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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by mandmandam »

9dev wrote: post #437
mandmandam wrote: post #252

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I hadn't seen that, and am not finding it.. Have you got a link?

This is the tweet I was referring to: > Whoever made the original graphic doesn’t understand the scale and speed of smart high IQ people who can program, and what they can do in a moment when intelligence now on infinite tap using LLMs https://x.com/garrytan/status/1886283334466302201

Thanks. Eesh. Garry Tan's Twitter feed has certainly been an experience...

Perhaps the key for understanding the wildly credulous optimism on display in that feed is to remember that money 'saved' from the Treasury will likely fund promised tax cuts for the .1%.

Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by red-iron-pine »

antisthenes wrote: post #409
acadapter wrote: post #358

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Social media no longer represents "many people are saying it". The early internet could give an overview of what's being said in general on a particular topic - but today's content is often manipulated to support or attack a particular viewpoint.

You don't need to explain with malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity. In fact that's one of the roads to fascism - constantly looking for "manipulators" everywhere and other witch hunt types. The longer I live the more I am convinced that the average person has next to 0 ability for critical thinking. They just sort of stumble between local maximas until they end up wherever they are.

> In fact that's one of the roads to fascism - constantly looking for "manipulators" everywhere and other witch hunt types.

Bollocks. Studies suggest as much as 35% of social media posts are fake, and as high as 40% on some forums. This isn't Fascism or paranoia, this is just how large tech companies make money. Like, if you don't understand how AI and scripting align with marketing and propaganda goals then you're gonna get played like a rube every time.

The problem is that "marketing works even when you understand how marketing works", and that it is very hard to maintain constant vigilance.

Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by lolc »

throw10920 wrote: post #361
etchalon wrote: post #123

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He's apparently gained the power to arbitrarily shut down federal agencies, for one.

That's circular reasoning.

Joke's on you, circular reasoning works well when people accept it!

Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by edanm »

Ste_Tokyo wrote: post #405
immibis wrote: post #344

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I'm flagging this because it's two paragraphs of propaganda opposite to base reality.

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This is not a response worthy of HN. Calling the parent poster names, saying they support "baby murderers" with no possible justification - please keep this kind of comment off this site.

Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by edanm »

red019 wrote: post #400
Ste_Tokyo wrote: post #327

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Even if you believe that Israelis are mass murderers, and even if you are willing to ignore that plenty of other groups have killed far more people, there's zero justification for making this statement about Jews and not Israelis.

This comment is simply antisemitism.

Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by dang »

ceving wrote: post #258

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083315

On HN, reposts are fine (which is to say, aren't treated as dupes) when a story hasn't had significant attention in the last year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

But it's great to link to examples of past threads, because readers like to look at them—so this was a good contribution! just not with the tag "duplicate".

Edit: basically, there are two disjoint cases when it makes sense to link to a previous submission of the same story:

(1) when a prior submission of the same story had significant attention in the last year or so, then linking to it with the word "duplicate" or "dupe" is helpful;

or

(2) when a prior submission had significant attention more than a year ago, then linking to it with the phrase "past discussion" or "discussed at" (or something like that) is helpful.

(And for completeness: when a submission has not gotten significant discussion, it's best not to link to it at all. There are plenty of those in the archives, and they're mostly harmless.)

Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by dang »

Nasrudith wrote: post #86
pessimizer wrote: post #43

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Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are.

There's at least one other recent case of this by your account (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945640). That's not good.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Fortunately the rest of your recent comment history looks fine, so this should be easy to fix.

Re: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Post by NomDePlum »

muglug wrote: post #367
NomDePlum wrote: post #56

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Can you elaborate on those things?

Trump says things like "there's no greater friend to Israel than me" and "I'm the best president for black people". One of his most viscerally anti-immigrant lackeys (Stephen Miller) is Jewish. Trump’s choice of "illegals" as the cause of America's woes is smart, because (1) they can’t vote and (2) even American-born children of undocumented immigrants hear that and think "oh but he's not talking about us ". He was c…

The actions are right out of Hitlers playbook. Find a group or groups, to blame and demonise, that are powerless. Deflect and encourage the wider populations grievances and dissatisfaction onto them to provide a common enemy and warning to others that they could be next if they don't join in. That together with establishing a cult and encouraging extremes echos the establishment of the Natzi party surely?
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