• iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Propaganda is about saying slogans over and over again until people believe them.

    Only partially correct. She is forgetting that once enough people believe enough in the slogans, these beliefs will then materialize. It’s infra-materialism 101.

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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      1 year ago

      Also that’s not how it actually works unless you take Goebbels’ word salad at face value.

      The industrialists and their petit bourgeois wannabes believed in Nazism because of the material benefit they derived from it, not because they were hypnotically brainwashed by Goebbels’ super special mind-controlling slogans.

      Nazi propaganda is actually very mediocre. It’s just that the population was very Nazi.