Hitler's whole "Make Germany Great Again" thing being rooted in this desire for Germany to be *stupid*, precisely because Germany had gotten too smart Too progressive, too cosmopolitan, too elitist, too *different*, too *un-German*
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We talk about the "Green Lantern theory of politics" and how destructive it is, but it's not just in politics In sports, in business, in any human endeavor, the Bad Boss is the guy who doesn't understand how anything works and thinks success is just a matter of *wanting it*
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And therefore after any failure just starts screaming and abusing his underlings and telling them that they must be failing because they don't actually want to win, they're not trying hard enough, maybe they're secretly on the side of the Jewish traitors This never works
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People like that *always* only even exist because they have the good fortune to inherit an organization much more competent than they are, and they *always* fucking destroy that organization and leave it in ruins And still think of themselves as the wronged party
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The director of Downfall said the point of making the movie was the much-memed-upon and inaccurately-subtitled scene of Hitler in the bunker Trying to kill any sense that being a Nazi meant supporting competence and strength, or that it was at all "patriotic"
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Old Adolf at the end going down screaming and ranting and cursing at the soldiers sworn to keep him safe, calling them a bunch of pussies and traitors
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Lost in delusional fantasy about how he was going to abandon the German people, who were unworthy of him, and find a new, better country to lead, maybe in South America, someplace that didn't already have the Jewish taint, someplace *worthy* of being the Third Reich
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Fascists are the ultimate Pointy-Haired Bosses, they have all the Pointy-Haired Boss traits in their worst form, of being completely disconnected from reality and determined to push the consequences of that disconnection on their underlings and go to their grave denying it
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Nothing about Trumpism is somehow a unique result of Trump being a particularly stupid or narcissistic or delusional or senile fascist Americans can at least rest easy about that, we're not all that much worse than the Germans Trump isn't special, he's a perfect type specimen
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The metaphor I have in mind for how authoritarians can look like they accomplish stuff by sheer will is : Authoritarians don't bother with the logistics of building a bridge, they throw enough bodies in the river until you can cross it. It "works" until you run out of bodies.
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The whole "Slavs are an inferior race therefore they'll collapse and capitulate almost instantly after having lost a couple of battles, and Russia will be ours before winter". And of course, nobody would dare speak against such blatant masturbatory fantasy because "defeatism"
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