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Don't Be a Sucker - 1947

Weirdo Video · 1M views · 2007-09-29 · 17:26

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A 1947 US military film that deconstructs how the Nazi regime used divisive propaganda and prejudice to split and control a population. It teaches viewers to recognise demagoguery tactics.

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Shared in political threads as a timeless warning about divisive manipulation and demagogues.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2025

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PaulHoule · 2021-06 · Recommendation

I don't know about that, but I do know this. There is a gang of people that is promoting lies about Ivermectin (that it is not only effective against Roundworms but also COVID-19) and COVID-19 vaccines (that they are dangerous.) I am not sure that they expect to convince anybody, but I think the goal is for the people involved to be persecuted and rejected, complain they are being censored, and then become more bonded to the group. It is like how some cults force members into fruitless evangelism. My advice: [VIDEO]

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gremlinsinc · 2017-08 · Recommendation

By putting people in 'groups' and having those who support him also enforce this idea that we're all in separate groups and need to look out for own little group--this is how fascism grows, this is how hitler took over Germany, this is how a new Hitler figure could take over America too... It's not outside the realm of possibility sure Germans in 1900 couldn't forsee the horrors of 1940. Here's a good video from 1947 explaining the whole thing: [VIDEO]

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Joel_Mckay · 2025-07 · Reference

Hardly a new political phenomena, and policies with known predictable outcomes. [VIDEO] One must sympathize with the good folks at AMCHAM that will have to clean up the mess. Have a wonderful day =)

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