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Trump isn’t the first to be gifted a Nobel Prize he didn’t win—Joseph Goebbels got one too
(mronline.org)
In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize for Literature to the infamous Nazi criminal.
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goebbels, who was hitler's chief nazi propaganda minister, took a lot of inspiration from an american named eddie bernays, who literally wrote the book on propaganda, which should be required reading for every student.
it's not just about constant hammering of one-sided stories, but also about manipulating behavior, and making people believe it was their own idea.
Just when I think I know all the ways America inspired the Nazis, I learn of another.
there will always be leopards, and there will always be gullible rubes who seek out more faces for the leopards to eat, even as their own face is being eaten