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Liberals on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

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Today on Hacker News I learned what a demagogue is.

Political Hacker News is my favorite website...

There's been a lot of confusion on politics a mind HN. I collected a list of recent comments by 'dang on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538787

At the end of the day, if you think a submission is inappropriate for HN, flag and move on.

The brain cancer has already set in, sadly. You just need to have enough people who're susceptible to those submissions to upvote them, and then the clickbait, news, and politics flows in.

Off-Topic: Most stories about POLITICS, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Give the people what they want.

plenty of other websites to fight about politics thiss should not be one of them!

If you feel a submission is inappropriate for HN, please flag and move on.

cant flag so i stated my point

In that case, you may be interested in reading more about politics and HN from 'dang, one of the mods. I've collected some recent comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538787

FWIW I submitted because I thought the concluding paragraphs addressing the biases systems thinkers sometimes have when dealing with politics are of particular relevance here.

Conspiracy theories assume meticulous and detailed planning. Real path to authoritarian government goes to opportunism and being combative in very straightforward way. Personality and temperament create implicit strategy that can bee seen.

The question is not if Trump is authoritarian or not, he is. The question is how far he gan get.

Germans provide good history lesson: http://www.zeit.de/wissen/geschichte/2017-02/adolf-hitler-ch...

edit: in response of calling Trump Hitler I quote Garry Kasparov:

>Putin isn't Hitler!' 'Trump isn't Hitler!' Wow, congratulations! You have failed the most basic lesson of learning from history in order not to repeat it! I wrote about this fallacy extensively in Winter is Coming and elsewhere, but am happy to recap it here. Of course Putin isn't Hitler, and Donald Trump isn't even Putin—no matter how much he would like to be. The point is that no one is making comparisons to the monster Adolf Hitler became in the 1940s. But in the 20s, even for most of the 30s, Hitler wasn't Hitler either! There could be no more important lesson to understand than how a race-baiting demagogue came to power in an educated and liberal country like Germany and how he transformed that nation into a fascist death machine capable of World War and unimaginable acts.

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