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Phead128

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Iracundus said:
It is the classic thinking of the enemy being both too weak and therefore contemptible and too strong and therefore fear provoking, and then people using double-think to flip-flop as needed between whichever position is necessary to maintain their viewpoint of the enemy being bad.
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MonkeyEatingEagle said:
It is quite something to interact and converse with someone having two opposing and contradictory ideas to be twisted in a way that both are logically true.
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tygyg1111 said:
This type of thinking normally arises from duress, which is understandable since for their entire existence they have been taught that they are the no. 1 country, culture, race, etc.
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One of the practical ways to identify fascism propaganda is "the enemy is both weak and strong" rhetoric that applied to Jews, now applied to Chinese:.
  • The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
Basically, too strong to be accommodated, a big boogeyman existential threat, but too weak to be ignored, weak enough to be completely overwhelmed/genocided (either by inherent inferiority or flaws). It's like how Jews were characterized as super powerful financiers destroying economy while at same time flawed, weak, subhumans by the Nazi fascists.
 
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Phead128 said:
One of the practical ways to identify fascism propaganda is "the enemy is both weak and strong" rhetoric that applied to Jews, now applied to Chinese:.
  • The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
Basically, too strong to be accommodated, a big boogeyman existential threat, but too weak to be ignored, weak enough to be completely overwhelmed/genocided (either by inherent inferiority or flaws). It's like how Jews were characterized as super powerful financiers destroying economy while at same time flawed, weak, subhumans by the Nazi fascists.
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Yes I was thinking of Umberto Eco and his statement about fascism when I made my previous post, but I am not sure whether his statement is purely applicable to fascism. I think any kind of government that is trying to divert attention onto an enemy group can do the same, and need not necessarily be fascist.
 
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Remember back in October/November 2024 when US government and media hysterically claimed, without presenting any evidence, that China was behind the hacking and selling of confidential phone records of Trump, JD Vance, Kamala Harris, and other US politicians? Now it turns out the hacker/seller is an US Army soldier. Of course, US government and media are saying nothing about their previous false claims of Chinese government involvement.

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