• angrystego@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    You don’t need good times to create weak people. You just need people to be stupid and easy to manipulate, which they are all the time by nature. That’s all. WWII followed WWI, there were no good times before the nazi Germany. It didn’t help.

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      4 days ago

      Don’t discount the Great Depression making “soft” people. Eating boot leather is the mark of a lavish and hedonistic lifestyle. /s