It appears critical thinking and cognitive abilities have not advanced at all.
How easily humans are manipulated and fall victim to their own prejudices and bias and reinforcement of what they want to believe regardless of facts.
And just like the 1930s a master of lies and propaganda has practiced his skill with success.
Joesph Goebbels maintained that propaganda must target the broadest audience possible by keeping messages simple and repeating them constantly.
In his words: “The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.”
Publicly, Goebbels insisted that effective propaganda must base itself on facts whenever possible, arguing that outright fabrication could be dangerous if exposed. However, his operational rule was that facts should be selectively framed, distorted, or completely fabricated to serve the political goal.
Goebbels believed the best propaganda was invisible—where the subject does not realize they are being manipulated.
In a 1933 speech to radio directors: “The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public being even aware of the in-working of the propaganda.”
And, we are all tired of the Nazi references. You do yourself no favor by trying to compare Trump to Hitler, and the Trump Administration to the Nazi regime.
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This post compared the propaganda tactics which is accurate. And if you want to compare the fascist tactics which I previously listed, that is accurate as well. The difference is the violence. The hate against certain groups is the same, often generated or encouraged by Trump and always tolerated and never criticized.
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No. Your attempts to suggest there is any comparison is a joke.
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Well Jack. I posed the question “Aside from the violence, is there a parallel between hitlers and trumps tactics for power and control.” to four different AI tools and they all said the same thing. There are several parallels in tactics and they are all obvious.
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The defining difference between Hitler/Nazi’s AND EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE ELSE is the violence, “democide”, the mass murder of people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass killing.
When you suggest parallels, you link the idiot ass Trump and the Trump Administration to the violence of Hitler/Nazi’s – making any and every comparison inappropriate. No one thinks of propaganda when you link them to Hitler and Nazis.
There is NO COMPARISON to Hitler and Nazi’s in all of history, let alone recent history, except perhaps Stalin, or Mao Zedong, or Pol Pot.
If that is the result you got from AI, you either had to gerrymander the search or 100% of the folks loading info into AI are Democrats.
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What makes people post lies and misinformation?
They are simply repeating what members of Congress have told them in the past!
As Mark Twain once confirmed: “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
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