Astarisk wrote:I won't even touch the deep state conspiracy theories as that could an entire novella of its own.
I'm curious, do you even know what the deep state is, or is it some nebulous boogeyman to you sort of like the conspiracy (literally straight outta nazi germany) that there is a cultural marxist movement in academia?
I mean this was supposed to be a one sentence reply, but I ought to go more into this and why the nazis were so against academia in general. It was literally part of their philosophy, they resented 'the thinking man', here have a look:
http://www.media-studies.ca/articles/fascism.htm
Basically, the propaganda aimed to move people to action based on excitement and 'feel good' emotions, it encouraged narcissistic beliefs about oneself that the elite could reinforce so long as you adhered to their narratives of the jewish being evil or that Germany must go to war and expand aggressively into the world, take what it is born to do (almost a bit like manifest destiny of america I guess). Actually no, that literally is a direct comparison made by the [uel=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensraum]nazis themselves[/url], though, what their word is worth is anyone's guess. Lebensraum is manifest destiny for Germany.
Hell, the parrelels between Germany and the us get pretty bleak, nazis modelled themselves a fair bit off the US in that way. Let's be real though, everyone was a bastard then, you couldn't find a country who wasn't racist or bigoted in some way, it's just that a handful of them were murderously bigoted, and to different scales.
But what the fuck do you care about this? You're some conspiracist who thinks they put floruide in the water (they did!)
You know why? Because it's good for you.