"What i want to hear" always wins over truth, even if the former makes absolutely no sense.
Literally how hitler became popular in Germany. He basically said “your lives are shit, this country should be ashamed of how poor it’s gotten, but I’m here now to improve everyones lives, and blame it on someone who isn’t you”.
And people said “Yeah, that guy isn’t afraid to tell the truth!”
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Triumph@fedia.io 1 day ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean…to be fair, he did achieve all his promises. He got people back to work, making living wages.
There’s just this HUGE astrict next to that statement that he did so by murdering millions of people, thus creating a demand for jobs. He also only counted German born white heterosexual males. Sure, unemployment was virtually nonexistant, but women, gays, mentally challenged, other races all were not included in the employment pool.
And the jobs they held were manufacturing war efforts. Whether that was building tanks, making food rations, drilling for oil, it all paid a living wage, and they got to blame someone who wasn’t them.
You ALWAYS have to look for the astrict. It’s like the terms and conditions of the monkeys paw.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
*asterisk
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dammit. I typed that, and then said “no…that don’t look right…”
Then I typed “asterict”, and said “That don’t look right either…”
Triumph@fedia.io 1 day ago
They did it by both stealing from the people who weren't them and financial fraud.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
They also tanked the economy and had to go to war to stave off the impending collapse.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
They also said “This guy really cares about Germany”, which is getting harder for Magats to pretend everyday.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
The only reason not to kill baby Hitler is because his administration was somewhat incompetent… Someone far more skilled could rise up if he isn’t the one to do it and commit even more atrocities.
Otherwise, baby hitler getting thrown off the building. Every time.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 16 hours ago
And the chance that it will erase yourself from the timeline is very high.
Changing huge events like this will have all kinds of secodary and ripple effects creating a world fundamentaly different from the one we know. Nobody knows how good or bad such a world would be.