  October 26, 2024
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  Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

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