stux⚡️Shit. I can’t imagine what teaching must be like these days 😟
Samuel Bepis@stux One thing that I think we don't talk about nearly enough is how fucking stupid Hitler and the Nazis were. They thought they could fight two wars at the same time and win. They thought they could build a big granite city in the middle of a swamp (look up New Germania.) They designed all sorts of ridiculous "super weapons" that mostly killed the Nazis who used them. And Hitler in his private life was *incredibly* cringe.
Bernd Herd@SamuelBepis @stux I see this as a common misunderstanding. Many of these Nazis were not stupid. If they all would have been stupid, they wouldn't have been that dangerous.
It is the highly intelligent malicous people that are dangerous. Don't underestimate Nazis.
Göbbels once used an embedded american journalist to show him that a roumor of an atrocity that he placed himself was untrue. While most other roumors were true. An highly intelligent scroupelous lyer.
@herdsoft we shouldn't underestimate them, but we shouldn't glamorize them either. A lot of media portrayals of Nazis depicts them as these hyper-competant evil geniuses in cool uniforms and that's exactly why edgy teens find them appealing.
@SamuelBepis Interesting point, indeed.
But you wrote "how fucking stupid Hitler and the Nazis were". And not all of them were stupid.
I don't think that Elon Musk is stupid. And yet I dispise him very much.
@herdsoft Okay, to be less flippant: we do not talk enough about all the stupid things they did, and if we did this it might make them seem less cool to teenagers who are susceptible to right-wing propaganda.
Elon Musk is another person who's made a lot of bad decisions while being glamorized by people who view him as some kind of genius mastermind.