I Was a Teenage Communist

[Chris]

A short film for @Admiral Ackbar...

[midcan5]

I tried to watch but .... is there some lesson there pray tell. Can someone explain. Tx




"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise." Hitler’s Control of the Masses, Mein Kampf

[Admiral Ackbar]

Lol great film

[Chris]

I tried to watch but .... is there some lesson there pray tell. Can someone explain. Tx




"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise." Hitler’s Control of the Masses, Mein Kampf

It was funny but you seem to lack a sense of humor, see https://thepoliticalforums.com/threa...an-Acquires-ID

[Common Sense]

SCTV was the best. So much better than Saturday Night Live.

[Chris]

SCTV was the best. So much better than Saturday Night Live.

Must've been the Canadian humor that threw midcan off.

[RMNIXON]

How many are old enough to remember watching SCTV after SNL late Saturday in the 70's?

[RMNIXON]

I tried to watch but .... is there some lesson there pray tell. Can someone explain. Tx




"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise." Hitler’s Control of the Masses, Mein Kampf

You do understand that Hitler got many of his ideas from early 20th century "progressives" in America who later praised his Socialism and a number of totalitarian ways before WWII?

Or not!

[Chris]

You do understand that Hitler got many of his ideas from early 20th century "progressives" in America who later praised his Socialism and a number of totalitarian ways before WWII?

Or not!

Hitler’s Mutual Admiration Society

...Toland quotes American economist John Kenneth Galbraith:

Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy … by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.

In fact, given that FDR and Hitler shared much of the same economic philosophy and were implementing many of the same economic policies, it’s not too surprising that Hitler sent the following letter to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Dodd on March 14, 1934:

The Reich chancellor requests Mr. Dodd to present his greetings to President Roosevelt. He congratulates the president upon his heroic effort in the interest of the American people. The president’s successful struggle against economic distress is being followed by the entire German people with interest and admiration. The Reich chancellor is in accord with the president that the virtues of sense of duty, readiness for sacrifice, and discipline must be the supreme rule of the whole nation. This moral demand, which the president is addressing to every single citizen, is only the quintessence of German philosophy of the state, expressed in the motto “The public weal before the private gain.”

Toland reminds us of the high esteem in which Hitler held President Roosevelt:

Hitler had genuine admiration for the decisive manner in which the President had taken over the reins of government. “I have sympathy for Mr. Roosevelt,” he told a correspondent of the New York Times two months later, “because he marches straight toward his objectives over Congress, lobbies and bureaucracy.” Hitler went on to note that he was the sole leader in Europe who expressed “understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt.”

Hitler was not Roosevelt’s only admirer. Benito Mussolini, who had led Italy into fascism, an economic philosophy that called for government control over economic activity, including government-business partnerships, said that he admired FDR because he, like Mussolini, was a “social fascist."

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[Dr. Who]

SCTV was the best. So much better than Saturday Night Live.

And back then, SNL was much funnier than it is today.