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History Professor Answers Dictator Questions

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Via: Thomas • 2 weeks ago • 6 comments

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat via Tech Support | WIRED

History Professor Answers Dictator Questions

Early on, Joseph Goebbels, who later became Hitler's propaganda chief, he realized that Hitler was terrible in a studio, he was wooden. He needed the energy of crowds to come alive, and that's why Goebbels hit on this idea of having rallies nonstop.

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Yet more clear parallels between dictators and Trump. I wonder when he is going to pull off the blindfold for his supporters?

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1 seeder Thomas 2 weeks ago

Tally Ho chi min la Putain

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2 Gsquared 2 weeks ago

Professor Ben Ghiat is a brilliant scholar of Fascism and authoritarian regimes.

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2.1 seeder Thomas replied to Gsquared @2 2 weeks ago

And yet her words resonate with meaning for today

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2.2 Kavika replied to Gsquared @2 2 weeks ago

And he hit the nail on the head

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3 seeder Thomas 2 weeks ago

@onsy_xx says, "Pinochet was evil, but he made Chile what it is today.
Benevolent dictator? (Nah)

Benevolent dictator?" I study dictators. I do not believe any dictator is benevolent because the definition of a dictator is someone who represses the popular will. There's no voting in a classic dictatorship. There's no free press. If you are an opponent of the regime, you'll be sent to jail or killed. That's not, to me, the definition of benevolence.

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4 seeder Thomas 2 weeks ago

Gosh. For some reason, people do not wish to engage in actual debate. Imagine that.

I am working on getting the whole transcript.

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