Loving your country because it's the best most powerful country is the opposite of patriotism
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It's not loving your country, it's loving status and power
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and implies that if your country should weaken you will jump ship for the next big empire
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the guy who made "Downfall" said he wanted to "humanize" Hitler not to help his image but weaken it
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he wanted patriotic Germans to see him reduced to shrieking that he didn't fail, Germany failed
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cursing out German soldiers fighting to defend him and declaring he'd go find a new, better country
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Hitler was basically Gollum at the end by that narrative
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Hitler was literally the vile petty wreck of a man that Saruman is in the books
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The Scouring of the Shire was a v important narrative to Tolkien, about banality of evil
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You start off wanting to conquer the world and you end up the neighborhood bully
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"If I can't be a genocidal dictator I'll be a local business owner who harasses minorities"
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