Comment by inglor_cz
5 hours ago
I never understood why some people get so fixated on one event in 1953, as if nothing else mattered after that.
Sure, it had a nontrivial effect. But it also happened in a time when Stalin and Churchill were still alive, there were 6 billion people fewer on the planet and the first antibiotics and transistors barely entered production. Korea was poorer than Ghana etc.
It is 2026, three generations have passed, and not everything can be explained and excused by a 1953 event forever. But it is convenient for autocracy advocates in general.
It reminds me of the worship of the Great Patriotic War in Russia. Again, as if nothing that happened later matters.
The question is, how can you be sure anything you see in the (controlled) news is not another instance of covert plots, false flags, and psyops [0]?
How, precisely how?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...
How can I be sure that you aren't a bot or vice versa?
Don't worry, you're not the only person who can't answer this question.
Nobody can, that I know of.
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It's the nature of fascist countries to be fixated on the past
timothy snyder describes it as the "politics of eternity"
People in general tend to be nostalgic, but yeah, a specific sort of politician will use it for their own purpose.