So I was reading some very light history...

[JustSkye]

But guessing Cheney wasn't?

I'd still like to know who you really are.

 

[blobfish]

I'd still like to know who you really are.

What do you mean? Whose alt? I'm not an alt.

 

[Peregrinator]

Interesting replies. Keep 'em coming.

 

[blobfish]

Josef Stalin?

 

[JustSkye]

Perg, are we at least leaning in the right direction?

 

[neci]

Not Necessarily. I think he wants us to "know".

fuck.

 

[blobfish]

Possibly Saddam Hussein. The ethnic minority could be the Kurds, and he did try to court the conservatives by wearing Bedouin dress and pretending to be religious. The other stuff also fits.

 

[JustSkye]

1893?

 

[neci]

UsA USa

 

[Lord Emu]

Hitler is the first to spring to mind.

 

[blobfish]

UsA USa

Make a guess!

 

[zipman]

...sort of a magazine summary of some stuff, and I came across this passage:



It struck me as awfully familiar in some ways, a set of tactics I've seen recently in various places and realms.

Of whom does this passage make you think?


I'll reveal the source and who it was referencing in a while. I'm curious to see who people associate with these tactics. Who do you think of?

While it definitely fits the fascists (which was my first thought) I could see it applying to Iran as well.

 

[neci]

...a tightly controlled press;

the use of ethnic scapegoats to build majority support;

a mutually beneficial alliance among industry, the army, and the government;

the co-optation of religious leaders;

the use of diplomatic crises and foreign wars to create national unity.




break it down now.

 

[naughtycakes]

While it definitely fits the fascists (which was my first thought) I could see it applying to Iran as well.

I thought of Iran, too, but it's a special case. The religious leaders there are much more powerful than the state, in many cases.

It's fascism.

 

[JustSkye]

...a tightly controlled press;

the use of ethnic scapegoats to build majority support;

a mutually beneficial alliance among industry, the army, and the government;

the co-optation of religious leaders;

the use of diplomatic crises and foreign wars to create national unity.




break it down now.

I was reading "The International Social Turn:Unity and Brotherhood at the World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893"

It has snippets of some of this in it.

 

[blobfish]

...a tightly controlled press;

the use of ethnic scapegoats to build majority support;

a mutually beneficial alliance among industry, the army, and the government;

the co-optation of religious leaders;

the use of diplomatic crises and foreign wars to create national unity.




break it down now.

David Ben-Gurion?

 

[sweepthefloor]

David Ben-Gurion?

Hahahaha

 

[neci]

I was reading "The International Social Turn:Unity and Brotherhood at the World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893"

It has snippets of some of this in it.

i remember reading through a book on the history of the murals done in public schools through out Chicago. the key phrase in perg's quote to me was the 'tightly controlled press' part. eat what i feed you. my brain is mush.

 

[ksmybuttons]

But guessing Cheney wasn't?

Cheney was the voice and vision behind the Bush presidency for the 8 years before Obama.

Project for the New American Century - Principle Statement 1997

Our aim is to remind Americans of these lessons and to draw their consequences for today. Here are four consequences:

• we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global
responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;

• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;

• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;

• we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next.

Elliott Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush

Dick Cheney Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes

Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle

Donald Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad I. Lewis Libby Norman Podhoretz

Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman Stephen P. Rosen Henry S. Rowen

Donald Rumsfeld Vin Weber George Weigel Paul Wolfowitz

These are just the signers... . Koch brothers, where are you?!?

 

[HB1965]

...sort of a magazine summary of some stuff, and I came across this passage:



It struck me as awfully familiar in some ways, a set of tactics I've seen recently in various places and realms.

Of whom does this passage make you think?


I'll reveal the source and who it was referencing in a while. I'm curious to see who people associate with these tactics. Who do you think of?

It sounds a lot like stuff we've heard or some of us suspect from the government here in the US, particularly from the Republican Party. My guess the reason why you are posting this here is because it's not from any of the sources that have been mentioned.

 

[Peregrinator]

The reference is in a Time magazine piece describing Hitler and fascism.

That's not why I thought it was interesting.

 

[fuckwaffle]

Even though I said Karl Marx, it did sound like the first draft of Mien Kampf.

 

[evesdream]

It sounds like the current mayor of Toronto, actually.

 

[CNYCarol]

...Of whom does this passage make you think?

Obummer

 

[Recidiva]

...sort of a magazine summary of some stuff, and I came across this passage:



It struck me as awfully familiar in some ways, a set of tactics I've seen recently in various places and realms.

Of whom does this passage make you think?


I'll reveal the source and who it was referencing in a while. I'm curious to see who people associate with these tactics. Who do you think of?

Sounds like Russia. But that's because I was listening to the biography of Catherine recently.